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Exclusive Employed To Serve bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now

To celebrate incredible new album Fallen Star, we've teamed up with Employed To Serve for this exclusive bundle

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"I got taken in by a group of older witches."How Bambie Thug went from ballet and Catholic school to witchcraft, Eurovision and touring with Babymetal

How Bambie Thug went from ballet and Catholic school to witchcraft, Eurovision and touring with Babymetal

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs hone their dream to be as potent a live band as Download festival favourites Vengaboys

Newcastle's finest Pigs x 7 deliver a masterclass in stoner/doom/psych riffathons on the release day for their new album Death Hilarious

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"Siouxsie Sioux gone Black Sabbath." Messa mix jazz, doom, goth and so much more - and are the coolest band you'll hear this week

Italian doom metallers Messa are probably the coolest band you'll hear this week

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This was the one “beneficial” thing from the Norwegian black metal church burnings, according to Wardruna’s Einar Selvik

“It’s hard to defend a lot of the stuff that happened in that period but, in retrospect, it moved some boundaries that needed to be moved”

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“I was begging for tickets, now I turn out to be hosting”: Jason Momoa reveals how he got the job compering Black Sabbath’s final show

The Minecraft Movie actor still has no idea what he’s going to do onstage, though

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“Satanized is a song about love”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge breaks down every track on new album Skeletá

Get to know Ghost’s new album before it drops on April 25

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"What I learned from Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy is that they're real people, and they'll be like that until they die": Ice-T on his heroes and the music he loves most

Body Count singer and rapper Ice-T picks the records and artists he loves, and names the singer who almost guarantees pregnancy

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Richie Kotzen says he almost joined Nine Inch Nails but his glam metal past got in the way

Trent Reznor reportedly told Richie Kotzen he was the man for the Nine Inch Nails job before backtracking

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"It seemed to sum up the existential crisis I was having." Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan on the Metallica song that saved his life

"It's like a movie unto itself. What a song!" Billy Corgan on the Metallica classic that meant everything to him as a teenager

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Slayer announce only North American headline show of 2025, with Knocked Loose and a host of thrash metal legends supporting

Slayer are coming to a venue near you, but only if that venue is Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania

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Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor perform a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club at a horror convention in Florida

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor played through an acoustic set of mostly covers during his appearance at this weekend's Spookala horror convention event in Florida, and performed tracks by pop superstar Chappell Roan, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails and more

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I got Metal Hammer’s writers to name the ‘bad’ metal albums they can’t get enough of

From Metallica and Lou Reed’s Lulu to Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying, the Metal Hammer team band together to defend their favourite clangers

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora: “If you write a love letter and that just disappears into the void, you would try to distance yourself from it as soon as possible”

The frontman’s only solo album leaked in February after going unheard for 17 years

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Watch video for new Babymetal track 'from me to u' featuring Poppy

Track is taken from Babymetal's upcoming fifth album Metal Forth

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“We started performing rituals to conjure entities. From that point on it was all about making music that would please these gods”: The unholy story of Morbid Angel and the birth of death metal

How a bunch of kids from Florida took metal into extreme new realms

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"There will be no event called 'Fyre 2' in Playa del Carmen." Grand plans to revive disastrous event come as a surprise to the resort city supposed to be hosting it

Fyre Festival was an unrivalled disaster and subject of two documentaries – now part 2 looks to be off to a less than ideal start

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“I saw right away that he wrote a lot about urban culture, youth culture and violence. That inspired me to create moodier songs”: The story of Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith’s forgotten 2010s side project

In 2012, Adrian Smith stepped away from Iron Maiden to indulge in something edgier

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“What did I know at the ripe old age of 22? I knew comics, horror and sci-fi. I couldn’t really write about heartbreak or a horrible upbringing”: How an iconic comic book character inspired Anthrax to write a thrash metal classic

The story behind a comics-inspired thrash anthem

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“It’s obvious that one day this’ll all die out, just like every sort of music does. There is no point in worrying about it”: How Bring Me The Horizon made their mark from the start with Count Your Blessings

Bring Me The Horizon were dealing with the haters from the start

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The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)

From Cradle of Filth to Whitechapel, Bloodywood to Spiritbox, these are some of the best metal releases of 2025 so far.

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“Once James Hetfield said he liked the album, that was it. He said that it kicked his ass”: How Machine Head’s The Blackening became their own Master Of Puppets

The Blackening remains Machine Head’s masterpiece

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"It's out there. I don't have to hide behind it anymore": Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner reveals he suffered a stroke and it's affected his playing

Faulkner says he suffered the stroke as he recovered from the aortic aneurysm he experienced at Louder Than Life in 2021, and it's left him permanently damaged

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Babymetal, Sleep Token and Machine Head lead the best new metal songs this week.

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I asked a death metal supergroup to name the most brutal death metal albums of all time – this is what they came up with

Lik guitarist (and Katatonia bassist) Niklas Sandin picks the five most gut-churning, face-scrunching and ball-kicking albums to ever crawl out of death metal

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