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Black Veil Brides wanted to make an album that replicated Metallica's world-dominating Black Album "on every level"

On their 2014 self-titled album, Black Veil Brides were trying to "replicate" Metallica's own self-titled epic 'Black Album'

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Linkin Park countdown starts counting back up, everybody confused

You waited a hundred hours, now you may need to wait a hundred more

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Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, Jinjer, more added to 2025 Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park lineups

Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, Jinjer, Powerwolf and others will join Slipknot in Nürburg and Nuremberg from June 6 to 8

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There’s a metal festival simulator game coming out, overseen by a member of Sabaton

Lord Of Metal will let you manage your own virtual metal festival and is being funded by a Kickstarter campaign

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Judas Priest's Rob Halford opens up about offering guidance to fellow LGBTQ+ musicians: "I'm here. I'm queer. Get ****ing used to it."

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford discusses counselling other gay musicians, the bigotry and hate that LGBTQ+ people still face and meeting his life partner

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor make typically cryptic announcement about new album

Canadian instrumental post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release No Title As Of 13 February 2024, 340 Dead in October

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"Africa is the future of metal." Meet Arka’n Asrafokor, Togo's first heavy metal band

Arka’n Asrafokor have had to travel 24 hours by bus just to be able to play gigs. Now, they're starting to get the recognition they deserve

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"I have a lot of compassion for them...they’ve lost good people." What Mushroomhead think of fellow masked metallers Slipknot now

The beef between Slipknot and Mushroomhead was legendary in the nu metal era, but Steve 'Skinny' Felton says it was exaggerated by the media

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Fun fact of the day: Metallica use or give away 6,000 guitar picks a night

The metal superstars also haul 64 guitars around on tour and make their way through 25 drumsticks per show

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Spotify are hosting fake songs by at least 30 major metal bands, including While She Sleeps, Bury Tomorrow and Thy Art Is Murder

While She Sleeps, Bury Tomorrow, Thy Art Is Murder and more have had seemingly AI-generated music uploaded to streaming services, without their involvement

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"It was spiralling out of control. You find yourself in some dodgy situations waiting outside train stations at three in the morning": How Orange Goblin's Ben Ward turned his life around

With their frontman now slimmed down and sobered up, Orange Goblin’s new album Science, Not Fiction is similarly fat-free, ferocious and muscular

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Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley: “I am not joining Linkin Park”

Sum 41’s frontman has shot down the online rumours that he’s replacing Chester Bennington in a reunited Linkin Park

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Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo cover Rush anthem Working Man in Canada

The Metallica duo’s latest ‘doodle’ covered a Canadian classic turning 50 this year

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“I’m 5’7” but I’ll have an operation, I’ll do something”: Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman was denied a Kiss audition for being too short

Marty Friedman’s height cruelly cost him the chance to join one of rock’s biggest-ever bands

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“I thought the remake was a cynical cash-grab. Not much cash to grab it seems.” Despite all those scathing reviews, The Crow 2024’s harshest critic is the first film’s director

Alex Proyas, director of 1994’s The Crow, has annihilated the new remake in a series of Facebook posts

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Watch this The Voice Australia contestant cover Britney Spears’ Toxic – with death metal growls!

Britney Spears got a metalcore makeover courtesy of the first-ever extreme metal vocalist on The Voice Australia

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Japanese metalcore squad Hanabie release heavy new single Metamorphose

The self-described “harajuku-core” champions will tour North America with Jinjer next month

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Sabaton will release concert film The Tour To End All Tours to theatres in October

Hopefully the military-obsessed band’s foray into cinemas won’t bomb

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"Melodies Of Atonement feels like a culmination of two decades’ worth of experience, energy and insight." Leprous show exactly how they've become prog metal royalty

Norway's Leprous might be ditching some of their heaviness, but Melodies Of Atonement is a prog metal masterclass nonetheless

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Will Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley front a reunited Linkin Park? The internet is starting to think so…

Some oddly timed announcements from Sum 41’s singer and nu metal sensations Linkin Park have got internet sleuths theorising

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"We always felt like we were on the brink of the mainstream, but never crossed over." Fictitious car crashes, flooded basements and Jackass: how CKY became unlikely MTV stars with 96 Quite Bitter Beings

Despite naming his new band after the track, ex-CKY frontman Deron Miller insists 96 Quite Bitter Beings is "nothing special"

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"A lurid, increasingly Neanderthal-minded caricature of the band’s trademark sound. It's an absolute blast." US hardcore brutes Nails are reborn anew on Every Bridge Burning

Eight years and more than a few band members since their last record, Nails are back and brutal as ever

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Devin Townsend shares first music from new album PowerNerd

Devin Townsend will release his latest album PowerNerd, the first of a new trilogy of releases, in October

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“I had, like, 18 whiskies”: The unhinged story of how jazz karaoke led to post-rock idol Julie Christmas waking up in bed with a tinned ham

The noise/post-rock maverick gives a bizarre anecdote about canned meat in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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"This is the beginning of the journey." Why Stranger Things' Jamie Campbell Bower started an experimental metal band called BloodMagic

BloodMagic might only have one single out thus far, but they've got big plans going forward

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