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Spiritbox announce 2025 European tour

The Canadian metal champions will return to the continent for a short string of shows in February

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Slipknot announce first two festival headline sets of 2025

The nu metal titans will appear at Germany’s Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park festivals next June

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Watch Babymetal and Electric Callboy play infectious new song Ratatata live together

The kawaii metal sensations and the party-metal duo performed at Babymetal’s Fox Fest and are currently playing the European festival circuit

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Shinedown frontman Brent Smith says he has seen music "cure cancer"

Brent Smith of Shinedown says he's seen songs cure cancer – repeating a claim he made back in 2019

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“Bring Me The Horizon look and sound like megastars”: The first show of the Nex Gen era was ludicrous, meticulous and surprisingly heavy

At their first concert since the release of new album Post Human: Nex Gen, pop-metal royalty Bring Me The Horizon hosted an extravaganza of pyro, video and once-in-a-lifetime moments

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“I was in a bad place. The booze, my lifestyle, this woman I’d been with since I was 16. I’ve never been that broken”: how Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix pulled himself back from the abyss

Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix nearly didn’t make it through the recording of his band’s 2012 album The Connection. But it was the wake-up call he needed

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“I didn’t know if I could think. I didn’t know if I’d destroyed my brain. I didn’t know if I had anything to say”: an epic interview with Trent Reznor

In 2005, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor sat down with Metal Hammer for one of his most in-depth interviews ever

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“They said we talked about dick and vagina too much and offended everyone”: how Blink-182 overcame a backlash from their peers on the way to Enema Of The State becoming a huge success

The pop-punk trio’s era-defining album turned 25 this month – but its big breakthrough wasn’t an easy ride

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“There are five million disgraceful heavy metal bands. What’s the point of being just another Metallica imitator?”: how Avenged Sevenfold took on the haters with their epic fourth album

Avenged Sevenfold’s self-titled fourth album found them ripping up their own blueprint - with brilliant results

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“If you’d given me a handful of résumés, I’d avoid the ones that said ‘irretrievable junkie’ on them”: the unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds

Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground

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“When Tobias Forge called us his favourite new metal band, I got really emotional”: A conversation with death metal revolutionaries Crypta

Ahead of their upcoming UK tour, the Brazilian four-piece talk about brushing shoulders with stars from Ghost to King Diamond

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“Please, Lzzy, join Skid Row! Put the two bands together if you need to!”: even Jon Bon Jovi thinks Lzzy Hale should become Skid Row’s permanent new singer

Who should be Skid Row’s new singer? Jon Bon Jovi has the answer

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“I’m surprised I made it this far. People were giving me 10 minutes to live when I was 30”: two years before he died, Lemmy was still one of rock’s great warriors

In 2013, two years before his death, legendary Motörhead frontman Lemmy looked back on a life on rock’s frontline

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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Halestorm x I Prevail, Lamb Of God x Kublai Khan & Malevolence and Heriot are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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"I don't care. I thought it was fun." Peter Tagtgren dismisses plagarism accusations against Croatia's Eurovision entry Baby Lasagna

In fact, the Pain/Hypocrisy frontman is just happy to see more metal acceptance at Eurovision

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"He's a piece of work, that deluded old freak." Disturbed's David Draiman says former Pink Floyd leader Roger Waters is a "monster"

Disturbed frontman David Draiman has called out Roger Waters over his controversial views and behaviour

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"There was almost a Mafiosi-style meeting about me joining them": Richie Kotzen looks back on life in Poison, Mr Big, the Winery Dogs and more

Richie Kotzen has just arrived in Europe for a lengthy tour, with UK dates in July

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"We're excited to finally have a song come out!" Listen to Halestorm and I Prevail's new team-up single, Can U See Me In The Dark?

Hard rock heavyweights Halestorm and metalcore heroes I Prevail have collaborated for a brand new single!

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"I can’t believe we actually managed to pull it off!" Guitar hero Sophie Lloyd has upgraded her debut live show after selling out the original venue in five minutes

YouTube sensation turned guitar hero Sophie Lloyd will now play a bigger venue in Camden in October

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"I could see that schism developing." Serj Tankian says he knew System Of A Down had problems as early as 1999

The System Of A Down vocalist also reveals the artists that inspired his early style before he found his own voice

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“I liked Discharge, and really respected Crass too.” Before she became a world-famous pop star, Björk had an angry anarcho-punk band called Spit and Snot

Pop stars rarely cut their teeth in anarcho-punk and jazz-fusions bands, but then Björk isn't like other pop stars

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"I’ve died three times through my own self-abuse." From helping shape industrial metal to hanging up on Stanley Kubrick and being Timothy Leary's drug guinea pig, Ministry's Al Jourgensen reflects on 40 years of madness and music

Ministry might be looking to bow out after their next album, but they leave behind one of metal's most colourful and event-filled legacies. We asked frontman Al Jourgensen to look back on his life

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"It was very British, but it shot round the world. It changed music": How the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was born, by those who were there

In the late 70s, rock music was given a steel-booted kick up the backside by a new breed of band.The NWOBHM would go on to rule Britannia – and the world

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"How do you even wear that? It's like, ridiculous!" Sebastian Bach berates fan for wearing Skid Row t-shirt

Sebastian Bach says he'd like to rejoin Skid Row. Don't count on it happening any time soon

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What happens when members of extreme metal royalty like Meshuggah, Watain and Opeth form an orchestra? Meet the uniquely excellent Bright & Black

Bright & Black have made one of this year's most compelling albums. We found out how it all came together

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