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From playing to a room filled with nuns to losing a drum battle against a teddy bear, these moments helped make Iron Maiden Britain's most iconic metal band

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"They'd throw shrapnel at us - coins. I collected enough to buy a beer." Burton C. Bell recalls the trials of supporting Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath in the 90s

The former Fear Factory frontman did meet Brian May though, so it wasn't all bad

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Linkin Park will headline this year's UEFA Champion's League Final

The band's performance follows previous headliner Lenny Kravitz in 2024

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Heilung are the most captivating live act in the world – here’s why

At London’s Brixton Academy, the ‘Amplified History’ trio expand into a dozen-strong society of vocalists, dancers and musicians, and the results are spellbinding

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“The lyrics just blew my mind. That song changed the way I write. I think Steven Wilson is really poetic”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach loves Porcupine Tree

Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach chooses his favourite Porcupine Tree song, and gives some love to Pink Floyd and Mikael Åkerfeldt

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“I needed to cleanse my soul from stupidity”: Tobias Forge “shied away” from the media when writing new Ghost album Skeletá

The Ghost mastermind hoped for the band’s new album to not continue the political themes of 2022’s Impera

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"Wildhearts fans have come to my aid. And it's a two-way street": Ginger Wildheart on beautiful connections, our beautiful planet, and his beautiful new album The Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts

With a new album, a new Wildhearts, a new countryside home and a new head-space, Ginger Wildheart is enjoying a new lease of life

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Alice Cooper and Judas Priest announce co-headline tour

Guillotines and motorbikes, together at last

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Ghost have played the first show of their Skeletour World Tour - setlist details now online

The eagerly-awaited Skeletour tour finds Ghost mixing new tracks with classics – and some surprises

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"I will not just ask you for money but I will drop some merch with these lil' cutie pies and you will buy it. All money will go to them": Slaughter To Prevail frontman Alex Terrible has adopted two bear cubs and our hearts might just explode

Alex Terrible (Bearable) is now looking after two baby bears and is hoping to raise money to help with their care

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"There is a big difference between being funny and being ridiculous." Why Electric Callboy don’t want to be known as metal’s silliest band

How Electric Callboy went from down-and-out metalcore also-rans to rave-starting, arena-filling electronicore heroes with the best music videos in the business

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“I feel a sense of purpose to put something good into the world”: Amy Lee reveals which videogame changed her life – and that Evanescence are hard at work on their new album

The nu metal-era stars appear on the soundtrack of the new TV adaptation of action-adventure game Devil May Cry

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Former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks dead at 73

Judas Priest have released a statement

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"Axl wants to be in control of everything": Former Guns N' Roses manager claims Axl Rose now takes 50% of the band's income

Former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven says the band are no longer a collective

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These 2005 metal albums are so incredible that they should have been chart-toppers

The likes of Trivium and Opeth had banner years in 2005, but these master-strokes proved there should have been a bit more room under the spotlight

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“I saw my life flash by. I found myself as an orb of energy… I was out of my mind on a couch somewhere and somebody was afraid I was dying”: Claudio Sanchez reveals the truth behind some of Coheed And Cambria’s latest songs

Coheed And Cambria’s latest album The Father Of Make Believe brings completion of the Amory Wars saga within sight, and has leader Claudio Sanchez pondering his future along with his past

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Marketing move of the century? This hardcore band just released a music video that’s four minutes of cats being cute

Watch the appropriately feline-loaded clip for new Propagandhi single Cat Guy

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Watch Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante join Megan Thee Stallion onstage at Coachella to sing their team-up track, TYG

LaPlante was one of a number of guests who performed with Megan Thee Stallion during her Coachella set this weekend

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"I never thought I’d make my living playing heavy metal." How Sabaton's Joakim Broden became the singer of the biggest power metal band in the world

Sabaton might not agree with the power metal tag, but they reinvented the genre for the 21st Century

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“We’ve always been true to ourselves. Motörhead has never told you a lie. And that’s very important to me”: A classic audience with Lemmy, rock’n’roll’s greatest warrior

Motorhead kept the rock’n’roll flag flying well into their fourth decade with 2006’s Kiss Of Death

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“The record label took a million dollars from us. There was nothing we could do because it was our fault”: How Deftones helped create nu metal – then escaped it

Deftones were there at the beginning of nu metal

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"It was the worst tour of my life." Nothing More's Jonny Hawkins on cursed tour with Sleep Token and In This Moment

A bus flooded with toilet water, missed flights, death, crew member quitting – Nothing More frontman recalls the tour from hell

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“We ended up getting into the punk rock scene ’cos the metal people hated us. We were this weird, crazy, slow band that played to punk crowds”: The tangled story of Saint Vitus, the US misfits who helped give birth to doom metal

The modern doom scene owes a huge debt to Saint Vitus

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“Ringo Starr set down rules for us to follow. There was to be no riding of motorbikes on the grounds – so we did that. What do you expect from a heavy metal band?” The crazy story of British Steel, the album that turned Judas Priest into superstars

1980’s British Steel officially sealed Judas Priest’s status as metal gods

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“It deals with depression, girlfriends, substance abuse – all that stuff. We exorcised some demons”: How Lamb Of God turned from political fury to personal darkness on Sacrament

2006’s Sacrament is still one of the most intense albums Lamb Of God made –and there was a reason for it

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