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Alter Bridge share lyric video for This Is War
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The song is taken from their forthcoming seventh album, Pawns & Kings, out October 14

Fever 333 will continue despite losing guitarist and drummer, vows vocalist Jason Aalon Butler
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Aric Improta and Stephen Harrison quit the band yesterday, citing "creative differences" and internal problems

There’s a new Slipknot album coming soon – here’s everything we know about it
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Updated Slipknot are releasing a new album in the near future. Here’s everything we know about it so far

How a James Hetfield doodle led to one of metal's most iconic album covers
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The story behind Metallica's Master Of Puppets album artwork

Video Breakdown: Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
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A look Metallica's Nothing Else Matters clip, scene by scene

St. Anger: A banger or a clanger?
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When Metallica's St Anger was released in 2003 it split fans right down the middle. Here we look back on the album and ask: banger or clanger?

Metallica Week: The Ultimate Archive – the albums, the interviews, the songs
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In the week Metallica release S&M2, here’s every interview, feature and review you need from the Metal Hammer and Classic Rock archives

How Paranoid Made Black Sabbath Heavy Metal Superstars
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Black Sabbath and friends on the surprise impact of their second record, how the title track almost wrote itself and why Ozzy and Geezer fought to keep it off the album...

Download Festival announce stage times
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Download Dog has delivered this year's stage times, and we've put them on the internet

50 facts you might not know about Dave Grohl
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As the Nicest Man In Rock™ reaches his first half century, we explore the lesser known side of the Foo Fighters leader

Hear captivating new single from Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimée
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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s daughter Aimée will release her debut album in October. Hear her new single House Of Lies.

Bad tattoos of rock stars photoshopped onto the real thing is still the best thing ever
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We took the ultimate rock star tattoo fails and transposed them onto their real life counterparts. The results are horrific.

Fear And Loathing In Los Angeles: The Story Of Black Sabbath's Vol. 4
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After three albums in two years, Black Sabbath decamped to LA to work on their next album, somehow, in between cocaine, getting naked, divorce and ongoing paranoia, Vol.4 got made...

Watch Dave Grohl’s 15-year-old daughter Violet front Foo Fighters at Lollapalooza
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Check out Violet Grohl singing lead vocals for Foo Fighters at the band’s headline appearance at Lollapalooza

Dave Grohl to publish memoir, The Storyteller, in October
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‘I’m excited and honoured to announce The Storyteller, a collection of memories of a life lived loud,’ says Grohl

Watch Foo Fighters cover Queen’s Somebody To Love in a California club
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Watch Taylor Hawkins unleash his ‘inner Freddie’ on Foo Fighters’ killer cover of Queen’s Somebody To Love

Watch Foo Fighters hilariously troll Westboro Baptist Church by performing Bee Gees cover on a flat-bed truck
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Foo Fighters take the piss out of Westboro Baptist Church bigots once more

Dave Grohl recruits Krist Novoselic and Dave Lombardo to back his daughter Violet on US TV
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Dave Grohl to reunite with his former Nirvana bandmate Krist Novoselic on Jimmy Kimmel show this week

Listen to Dave Grohl get festive with Xmas favourite The Little Drummer Boy
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Hear Dave Grohl lend his signature beats to a new cover of Christmas classic The Little Drummer Boy

Foo Fighters are up to something... and (update!) we know what it is
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Foo Fighters are teasing something with a poster campaign in California

Foo Fighters to live stream LA gig, promise ‘big f**kin’ grooves and big f**kin’ choruses’ on new album
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Foo Fighters share Shame Shame video, announce live stream from LA’s Roxy club on November 14

Dave Grohl covers The Knack for his Hannukah Sessions
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Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin cover The Knack for their Hannukah Sessions series… but it’s not My Sharona

Watch Dave Grohl’s brilliant Hanukkah Sessions take on a Bob Dylan classic
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Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin deliver an earthy take on Bob Dylan’s Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
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