Coheed And Cambria named as ArcTanGent 2019 headliner
Coheed And Cambria are confirmed as Thursday night headliners - as 7 more bands are announced for UK festival
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Coheed And Cambria named as ArcTanGent 2019 headliner
Coheed And Cambria are confirmed as Thursday night headliners - as 7 more bands are announced for UK festival
Head out on the road with John 5 And The Creatures in Midnight Mass video
John 5 And The Creatures release video for their new single Midnight Mass - track will feature on upcoming album Invasion
Sacred Reich raise the tempo with new single Don’t Do It Donnie
Sacred Reich release new single titled Don’t Do It Donnie – the first material from their upcoming album Awakening
KnuckleBonz celebrate Ozzy Osbourne's Diary Of A Madman with 3D album art
Ozzy Osbourne is the latest artists to join the ever-growing Rock Iconz range by KnuckleBonz
Skindred launch Loud And Clear lyric video to coincide with Disturbed tour
Skindred's Loud And Clear features on their latest album Big Tings - tour with Disturbed starts later this month
Here are the 13 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
Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell releases solo single Pirate Punk Politician
Perry Farrell launches his new single Pirate Punk Politician - taken from the Jane’s Addiction vocalist’s solo album Kind Heaven
Lamb Of God to reissue Ashes Of The Wake to mark its 15th anniversary
Lamb Of God will revisit their 2004 album Ashes Of The Wake in May - featuring previously unreleased demos
Motley Crue’s popularity soars on the back of The Dirt’s success
The release of The Dirt has seen Motley Crue’s popularity rise once again - as they see sales and streams of their material increase dramatically
Devin Townsend shares spectacular sci-fi video for anthemic new single Spirits Will Collide
Devin Townsend shares video for new Empath track - featuring a bass-playing gorilla and elephant drummers
Machine Head have re-recorded Burn My Eyes with Chris Kontos and Logan Mader
Robb Flynn confirms that he, Jared MacEachearn, Chris Kontos and Logan Mader have re-recorded their 1994 debut album to celebrate its 25th anniversary
Fields Of The Nephilim announce UK summer tour
Carl McCoy and Fields Of The Nephilim will play four shows across the UK in June
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The 10 best grunge anthems, as chosen by Hands Off Gretel
Hands Off Gretel vocalist Lauren Tate handpicks the grunge anthems that ruled the 90s
Metal has always been political - deal with it
From Black Sabbath to Venom Prison, heavy metal has always raged against social injustice. Why should it stop now?
Tony Iommi looks back on the legacy of Black Sabbath's legendary debut album
Recorded in a rush and inspired by horror films, Sabbath’s debut was panned by critics. Idiots. Here, guitarist Tony Iommi looks back on the album's legacy
Metal doesn’t need Bring Me The Horizon – and they don’t need us
Bring Me The Horizon left metal firmly behind with Amo, but they’ve left a scene in ruder health than ever
Motley Crue's The Dirt: funny, believable, and appalling
At last! Netflix's Motley Crue biopic The Dirt is finally upon us, and we've recovered enough to tell you exactly what the hell we thought
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
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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
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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
