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You can watch Spiritbox's entire, pro shot, rain-soaked Rock Am Ring 2025 set right now
By Merlin Alderslade published
Metalcore heavyweights Spiritbox played a banger of a set at Germany's Rock Am Ring festival over the weekend, and you can watch it in full

Babymetal reveal their favourite metal bands ever
By Metal Hammer published
Babymetal's latest album features appearances from Bloodywood, Poppy, Electric Callboy and more

Guns N' Roses announce more 2025 tour dates
By Fraser Lewry published
The Because What You Want & What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things tour has grown another leg

Why Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello loves Babymetal
By Metal Hammer published
Tom Morello is one of the array of guest stars on Babymetal’s upcoming album Metal Forth

Watch video for new Scars On Broadway track Killing Spree
By Stef Lach published
Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway are back with new album Addicted To The Violence due in July

"It should have gone out with a fricking bang that shook the world, and it was more like a whimper." Michael Anthony on his Van Halen regret
By Stef Lach published
Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony wishes it had ended differently

Amorphis drop first new music from upcoming album Borderland with anthemic new single Light And Shadow
By Jerry Ewing published
Finnish prog metallers Amorphis will release their new album, Borderland, in September

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell shows are to be livestreamed globally: here's how you can watch
By Paul Brannigan published
Black Sabbath's history-making Back To The Beginning show is to be made available for pay-per-view worldwide

Creeper preview their forthcoming album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with punky new single Headstones
By Paul Brannigan published
"This is the band at its most over-the-top and unashamedly dramatic." William Von Ghould

Watch Turnstile perform two songs on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon ahead of today's release of new album Never Enough
By Paul Brannigan published
Turnstile Summer has officially begun

"The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change
By Jerry Ewing published
Katatonia release their new album Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State tomorrow and share new video for Wind Of No Change

Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons
By Metal Hammer published
Rowe’s nu metal revivalists have also been endorsed by members of Fear Factory and Hatebreed

"Five middle-aged, slightly hungover geezers miming along to something." Opeth share new band performance video of §1
By Jerry Ewing published
Swedish prog metallers Opeth share a performance video for The Last Will And Testament's opening track §1

Slaughter To Prevail announce 2026 European tour with Suicide Silence, Dying Fetus and reforming Annotations Of An Autopsy
By Metal Hammer published
The Russian-American aggressors will play the UK and the European mainland from January to February next year with an impressive list of support acts

Why Wolfgang Van Halen doesn’t listen to Van Halen anymore
By Matt Mills published
Though Wolfgang was a member of Van Halen with his father Eddie and uncle Alex, he struggles to listen to the hard rock revolutionaries’ music nowadays

This Black Sabbath song has “one of the best riffs of all time”, according to Employed To Serve’s Sammy Urwin
By Matt Mills published
Employed To Serve’s co-founder says a classic cut from Master Of Reality contains one of the best guitar parts ever written

Watch the first footage of the reunited Alice Cooper Band recording together
By Fraser Lewry published
Premiere: The video for Alice Cooper's Wild Ones shows the band working together in the studio
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