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The 10 bands who won Download festival 2026

From historic headliners to exciting new bands, Download 2026 was one for the books. Here are the 10 best sets from this year's festival

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We've waited over two decades for a Trivium Download set that could match their legendary 2005 show. We might have just got it

Trivium shrug off some windy restrictions to put on a show worthy of the famous 2005 set that made their name

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From Metallica surprise shows to Slipknot triumphs, these are the 13 greatest Download festival sets ever

For over two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

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10 terrible metal albums with one classic song

These metal albums were pretty much all stinkers – apart from one absolute banger that saved the day

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Bullet For My Valentine eyeing January 2027 release for long-awaited eighth album: “Once the machine starts, that’s it for 14, 18 months”

Drummer Jason Bowld says that the metalcore heroes will finish the follow-up to their 2021 self-titled effort in June and release a long string of singles

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“He had a cast of a human skull, because he was interested in the occult in his early days”: At The Gates members recall the first time they met late singer Tomas Lindberg

Jonas Björler, Anders Björler and Adrian Erlandsson remember their first encounters with their beloved frontman

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"There’s a dead rat hanging in my face, a guy playing a flute and this topless lady belly dancing." Ex-members of Papa Roach, Trivium, Faith No More and Opeth on what it's like being in a major metal band before it blows up

It's a long way to the top, if you play rock'n'roll

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The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)

From legends like Iron Maiden and Metallica to rising stars such as Bloodywood and Spiritbox, these are the metal albums that have defined the 2020s so far

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"He figured we were gonna get knifed...some guys were swinging pool cues!" From Peaky Blinders bar fights to being Slipknot-endorsed, how four Swedish hillbillies became one of metal's most exciting bands

Endorsed by Slipknot, Machine Head and Trivium, Orbit Culture are one of extreme metal's hottest new bands

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“Once James Hetfield said he liked it, that was it. He said that it kicked his ass”: Nineteen years ago, this US metal band released their sixth album. Today it sounds like a Master Of Puppets for the 21st century

Machine Head’s The Blackening is one of the greatest metal records of the 21st century

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The 50 best metal songs of 2025

Sleep Token, Ghost, Babymetal - these are the songs you picked as the finest 2025 had to offer

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Ozzy’s retirement, belly dancers, and whales flying around an arena: the best metal concerts of 2025, as picked by Metal Hammer’s writers

The Hammer team name their greatest gigs of the year, from stadium extravaganzas to sweaty basement dust-ups

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“I’m not a music theory brother at all. He ripped my solo apart”: From soloing next to Misha Mansoor and Marty Friedman to meeting the demands of Josh Middleton, Heriot are next-gen metal guitar heroes-in-the-making

British metallers Debbie Gough and Erhan Alman discuss showcasing guitar chops with some the best metal players in the world, and the cheap guitar they'll play to death

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"I came in like, ‘Doc, I know you like Rush. I’m in a metal band, we’re flying out in a week to go do one of our biggest shows in a long time. Any way you can help me out?’" An interview with metal's busiest man, Matt Heafy

Trivium frontman, streamer, dad, jiu-jitsu black belt... Matt Heafy is a man of many talents

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“The thing I’m most excited about is it comes fully armed with my signature Seymour Duncan Damocles Blackout pickups”: Jackson and Corey Beaulieu ante up with the Trivium guitarist's new über-metal next-gen King V

Available with six or seven-strings, designed for crushing high-gain playing, and with that super-cool serrated V body shape, the Jackson x Beaulieu Pro Series collab is a total metal guitar

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Trivium’s Matt Heafy thinks it’s “silly” that their co-headline tour with Bullet For My Valentine only lasted three months: “We had to completely uproot our entire year”

The Poisoned Ascendancy tour was supposed to extend from January to December 2025, until Bullet pulled the plug to record their next album

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"While this chapter has come to a close, this is by no means the end of my path as a musician." Modern metal heavyweights Trivium abruptly part ways with drummer Alex Bent

Drummer of 9 years splits with Trivium hours before Aftershock Festival show – Sepultura's Greyson Nekrutman steps in

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s spat was blown out of proportion, says support act: “Whatever was going on, they were professional enough to keep it from affecting the tour”

Bleed From Within supported Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine at multiple US shows, and singer Scott Kennedy says the co-headliners’ falling-out “wasn’t as bad as it was made out to be”

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Bloodstock festival adds Saxon as first-ever Thursday main-stage headliner; 26 other bands also confirmed

The UK heavy metal stalwarts will return to the top of the bill at the Derbyshire weekender, 25 years after they headlined the first-ever Bloodstock

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"We dreamt of coming here for such a long time." How Bleed From Within went from British metalcore underdogs to Slipknot-endorsed international metal stars

From touring with Slipknot to opening for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine in the US, Bleed From Within are a band on the rise

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Rate my music taste: these are my five favourite metalcore albums ever

I think these are the greatest metalcore albums ever. Agree with me?

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I took my mum to one of Europe’s heaviest metal festivals, and her reviews of the bands are glorious

My mum joined me at Bloodstock Open Air to watch Gojira, Machine Head, Emperor and many more – this is what she thought of their shows

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Bloodstock review – this is the UK’s best fest for true heavy metal madness

Trivium bring the bells and whistles, Gojira are supercharged and Machine Head get 1,011 crowdsurfers as they etch themselves on extreme metal’s Mount Rushmore

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Sleep Token cameo, Black Sabbath jam, a surprise Robb Flynn...I think I might have just watched Trivium play their greatest festival set ever. Yep, even better than THAT Download one

Self-proclaimed "kings of metal" Trivium set an impossibly high bar headlining Friday night of Bloodstock Open Air 2025

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Trivium, Babymetal and AFI are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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