Enslaved announce the Cinematic Summer Tour
After their successful Verftet Online Music Festival appearance in April, Enslaved plan three digital festival sets this summer
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Enslaved announce the Cinematic Summer Tour
After their successful Verftet Online Music Festival appearance in April, Enslaved plan three digital festival sets this summer
UK charity festival Teddy Rocks postponed until 2021
Organisers of the UK festival are forced to postpone this year’s event - but confirm dozens of bands for 2021. Money raised will once again benefit children’s cancer charity
Megadeth camp feels like new album is the perfect follow-up to Dystopia
David Ellefson gives update on how Megadeth’s new studio album is coming together: “Everybody's very stoked," he says
Former Misfits drummer Joey Image dead at 63
Band confirm that Joey Image, who played with Misfits between 1978-1979, has died
Devin Townsend shares an hour of new ambient music
Devin Townsend shares stream of his “chilled-out, ambient guitar technique” and says: “Hopefully it’s helpful to some of you who need a sonic break”
Metallica dust off old VHS tape for 1997 concert film
The latest in the Metallica Mondays series saw the band go back to January 1997 and The Poor Touring Me Tour
Bandcamp to donate profits to support “racial justice, equality and change”
Bandcamp announce plans to donate 100% of their share of sales to the NAACP Legal Defence Fund on June 17
#TheShowMustBePaused
Louder are pressing pause on our sites in solidarity with #TheShowMustBePaused, #BlackOutTuesday and #BlackLivesMatter
Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett tour moved to 2021
Bands release joint statement as summer stadium tour becomes lockdown's latest victim
Watch Swiss hurdy gurdy visionary play five Black Sabbath riffs
Hurdy gurdy maestra Michalina Malisz finds new thrills in Supernaut, Sweet Leaf and more
Music industry calls for unity following the death of George Floyd
Record labels call for a “Black Out Tuesday” as a day to “disconnect from work and reconnect with our community” following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week
Metallica x Billabong LAB collab: Ride The Lightning… and the surf
Thrash metal boardshorts are here for summer, thanks to the expanded merch collaboration between Metallica and surf clothing company Billabong
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The best home brew kits 2020: brew your own beer and cider at home
Whether you enjoy drinking beer, cider or both, we’ve picked out the best home brew kits to help you on your summer brewing journey
10 essential tech metal albums
Tech metal is the very definition of order in chaos, and here are 10 albums that prove it
5 minutes alone with… Soilwork’s Björn ‘Speed’ Strid
He loves Frank Sinatra and cried at Bohemian Rhapsody – step into the mind of Soilwork’s Björn ‘Speed’ Strid
11 metal bands with no bad albums
11 of the greatest metal bands with turkey-free back catalogues
Red Death: the band bringing the danger back to thrashcore
Washington DC’s Red Death are taking no prisoners with their old school thrash/hardcore mash up
“I’m covered in piss!”: Trivium’s Matt Heafy opens up his photo scrapbook
Hanging with Metallica, getting drenched at Download, rocking regrettable haircuts – this is Trivium frontman Matt Heafy’s life in pictures
Playlist: A guide to the world's best soundtracks, by Loathe
Loathe vocalist and guitarist Erik Bickerstaffe talks us through the atmospheric world of the multimedia soundtrack
The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant bands
Step into a world of WTF, as we round up the biggest turkeys from metal’s greatest bands
Ithaca interview: Chaos, survival and the tours that never were
Underground hardcore crew Ithaca join us to talk being a rising band in an uncertain scene, the future of gigs and fundraiser The Tours That Never Were
Suicide Silence f**ked up their own career. Now they’re trying to put it right
After going nu metal and losing half their fanbase, Suicide Silence have gone back to deathcore basics on new album Become The Hunter
The World According To William DuVall: “Alice In Chains’ reincarnation was not out of the blue”
William DuVall looks back on his journey from punk brat to becoming the man who helped bring Alice In Chains back from the dead
The best metal quarantine concerts and live streams you may have missed
Metallica, Enslaved, Myles Kennedy, Katatonia and more have been busy streaming gigs and recording sessions during lockdown
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Old Man Gloom’s Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning: a towering tribute to a fallen comrade
Sludge metal supergroup Old Man Gloom return from the shadows
Witchcraft’s Black Metal: the opposite of what it says on the tin
Ex-doomsters Witchcraft swap amps for acoustic guitars on misfiring new album Black Metal
Nu-thrashers Shrapnel mix it up with the old masters on Palace For The Insane
British thrashers Shrapnel pick up the pace on new album Palace For The Insane
Reissues round up: Hellhammer, Witchery, Diamanda Galas and more
Not yet ratedThe finest reissues you may have missed recently
1000mods: Greek stoner kings go global on new album Youth Of Dissent
Greek stoner rockers 1000mods channel Soundgarden and Alice In Chains on new album Youth Of Dissent
Green Carnation’s Leaves Of Yesteryear is the comeback album prog metal is waiting for
Norwegian prog kings Green Carnation return with new album Leaves Of Yesteryear
Asking Alexandria’s Like A House On Fire: metalcore out, pop-rock in
Asking Alexandria smooth out the turbulence along with their sound on new album Like A House On Fire
Triptykon’s monumental Requiem is a live album like you’ve never heard before
Ex-Celtic Frost mastermind Thomas Gabriel Fischer’s grand vision comes to life on stellar live album Requiem
Havok have nailed 21st century thrash with new album V
Denver thrashers Havok’s new album V is where old school thrash speed meets new school thrash attitude
Elephant Tree’s Habits album: the Smashing Pumpkins go doom
Melancholy British doom squad Elephant Tree present their most expansive album yet
Ratt's The Atlantic Years 1984-1990: should history have been kinder?
Ratt’s first five albums, finally retrieved from the cellar