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“The whole album is based around my friend who passed away.” Tragedy, black metal and Linkin Park: Gaerea might be masked and anonymous, but their story is deeply personal

Gaerea began in the realms of black metal, but now the mysterious Portuguese group are pushing boundaries

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"For me, metal is a way of living." Oscar-winning Hollywood star Javier Bardem reveals how Linkin Park, Slipknot and Bad Omens inspired his terrifying performance in new remake of Cape Fear

"It's not that Iusethe music. It's that I can't live without it."

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“If it wasn’t us, it would’ve just been someone else, because there are so many great female-fronted bands”: Linkin Park react to becoming first band with female singer to headline Download festival

The nu metal hit-makers, now co-fronted by Emily Armstrong, closed the Donington weekender on Sunday

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Download festival review – Guns N’ Roses flop and Letlive thrive as metal’s biggest fest enters the future

Often criticised for booking the same old legends, the festival hosts a broad span of music’s heaviest genre, plus hip-hop, Indian folk – and, finally, its first female headliner

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Emily Armstrong just made history with Linkin Park at Download - and they made it one hell of a celebration

Download's most significant set of 2026 ends the festival on a massive high

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"If you want to believe we're a boyband, there's nothing I can say or do to make you change your mind." In early 2001, Linkin Park went stratospheric. Here's a snapshot of a band during blastoff

Many questioned Linkin Park's authenticity. But one million albums later, that noise started to fade

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“I didn't even want it to be on the record, honestly. How wrong could I have possibly been?”: How Linkin Park created their biggest song that has now racked up billions of streams

Chester Bennington was a little on the fence as to whether Linkin Park’s most enduring track was strong enough to be on their debut

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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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Linkin Park tease details of a new Unshatter movie inside European tour t-shirts

Is Unshatter the title of the 2024 concert which was filmed in Brazil?

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"It’s about those times when you’ve got no feeling left or you just don’t care." The song that helped Linkin Park kiss goodbye to the nu metal era - and that got a new lease of life courtesy of one rap megastar

Few bands have two separate versions of one song celebrated equally as classics, but Linkin Park did that

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“I Don’t Date Toddlers. Bye”: 47 Times Women Had The Best Comebacks To Sexist Jokes

Women have to put up with plenty of sexist remarks they should not have to hear, and somehow, it’s always the same tired lines. “Get in the kitchen.” “Make me a sandwich.” Cue the sigh and eye roll. So when one Redditor asked women to share their best responses to…

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"I’d log onto a school computer, listen to Evanescence and write 60 poems by the time the album was over." Melding visceral grime with pulsating metal, Native James is one of the UK's most unique and exciting new artists

From making poems in school to playing Reading, Leeds and Glastonbury, Native James has confirmed himself as an artist with superstar potential

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Rail firm bans Download festival-goers from bringing wheelie bins full of beer onto trains: “While it might seem like a great idea, it just isn’t safe”

“Our teams will be on hand at stations to support customers and help them complete their journeys, without their bins or trolleys, as smoothly as possible,” says East Midlands Railway

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"I had that thing of, 'I don’t wanna play that song because every time I sing it, I start crying.'" From falling in love with Nirvana to channelling Iron Maiden and embracing activism, some life lessons from Within Temptation's Sharon den Adel

Fronting one of Europe's biggest metal bands has given Sharon a special kind of insight through her career. Here's what she's learned

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WWE 2K26 review: It comes close to being the best in the world — but yearly releases are clearly holding it back

WWE 2K26 delivers the best gameplay and biggest roster in the WWE 2K series, but there are bigger issues elsewhere.

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"I was never a fan of it and I didn't even want it to be on the record." The emotional Linkin Park anthem that Chester Bennington didn't originally like but became one of the biggest rock songs of all time

Incredibly, if Chester had had his way, In The End would have never made the cut on Hybrid Theory!

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"Linkin Park helped me survive." Anti-war protests, hidden identities and split personalities: Meet N0trixx, the Russian-born trap metal artist exploring mental health

N0trixx's experiences with dissociative identity disorder have inspired one of 2026's most fascinating metal debuts

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“I just wanted to punch that dude in the face." How Linkin Park pushed themselves to the limit on Hybrid Theory and changed the face of metal

In October 2000, as the nu metal revolution rolled ever onward, one band released an album that changed the game, and their lives, forever...

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"I was like, 'This is it. This is ****ing it.' I was so obsessed." Here's what Linkin Park singer Emily Armstrong thinks about the band's legendary debut album, Hybrid Theory

Surely even in her wildest dreams, Emily wouldn't have believed she'd be singing the lyrics from that album on stage with the band herself

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Download Festival makes special announcement for 2026 lineup

Download Festival has announced a second wave of acts for its 2026 line-up, scheduled to run from 10th to 14th June. New additions to the bill include A Day To Remember, Daughtry, Hot Milk, and Creeper. These acts join previously confirmed headliners such as Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses, and…

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Metal, pop punk, Final Fantasy and Miss World Chile: the list of new bands joining Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses, Linkin Park and more at Download this year has a lot going on

The UK's biggest rock festival just got bigger as day splits are officially announced

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 8-14 includes Michael B. Jordan and Laura Dern

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Feb. 8-14 include actor Michael B

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Full List Of 2026 Grammy Winners (Updating Live)

Here are all the winners at the 2026 Grammys.

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How To Watch Your Music Faves Win Trophies At The 2026 Grammy Awards In Australia

The Grammy Awards are back on and running. Here's how you can watch the show in Australia, as well as what time it starts.

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Stranger Things Villain Vecna Reimagined as a Linkin Park-Era Rapper in Viral AI Videos

Viral AI fan edits reimagine Stranger Things villain Vecna as a Linkin Park rapper, blending nu-metal nostalgia with early-2000s music video aesthetics.

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