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

Sabaton, Mudvayne and Limp Bizkit are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Metal Hammer

Twenty One Pilots Breach review: it's the end of the band as we know them, but it points to an exciting future all the same

Twenty One Pilots wrap up their decade-long dystopian narrative in style

Louder

“I set myself the challenge of making a full-length album, using almost entirely the five-stringed guitar, in just four days”: Polymath virtuoso Jacob Collier’s new album is a love letter to the guitar – and alternate tunings

When tuned to DAEAD, the songs just fall out of the guitar for the musical super-genius – and his new album The Light For Days is a vehicle for showing what the instrument can do

Guitar World

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“He shaped the tone of his voice like a guitarist would finesse riffs and phrases”: Joe Satriani pays tribute to Chris Cornell with instrumental cover of Audioslave’s Be Yourself

The virtuoso features on the latest track from King Ultramega, a tribute project for the late Soundgarden frontman

Guitar World

Sabaton x Nothing More is one of the most surprising heavy metal collaborations we’ve heard all year – and it doesn’t sound half bad

The two bands have teamed up for Crossing The Rubicon, the fifth single from Sabaton’s upcoming album Legends

Metal Hammer

"Not being a musician you feel a little bit of an imposter, but I've got a passion for it and I think a lot of great musicians respect me for that": Dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood on embracing AI and playing the studio like an instrument

How AI tech worked alongside vintage studio gear to create The Collapse of Everything

MusicRadar

“Her technique is particularly difficult to replicate because she played ‘upside down’ on a guitar strung for arighty”: Sue Foley salutes Elizabeth Cotten and her favorite female guitar pioneers in this fingerpicking blues masterclass

Foley's latest lesson unpacks the Piedmont fingerpicking style perfected by the likes of Elizabeth Cotten – and there's some Memphis Minnie, too

Guitar World

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“They still maintain these ridiculous hours. After lunch until, like, two in the morning”: Marlon Richards says that the Stones have been putting together a new album in London

They’ll be a new album and tour in 2026, he suggests

MusicRadar

“Together, our chemistry is magical”: Steve Morse has announced his first new album since leaving Deep Purple – and it’s set to feature Eric Johnson and John Petrucci

Triangulation also features Morse's son on a tribute to the guitarist’s late wife

Guitar World

Netherlands threatens Eurovision boycott if Israel also participates

The Netherlands has joined several countries urging the Eurovision Song Contest to exclude Israel due to its actions in Gaza

The Independent UK

“One of the things I’ve wanted to really focus on, and zone into, is the limitation of a single instrument”: Using his signature ‘DAEAD’ tuning, Jacob Collier recorded a 5-string acoustic guitar album in just four days

"I had to work so fast that I couldn’t second-guess anything - I just had to roll with and trust the process," he says

MusicRadar

“This is either going to be a nice coda to Van Halen or it’s going to ruin my life”: Wolfgang Van Halen explains the extreme risk that comes with playing his dad’s songs onstage

Wolfgang has performed Van Halen songs in public on only two occasions since his father Eddie passed away in 2020

Metal Hammer

Pink Floyd announce 50th anniversary reissue of Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd will release Wish You Were Here 50 on various formats on December 12

Louder

Ed Sheeran’s new album Play receives mixed reviews

It is the first of five planned symbol records – with Pause, Fast Forward, Rewind and Stop set to follow.

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“Nothing’s more real than seeing your Ibanez JS guitars played by the legendary Spinal Tap”: How Joe Satriani became Spinal Tap’s unofficial guitar supplier for the loudest movie of the year

Satch and the Tap are old friends. And if you look closely, you might just catch Nigel Tufnel and David St. Hubbins playing his Ibanez signature models in Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

MusicRadar

“An attempt to deliver tickets as fairly as possible directly to fans at the prices the band intended”: Radiohead defend ticketing system as up to 1,000 dodgy tickets advertised online before the general sale

Ticombo were selling them last night

Guitar World

“Yungblud seems to have positioned himself as a natural heir to the Ozzy legacy”: Justin Hawkins defends his brother’s comments over the VMAs Ozzy Osbourne tribute

Yungblud starred alongside Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Perry and Steven Tyler for an all-star medley of Prince of Darkness tunes – which was met with derision by Dan Hawkins

The Independent UK

From Little Richard to Strauss: David Bowie’s favourite tunes revealed as new exhibition opens

Influential musician was a fan of Jeff Beck, Sonic Youth and The Beatles

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These were David Bowie's favourite songs, according to a note found while amassing his new V&A archive

Bowie picked songs by The Beatles, Roxy Music, Little Richard, Sonic Youth and more

Guitar World

“If you have a really fast run it’s just blazing past you. But with a lovely slow melodic line, you just kind of melt into it”: Meet Still Corners, the Anglo-American duo who write Shadows-inspired dream pop while they’re watching movies

Regularly dropping into longform and instrumental pieces, you’ll hear flavors of Westerns, The Shadows and Chris Isaak as guitarist Greg Hughes sticks to one guitar with a chiming clarity

The National (Scotland)

Former Eurovision winner calls for UK to quit over Israel's participation

THE UK should withdraw from Eurovision 2026 if Israel participates, the songwriter behind the UK’s 1960s winning song has said ...

Guitar World

“My grandma asked me why I was spending so much time pretending when I could just get a real guitar”: Inhaler guitarist Josh Jenkinson on how Miley Cyrus and Harry Styles’ producer expanded their sound – and why he just bought his first electric last year

Inhaler’s Josh Jenkinson is living proof that this generation’s guitar heroes actually got hooked on guitar courtesy of Guitar Hero – but he's not playing when it comes to tone and songwriting

Metal Hammer

"I don't care that they hate it, it's the fact that they are talking about it." Why Within Temptation won't shy away from getting political with their music

Within Temptation's recent music was heavily influenced by the war in Ukraine, and Sharon isn't fazed by anyone who has a problem with that

The Independent UK

Scottish star Nina Nesbitt surprises local Kent venue with secret set

Singer-songwriter turned up to perform at The Music Workshop in Folkestone to show her support for grassroots music venues

The Independent UK

Country star Garth Brooks to headline British Summer Time 2026 after denying rape allegation

Country superstar will play his first UK show in 30 years when he headlines the London festival next summer

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