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Legendary New York metal venue Saint Vitus closes permanently

The Brooklyn bar – which has hosted shows by Megadeth, Anthrax, Converge, Nirvana and Blink-182 – was shut in February and won’t reopen its doors

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“We hired male strippers to come onstage and dance”: Kittie’s Morgan Lander names her goofiest tour memory

The nu metal-era stars loved pranking their tourmates on a run of shows with Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall and Poison The Well

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"A new heavy metal classic for the ages": The song Ronnie James Dio called one of the "proudest things he'd ever done"

Begun by Dio when he was fronting Black Sabbath, it transformed his career and became one of the classic metal tracks of the 80s

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Black Smoke Trigger come from a small city in New Zealand but their ambition is global

With A-list album production and a Bruce Dickinson tour behind them, Black Smoke Trigger aren't settling for anything

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Babymetal and Electric Callboy team up with WWE for Bash In Berlin with Ratatata

One of the year's most ludicrously fun metal anthems will officially soundtrack this month's huge WWE show in Berlin, Germany

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Ulver keyboardist Tore Ylwizaker dies

Ylwizaker passed on the night of his 54th birthday and no cause of death has yet been given

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Black metal breakout stars Blackbraid return with cover of genre classic Warriors

The one-man black metal project has covered an anthem by supergroup I (Immortal, Enslaved, Gorgoroth)

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Win a PRS Guitar signed by Creed!

Win a Tremonti PRS Guitar signed by all members of Creed, plus a vinyl copy of Human Clay, a subscription to Guitar World and a Classic Rock Collector's Edition with signed setlist!

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“There are three songs that don’t sound like anything we’ve done before”: Anthrax have written “13 or 14 songs” for new album

The thrash metal masters haven’t released a new record since For All Kings in 2016

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Death metal veterans Nile have crafted their best album in nearly 20 years with The Underworld Awaits Us All

No one does death metal quite like Nile. Their 10th album is a ferocious reminder of why

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The 12 bands that defined Arctangent 2024

From headliners Meshuggah to left-field picks like Glassing, Arctangent’s 10th birthday was another extravaganza of forward-thinking talent

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"Now they’re seeing how deep the rabbit hole can go." Avant-garde metallers Zeal & Ardor have unleashed their adventurous side on the excellent Greif

Zeal & Ardor stop just short of totally ripping up the rulebook, but fourth album Greif is a bold step forwards all the same

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"I was just really, really ****ing tired." Nightwish singer Floor Jansen explains why making new album Yesterwynde was a challenging experience

Between her cancer battle and pregnancy, recording Nightwish's latest album offered some different challenges

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"We did desert shows at this empty pool by a nudist colony": How Fu Manchu spent thirty years preparing for The Return Of Tomorrow

Going from hardcore punks to stoner rock is a big leap,but Fu Manchu made it – with a little help from Melvins

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Watch Bring Me The Horizon play songs with alt-pop star Aurora and kawaii metal sensations Babymetal at Japanese concert

The UK pop-metal favourites brought out some heavyweight talent when they performed in Tokyo over the weekend

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“People would be like, ‘This again?’ I’d tell them it made my shift easier”: P.O.D.’s Marcos Curiel played Radiohead to survive working in a goth retail store

Guitarist explains his love for Thom Yorke’s band and (almost) everything they’ve ever done

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Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp release footage of Enter Sandman filmed at Isle Of Wight festival

They just won't stop, will they?

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“I don’t think the underground or extreme metal scene will ever dig us. It’s elitist”: How Trivium defied the gatekeepers and split the critics with The Crusade

Trivium broke big with 2005’s Ascendancy – but a year later, The Crusade saw the backlash hit

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"It was an unfortunate incident which has been exaggerated and turned into folklore": How contractual differences between Aerosmith and Metallica at Woodstock 1994 came to blows

Three More Days of Peace & Music? Not quite

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“I got fed up with writing about crap monsters. What’s horrific about that? The real evil in this world goes on in society”: The stellar rise and tragic demise of Death, the band who pushed metal to new extremes

How late Death frontman Chuck Schuldiner helped lay down the blueprint for death metal – then tore it up

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Coal Chamber postpone US tour after ill Dez Fafara had to be "revived" by his wife

Coal Chamber frontman Dez Fafara collapsed at home and spent 9 hours in emergency room after medical event

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“The first time I met Lemmy, he said: ‘How do you sit down with that sawblade codpiece?’ I said, ‘You don’t!’”: WASP frontman Blackie Lawless’s strange journey from shock rock to God

An epic interview with WASP singer Blackie Lawless about controversy, codpieces and Christianity

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“When we recorded Tears Don’t Fall, I passed out. On the take, you can hear a scream, and then this dropping body”: How Bullet For My Valentine stepped up to metal’s big league with The Poison

The rollercoaster story behind Bullet For My Valentine’s classic 2005 debut album The Poison

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“We knew Chris Barnes had to go. We phoned him on the road and said, ‘Dude, you’re out.’ It was as simple as that”: How Cannibal Corpse made 90s death metal classic Vile and ended up in the US charts

The story of Cannibal Corpse’s Vile – the album that introduced Corpsegrinder to the wider world

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The 15 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Heriot, Fever 333 and Leprous are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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