Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor reveals his first reaction to Johnny Cash’s Hurt cover: “It felt weird – that’s my song!”
Trent Reznor couldn’t process it when he heard The Man In Black put his stamp on a Nine Inch Nails classic
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Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor reveals his first reaction to Johnny Cash’s Hurt cover: “It felt weird – that’s my song!”
Trent Reznor couldn’t process it when he heard The Man In Black put his stamp on a Nine Inch Nails classic
"I want to keep the attention on Ukraine." Watch the moving new video for Within Temptation's latest single A Fool's Parade, filmed in Kyiv
Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel flew out to Kyiv herself to take part in the shoot
Evergrey detail brand new album Theories Of Emptiness
Swedish prog metallers Evergrey will release their fourteenth studio album, Theories of Emptiness, in June
Ash Costello reveals reason New Years Day pulled out of festivals in 2023
Ash Costello addresses fan backlash over New Years Day cancelling festival appearances in 2023
"All our shows have become a celebration for us and the fans." Kerbdog announce special tour to mark the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut album
Influential Irish alt. rock quartet Kerbdog reveal September and October tour dates
Watch live footage of Sleep Token’s first concert of 2024
The UK masted metal cult have just started a tour with Bring Me The Horizon in Australia
Bruce Dickinson is playing a “secret show” at a legendary venue this Friday: “Not so secret anymore.”
Get up close and personal with Iron Maiden’s singer at his next gig
Everyone that left Delain in 2021 will perform on singer Charlotte Wessels’ next album: “This is the album I want to re-introduce myself with, and I’m so glad to do it with this amazing team.”
Four former Delain members will regroup on Wessels’ next album, due in September
"Love lies bleeding in my hands - OOH YEAH!" Watch full HD footage of Elton John looking on in delight as Metallica rock their brilliant cover of Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Metallica just showed Elton John - and the world - why we desperately need a Garage Inc 2
System Of A Down and Deftones announce stacked one-night-only co-headline show
The two leading nu-metal-but-not-really bands will be joined by The Mars Volta, Viagra Boys and Vowws
Twisted Sister have almost been offered enough money to reunite
“Is it there yet? No. Is it getting close? Yeah,” says singer Dee Snider
Listen to new Architects single Curse, produced by ex-Bring Me The Horizon member Jordan Fish
The UK metalcore giants have reunited with Jordan Fish seven years after he produced their Doomsday single
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“Anyone who doesn’t talk to their pets is a psychopath!” We asked a bunch of metal stars to tell us about their pets on International Pet Day
Dogs, cats, ponies, goats, ducks – to mark International Pet Day, we asked members of Killswitch Engage, Amon Amarth, Green Lung and more to tell us about the animals they share their lives with
Heavy music hit Tallinn Music Week like a blizzard: here's our guide to the seven best alternative bands we saw in Estonia
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"Minor Threat were like The Beatles. I saw Ian MacKaye write Straight Edge on his mother's piano": Henry Rollins on Black Flag, Minor Threat, The Stooges, Green Day, Beyoncé and the meaning of punk
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Every cover song by Nightwish ranked from worst to best
Finland’s symphonic metal leaders have officially released 10 covers across their career. Here they are in reverse-order of majesty.
"People aren’t used to hearing vocal melody over a wall of ‘blackened progressive deathgrind’ or whatever the hell you call it." Cattle Decapitation might be playing arenas, but they're still one of metal's most extreme bands
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Every Bleed From Within album ranked from worst to best
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“If you’re putting all these Beavis and Butt-Heads in the parking lot, where are you going to park the cars?” What happened when Metallica battled the city of Philadelphia to perform in a car park
Metallica played a free gig in a car park to promote 1997’s Reload. In the process, they infuriated locals, got bashed by politicians and sued an entire stadium.
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Imminence 'The Black' review: "The quartet’s darkest, most varied and heaviest album by some margin."
Imminence have spread their wings to deliver the goods on album number five
"Her expression seems to say, if you even try to take this child from me, I will kill you": Family Values is a beautiful, tender and moving document of the love shared by Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and their most precious creation
Guzman, aka husband-and-wife photographers Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock, share intimate never-before-published portraits of Kurt, Courtney and baby Frances Bean
“The sonic aggro and infectious licks are there in spades”: For better and worse, Slash strips rock to its basest elements at Wembley Arena
Slash, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators bring two hours of rock ’n’ roll sleaze to London, but little in the way of arena-sized spectacle
"The work of a band on the form of their career": Fresh from supporting Bad Omens and Northlane, unsung metalcore heroes Erra step up to the big leagues with new album Cure
Six albums in and Alabama's Erra are pushing their progressive metalcore sound to greater heights than ever before on new album Cure
“This is the sonic recreation of the end of the world”: Pendulum's 'go hard or go home' approach ensures that they remain an essential live act
Despite releasing their last full-length album 14 years ago, Pendulum play a spectacular set bridging the past and the future at London’s O2 Arena
"No wonder this beautifully bleak record is so heavy": Faraoese doom merchants Hamferd prove the worst things do happen at sea with monolithic new concept album Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
Based on real-life tragedy on the Faroe Islands, Hamfrerd;s new album Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk is one of the most stunningly crushing doom metal albums you're likely to hear in 2024
"This whole tour has taught us that even friendships that seem like they died 20 years ago can come back in full force and be stronger than ever": Farewell once again Botch, and thanks for the memories
Botch blow minds at their first, and last, reunion show in London, at a sold-out Electric Ballroom
"Self Hell delivers as a record and statement of our unstable, head-spinning times." While She Sleeps' latest album doesn't always hit the mark, but it's a bold levelling-up of their blueprint all the same
With British metalcore in a golden age and new bands Bad Omens and Spiritbox tearing up the rule book, While She Sleeps are feeling the pressure to transform their own sound on new album Self Hell
"Nobody picks up a guitar to be the most hated band in the world." Nickelback: Hate To Love isn't likely to win over the haters, but does shine a light on why you should never bet against one of rock's most surprising underdogs
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“This is the most vulnerable Skindred fans have ever seen, yet that only strengthens the connection”: Skindred bring ragga metal anthems, beach balls and more than a little emotion to their monumental Wembley Arena show
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BRAT have the right look to fit in with the likes of Scene Queen and Sophie Powers, but their straight-ahead deathgrind fails to make the same impact
"Epic lives up to its title, treading the line between imperious grandeur and ridiculous pomposity": new VLTIMAS album lives up to its member's legendary death metal pedigree
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