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"It’s very, very exciting." Black Sabbath to be given the classical treatment on UK tour featuring local orchestras

A series of shows will reinvent Sabbath's metal blueprint throughout the UK – with strings attached

Metal Hammer

Oh Lord, yeah: Black Sabbath team up with the Big Issue, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer for the Back To The Beginning official programme

The official programme Back To The Beginning is a unique collaboration between Black Sabbath, the Big Issue, and Metal Hammer and Classic Rock

Metal Hammer

“Judas Priest were doing something different. Black Sabbath gave us a real confidence boost to carry on what we were doing”: K.K. Downing on coming up with fellow metal gods Black Sabbath in Birmingham, and why no-one can play like Tony Iommi

They are from the same city, sharing a similar mission, and this weekend they will gather for one last push for metal as the former Judas Priest man steps onstage to celebrate Black Sabbath

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“I don’t think anybody can be prepared for how big the crowd was. A sea of denim and leather as far as you can see”: The epic story of Monsters Of Rock, the greatest heavy metal festival of them all

The triumphs, the bottlings, the rucks, the rain – long-running festival Monsters Of Rock changed hard rock and heavy metal forever

Metal Hammer

Ever wondered what it's like putting on a metal festival? Music podcast Two Promoters One Pod reveals all

Created by Damnation organiser Gavin McInally and 2000 Trees/ArcTanGent boss James Scarlett, Two Promoters One Pod shares behind the scenes stories of the music world

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"The best frontman I ever saw. Nobody else came close": The day David Lee Roth turned in the performance of a lifetime

With a heavyweight line-up including Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Van Halen, Mötley Crüe and more, Monsters Of Rock 1984 is still revered in festival folklore

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Download Festival organiser responds to claims this year's event is 'louder'

Its festival booker said it could instead be down to weather conditions

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‘If I get covered in urine, that means I’ve arrived’: the birth of Monsters of Rock festival

In an extract from new book Denim and Leather, an oral history of 80s British heavy metal, Judas Priest, Saxon, Rainbow and others describe the 1980 debut of an event that cemented the UK rock community

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