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Watch Metallica perform rarities at 2024 Helping Hands event in Los Angeles

The 4th edition of Metallica's Helping Hands charity show featured guest appearance from Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament

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“People have tried to copy it and rip it off, but no one has come close. No one will ever beat it”: The cult metal album Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison said was as good as Reign In Blood

High praise indeed from the late Slipknot drummer

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“We had a plan. Jesus Christ, are you kidding? My whole plan was to make an album that sells more than the last one”: How Whitesnake shed their skin and made a solid gold hard rock classic with the 1987 album

David Coverdale looks back on the making of Whitesnake’s hair metal-era classic 1987

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“I was stunned and angry and told them I couldn’t even consider it”: Why Marty Friedman turned down potential Megadeth reunion in 2015

Friedman claims an insultingly low salary offer prevented Megadeth’s most legendary lineup from regrouping 10 years ago

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“I keep telling Clown that I’m just gonna throw it up on Youtube”: Slipknot guitarist Jim Root often threatens to leak long-delayed album Look Outside Your Window

Sick of waiting for Slipknot’s atmospheric rock album to come out? So is guitarist Jim Root!

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"What technology has done to disrupt the music business in terms of not only how people listen to music but the value they place on it is defeating." Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor offers damning critique of the state of music in 2024

"Music feels largely relegated to something that happens in the background"

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“I can’t marry you, but we can totally have an affair sometime”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale is open to singing with Skid Row again

Hale will probably never join Skid Row full-time, but she says she’ll be there if the glam veterans ever find themselves in dire straits

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Dani Filth’s mum wants Cradle Of Filth’s Nymphetamine played at her funeral

“She’ll be dead by then, so we can change the tracklisting”

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"Our first show we made two songs last for fifty minutes": Meet Sacri Monti, the psychedelic rockers who don't know where they're going but dig the journey

From Oceanside, California, Sacri Monti met in high school in the early 2000s and have been jamming (and other things) ever since

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Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Shinedown, Nickelback and more confirmed for inaugural Boardwalk Rock festival

Boardwalk Rock will take place in Ocean City, Maryland, next May

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Iron Maiden unleash recap video to thanks fans for success of The Future Past Tour

After 81 shows in 25 countries, Iron Maiden's latest globe-straddling tour has come to an end

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"I've always existed between two cultures." Meet Lowen, 2024's breakout prog metal sensation inspired by System Of A Down and Akercocke

Lowen's Nina Saedi is reclaiming a cultural heritage she is exiled from through a stunning mix of doom and prog metal

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King Diamond is bringing his Myrkur-assisted live show to Europe and the UK next summer with a stellar backing lineup

Paradise Lost, Angel Witch and Unto Others will support King Diamond at select headline shows in 2025

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Oli Sykes says Bring Me The Horizon are considering going on hiatus: "We need time to recharge our batteries and have that time away"

Metalcore heroes Bring Me The Horizon may be taking a break soon, frontman Oli Sykes says he's "so fried"

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Gojira share official music video for Grammy-nominated Olympic single Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)

French metal heavyweights Gojira have released the official music video for their Grammy-nominated single Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)

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Kerry King rules out future Slayer activity and names the much-missed metal icons he wishes he'd collaborated with. "We're never gonna make a record again, we're never gonna tour again."

Kerry King reaffirms that Slayer won't be making a full-scale comeback

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TesseracT share new live video for War Of Being

Tesseract will release an expanded edition of latest album War Of Being, featuring new live tracks, in January

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“I got so tired of all these different hybrid categories, I created my own”: Ice-T names the one thing he’d change about heavy metal if he could

The outspoken Body Count frontman also names his favourite rap and metal albums in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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“I’m sure you all appreciate that I hate you all!” Iron Maiden share heartfelt backstage video of Nicko McBrain’s final concert

After announcing his intention to retire from the live stage, McBrain played his last show with Iron Maiden over the weekend

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The next Korn album will take some time: “Maybe next summer, maybe next year, the next winter – I don’t know!”

Korn have a lot written for the followup to 2022’s Requiem – but they aren’t quite sure when it’s coming out

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"Anyone who loves epic, powerful and ingenious metal needs this in their ears immediately." Hold those end of year lists: Múr just put out one of the best metal debut albums of 2024

Another uniquely mesmerising metal band from Iceland has entered the chat

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Deftones announce two more UK headline shows for summer 2025

Didn’t get tickets to Deftones’ blockbuster London date? The quasi-nu metal beloveds have just announced extra stops in Yorkshire and Cornwall

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Kerry King adds summer 2025 headline shows in the UK and Europe, plus Gojira support slot, to his solo band tour schedule

More chances to hear monster tunes from From Hell I Rise played live by some of metal's finest musicians

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Korn, Muse, Scorpions, Linkin Park, Judas Priest and more for Hellfest Open Air 2025

Hellfest has announced another heavyweight lineup for next year!

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System Of A Down announce three co-headline stadium shows with Korn, Avenged Sevenfold and Deftones

American and Canadian metal fans will be spoiled next year, thanks to these three blockbuster events

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