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"She goes, 'I love your beard' and starts to clean it!" What happened when country icon Dolly Parton met Judas Priest frontman and heavy metal legend, Rob Halford
By Merlin Alderslade published
Two icons met in the most unusual of circumstances and it left an indelible impression on Rob Halford

"Before Deathgasm, whenever movies needed a bully, they put them in an Anthrax t-shirt": One of the best heavy metal movies ever is getting a sequel, and it's going to be even more bloody, messy... and metal (of course)
By Joe Daly published
Writer/director Jason Howden is working on Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon with soundtrack contributions from Matt Heafy

“We weren’t tempted to pursue that particular avenue, no. Led Zeppelin did it much better than us”: the Pink Floyd song that made Nick Mason realise they would have been a “terrible” heavy metal band
By Dave Everley published
In an alternative universe, a late 60s Pink Floyd song could have taken them down an entirely different path

“We invented the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal as a joke”: how Chimaira bounced back from the edge of oblivion with Resurrection
By Malcolm Dome published
Chimaira helped start an entire a scene but never got the same acclaim as some of their peers. They hoped to change that with 2007’s classic Resurrection album

Watch actor Mark Benton win almost £10,000 on The Celebrity Weakest Link - and donate it all to the ultimate heavy metal charity, The Heavy Metal Truants
By Merlin Alderslade published
Over £9,000 will now be going to some great children's causes via the power of heavy metal - and some intense general knowledge skills

The 10 best heavy metal songs about Godzilla (and other Toho monsters, too)
By Paul Travers published
Godzilla (plus Mothra, Rodan, Gamera and more) have long been beloved in the heavy metal scene. These 10 monstrous tracks prove it.

The 10 strangest places heavy metal bands have performed
By Jack Butler-Terry published
From Metallica in Antarctica to Chino Moreno in a volcano, these are the most bizarre places metal musicians have bashed out some notes

10 heavy metal bands that wouldn’t be the same without Dune
By Paul Travers published
From Iron Maiden to Sleep, many metal bands have taken Frank Herbert’s psychedelic sci-fi saga to heart
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