Linkin Park announce next announcement
Their last announcement didn’t announce much, but will Linkin Park’s next announcement announce their long-anticipated reunion?
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Watch a 10-year-old guitarist blaze through Master Of Puppets on America's Got Talent
Child YouTube guitar sensation Maya Neelakantan was granted permission from Metallica to play Master Of Puppets on America's Got Talent, and wowed the judges with her sitar-infused axe-slinging skills
How to watch this weekend’s epic WWE Bash In Berlin
WWE Bash In Berlin is all set for this weekend - here’s how you can watch all the action live
Black Veil Brides wanted to make an album that replicated Metallica's world-dominating Black Album "on every level"
On their 2014 self-titled album, Black Veil Brides were trying to "replicate" Metallica's own self-titled epic 'Black Album'
Linkin Park countdown starts counting back up, everybody confused
You waited a hundred hours, now you may need to wait a hundred more
Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, Jinjer, more added to 2025 Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park lineups
Sleep Token, Bring Me The Horizon, Jinjer, Powerwolf and others will join Slipknot in Nürburg and Nuremberg from June 6 to 8
There’s a metal festival simulator game coming out, overseen by a member of Sabaton
Lord Of Metal will let you manage your own virtual metal festival and is being funded by a Kickstarter campaign
Judas Priest's Rob Halford opens up about offering guidance to fellow LGBTQ+ musicians: "I'm here. I'm queer. Get ****ing used to it."
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford discusses counselling other gay musicians, the bigotry and hate that LGBTQ+ people still face and meeting his life partner
Godspeed You! Black Emperor make typically cryptic announcement about new album
Canadian instrumental post-rockers Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release No Title As Of 13 February 2024, 340 Dead in October
What Mushroomhead think of fellow masked metallers Slipknot now
The beef between Slipknot and Mushroomhead was legendary in the nu metal era, but Steve 'Skinny' Felton says it was exaggerated by the media
Fun fact of the day: Metallica use or give away 6,000 guitar picks a night
The metal superstars also haul 64 guitars around on tour and make their way through 25 drumsticks per show
Spotify are hosting fake songs by at least 30 major metal bands, including While She Sleeps, Bury Tomorrow and Thy Art Is Murder
While She Sleeps, Bury Tomorrow, Thy Art Is Murder and more have had seemingly AI-generated music uploaded to streaming services, without their involvement
Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley: “I am not joining Linkin Park”
Sum 41’s frontman has shot down the online rumours that he’s replacing Chester Bennington in a reunited Linkin Park
Watch Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo cover Rush anthem Working Man in Canada
The Metallica duo’s latest ‘doodle’ covered a Canadian classic turning 50 this year
“I’m 5’7” but I’ll have an operation, I’ll do something”: Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman was denied a Kiss audition for being too short
Marty Friedman’s height cruelly cost him the chance to join one of rock’s biggest-ever bands
Despite all those scathing reviews, The Crow 2024’s harshest critic is the original’s director
Alex Proyas, director of 1994’s The Crow, has annihilated the new remake in a series of Facebook posts
Watch this The Voice Australia contestant cover Britney Spears’ Toxic – with death metal growls!
Britney Spears got a metalcore makeover courtesy of the first-ever extreme metal vocalist on The Voice Australia
Japanese metalcore squad Hanabie release heavy new single Metamorphose
The self-described “harajuku-core” champions will tour North America with Jinjer next month
Sabaton will release concert film The Tour To End All Tours to theatres in October
Hopefully the military-obsessed band’s foray into cinemas won’t bomb
