Here are the 11 biggest news stories of the week
It’s been another busy week in the world of rock, metal and prog – here are some of the biggest news stories
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Venom Prison team up with The Hundreds for new streetwear range
Venom Prison reveal “unholy collaboration” with streetwear brand The Hundreds - t-shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts now available
Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett announces solo album Hard Lessons
Chris Shiflett’s solo album will launch in June - check out the new single Welcome To Your First Heartache
Listen to Motley Crue’s new tracks Ride With The Devil and Crash And Burn
Both songs feature on the soundtrack to the Crue’s biopic The Dirt - out today to coincide with the launch of the film on Netflix
Nikki Sixx: I’m 100% behind the #MeToo movement
Motley Crue bassist says he stands firmly behind the #MeToo movement - and reveals what he wants people to take away with them after watching The Dirt
Gene Simmons is “continually astonished” by how fans react at rainy English festivals
Kiss star says the differences between how European audiences react compared to those in California is night and day
Watch Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz join Mark Morton onstage in Montreal
Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz hooks up with Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton for performance of Truth Is Dead
Motley Crue and The Who classics star in trailer for Netflix's Stranger Things 3
Watch trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s hit sci-fi series Stranger Things featuring tracks by Motley Crue and The Who
Suicidal Tendencies, Queensryche and more added to Megadeth’s Megacruise
Megadeth name a further 6 bands who will join them “thrashing through the Pacific” later this year on the inaugural Megacruise
Tobias Forge: My kids are fans of Ghost
Ghost frontman Tobias Forge says his 10-year-old twins are fans of the band’s music - as he talks about balancing his work and family life
Metal Hammer Podcast: The Nontet
Slipknot lose a member, Metallica indulge in more S&M, and the lost MySpace milliions
Amon Amarth launch video for Raven's Flight and detail new album Berserker
Amon Amarth will release their new studio album Berserker in May - check out video the lead track Raven's Flight
Listen to Duff McKagan’s brand new solo track Chip Away
New single Chip Away will feature on the Guns N’ Roses bassist’s upcoming solo album Tenderness - out in May
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Holy Diver: How Ronnie James Dio made the album that defined his legacy
After his tenures in Rainbow and Sabbath ended in disarray, Ronnie James Dio was determined to create his own legacy. With Holy Diver, that's exactly what he did
The story of Toxicity: How System Of A Down’s chart-smashing juggernaut came to life
Toxicity was supposed to be System Of A Down’s greatest triumph. Yet its release was also dogged by riots, media attacks and a daft association with the 9/11 attacks that’d change everything
The harsh reality of being a metal band from India
Demonstealer, frontman of Indian metal band Demonic Resurrection, reveals the reality of trying to make it in a country where heavy music struggles to be heard
Coven, blood oaths and the real story of how heavy metal was born
Devil horns, hailing Satan, a song called Black Sabbath. No, it’s not a metal highlight reel: they were all found on Coven's unsung classic from 1969
Here's what happens when you stick 5,000 metalheads on a ship in the Bahamas
We set sail on the 70,000 Tonnes Of Metal Cruise
Finland's melodic metallers Oceanhoarse get up close to the endtimes
Premiere Watch Oceanhoarse's new video for the epic new track, Death Row Center
The Top 10 most underrated Judas Priest songs
The British band have written some of the great heavy metal anthems. But these are the connoisseur’s choices
This is what it’s like getting to shoot Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne
We talk to Herring & Herring, the photography company who have shot some of music’s biggest names
Opeth’s Blackwater Park: inside a 21st century prog-metal masterpiece
The album that turned a bunch of gnarly Swedes into flag-bearers for prog-metal in the new millennium
The Story Behind The Song: Death To All But Metal by Steel Panther
Michael Starr and Satchel on the track that made Steel Panther superstars
We got Melvins’ Buzz Osbourne to pick the 9 greatest Melvins albums
The Melvins records you really need to hear – straight from the horse’s mouth
Enter the deliriously dread-inducing realm of 11Paranoias
Premiere Doom-laden psychonauts 11Paranoias stream their impending new album, Asterismal, in full
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Venom Prison’s demonic Samsara album is a twisted modern death metal classic
Brit death metal firebrands delve deeper into the dark on second album
Mystifier’s first album in 18 years is cult Brazilian metal at its best
Brazil’s subterranean terror squad return in malevolent splendour with Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia
Children Of Bodom’s blackened Hexed album is the sound of a band back on track
Finland’s melodeath favourites Children Of Bodom regain their bearings on new album Hexed
LoG guitarist Mark Morton’s Anesthetic album is an all-star show of force and soul
Randy Blythe, Alissa White-Gluz and the late Chester Bennington elevate Lamb Of God man’s debut solo album
While She Sleeps’ provocative new album So What? is the sound of genres being mashed
Sheffield’s ever-evolving punk metallers jump off the deep end
King 810 – Suicide King album review
Divisive gangster metallers King 810 are still hitting the highs and lows
Swallow The Sun – When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light album review
Magnificent bleakness and inconsolable loss from Finnish death-doom veterans
Review: Puppy’s debut album The Goat is where Weezer meets Ghost
Rising alt-rockers embrace all shades of metal on their first album
Album review: Lovebites’ Clockwork Immortality is the sound of power metal’s future
Japan’s new power metal queens scale the heights on their second album
Papa Roach – Who Do You Trust? album review
The nu metal survivors cast their sonic net wide on album number 10
Mayhem: Grand Declaration Of War (2018) album review
Black metal pioneers Mayhem bring their most contentious album back from the cold
