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Get a personalised video message from Dave Mustaine, Matt Heafy, Randy Blythe and more over on Cameo
Make your friend's birthday/Christmas/new job celebrations extra special by getting your favourite rockstar to send them a video message on Cameo
Get the award-winning Positive Grid Spark guitar amp for 40% off this Black Friday
TODAY ONLY! Positive Grid Spark has been called 'the ultimate amp for the home' and today you can save up $180 in their Black Friday sale.
Listen to Avatar’s new single Construction Of Souls, ‘the Die Hard of Christmas songs’
Gothenburg metal crew Avatar offer up their own spin on the traditional Christmas song, with Construction Of Souls
"I’m not going to watch Fieldy die, I refuse to": Jonathan Davis explains why Korn’s bassist can’t be in the band right now
Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis wants founding bassist Fieldy to be “a huge part” of the band again, but only if he gets better
Venom‘s Cronos recalls backstage bust-up which stopped an out-of-control Metallica sabotaging their career before it started
After flunking their first European gig, Metallica smashed up their dressing room in frustration. Enter Venom’s Cronos with a lecture which stopped the furious four self-destructing on European soil
Tony Iommi returns with the crushing new single Scent Of Dark, launches perfume under same name
Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi releases first new music in eight years with the deliciously doomy Scent Of Dark
This Lars Ulrich toilet is a dead-eyed horror from the abyss (via Florida)
The internet goes potty for a Lars Ulrich toilet and we're pretty sure it is The Thing That Should Not Be
Nothing Else Matters this Black Friday aside from this epic Nixon x Metallica watch deal
The Nixon x Metallica watches have been selling fast over the last few years - and for Black Friday, Nixon US have cut the price on two classic Time Teller designs
‘The floodgates of Hell opened!’ Deep Purple star recalls furious backlash after he dared to cover Ozzy Osbourne classics
Exclusive As Deep Purple get set to release their new covers album, Turning To Crime, one band member recalls how he enraged Ozzy Osbourne fans by tweaking some classic metal anthems
Ozzy Osbourne pushes back UK/European tour until 2023
Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tours 2 has been rescheduled once more
Bob Vylan announce UK headline tour for 2022
Bob Vylan are to hit the road in 2022 across the UK for a full headline tour
Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker performing pop-punk banger Bite Me will have you feeling like it's 2002 all over again
Avril Lavigne performs her new single Bite Me, accompanied by Blink 182's Travis Barker on The Tonight Show
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Ozzy Osbourne's stolen original Blizzard Of Ozz gold disc returned by superfan in bizarre twist of fate
Ozzy Osbourne superfan Mark Sandwell reunites the Prince Of Darkness with a long lost stolen golden disc, stolen from the band's camp decades ago
10 bands that wouldn't exist without Deftones
Deftones outgrew 90s alt. metal and outlasted nu metal; these 10 bands show just how far their influence has spread
The 15 best Ghost songs of all time
The best songs from everyone's favourite occultist party band Ghost
Ugly Kid Joe's Whitfield Crane: "I wanted to be in Ozzy Osbourne's shadow so much"
Ugly Kid Joe's Whitfield Crane remembers the life-changing experience of touring with Ozzy Osbourne after his band played the Randy Rhoads benefit show in March 1992
AC/DC and the epic struggle behind For Those About To Rock
How did AC/DC follow the globe-conquering success of Back In Black? With For Those About To Rock, and great difficulty
Trivium's Matt Heafy on festival bottlings and why dragons are metal
Trivium frontman Matt Heafy talks autographing babies, evil Japanese creatures, and why Dave Mustaine is unlike anyone else on the planet
Black Sabbath's 40 greatest songs ever
The 40 greatest songs by Black Sabbath, pioneering riff providers and heavy metal icons
UK industrial metallers Red Method commemorate International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day with a moving new single
Exclusive Industrial metal band Red Method release a deeply personal new single, Adriel, to coincide with International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
Epica's Simone Simons: "We felt burnt out after The Holographic Principle"
Simone Simons looks back on the album that made Epica take a five-year break and a near-disastrous run-in with pyro
Watch Crown Lands' exclusive live concert in partnership with Prog, Classic Rock and Louder
Exclusive Crown Lands are streaming their exclusive live concert via Prog, Classic Rock and Louder – and you can watch it right now
Calling All Captains: "Indigenous Canadian people are here... listen to us"
Meet Calling All Captains – the band fusing pop-punk, metalcore and post-hardcore who are fighting for Canada's Indigenous Peoples
Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel: "The Silent Force was inspired by the Gladiator and Braveheart soundtracks"
Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel looks back on the band's 2004 symphonic metal breakthrough album The Silent Force
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Exodus' Persona Non Grata: California thrash legends don't stiff on the riffs
Thrash masters Exodus channel their volatile history on 11th album, Persona Non Grata
Converge & Chelsea Wolfe's Bloodmoon: I - sonic trailblazers forge a visionary bond
Converge and Chelsea Wolfe create a transcendental coalition on their new album, Bloodmoon: I
Spritworld's Pagan Rhythms: 'Death Western' rites from the Las Vegas wildlands
Las Vegas rockers Spiritworld take a bloody dive into the Wild West with new album, Pagan Rhythms
Møl's Diorama: a blackgaze masterpiece
Denmark’s blackgaze upstarts Møl set an entirely new bar with new album, Diorama
Diablo Swing Orchestra's bizarre, brilliant Swagger And Stroll Down The Rabbit Hole
Sweden’s swing metal circus, Diablo Swing Orchestra, hit peak bonkers with Swagger And Stroll Down The Rabbit Hole
Every Time I Die's Radical: metalcore crossover kings' run of form continues
Every Time I Die continue to prove themselves the kings of hardcore/metalcore crossover on their ninth record Radical
Tom Morello's The Atlas Underground Fire: a star-studded, style-shifting roll of the dice from RATM guitarist
Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello drafts in Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and Oli Sykes for The Atlas Underground Fire
Blood Youth's Visions Of Another Hell: a maelstrom of intense metal chaos
Harrogate heavies Blood Youth offer a monumental swansong for departing vocalist Kaya Tarsus - and hint at a bright future ahead
Ministry's Moral Hygiene: Anti-Trump vitriol proves acerbic, if slightly out-dated
Industrial legends Ministry's 15th record offers parting shots to the Trump nightmare
KK's Priest's Sermons Of The Sinner: Top-tier power metal from a reborn KK Downing
Ex-Judas Priest legend KK Downing returns to familiar heavy metal territory
Katatonia's Mnemosynean: A three-decade celebration for hits that never were
B-sides and rarities collection digs into Katatonia's three-decade evolution across doom, goth and prog
