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“I tried it for a while, and I was like, ‘This is boring! This is exhausting!’”: OG black metal mask-wearer Mortiis never wanted to be anonymous like Ghost and Sleep Token

The dungeon synth innovator didn’t enjoy pretending that he wasn’t Mortiis

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“This is a redefining evolution of rhythm games”: Songs by Ghost, Babymetal, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more to appear in new title from company behind Guitar Hero

Stage Tour, from Guitar Hero’s RedOctane Games, will be released for PC and consoles in the autumn

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“We miss him and we love him, also”: Watch Mastodon give new single Your Ghost Again its live debut and dedicate it to late guitarist Brent Hinds

The Atlanta band played their latest song at their European tour kickoff last week

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“Another band said they were going to shave all our hair off and beat us up”: Bring Me The Horizon cancelled a 2006 festival appearance for fear of being attacked

The ‘MySpace metal’ poster boys were one of the most controversial bands of their generation

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"Some of my first TV interviews were explaining that the band was more to do with the heart than burning down a church." The rise, fall and demise of HIM - Finland's goth metal princes

From Sabbath-obssessed teens to celebrities in their own right, Ville Valo reflect on 30 years of HIM

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"I could feel his heart through his chest and he passed away right there." Childhood tragedy, unlikely success and emotional reunions: Max Cavalera on how he reshaped metal with Sepultura and Soulfly

From losing his father at an early age to transforming metal with Sepultura and Soulfly, Max Cavalera looks back on a life on the front lines of metal

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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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“The guitar tone ripped my face off!” When Machine Head's Robb Flynn met Meshuggah

Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn is a Meshuggah mega-fan – so we asked him to interview metal’s most complex band

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“A few others were singing about the underside of life, but we had the heaviness to hammer the subjects home.” The inside story of Black Sabbath’s stoned masterpiece Master Of Reality

How Black Sabbath pushed metal to ever heavier levels on their immortal third album

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“Are you trying to get us killed?” The explosive story behind System Of A Down’s Toxicity album

System Of A Down’s second album Toxicity gave nu metal’s most political band a platform to be heard . But some people wanted to shut them up –permanently

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“They had become genuine rock stars, with all the excess and trappings that go with it”: Why Korn’s most divisive album is way better than everybody thinks

The campaign to rehabilitate Korn’s divisive fourth album Issues album starts here

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“The word goth is stupid. I hate that word”: Evanescence’s Amy Lee has strong feelings about being called ‘goth’ – and they’re not positive

Don’t mention the ‘g’ word

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The 25 best goth metal albums

From HIM to Evanescence, Type O Negative to Misfits, these are the greatest albums released in the goth metal pantheon

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Linkin Park tease details of a new Unshatter movie inside European tour t-shirts

Is Unshatter the title of the 2024 concert which was filmed in Brazil?

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"In many ways that entire album feels like we were rebelling against ourselves." How Mastodon overcame moments of self-doubt and rebuilt themselves from the ground up on The Hunter

In 2011, Mastodon wrote an album that would fly in the face of everything we thought we knew about them. but they had to fight hard to make it happen...

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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Pussy Riot, Evanescence, DevilDriver and more feature in this week's best new metal song round-up

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"Steve Harris was a road sweeper when I met him." What it was like following metal icons Iron Maiden from their very first gig

One of Steve Harris's old workmates recalls following the band in their earliest years

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"We smoked so much weed that we set off the fire alarms and almost killed everybody with the gas that was going to be released." The story of Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes, the debut album that revitalised 90s metal

Machine Head’s Robb Flynn looks back on the making of his band’s classic debut

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“Metal needs a good f**king kick up the ass”: the story of Metallica’s Load

New haircuts, new sound, new Metallica: was Load the sound of metal’s biggest band trolling the world?

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"He had a cast of a human skull, because he was interested in the occult." The Life and legacy of At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg: the godfather of melodic death metal

From dabbling in occultism to pioneering a whole new school of death metal, Tomas Lindberg was a figure unlike any other

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"I would rather cut my hands off than be that miserable again." Ginger Wildheart responds to CJ Wildheart's reunion olive branch

Ginger says he's extremely happy with the current lineup of The Wildhearts and that a reunion with his old bandmates is "never, ever gonna happen"

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"She’d be talking about a song with a really good guitar solo and demand we change it, make it heavier." The trailblazing metal singer who saved an influential band's career and inspired a generation of women in the process

Arch Enemy were making waves in the metal underground, but they needed someone special to take them forwards

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"I sent him an honest and open message." After three years of silence, CJ Wildheart is building bridges with Ginger Wildheart

Ginger Wildheart is now living with cancer, but CJ would welcome the chance to reunite The Wildhearts' most celebrated lineup

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“I laid that song down in four takes, but I was hammered when I recorded it”: How a deteriorating DevilDriver made immortal New Wave Of American Heavy Metal hit Clouds Over California

Even as Dez Fafara’s melodeath riff-slingers were falling apart, they masterminded one of their era’s most enduring singles

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“I was enthralled by the way they swapped instruments, and also the music they played. I was hooked”: The British thrash metal icon who adores prog eccentrics Gentle Giant (and he’s not the only one)

They may have bewildered some listeners in the 70s, but several leading lights of other genres happily confirm they were a massive influence

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