Mercyful Fate

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Electric Callboy in 2026
Mercyful Fate, Electric Callboy and Motionless In White announced as Bloodstock 2027 headliners

By Stef Lach Published

Children of Bodom, Corrosion of Conformity, Acid Bath and Green Lung also on bill for Bloodstock Open Air in 2027

Music Festivals
King Diamond performs at The Warfield Theater on November 2, 2015 in San Francisco, California
King Diamond given lifelong honorary award by Danish Arts Foundation

By Stef Lach Published

Award will see King Diamond paid up to £22,000 ($26,000) every year to continue creating "art of the highest quality"

Bands & Artists
King Diamond onstage
It's been 18 years since the last King Diamond album and he's getting impatient

By Dave Ling Published

Danish shrieker King Diamond has returned to the road with "a horror show set to music"

Bands & Artists
King Diamond in 2019
King Diamond offers update on first album since 2007

By Matt Mills Published

King Diamond offers update on new solo album, says another single will “definitely” drop this year

Albums
Babymetal/Ghost/Sleep Token/Bloodywood/Halestorm
50 metal albums you need to hear in 2025

By Rich Hobson Published

From Ghost to Babymetal, Halestorm to Sleep Token, these are the metal albums you should keep an eye out for in 2025

Albums
Lars Ulrich drumming in 2024
Listen to the only non-Metallica song that Lars Ulrich has ever recorded drums for

By Matt Mills Published

In 1993, Metallica’s drummer manned the kit for another band in the recording studio. He’d never done it before, and he hasn’t repeated it since.

Tracks & Singles
Ghost in 2015
"My name is Lucifer, please take my hand, is such a memorable lyric": Ghost's Tobias Forge on the satanic hymns which lured him to the dark side

By Paul Brannigan Published

Ghost might not exist had these Satan-praising sounds not seduced Tobias Forge as an impressionable teenager

Interviews
Photos of Cronos of Venom, King Diamond of Mercyful Fate and Udo Dirkschenider of Accept
10 songs that invented thrash metal, according to Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian

By Classic Rock Published

Scott Ian on 10 proto-thrash bangers that changed the face of 80s metal

Bands & Artists
Various classic metal EPs
The 50 greatest metal EPs of all time

By Chris Chantler Published

From the early days of Def Leppard and Iron Maiden to modern classics via the likes of Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the best metal EPs in history

Albums
Photos of Ozzy Osbourne, Tool, Opeth, Nightwish and System Of A Down live onstage
10 massive metal bands we want new albums from in 2024

By Stephen Hill Published

From Ozzy Osbourne to Tool, a host of metal legends look ready to make 2024 a star-studded year

Albums
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