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"I’ve been whipped, stabbed and had to have surgery. Most recently, I got licked on the tongue by Alice Cooper's snake." Nita Strauss shares the battle scars that shaped her into a modern guitar hero

From Alice Cooper to Demi Lovato and her own solo work, Nita Strauss has become a modern metal icon

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“This is a band with no limits. If there’s a metal fan on the moon, we’ll be there”: How Iron Maiden’s epic Somewhere Back In Time tour took them where other metal bands dare not go

In 2008, Metal Hammer climbed aboard Ed Force One to join Iron Maiden on the tour of a lifetime

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“That TV celebrity that I became, I didn’t like it. My heart is in music. I hated every second of it”: How Ozzy Osbourne rediscovered himself with the Scream album

In 2010, Ozzy Osbourne released his eleventh solo album Scream – and he had reality TV, reunions and “Jesus Freaks” on his mind

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“There were death threats flying around. They were burning my effigy at punk bonfires”: The tumultuous story of Peaceville Records, the underground label that helped shape extreme metal

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"I found myself preoccupied by death." Meet Ante-Inferno, the British band bringing black metal to the seaside

They might draw on depressing subjects, but Scarborough's Ante-Inferno find empowerment in black metal

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“In six months, we got through 300 bottles of vodka, 400 bottles of whiskey and cases of beer. It was insane”: The unbelievable story of Def Leppard’s 80s hard rock masterpiece Hysteria

Four years, one near-fatal car crash and an ocean of booze in the making, Def Leppard’s Hysteria is the 80s hard rock album against which all others should be measured

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"He immediately tore open the doors of what could be." Gene Simmons recalls being blown away by Ace Frehley's Kiss audition

They've had their differences over the years, but Gene Simmons still gives props to The Spaceman for what he brought to Kiss

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Spiritbox, Arch Enemy and Rivers Of Nihil are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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“We’ve got one song with Serj from System Of A Down and we just finished a second Babymetal collab”: Polyphia are making a “heavy” new album stacked with special guests

Expect big riffs and even bigger names on the next Polyphia album

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“Tom Morello is going to play with the drummer from Tool and they’re going to have Billy Corgan with them”: Sharon Osbourne spills details on running order for Black Sabbath’s farewell show

“You’re going to see one icon playing with another icon, doing a Sabbath song and one or two of their own songs, and people playing with each other that you never thought you’d see”

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Are Tenacious D back?! Jack Black and Kyle Gass confirm first new music together since going on hiatus last year

The self-styled greatest rock band on Earth are covering REO Speedwagon for a charity compilation that comes out Friday

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Everything you need to know about the Black Sabbath reunion show at Villa Park

Why are Black Sabbath coming back? Who else is on the bill? How do I get tickets? We answer all your questions about this summer’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza

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"The daddy of prog metal drumming finally came home with the milk." Mike Portnoy is back with Dream Theater, and he's helped them make a banger of an album in Parasomnia

Dream Theater needed something special to justify the hype following Portnoy's return, and they've delivered

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"They take your song and put it on the radio and it ends up becoming f***ing propaganda." How Scars On Broadway's They Say helped Daron Malakian move on from System Of A Down

How Scars On Broadway helped Daron Malakian dust himself off after System Of A Down's breakup

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Black Sabbath albums ranked, from worst to best

Some Black Sabbath albums are epoch-defining classics, some are average, some downright embarrassing, and we've ranked them – from woeful worst to brilliant best

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I front a metal band and this is what it's like having hundreds of phones pointed at you every night on stage (spoiler: it's really weird)

Serena Cherry, frontwoman of British extreme metallers Svalbard, opens up on the experience of having your every move documented on stage

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"People characterised both of our bands as being arrogant and cocky." How Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium helped revitalise metal in 2005

How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine ushered in metal's next generation

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Black Sabbath to reunite to play final show at blockbuster Birmingham event this summer, with Metallica, Slayer, Gojira, Anthrax and many other metal icons supporting

Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza will take place at Villa Park on July 5

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"While I survived the 90s, not all of me did." Alice In Chains icon Jerry Cantrell on riffs, extreme metal and the best rock record to come from Seattle

Ever wondered what extreme metal bands Alice In Chains jammed to? Jerry Cantrell has the answer

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“You couldn’t put a bigger band in a smaller room”: The story of the greatest Metallica live album you’ve (probably) never listened to

In 2008, eager to mend fences with fans after the Napster debacle, the biggest band in metal played one of the tiniest shows of their lives

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“Pigeonhole this band at your own peril”: Why you should adore Katatonia – and where you should start with their enormous back-catalogue

From death/doom majesty to streamlined, melodic metal, this is your whistlestop tour through the best of Katatonia’s 12 albums

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

Conquer Divide/Avoid/Defences/Faetooth

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Even Spotify is getting in on the Spiritbox jokes, calling Courtney LaPlante ‘Poppy’ on its Kickass Metal playlist

Spiritbox’s singer got confused for Poppy on the Grammys red carpet, and the streaming giant seems to be poking fun

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"The goal is world domination." Spiritbox are on the cover of Metal Hammer as one of the most exciting bands in modern metal prepare to unleash Tsunami Sea

Rising Canadian metalcore stars Spiritbox talk about the year ahead, only in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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They've toured with Slipknot, become unlikely ambassadors for Ukraine and smashed main stages at festivals. Now Jinjer have made their darkest, angriest album yet with Duél

Thought Jinjer might have used their growing popularity to write an album of big, catchy bangers? Nah. No chance

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