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Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: December 5 2025
Guns N' Roses, Poppy and Alter Bridge are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
How A Certain Shade Of Green turned Incubus into poster boys for a scene they hated
With one song, they suddenly found themselves at the front of a music scene they truly hated
The Story Behind Nine Inch Nails Closer
As Tommy Lee of Motley Crue once put it, Closer is "the ultimate **** song" - but it certainly wasn't written that way
“A caustic Gilmour guitar attack, and Waters venomous in his lyrical delivery”: Pink Floyd’s 10 heaviest songs
They may be known for soundscapes and atmospheres, but when the moment took them, they cranked it up to 11 – sometimes reflecting the darkness and tension between the members
"They talk about that album in the same way I talk about Ziggy Stardust...and it was the first time a Slipknot member had unmasked!" How a metal icon embraced horror and glam rock to make one of the most surprising side projects ever
When it was revealed that one of Slipknot's most beloved members had a new project on the go, no one could have predicted how it'd end up sounding
Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: December 1, 2025
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from the Lemon Twigs, Elles Bailey, Black Eyed Sons and more
How Queen, The Who and Star Wars inspired the greatest power ballad about alien abduction ever written
It even got the South Park seal of approval
9/11, censorship and conspiracy theories: the story of System Of A Down's Chop Suey!
Not even System Of A Down themselves could have predicted just how big this song would become
