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“It still doesn’t feel real that we’re supporting Slayer”: Neckbreakker released one of 2024’s most exciting metal debut albums. Now they’re about to live their biggest dream.

Neckbreakker are making serious waves in the European metal scene – and with good reason

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Nightwish offshoot Auri to return with third album III - Candles And Beginnings in August

Folk prog trio Auri will undertake their first ever live tour through Europe in August, September and October

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Beast mode: how Beast In Black, Diablo IV and Berserk have created 2025's ultimate metal-gaming-manga team-up

As the universes of Diablo and Berserk cross over, Blizzard have partnered with Beast In Black to reveal brand new song Enter The Behelit

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“I was living a couch, with no food and no money, just hoping the band would come through this”: The epic story of Meshuggah’s rise from thrash metal wannabes to tech metal giants

How Meshuggah inspired a generation of tech metal bands

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The busiest band in metal? One day before Slipknot support tour, Bleed From Within announce next album Zenith, release single In Place Of Your Halo

The prolific aggressors have also remixed recent track Hands Of Sin, now featuring Sylosis frontman Josh Middleton

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Death metal up-and-comers Neckbreakker (formerly Nakkeknaekker) announce debut album Within The Viscera

Get your neck broken by Neckbreakker when they release their first album on December 6

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Listen to ultra-symphonic surprise new Nightwish song The Day Of…

The orchestral metal sensations have just released the second preview of upcoming album Yesterwynde

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Marilyn Manson is back. His return highlights how little the music industry cares about protecting women

New Marilyn Manson single As Sick As The Secrets Within has been released, officially marking his comeback following the wave of abuse allegations that arrived in 2021. It all sets a grim precedent

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“There were bad vibes with local Oslo bands saying it was crap”: how Dimmu Borgir’s controversial symphonic classic Enthrone Darkness Triumphant dragged black metal out of the shadows

The story of Dimmu Borgir’s Enthrone Darkness Triumphant, the album which drew up the blueprint for symphonic black metal

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Epica singer Simone Simons announces debut solo album Vermillion, lead single Aeterna now streaming

Epica’s lead vocalist is going it alone, with help from Ayreon mainstay Arjen Lucassen

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Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen says upcoming single Perfume Of The Timeless is “eight-and-a-half minutes long”: “The chorus comes in at 3:30”

The keyboardist has also talked about the touring hiatus the symphonic metal outfit will take after September’s Yesterwynde album

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Great new prog music you have to hear this week from North Sea Echoes, Voivod, Einar Solberg and more...

Cool new prog sounds to check out from Vicinity, Barrus, Reliqa and more...

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There are only 300 Amaranthe bundles available, so get yours now!

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My Dying Bride announce new album A Mortal Binding, release first single Thornwyck Hymn

Yorkshire doom legends My Dying Bride will release their first studio album in four years in April – listen to A Mortal Binding’s lead single here

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"It’s everything from super-organic to super-symphonic, to super-poppy, to super-harsh." We get in the studio with Amaranthe to find out why the Swedish pop-metallers have gone "a little bit crazy" for new album The Catalyst

Amaranthe are pushing their sound further than ever for their next chapter

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A beginner’s guide to Nuclear Blast records in five essential albums

Nuclear Blast has risen from an underground German label to one of metal’s most powerful institutions. Here’s how it did it – boiled down to just five albums.

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Judas Priest and Elegant Weapons guitarist Richie Faulkner on Painkiller and the 10 albums that changed his life

“That is an album that changed my life in more ways than one because it almost killed me!”

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Why does metal love bands in masks?

Ghost, Sleep Token, Blackgold, Swollen Teeth - if you want to get noticed in 2023, get a mask

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Every Nightwish album ranked in order of greatness by Nightwish’s Tuomas Holopainen

If anyone is allowed to put Nightwish’s epic back catalogue in the correct order, it’s the band’s keyboard player and songwriter Tuomas Holopainen

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Every Sabaton album ranked from worst to best

Power metal's premier war dogs Sabaton have amassed a mighty back catalogue. So we've ranked it

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Beyond The Black: how a former pop star could be symphonic metal's next megastar

Jennifer Haben was a pop star and a magician's assistant, but with Beyond The Black she's realising her true passion

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