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“Their mastery of black metal left them nowhere to go, except into far weirder and more interesting territory”: Where to start with Ulver

As they build up to album number 14, revisit the boundary-busting history of Norway’s musical mavericks

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Elder to revisit third album Lore for May 2025 European tour

US prog quartet Elder will appear at Desertfest in Oslo, London and Berlin during 2025 European tour

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“The first day of rehearsal they forgot me!” Watch Nirvana's first-ever TV performance as a four-piece, with future Foo Fighter Pat Smear on guitar

On September 25, 1993, Nirvana performed as a quartet on US TV show Saturday Night Live, playing two songs from their brand new album In Utero, with Pat Smear on second guitar

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Linkin Park's London O2 show is a celebration of one of 21st century metal's most impactful and important bands

Linkin Park and new singer Emily Armstrong roll out the hits and some promising new material for a delighted London crowd

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“I watch it, love it, like pretty much everyone I talk to”: Opeth explain how hit TV series Succession inspired new album The Last Will And Testament

Mikael Åkerfeldt talks about the impact that one of the 2020s’ biggest TV shows had on Opeth’s new music

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“I actually think people don’t think of System Of A Down as nu metal”: Serj Tankian names the greatest nu metal album of all time

It’s a classic for a reason, after all

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Queens Of The Stone Age announce first live dates since Josh Homme's emergency surgery

Queens Of The Stone Age will return to the road in June 2025

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“It attempts to create order from chaos, but never reaches the goal.” Celebrating Trent Reznor's long, hard road out of a personal hell, as heard on Nine Inch Nails' bleak, challenging masterpiece The Fragile

Released on September 21, 1999, Nine Inch Nails third studio album, The Fragile, remains a fascinating piece of outsider art

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"It was do or die." After a decade of "failures" Nothing More kept the faith and wrote their breakthrough hit This Is The Time (Ballast)

How a legendary appearance at Aftershock and a fan-funded album helped Nothing More realise their potential as alt rock stars

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Linkin Park continue the biggest reunion tour of 2024 with new single and new live dates (including one show with Sleep Token)

Stream Heavy Is The Crown, taken from the returning nu metal sensations’ next album From Zero, and see which cities they’ve added to their ongoing comeback tour

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Unlike Oasis, Iron Maiden take a stand against dynamic pricing ahead of 2025 50th-anniversary tour

The British metal legends will also cap resale tickets at face value before the shows start up next spring

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“Rob Halford shows up in a jean jacket and I’m like, ‘Oh, this guy, come on!’” Slayer’s Kerry King explains why Judas Priest were a “letdown” at 1981 gig

Slayer’s guitarist was gutted the first time he saw Judas Priest onstage 40-plus years ago

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Napalm Death announce the rowdiest EU/UK tour of 2025 with Crowbar, Full Of Hell and Brat

In the words of modern prophet Jennifer Lopez, let’s get loud!

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“You could argue we were the quintessential cult band. But I was thinking, ‘We can be more than this’”: In Absentia sold poorly, influenced greatly, and marked the beginning of the end for Porcupine Tree

They delivered a defining moment in progressive metal with their 2002 album, but it wasn’t easy to do it – and once they had, Steven Wilson didn’t want to do it again

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"It's disappointing when someone you admire talks out their ass about you": Megadeth vs Peter Frampton is the 2024 beef no one saw coming

That escalated quickly, etc

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Poppy announces her genre-bending new album, Negative Spaces

Nu-gen pioneer Poppy has shared details of her new studio album, Negative Spaces

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"Someone said, 'If you see them without their masks on, they will come and kill you!'" Why I love Slipknot's debut album, by Jamie Campbell Bower

The Bloodmagic frontman and Stranger Things actor on why Slipknot's first album remains unlike any other in metal

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“The moshpit may take breaks, but the singalongs seldom do”: Zeal & Ardor go avant-garde without hindering their hooks at electric London gig

At a crammed O2 Empire Shepherds Bush, Zeal & Ardor shed their ‘black metal meets spirituals’ tag with a set of new, experimental anthems

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"Things have always been ****ed up." How death, cancer and a whole pandemic helped make Yesterwynde the most optimistic Nightwish album yet

Despite an unbelievable amount of personal setbacks, Nightwish rallied to make one of 2024's best metal albums. Here's how

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"We’re so excited for players and fans to experience this!”: Watch Linkin Park debut new single Heavy Is The Crown at recent Hamburg show

Linkin Park unveiled the second single from their forthcoming reunion album From Zero at their show at Barclays Arena in Hamburg this weekend, and it's set to be used as the League Of Legends World Championship anthem

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Watch Killswitch Engage reunite with ex-singer Howard Jones at emotional homecoming show in Massachusetts

Howard joined his old bandmates for the performance of three songs on Saturday night

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Slayer have just played their first set in five years - see their reunion setlist and watch fiery video footage here

Thrash titans Slayer have just returned to the stage after a 1759 day hiatus

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Slipknot's set at Knotfest Iowa cut short by severe weather

Slipknot forced to play earlier than planned and were onstage for under an hour as weather turned ugly

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“We weren’t arrogant enough to think we were suddenly the most important band in the world. We just knew we were”: A metal fan’s guide to Rush

Side long epics, mad concepts and unlikely hit singles – how Canadian visionaries Rush laid down the blueprint for prog metal

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“They actually asked Judas Priest to write music for it. We saw it and decided to avoid it like the plague”: The inside story of Rock Star, Hollywood’s infamous attempt to make a heavy metal movie

Loosely based on Judas Priest, Rock Star saw Hollywood trying to make a metal movie – but does it deserve the hate it gets?

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