Dave Mustaine claims Metallica "has always tried to hold me back"
Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine claims Metallica have tried to discredit him as a guitar player, says Megadeth "has been more consistent" as a band
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Babymetal drop sparkling new hyperactive single Mirror Mirror
Babymetal release their final single ahead of the arrival of their new album, The Other One
They Watch Us From The Moon stream new single M.O.A.B.
New heavy prog outfit They Watch Us From The Moon sign to New Heavy Sounds for new album Cosmic Chronicles: Act 1, The Ascension
Dave Grohl used to have a super-weird recurring dream about a Speedos-clad Eddie Vedder sucking on his finger
What could it mean if Dave Grohl was dreaming about Eddie Vedder sucking his finger while he was a member of Nirvana? "Paging Dr. Freud!"
Saliva guitarist Wayne Swinny dead at 59
Wayne Swinny passed away after suffering a brain haemorrhage while on tour with Saliva
"I woke up to an assault rifle on my nose!" Jerry Cantrell on the day armed police raided Alice In Chains' rehearsal studio
To Jerry Cantrell, Alice In Chains's rehearsal space was party central, but he didn't expect a SWAT team to smash into the studio in search of drugs
Nita Strauss has reunited with Alice Cooper for fiery new single, Winner Takes All - listen now
Nita Strauss shares new single Winner Takes All, featuring Alice Cooper and lifted from her forthcoming solo album
Skindred have recruited the guy who made them TikTok famous for new video Set Fazers - and it'll make you want to dance your arse off
Skindred return with roof-raising new single Set Fazers, and it features the guy who kick-started the TikTok Skindred dance that has everyone moving
Joe Elliott duets with a younger version of himself on new Def Leppard album
Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott says singing with his younger self on forthcoming orchestral album Drastic Symphonies was like "singing with a ghost that's still alive"
Nu-metal band Silly Goose deliver ripping performance in Subway store as people wait in line for sandwiches
Watch these unexpecting lunchers get a helpful serving of nu-metal when ordering their meatball marinaras one afternoon
Mudvayne announce first headline tour in 14 years in dramatic fashion: 'An Event. On the Horizon... You, and the alien seed, MuDvAyNe'
Mudvayne are to hit the road this summer with Coal Chamber and GWAR, and they're promising "An Event"
Motorhead's Mikkey Dee: "I'm glad Lemmy doesn't have to experience today's political correctness because he would be going f**king crazy"
Former Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee says he is glad "jokester" Lemmy isn't here to experience cancel culture
"Mr Richie, there's a Mr Zombie at the door": That time Rob Zombie and Lionel Richie teamed up on a filthy remake of a '70s funk anthem
Released in 2003, the soundtrack to Rob Zombie's House of 1,000 Corpses featured a very special update of The Commodores' Brickhouse
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Danny Elfman: "F***ing put me next to the stage where Rage Against The Machine is playing"
Iconic film and TV composer Danny Elfman talks working with Tim Burton, being a "freak" and why he's surprised the likes of Trent Reznor and Avenged Sevenfold are fans
Ghost: the definitive guide to every member of their crazy universe
From Papa Emeritus I to IV to Papa Nihil, Sister Imperator and beyond, here's everything you need to know about Ghost's colourful cast of characters
New singer, new attitude, new era: how Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast changed metal forever
Bruce Dickinson joined Iron Maiden in time for the band's iconic third album, The Number Of The Beast. Things would never be the same again
Holy Fawn: meet the heaviest non-metal band you'll hear this year
Post-metal, shoegaze, goth: genre-blurring mavericks Holy Fawn are happy to defy all classifications in their quest for heaviness
Slash: My stories of Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy and more
Slash met Keith Moon when he was 11, spent a long night with Lemmy in a Soho boozer, and had an unlikely on-stage encounter with James Brown. These are his stories
Wholesome death metal news: Obituary drummer Donald Tardy runs a cat rescue charity
When Donald Tardy isn't drumming for death metal legends Obituary, he runs a cat rescue charity called the Metal Meowlisha
10 times rock and metal bands totally ruined TV talk shows
From L7's pubes to Sepultura fans causing chaos, here are just some of the reasons we don't get to see many heavy bands on mainstream talk shows
Remembering the totally normal moment black metal legends Satyricon played a catwalk during the World Ski Championships
Black metal, fashion models and skiing? Only in Norway.
Watch 10 of the craziest mosh pits we've ever seen
From attempts at a Guinness World Record to, ahem, 'intimate relations' in the middle of a death metal crowd, here are 10 times moshing was taken to a whole new level
Why I ❤️ Soundgarden's Superunknown, by Shinedown's Brent Smith
Shinedown frontman Brent Smith on the impact of Soundgarden's Superunknown, and how it was influenced by Frank Sinatra
The story behind every single Metallica album cover art
Electric chairs, toilet bowl stabbings and, erm, semen – the Four Horsemen have had quite the eclectic visual journey
10 things you never knew about Iron Maiden's Dance Of Death album
From trampolinists and human chicken legs to religious battles and, yes, that artwork, here are ten fascinating things you might not know about Iron Maiden's Dance Of Death
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Floor Jansen switches symphonic metal for pop melodies and epic balladry on solo debut Paragon
Nightwish powerhouse Floor Jansen opts for a change of pace with her solo debut, Paragon
Fall Out Boy's intimate, chaotic London show proves why they're still the reigning princes of emo
Fall Out Boy took over London's Heaven club for one of the most memorable (and sweatiest) shows in recent memory
Suicide Silence fall behind the deathcore pack with new album Remember... You Must Die
Suicide Silence play things safe with new album Remember... You Must Die
Periphery V - Djent Is Not A Genre: US progressive metallers prove why they're miles ahead of their peers
Tech metal pioneers Periphery continue to push boundaries with their seventh album V: Djent Is Not A Genre
Zulu's A New Tomorrow: "The first absolutely essential album of 2023"
LA-based hardcore newcomers Zulu challenge the boundaries of heavy music with their utterly captivating debut
Lovebites' Judgement Day: Japan's rising stars "perfect the power metal recipe"
Japanese power metal heroes Lovebites resurrect the sounds of classic heavy metal on new album Judgement Day.
Metal? Punk? Jazz? Avatar’s Dance Devil Dance hits a lot of musical buttons – maybe too many
Album review: Avatar are a little too eclectic for their own good on new album Dance Devil Dance is
Cuffs' To Hell And Back is a snapshot of Grey Britain getting bleaker and harsher, and rewarding only the very worst of us
Bristol punks Cuffs deliver an unflinching, pitch-black state-of-the-nation address on debut album To Hell And Back
Pierce The Veil's The Jaws Of Life: Endlessly exuberant, wondrously versatile, and never predictable
Hiatus terminated, San Diego's arena-filling post-hardcore kings are hungry to make up for lost time
Delain’s grandiose new album Dark Waters is the sound of a band utterly reborn
Album review: symphonic metallers Delain build themselves up from scratch on new album Dark Waters
In Flames have finally remembered how to write melodeath bangers on killer new album Foregone
Not yet ratedAlbum review: In Flames’ Foregone is the Swedish melodeath icons’ best album in years
