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"We were on a wave that hadn’t been ridden before." Papa Roach recreate the Last Resort video on Metal Hammer's new cover as they get ready to celebrate 25 years of Infest

Next year, Papa Roach will celebrate 25 years of their classic breakthrough album Infest. To celebrate, they're on the front cover of Metal Hammer!

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“Once you hit that first note and get into the groove, and you hear the roar from the crowd, any feelings of tiredness or whatever, I don’t really get”: Jerry Cantrell names the riff that “defines” Alice In Chains

A Metal Hammer reader asked Alice In Chains guitarist/vocalist which riff defines the band. This is what he said.

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“I never wanted to be in a band, I just liked playing music. I was never a showman. If I didn’t have my mask on I wouldn’t be at the front of the stage”: An interview with Mick Thomson, Slipknot’s reluctant guitar hero

The pressures of fame, blond mullets, ignoring phone calls from rock stars – up close and personal with Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson

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"She's made the jump from bizarre YouTube content creator to one of the brightest stars in metal." A guide to every Poppy album

We dissect the fascinating career of genre-hopping alternative artist Moriah Rose Pereira - known to millions as Poppy

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Synthy rocky metal wackadoodles Zetra announce first-ever headline tour

Your favourite face-painted, synthpop-loving metal duo will play across the UK next year

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"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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“It doesn’t wanna make us get out of bed”: Avenged Sevenfold won’t tour celebrating classic albums, says M. Shadows

If you were hoping for a City Of Evil 20th anniversary tour to happen next year, we have some bad news…

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“In my mind I was thinking this could be the last record we ever made, They thought I wanted to leave it”: How Deftones pulled back from the brink of oblivion to make Saturday Night Wrist

Tensions between bandmates, bust-ups with their producer, divorce – Deftones’ fifth album Saturday Night Wrist almost didn’t happen

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“We recorded it in 20 minutes. But then I am a genius”: The late, great Paul Di’Anno looks back on making Iron Maiden’s Running Free

Paul Di’Anno sang on Iron Maiden’s classic debut single Running Free – speaking to Metal Hammer earlier this year, this is what he remembered about making it

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Former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno dead at 66

Ex-Iron Maiden frontman Paul Di'Anno, who fronted the band from 1978-1981, has died

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“David Draiman wanted to help us make the best music we could. He didn’t ask us to write The Sickness!”: Why Trivium enlisted some superstar help to make Vengeance Falls

Trivium’s career has been a whirlwind of highs and lows – but with 2013’s Vengeance Falls, they finally learned to follow their own instincts...

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Kerry King names the hardest Slayer song to play on guitar: “It’s not one I’m looking to play live any time soon!”

The guitarist also names the best riff from his late Slayer bandmate Jeff Hanneman

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“Grunge ruined the party. Do you want to be in a band to be boring? I don’t get it”: How Rob Zombie brought the schlock back with killer metal sequel Hellbilly Deluxe 2

Most sequels suck – but Rob Zombie’s 2010 album Hellbilly Deluxe 2 put modern metal’s favourite boogie-man back on top

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“There was a lot of power in what they had to say. I felt that even before I could relate to the stories they were telling”: Why Poppy’s cover of Spit by Kittie is a tribute to one of her favourite metal bands

Nu gen trailblazer and Metal Hammer cover star Poppy is a huge fan of Kittie – and here’s why

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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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Poppy shows her genre-smashing range with two new singles, Crystallized and The Cost Of Giving Up

Both tracks will appear on the Metal Hammer cover star’s new album Negative Spaces next month

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“Everything is all killer, no filler!” Every song on Iron Maiden’s Powerslave ranked from worst to best

From Aces High to Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, we’ve arranged everything on Iron Maiden’s 1984 classic in reverse-order of magnificence

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We celebrate one of Iron Maiden's most iconic albums in the new issue

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"I like a lot of the stuff he’s in." Slayer legend Kerry King would like Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson to play him in a movie

When asked who could play Kerry King in a movie, Kerry King picks out a couple of action movie legends

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"It felt like I’d known her forever." Symphonic metal icons Sharon den Adel and Tarja Turunen on hearing each other's bands Within Temptation and Nightwish for the first time

The Within Temptation frontwoman and former Nightwish singer would eventually team up for a blockbuster single

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Poppy's new TV variety show lands this week and it's every bit as bizarre as you would hope

Improbably Poppy is a twisted Sesame Street with creepy vibes, dark humour & threats of violence. It's brilliantly bonkers

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“If you’re a Maiden fan you’re like family. You’ve been with us on a long ride”: How Iron Maiden conquered the parts of the planet where other metal bands feared to tread

In 2011, Metal Hammer boarded Ed Force One to join Iron Maiden in South America for scenes of madness, mayhem and pisco sour

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“I hate the term ‘thinking man’s metal’. That kind of term could hurt the band”: The story of Opeth’s Blackwater Park, the album that changed prog metal forever

How Opeth seized the prog metal throne with 2001’s genre-defining Blackwater Park album

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