Trent Reznor is curating a new festival celebrating the world's finest film soundtrack composers
The Future Ruins festival will see some of the film world's most acclaimed soundtrack composers performing scores live
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Trent Reznor is curating a new festival celebrating the world's finest film soundtrack composers
The Future Ruins festival will see some of the film world's most acclaimed soundtrack composers performing scores live
Lord Buffalo cancel European tour after drummer is "forcibly removed" from flight
Lord Buffalo: "We are devastated to cancel this tour, but we are focusing all of our energy and resources on Yamal’s safety and freedom"
Trivium allege the Poisoned Ascendancy “world tour” is ending early due to Bullet For My Valentine
Trivium claim their tourmates have scrapped plans to bring their co-headline shows to South America and Australia, and Bullet For My Valentine refuse to comment
King Diamond offers update on first album since 2007
The Danish heavy metal overlord says he’s hard at work on his first album since 2007, and that it will be the first entry in a trilogy
Watch the trailer for Queens of the Stone Age's Alive in the Catacombs film, documenting a Paris performance surrounded by several million dead people
See Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age as you've never seen them before, performing in the world-famous Catacombs of Paris
Slipknot wrote “a bunch” of new music during the pandemic – and guitarist Jim Root says they’re scrapping all of it
“We need to just kind of, like, maybe sweep all that shit under a rug and start fresh”
Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous
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Motörhead's Lemmy honoured with statue in the town where he was born
Lemmy immortalised with 2.25m bronze-cast statue in Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England
Metallica fans cause small earthquake at Virginia show
The 'Metallica Quake' was measured by the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory during Enter Sandman
Billy Corgan's epic interview with Al Jourgensen
From trading Ministry songs for drugs to accidentally spiking Tool and inspiring Nine Inch Nails, Billy Corgan has conducted possibly the greatest Al Jourgensen interview ever
Hear Quicksand/Rival Schools frontman Walter Schreifels cover Pink Floyd for forthcoming animal welfare benefit album
Quicksand's Walter Schreifels has covered two songs from Pink Floyd's Animals album
Judas Priest’s Rob Halford is “gutted” to not be playing Black Sabbath’s final show: “I had no idea it was happening!”
Judas Priest are one of the only veteran metal bands to not be playing Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell concert this summer. Rob Halford explains why.
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