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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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“Our favourite bands didn’t chicken out on their third record. That’s not how Master Of Puppets or Number Of The Beast got made”: How Ghost teamed up with Katy Perry’s producer to kick things to the next level with Meliora

Ghost’s third album Meliora found them going darker and poppier than ever before – and the result pointed towards what was to follow

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Order an exclusive Papa Roach bundle featuring a limited edition tie-dyed t-shirt

The new Metal Hammer Papa Roach bundle comes with its own exclusive t-shirt design and a mag packed with nu metal brilliance

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"If myself and Dave Mustaine could have co-existed, Megadeth would have been a very different band." Kerry King on riffs, venomous housepets and which bands he'd join given the chance

Thrash metal icon Kerry King answers fan questions and discusses which legendary bands he'd love to tour with

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Late Star Wars actor Peter Cushing being brought back by AI for new documentary

He'll appear in Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters

Total Film

"I have to either be in this band or I have to destroy it." A chaotic interview with Slipknot from 1999

In 1999 Metal Hammer flew out to Memphis to meet Slipknot for the first time. A near-miss with SWAT teams, legions of fans and an insane show later, we knew they'd change the world

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House of Horror! Peter Cushing's Art Deco home is for sale for £995k

Adorned with a blue plaque, the childhood home of the Hammer and Star Wars acting legend Peter Cushing is for sale

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“The whole movie totally disturbs me!” Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Beverly names her favourite horror film – and it’s a controversial one

“I think about it constantly – that movie is my ‘Roman Empire’”

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“They knew, if they wanted to create something new, they needed to slow down”: Blind Channel name the 2020s metal sensation that inspired their upcoming hiatus

Co-vocalist Joel Hokka reveals the band whose success made Blind Channel realise they can step away from the spotlight

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"I was freaking out and bawling in the studio." Korn's classic debut album at 30: the weirdness, the trauma and the birth of nu metal

On October 11 1994, five misfits from Bakersfield, California would release an album that would change metal forever

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“It’s devastatingly bleak in a way that resonates into our deepest self”: In his only interview, Sleep Token’s Vessel named his favourite album from the 1990s

Sleep Token’s singer gave Metal Hammer his first and last interview in 2017. When he did, he named the 90s alt-rock record that moves him most.

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“They would tell us directly to our faces, ‘You’re not going to last’”: Other bands hated Slipknot on their first Ozzfest tour – but Sharon Osbourne saved them

Jealous bands would “shit talk” Slipknot when they made their breakout appearance on the 1999 Ozzfest

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“Had we not made this record the way it sounded, I’m not certain there would have been another album”: How Opeth ditched the death growls and fully embraced prog on Heritage

In 2011, Opeth released Heritage – and cut the the last cord with their death metal past

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“Every time I hear it on the radio it’s like, ‘I’m glad they’re playing this instead of Crazy Train!’” Slayer’s Kerry King names his favourite Ozzy Osbourne song, and it’s one of his most obscure

When we asked Slayer’s guitarist to name the best Ozzy Osbourne track, he picked the deepest of deep cuts

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From Folterkammer's femme-dom black metal to Belushi Speed Ball's 'pizza thrash', Dermabrasion's occulty goth rock and the bizarre alt. metal of Battlesnake, these are the bands you need to hear in September 2024

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‘Born to be a Hammer’: West Ham sign Colombia forward Manuela Paví

West Ham have signed the 23-year-old Manuela Paví for an undisclosed fee from the Colombian side Deportivo Cali

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