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

From Bad Omens' fascinating new project to the latest cuts from Oceans Of Slumber, Gatecreeper and more, this is all the new metal you need in your life this week

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"Orange Goblin have made the journey, and they're very much the real thing." London's stoner metal legends finally reach New Zealand and put on a magnificent rock 'n' roll show

Orange Goblin level Wellington's Valhalla during their first ever New Zealand tour

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Hear Lacuna Coil get ridiculously heavy on new single In The Mean Time, featuring Ash Costello from New Years Day

Cristiana Scabbia and her goth metal cohorts haven’t hit this hard in a very long time

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce extra Ascendancy / The Poison 2025 tour dates, plus stellar support act

The metalcore heroes will be playing their classic albums in full to mark their 20th anniversaries

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“If you enjoy anything from Architects to Deftones, metalcore to pop, there’s something here for you”: Unpeople’s self-titled EP is UK metal’s most promising first impression of 2024

Mixing layers of noise with ferocious grooves and pop-punk melodies, Unpeople are bringing something brand new to modern metal

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“I plan to do a more melodic, straight-forward heavy metal side-project”: How Death’s Chuck Schuldiner broke free from extreme metal with prog powerhouse Control Denied

Between Death’s swan song and his passing in 2001, Chuck Schuldiner released one album with progressive trad-metal outfit Control Denied. This is their story.

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Alcest share stunning new video for Flamme Jumelle

Atmospheric French duo Alcest will release new studio album, Les Chants De L'Auroe in June

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Slipknot are teasing something special with mysterious billboard and website

A billboard with the Slipknot logo and the words “one night only” has shown up in the California desert

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Every Bathory album ranked from worst to best

They remain one of the most innovative and influential bands in extreme metal, but there can only be one Bathory magnum opus…

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“Cannae beat a bit of AC/DC man!” Watch football legend Ally McCoist’s hilarious reaction to hearing Hells Bells on stadium speakers

Turns out the Talksport TV host and Rangers icon is one hell of an air drummer

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“We’ll see you next year”: Letlive are reuniting for a “proper” farewell tour in 2025

The post-hardcore idols are also reissuing one of their most venerated albums

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"Tarantula Heart is the best Melvins album since the 90s": They shaped sludge metal and inspired Nirvana, but Melvins are still punk metal weirdos on new album Tarantula Heart

Grunge forerunners and sludge metal pioneers Melvins are pushing the envelope again with their new - and 27th! - album Tarantula Heart

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"I used to hate the sight of Ozzy. I couldn’t stand him, and I used to beat him up whenever I saw him": Tony Iommi in conversation with James Hetfield

In the year of our Lord 1992, the Master Of Reality met the Master Of Puppets: The day Metallica’s James Hetfield and Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi sat down together for the first time

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"I've ripped up my fingers to shreds, they bled, they blistered": Watch Nina DiGregorio's jaw-dropping version of Van Halen's Eruption, played on 7-string fretted violin

Nina DiGregorio spent years preparing for this moment

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“SYSC will take over, so get on board or get out of their way.” Seeyouspacecowboy spread their wings and shed their demons on magnificent new album Coup De Grâce

With album three, San Diego’s up-and-comers haven’t just jumped from introspective lyrics to apocalyptic fantasy – they’ve escaped their metalcore constraints along the way

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"What is this band about? I’m not sure. I like that it’s a mystery to me.” Meet five excellent young bands inspired by Tool

Hawxx, Ou, Mountain Caller, Wheel and Every Hell are channelling current Metal Hammer cover stars Tool in a variety of weird and wonderful ways

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“I’m stronger and louder than I have ever been”: Julie Christmas announces first album in 14 years, releases ultra-catchy single Supernatural

The noise rock/post-metal maestro will be flanked by members of Cult Of Luna, Ken Mode and more when Ridiculous And Full Of Blood drops in June

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Watch Megadeth perform a secret acoustic set outside a hotel in Buenos Aires

The thrash metal icons played the impromptu three-song show during their ongoing South American tour

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“Without him, there would be no Metallica.” See James Hetfield’s new Motörhead tattoo with Lemmy’s ashes in it

The Motörhead man’s remains can also be found in bullets and scattered on the grounds of a German metal festival

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"Everything up to then had been about climbing the mountain. With Powerslave it felt like we were looking out over the rest of the world": How Iron Maiden grew up

When it came to making the follow-up to 1983’s Piece Of Mind album, Iron Maiden knew they needed to come up with something a bit special. That was Powerslave

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Every Judas Priest album ranked from worst to best

Judas Priest are the ultimate defenders of the faith: here's how we ranked their incredible, storied back catalogue

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"I honestly can’t find the inspiration to write": Don't hold your breath if you're hoping for a new Jinjer album in 2024

Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk says she has "99 problems I have to solve" before she can think of working on the band's next album

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Kerry King announces UK headline debut with tiny London show

The legendary Slayer guitarist will be bringing his solo band to the Electric Ballroom in June for the band's first UK headline performance

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"Between this and Dune: Part Two, 2024 is already proving a spotless year for fans of bat**** cosmic maximalism": Dvne's Voidkind is the best album about desert-dwelling space worms you'll hear this year

Denis Villeneuve might have brought Frank Herbert's Dune to the big screen, but Scotland's Dvne are making cinematic sonic odysseys that truly bring the world of Arrakis to life

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"Few bands can compete for sheer atmosphere and elegiac beauty": Doom metal legends My Dying Bride stay the course on gorgeous - if a little predictable - new album A Mortal Binding

Doom metal legends My Dying Bride are still as gloriously miserable as ever on their fourteenth studio album, A Mortal Binding

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