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The best new metal songs this week: April 24 2026
Robb Flynn teams up with Black Veil Brides, Tarja Turunen recruits Dani Filth and Korn bounce back in this week's best new metal song round-up
“Metallica have tried some crazy things, some which have worked better than others. That’s a part of being an artist”: Twenty thousand people, an 80-piece symphony and the world’s biggest metal band – the epic story behind rock’s greatest orchestral gig
Metallica’s S&M2 remains the ultimate meeting of metal and classical music
How Brazilian metal legends Sepultura were demonised in the media following a heartbreaking tragedy
"The blame is being pushed onto Heavy Metal"
How Amy Lee fought for control of Evanescence
As Evanescence prepared to release Synthesis, Amy Lee reflected on her position as one of metal's most prominent women
The story of Andrew W.K. and the strangest TV performance in music history
In 2002 Andrew W.K. was interviewed on New Zealand TV series Space. It did not go according to plan
"We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3
After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...
How Dave Grohl's drumming shaped the sound of Nine Inch Nails' album With Teeth
Trent Reznor wanted his drummer to play like Dave Grohl on their 2005 album, so he got the Foo Fighter frontman stop by the studio instead
“His manager was angry. He cancelled the whole project”: Arjen Lucassen’s lost Bruce Dickinson album
Dutch composer’s collaborators include James LaBrie, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Floor Jansen and others. He did one song with Dickinson too – but it could have been so much more
A guide to every Poppy album so far
From debut Poppy.Computer to this year's Empty Hands, here's what you need to know about the discography of one of modern metal's most unique creatives
"It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed
Ever heard Maynard James Keenan singing a Paul McCartney song? Now is your chance
Opeth gave their label two albums for the price of one, and it nearly cost them their career
Beset by overwork, listless colleagues and a family tragedy, Mikael Åkerfeldt felt like splitting the Swedish group apart as they worked through 2002’s Deliverance to get to 2003’s Damnation
The true story of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin's lost jam
Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi on the legendary Black Zeppelin jam – the greatest session you’ve never heard
How Oathbreaker made one of the 21st century's best metal albums - and then disappeared
Oathbreaker seemed destined for greatness after the release of the superb Rheia. Then the band went on a near-ten-year hiatus. But why?
10 obscure and criminally under-rated UK punk albums
There's more to British punk rock than Never Mind The Bollocks and London Calling
The mysterious disappearance of the UK's answer to Korn
Pulkas were beloved in the UK metal press and signed to one of underground metal's most illustrious labels - so what happened?
“I said, ‘For once, can we all get behind the concepts?’” How TesseracT made Sonder
Taking advantage of a steadied line-up, their 2018 release featured a new approach, plus sonic textures built from recordings sent in by supporters
The story of the album that almost killed Metallica
Metallica almost destroyed themselves making 2003's St. Anger
