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“I wanted to be in a band that would appeal to younger musicians like Pink Floyd or the Ramones did to me. That’s the pinnacle of our success”: How Soundgarden returned from the wilderness with King Animal

Soundgarden’s 2012 comeback album King Animal was their first in 16 years –and it found the grunge pioneers finally comfortable with their legacy

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“He was called ‘the Wickedest Man In The World’ by the press – how can you fail to be fascinated by such a character?”: The twisted life and decadent times of Aleister Crowley, metal’s favourite occultist

How Aleister Crowley, aka The Great Beast, influenced generations of metal bands

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“Ozzy says, ‘I’ve never thrown a TV out the window.’ So I rip one out of the wall and launch it out of the window”: Zakk Wylde’s crazy tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Axl Rose, Eddie Van Halen and more

Trashing hotel rooms with Ozzy, teaching Mark Wahlberg how to rock and almost joining Guns N’ Roses –Black Label Society guitar berserker Zakk Wylde has done all of it and more

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“Am I Evil? was me trying to beat Black Sabbath’s Symptom Of The Universe. I was determined to come up with something heavier”: The story of Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations, the cult album that invented Metallica

Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations should have turned them into NWOBHM-era superstars, but instead it inspired Lars Ulrich to start his own band

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2025 Grammy nominations revealed: Metallica, Judas Priest, Spiritbox, Knocked Loose, Gojira, Pearl Jam and St. Vincent amongst metal and rock names nominated

Thrash legends, metalcore heavyweights and rising hardcore ragers are included in next year's Grammy nominations!

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

Malevolence, Korpiklaani and Burning Witches are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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"This is like WWE." What happened when Papa Roach met Justin Timberlake - and got some sage advice from Korn bassist Fieldy

When nu metal survivors Papa Roach exploded in popularity through Last Resort, they found themselves rubbing shoulders with music A-listers

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"Oh my god, there was so much talk: ‘I bet there’s a real rivalry going on!'" How Within Temptation and Tarja Turunen formed the ultimate symphonic metal tag team for blockbuster single Paradise (What About Us?)

Two symphonic metal icons united for this powerhouse 2013 single. Sharon and Tarja tell us how it all came together

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"Linkin Park have crafted a genuinely great album worthy of their canon." From Zero is a resounding success that fans of every era of Linkin Park can enjoy

Linkin Park's new album nods to every era of the band's career so far while still sounding fresh, new and like the band have something to say

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From The Gloom In The Corner's cinematic metalcore to Sgáile's mountain-inspired doom, industrial goth of Black Satellite and brutal Belgian post-metallers Divided, these are the brilliant new bands you need to hear in November 2024

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Stop the presses! Maynard James Keenan has named his favourite tool

A burning question, finally answered

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“The fastest album they’d made, chock full of hard-headed riffs and squealing solos”: Every song on Judas Priest’s Painkiller ranked from worst to best

As The Metal Gods gear up to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary, we revisit and re-order every track on their evolutionary opus

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"We were on a wave that hadn’t been ridden before." Papa Roach recreate the Last Resort video on Metal Hammer's new cover as they get ready to celebrate 25 years of Infest

Next year, Papa Roach will celebrate 25 years of their classic breakthrough album Infest. To celebrate, they're on the front cover of Metal Hammer!

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“They just tour like there’s no tomorrow and they put on a wicked live show!” Mimi Barks names five young metal bands everyone needs to know

The doom trap pioneer and her backing musicians champion their favourite new bands, from Tailgunner to House Of Protection

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"If myself and Dave Mustaine could have co-existed, Megadeth would have been a very different band." Kerry King on riffs, venomous housepets and which bands he'd join given the chance

Thrash metal icon Kerry King answers fan questions and discusses which legendary bands he'd love to tour with

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“We thought ‘the Gothenburg sound’ was an insult. Everything we set out to do was new and original.” We asked Dark Tranquillity’s Mikael Stanne to name the greatest Gothenburg metal album. This is what he said.

When we asked the singer of Dark Tranquillity and The Halo Effect to name the Gothenburg sound’s greatest achievement, he challenged the idea of ‘the Gothenburg sound’ itself

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The time My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way hit out at nu metal: "It set us back to the stone age...it's like a bunch of neanderthals had a microphone for 8 years and everybody had to deal with it"

In a newly-resurfaced 2007 interview, the My Chemical Romance frontman aired his ill-feelings towards nu metal, and said that he thought certain bands within the genre encouraged sexism, homophobia and "other forms of ignorance"

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Watch Sleep Token perform live without their bassist and guitarist this week

Bassist III and guitarist IV were disposed by illness, but Sleep Token performed in Zurich on Monday anyway

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"I'm still not sure that I can tell you exactly what happened, and I was there": Slash, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and more tell the epic story of Guns N’ Roses' Use Your Illusion

Use Your Illusion: Drugs, rifts, hirings, firings, and the sound of a band falling apart

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“Possibly the most aggressive, ignorant and direct song we have ever written.” Get your head caved in by nasty new Malevolence single Trenches

Hot off tours with Trivium, Lamb Of God, Mastodon and more, rising metalcore champions Malevolence have returned with a crushing new tune

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"One last time let's sing together!" Pop punk heavyweights Sum 41 bid London a fond farewell with an electric show at Wembley Arena

Sum 41's farewell tour touches down for their biggest UK show ever

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Judas Priest to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary on 2025 European tour

The Metal Gods will play across the continent on their Shield Of Pain run from June to July

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“Shamans retreat, sometimes very long, to be reunited with their power.” Heilung to go on hiatus

The ‘Amplified History’ collective will take a break for an undisclosed period of time after their summer 2025 tour

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“The first thing on my mind is, am I gonna get through this and be alive? And the last thing on my mind was would I ever sing again?” Bruce Dickinson would have helped Iron Maiden replace him if cancer stopped him from singing

Dickinson reflects on his 2015 cancer battle and reveals he would have helped Iron Maiden replace him had his voice been affected

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“Let’s jam, let’s have a good time for the fans, for us, for ourselves.” Andreas Kisser invites Max and Iggor Cavalera to play final Sepultura show

Kisser has invited all former Sepultura members to play at the band’s final show, including the foundational Cavalera brothers

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