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Founded in 1983, Metal Hammer is the global home of all things heavy. We have breaking news, exclusive interviews with the biggest bands and names in metal, rock, hardcore, grunge and beyond, expert reviews of the lastest releases and unrivalled insider access to metal's most exciting new scenes and movements. No matter what you're into – be it heavy metal, punk, hardcore, grunge, alternative, goth, industrial, djent or the stuff so bizarre it defies classification – you'll find it all here, backed by the best writers in our game.
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The debut album by Joey Jordison’s post-Slipknot band Vimic will finally be released in October, four years after his death

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Will our favourite bands please stop retiring?!

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The song that changed the course of Iron Maiden

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All it took was one of the 2000’s most successful video games

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From Florida and Sweden to world domination, death metal has spawned countless incredible bands – but which ones are on your Mount Rushmore?

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Get your claws on a bundle you won’t find anywhere else, before Creeper’s new album drops on October 31

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Metal, deathcore, goth, punk and a creepy dude with a balloon – these are the essential albums coming out between now and the end of the year

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Looking for rare System Of A Down and Limp Bizkit songs? Early 00s Hollywood had ’em

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Released on 9/11, this Slayer classic could not have been more timely

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Sharon Osbourne salutes the “otherworldly amount of love” in the wake of Ozzy‘s death

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Whether it’s Metallica, Slayer or any other gaggle of speed freaks, we want to know your pick for the best of the thrash metal bunch

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Limp Bizkit enlist LA-based drummer Kristina Rybalchenko to tease unreleased track

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Celebrate the release of the power metal overlords’ new album Giants & Monsters with this exclusive Metal Hammer bundle

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The bimbocore provocateur will hit the road from September 4

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“Exit light, enter plight”, apparently

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We sat down with Iron Maiden’s frontman to talk about life around the release of his second solo album, which was recently remixed and reissued

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From hellacious moshpits to getting piercings in a tent, artists and attendees at Reading festival tell us some of their most metal tales

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Ozzy Osbourne's daughter was not impressed by the mention of her father during a controversial Becky Lynch promo on last night's Raw

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Ghost could have sounded very different if Tobias Forge had his way

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Watch Mastodon’s Brann Dailor honour ex-guitarist Brent Hinds’ death at a gig in Alaska

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Whether it’s a classic like Paranoid or a left-field pick like Born Again, we want to know which Black Sabbath album you can’t stop spinning

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