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“Everybody was fighting in the streets, getting thrown through car windows, it was insane! The cops arrested Jimmy and he went to jail!”: How Avenged Sevenfold went from metalcore brats to 21st century metal heavyweights

The rise and rise of Avenged Sevenfold, in their own words

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“I don’t think anyone is as iconic as I am right now”: How Ville Valo helped lead HIM to stardom and became a modern rock god in the process

In 2006, HIM were at the peak of their powers –and frontman Ville Valo was living the rock star life to the max

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“With the success came all the trappings and we tried every one of them. The drugs, the travel, the women. Our lives were forever changed”: The chaotic story of Black Sabbath, the band who did more than anyone to invent heavy metal

No Black Sabbath, no heavy metal as we know it

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The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2025

From Ghost to Babymetal, Halestorm to Sleep Token, these are the metal albums you should keep an eye out for in 2025

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Killswitch Engage fans! Grab the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive cover and t-shirt, only through Louder

Buy the new Hammer with a Killswitch Engage-themed cover and shirt that you won’t find anywhere else

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TGL Announces a Major Rule Change Before Busy Stretch of Matches

The indoor simulator league tweaked a device that increases point values on holes.

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Lacuna Coil fans! Pick up this exclusive Metal Hammer bundle with an art card signed by Cristina and Andrea, only available here

Grab the new issue of Metal Hammer, featuring an exclusive Lacuna Coil interview, and get a special-edition cover and signed print you won’t find anywhere else

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“For one complete tour I had an FBI agent in every town”: Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia once had so many stalkers that the feds had to step in

After finding fame in the 2000s, Lacuna Coil’s co-singer needed the FBI to keep over-passionate fans in check

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“I would hide out before the show, play the set, hide out after, not be sociable, not have fun, and that just started wearing thin on me”: Jesse Leach explains his 2002 Killswitch Engage exit

Jesse Leach opens up the mental health crisis that led to him leaving one of metalcore’s biggest bands

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“This is a band with no limits. If there’s a metal fan on the moon, we’ll be there”: How Iron Maiden’s epic Somewhere Back In Time tour took them where other metal bands dare not go

In 2008, Metal Hammer climbed aboard Ed Force One to join Iron Maiden on the tour of a lifetime

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“Metal fans are still stigmatised. So I try and write lyrics with meaning, rather than standard metal lyrics”: How Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine set out to bust a few myths with Super Collider

A 2013 audience with an unexpectedly calm and approachable Dave Mustaine

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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter review – swashbuckling Hammer horror still has bite

Directed by legendary writer Brian Clemens this macabre vampire yarn is marked by the Edgar Allan Poe template but has a charm and humour all of its own

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“I knew The Poison was going to be massive!” Metal Hammer releases exclusive Trivium x Bullet For My Valentine bundle – featuring a t-shirt you can’t get anywhere else!

Get the newest Metal Hammer with an exclusive cover and brand-new t-shirt, just in time for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s mammoth Poisoned Ascendancy world tour

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The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer

From Judas Priest to Opeth, Poppy to Bring Me The Horizon, these are the metal albums you said defined metal in 2024

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Cradle Of Filth announce new album The Screaming Of The Valkyries – but that Ed Sheeran track isn’t any nearer: “We’re not absolutely sure how it will emerge, but it’s been done”

Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, Dani Filth reveals the name of Cradle Of Filth’s next studio album and when it’s due out. He also says that their long-anticipated Ed Sheeran team-up won’t be on it.

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Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024

From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024

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"They are honouring Chester's memory but also creating their own legacy." How Linkin Park pulled off the biggest comeback of 2024

The countdown, the comeback, the controversy - Linkin Park's return was one of the biggest stories of 2024

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"Every night of our tour, we'd get a report about weapons being confiscated." We went backstage with Powerwolf, Hammerfall and Wind Rose on the power metal tour of the year - and it was even more ludicrous than we'd imagined

Inside the biggest (and most over the top) power metal tour of 2024

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The Hebrew Hammer: a Hanukah film that mocks antisemitic stereotypes through its butt-kicking Jewish hero

If you watch one Hanukah film this festive season may I suggest you watch the 2003 film, The Hebrew Hammer. I am particularly partial to this film, it featured heavily in my book, The New Jew in Film, for its self-conscious reversal of cinematic stereotypes of Jews.

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“We were shocked: ‘Is this real? What does this mean?’”: Gojira reveal who came up with their fire-spewing, show-stealing Olympic Games performance

Who had the vision to let metal’s eco-warriors dominate the Paris Olympics opening ceremony? Joe Duplantier gives Metal Hammer the answer

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“We wanted to look like something never before seen in heavy metal. What would be wilder than denim and leather? Animal fur!” How Manowar helped invent power metal with Hail To England

Bow down before Manowar’s false metal-slaying third album, 1984’s Hail To England

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Dani Filth’s mum wants Cradle Of Filth’s Nymphetamine played at her funeral

“She’ll be dead by then, so we can change the tracklisting”

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Metal Hammer name Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere the best metal album of 2024, top 50 revealed

Blood Incantation’s progressive death metal opus tops the Metal Hammer 2024 album of the year list. See the other 49 entries here.

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Start your neck warmups now: UK metalcore hellraisers Heriot announce biggest-ever headline tour

One of this country’s best up-and-coming metal bands will hit the road in April

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A beginner’s guide to Pelagic Records in five essential albums

German label Pelagic Records has become home to some of metal's brightest and most experimental names - these are their five most landmark releases

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