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Bullet For My Valentine eyeing January 2027 release for long-awaited eighth album
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
Stoner/doom stalwarts Green Lung return with riffy single Evil In This House ahead of first-ever festival headline show
The Londoners will headline Desertfest this weekend and release their fourth album, Necropolitan, in September
The story of the new System Of A Down album that will (probably) never happen
Since reuniting in 2011, System Of A Down have headlined festivals, packed arenas and released two songs. What’s the situation with their long-anticipated follow-up to Mezmerize and Hypnotize? Well, don’t hold your breath.
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
How Iron Maiden made The Soundhouse Tapes
As the heavy metal juggernauts continue their 50th birthday celebrations, we look back on how The Soundhouse Tapes started it all
Babymetal look back on the hate they endured amidst the viral success of breakout single Gimme Chocolate!!
The J-metal idols admit that some of the responses to their 2014 hit were “frightening”
Hear Slipknot’s Corey Taylor rage against social media on new Motionless In White single Playing God
The furious track is taken from the metalcore quintet’s upcoming album Decades
Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz has joined British power metal heavyweights DragonForce
The band will give their first performance with their new, two-vocalist lineup at US festival Welcome To Rockville this weekend
Machine Gun Kelly remembers his feud with Slipknot’s Corey Taylor a little differently to the rest of us
The rapper-turned-rocker insists he merely “punched back” at the metal star, even though the spat stemmed from comments he made lambasting the heavy music scene
Jason Newsted reveals how addiction struggles contributed to Metallica exit
The veteran bassist says that the metal giants’ refusal to slow down and let him seek help played a part in his 2001 departure
The time Metallica played a gig in a car park and managed to anger half a city
As Metallica prepare to reissue 1997’s Reload, we look back on the calamitous free gig that launched the album 29 years ago
“Time is short. I have things I need to make before I die”: The darkness that led Ulver to Neverland
Norwegian chameleon rejected the nation’s controversial black metal scene, then rejected his record label, and recently rejected synthpop. Now he’s rejected the tragedy of the band’s past – and partying too – to embrace freedom instead
Javier Bardem reveals how Iron Maiden changed his life
The Dune, Skyfall and No Country For Old Men star appears in the British heavy metal band’s new documentary, Burning Ambition
Metallica announce remastered reissue of 1997 album Reload, featuring never-before-heard demos, live recordings and more
The US metal titans gave 1996’s Load a similar treatment last summer
Iron Maiden's Burning Ambition movie is a must-see for ardent fans
Iron Maiden's much-heralded Burning Ambition film will hit cinemas on May 7
Ghost’s Tobias Forge, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford to appear on new album celebrating 50 years of Accept
Members of Korn, The Smashing Pumpkins and Scorpions will also be on the 19-song set
Why Meshuggah are my comfort band
They’re arguably the heaviest and most technical band of all time, but they’re also extraordinarily easy to listen to
Hear Slipknot’s (sic) soundtrack bizarre new Gucci advert
Who knew that nine masked, bodysuit-wearing, baseball bat-wielding hooligans were so synonymous with fashion?
Watch System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian sing heartfelt prayer for genocide victims at Sick New World festival last weekend
The frontman sang the traditional prayer Der Voghormia, one day after Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day was recognised on April 24
Korn return with Reward The Scars, in collaboration with new Diablo IV expansion Lord Of Hatred
It’s the first new music from the nu metal superstars since 2022 album Requiem
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson recalls writing classic albums in empty Jersey hotel
The singer looks back on writing Piece Of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere In Time in a hotel on the Channel Islands
The niece of late Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr has become a WWE wrestler
Lizzy Rain joins the likes of Rhea Ripley and Seth Rollins in bringing heavy metal to wrestling fans’ screens
Songs by melodic death metal pioneers In Flames, At The Gates and Dark Tranquillity to be performed by Gothenburg orchestra
Two symphonic celebrations of the Gothenburg Sound will be held in Sweden on December 4 and 5, in tribute to late At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg
