Black Sabbath: ‘We don’t listen to much metal’
Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler admit they don’t ‘relate’ to modern metal
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Black Sabbath: ‘We don’t listen to much metal’
Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler admit they don’t ‘relate’ to modern metal
Alcest announce new album Spiritual Instinct
Band will release their sixth album through Nuclear Blast on October 25...
Killswitch Engage announce new single Unleashed and album Atonement
Pummelling new track is taken from metalcore legends forthcoming eighth album Atonement, released in August
Tengger Cavalry frontman Nature G has died
Mongolian folk-metal pioneer’s body was found on June 13
Mono enlist Alcest, Boris and Svalbard for 20th anniversary celebration
Japanese post-metal legends line up three London shows in December
Manowar vs Hellfest bust-up escalates
The metal warriors threaten legal action after last minute festival headline cancellation
Corey Taylor: new Slipknot album “pushes boundaries of creativity”
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor hails We Are Not Your Kind as the band’s most experimental album
Dave Mustaine thanks fans for support after throat cancer diagnosis
“We're gonna beat this thing together,” says Megadeth mainman in new video
Alice Cooper denies ‘suicide pact’ with wife
Shock rock godfather shoots down tabloid claim that he and wife Sheryl Goddard have a death pact
Testament plan ‘old school thrash’ album for 2020
Bay Area legends Testament namecheck Mercyful Fate as inspiration for follow-up to Brotherhood Of The Snake
Watch epic short film for "dreamlike" Klone single Yonder
French prog-metal mavericks Klone preview new album, Le Grand Voyage, with Floyd-influenced song and short film
Listen to seething new Prophets Of Rage single Made With Hate
Rap-metal supergroup Prophets Of Rage drop brand new track ahead of UK and European tour
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The Story Behind The Song: From Out Of Nowhere by Faith No More
In 1989, the keyboard-driven From Out Of Nowhere helped catapult Faith No More to major stardom
Deftones: How we made Around The Fur
Deftones remember the making of Around The Fur, the record that set the template for their sound. It involved skating, Max Cavalera and a dodgy Maccy D’s trip...
Amazon Prime Day: everything music fans need to know
The official dates, the best deals and everything a music lover needs to know about this year's Amazon Prime Day
What happened when Metallica played Twickenham
Sound problems, stadium hate, eyebrow-sizzling pyro and a metal masterclass
Ex-Akercocke bassist's blackened thrash outfit Damim premiere creepy sci-fi horror video
London purveyors of blackened existential outrage Damim release new video for Rising Of The Lights and it's got distinct The Thing vibes
Hammer's 13: This week's best new music in metal
Our weekly round-up of the very best new tracks in heavy rock
How the extreme and obscure dominated at this year's Download
This year's Download Festival stand-out performances might surprise you
5 Reasons why we are (and you should be) excited Tool are back
Tool's Download Festival set made us eternally grateful and super excited to see them finally headlining festivals again
Download Festival 2019: Highlights from this year's Drownload!
Some of the best moments at this year's Download Festival at Donington
The best internet reactions to Download Festival 2019's sh*tty weather
Festival goers have been coping with the atrocious weather at #Drownload with good old fashioned humour
10 Things we will miss about Slayer
The mighty Slayer played their last ever UK show at Download festival. Here's what we'll miss about their live performances
Why Slipknot are the ultimate Download Festival headliners
What we thought about the eighteen-legged Iowans' triumphant return to the UK
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Napalm Death's Shane Embury and Absolute Power's Russ Russell project Tronos release star-studded new album
The dynamic duo's new project, described as "ambient psych doom metal", release their debut record Celestial Mechanics
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
