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7 new progressive metal albums that break all the genre’s rules

So many prog metal bands want to sound like Tool, Gojira or Meshuggah – but not these seven forward-thinkers

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From Justin Chancellor's alt-metal side project MTVoid to Ukrainian black metallers They Came From Visions, German folk metal heroes Tvinna and hardcore mob Going Off, these are the bands you need to hear in July 2024

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“Listen to Romeo And Juliet by Prokofiev. It’s one of the heaviest pieces of music you’ll ever hear”: The magic and mystery – but not genius – of Muse’s first decade

With each of their first four albums Matt Bellamy and co injected more prog to their music, finding inspiration via classical composers, magic mushrooms and a Ouija board

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This easy listening version of Tool’s Sober is oddly excellent

Prog metal + a horn section = a winning combination, apparently

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“I was watching my best friend get eaten alive by heroin. It was amazing how far gone he was, physically, but he was still able to play the shows”: Failure’s Ken Andrews looks back on the fraught creation of 1996 cosmic epic, Fantastic Planet

Fantastic Planet was recorded at a time when substance abuse was tearing them apart and their record label folded. Now Andrews can look back with a bit of perspective on an artistic triumph that's given them a second life

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“We could release a hang-drum odyssey with seagull noises and somebody would still say it sounds like Tool!” Wheel have no time for outdated comparisons

James Lascelles explains why the Anglo-Finnish band’s third album, Charismatic Leaders, takes on big issues but doesn’t try to offer world-changing solutions

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“You turned into this rock goddess”: The 10-year-old viral sensation who wowed Adam Jones just stunned America’s Got Talent with a ripping Last Resort cover

Maya Neelakantan was gifted Jones' signature Gibson Les Paul after dazzling him with her stellar Tool covers. Now she's taken to the stage for the first time ever to rip through the Papa Roach classic

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Gojira drummer Mario Duplantier will bring the death metal thunder to Late Night With Seth Meyers next week

The drummers of Iron Maiden, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold and more have previously manned the kit on the late-night show

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Anyway, here’s that deathcore cover of Tool’s Sober that you never asked for

Props to Ohio metal mob Backbiter for giving it a go, at least

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"It was more of a struggle to stay alive than it was to continue to the band": How Failure found themselves at odds with everyone

Influential alt.rock trio Failure were tipped for stardom, but imploded in a haze of drugs and exasperation

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"Even if Tool were to play six nights a week, every week they'd still offer one of metal's most unique live experiences." Tool's 2024 setlist is a prog metal masterclass with cosmic visuals to match

Tool return to the UK for the second time this decade for a masterclass in mind-boggling imagery and prog instrumentals

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Watch Mike Portnoy learning Tool's Pneuma – a drum track so complicated it "makes Dream Theater look like Weezer"

Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy wrestled with learning Tool drummer Danny Carey's work on epic track Pneuma

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“This makes Dream Theater sound like f***ing Weezer!” Watch Mike Portnoy take on Tool’s Pnuema before challenging Danny Carey to learn The Dance of Eternity

Two prog-metal titans collide as Portnoy attempts the 12-minute epic from 2019's Fear Inoculum in one of Drumeo's most difficult challenges to date

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Tool bassist talks new music: “There’s absolutely tons and tons of hard drives full of stuff”

Justin Chancellor has offered an update on the prog metal luminaries’ next album

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“You don’t need to spend 10 years to make an album”: Ex-Tool bassist Paul D’Amour slams band’s songwriting process

Tool’s former bassist has explained how the prog metal icons’ “frustrating” songwriting led to him leaving the band

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“At the beginning of the band, we were all happy to be there. When we got to writing Ænima, we spent a year and wrote five songs. That, to me, was so frustrating”: Paul D’Amour opens up on his Tool exit – and his unsung contributions

The current Ministry bassist sets the record straight on his songwriting efforts for classic album Ænima, coaching Justin Chancellor, and what sets his new gear – and new gig – apart

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"I can't be Dave Grohl or Ryan Reynolds." We spent the day with Tool and, can we shock you? They're still weird as hell.

Like the rest of us, Tool are hoping they can get it together enough to record another album before somebody dies

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“Heavier and weirder than its predecessors… they’ve struggled to shake off Tool comparisons – but now they sound far more like themselves”: Wheel’s Charismatic Leaders

Fourth album sees leader James Lascelles taking on weighty subjects, backed up by equally weighty music

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“No-one understands why Maynard James Keenan chooses blue body paint or why Adam Jones creates such disturbing art. They just pretend to”: The enigma of Tool up to 10,000 Days

Sacred geometry, lunar currents, media baiting, arena shows… nothing has been beyond the pale for the ever enigmatic and elusive band

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Maynard James Keenan's plans for the next 18 months? Wine, fried chicken and new songs for Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer

As Maynard James Keenan's epic 60th birthday celebrations roll on, he's planning new Tool, APC and Puscifer songs

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"What is this band about? I’m not sure. I like that it’s a mystery to me.” Meet five excellent young bands inspired by Tool

Hawxx, Ou, Mountain Caller, Wheel and Every Hell are channelling current Metal Hammer cover stars Tool in a variety of weird and wonderful ways

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“We started thinking, ‘Well, who could possibly be in the band?’ The only person I could think of was Steve”: Adrian Belew on how he and Steve Vai are forming a new guitar partnership ahead of a King Crimson supergroup tour

'Beat' will tour the band's ’80s material later this year, and the group's guitar duo is working on a partnership that can do the Belew/Fripp double act justice

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"I don’t think there are too many other genres of music that have fans so loyal and devoted like this..." The story of Australian prog

The rise of Australian progressive music, from its 60 roots to current day Eurovision success

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“I wanted him to be very successful because he seemed pretty nervous”: Original Tool bassist Paul D’Amour recalls coaching Justin Chancellor to be his replacement – and giving him an in-depth lesson in his wild pedal protocol

Chancellor has lined up alongside Adam Jones and co since joining the band back in 1995, but received some hands-on tutoring from his predecessor before he got started

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“People said, ‘Oh, you’re a metal band’. I thought that was kind of lame”: the story of Tool’s Undertow, the debut album that introduced the world to a new kind of noise

Tool’s debut album was released on April 6, 1993. This is the story behind it

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