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“There was a point where My Chemical Romance were opening shows for us. Quite quickly, they weren’t anymore”: The story of the post-hardcore takeover that didn’t quite happen

As nu metal’s commercial power began to wane, major labels desperately signed a bunch of bands with hardcore backgrounds, from My Chemical Romance to Cave In. A lot of them didn’t work out.

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"The first song I ever wrote with Ozzy was on that guitar - and then also, the last tribute to him." Ozzy Osbourne's longest-serving guitarist Zakk Wylde opens up on the emotional new song he's written in memory of the Prince Of Darkness

The Black Label Society frontman and longtime Ozzy guitarist penned the tribute in the weeks following Ozzy's death

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The guy who just climbed that skyscraper live on Netflix listened to a lot of Tool on the way up

Alex Honnold made a playlist of his favourite rock songs for his free solo climb up the 11th-tallest building on Earth last weekend

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"I had 20 kids on my doorstep looking in my windows. I couldn’t go to the grocery store." Tom Cruise, Eminem, the Twin Towers and a million sales in a week - the story behind the album that made Limp Bizkit the biggest rock band on the planet

For just a moment, this was the record that officially made metal the biggest genre in the world

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“I am not a great singer who can sing in any band, but I know I’m a better singer than the mask allowed me to be”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge likens performing in his old masks to “running 100 metres in flip-flops”

The singer also says that Ghost’s shows have more in common with Lady Gaga concerts than “many other rock bands”

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"We were a gang. I'd get into fights in bars defending them. But I had my dream taken away": With Guns N' Roses, Steven Adler went close to the edge more than anyone - but then it all came crashing down

Of all those involved with Guns N' Roses, drummer Steven Adler was the one who most lived up to their Most Dangerous Band In The World reputation

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"Wander into Alice's Attic, a realm of insanity… if you dare!" Alice Cooper announces Alice's Attic tour

Alice Cooper adds more shows to an already bulging schedule

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"And you know what? I'm just sharing ten years of groupies with ya, frat boy!" Why one of the biggest bands in rock music put a major music service out of business (and made one of the 2000s' strangest comedy sketch videos)

This was certainly a time of change in the music industry

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“It feels good to have a thousand people flipping you off. Just to see the amount of middle fingers go up when we go into it is amazing”: The alt-rock superstars who trolled their fans with a 70s easy listening cover – and scored a huge hit with it

Faith No More had already covered War Pigs

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"A Russian girl came to my parents’ door with suitcases and said, ‘I have sold everything in my life. I’m going to marry your son and live with you now." How two unknown European bands changed the face of metal in the 90s - and broke up its boys club

In 1997, two key releases by two emerging bands had a game-changing impact on the metal scene as we knew it

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"It wasn't as big as Guns N' Roses - but it could have been. It just didn't last long enough." A member of one of rock's most celebrated supergroups says things could have got even bigger if the wheels hadn't fallen off

This band of rock icons were a big deal in the 2000s - but could they have been even bigger?

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“There was a wishing well, a three-legged black cat, and the live room overlooked the mist-covered countryside.” Meet Cwfen, the Scottish doom witches giving Macbeth a run for his money

Starting out as a synthwave duo, Cwfen pivoted to ethereal doom metal after a fateful stormy night

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“I’ve got fame, I’ve got adulation, but I was still in the mental prison." One of heavy metal's most iconic stars reflects on the day he knew that he had to choose between sobriety or annihilation

"It started to get very gruesome for me, it was a total train wreck"

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"I heard that Metallica needed a bass player and brother, I was writing letters, made a tape of myself playing and sent it. Never heard a word back." The 80s pop culture icon who made an unlikely bid to join the world's biggest metal band

This week, wrestling icon Hulk Hogan passed away aged 71. We revisit one of the strangest stories involving the Hulkster, which included the world's biggest metal band

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"The lift stops. The doors open. And this bloke gets in. And it's Peter ****ing Gabriel!" What happened when Ozzy Osbourne bumped into the prog legend who made the album he was "obsessed" with

When these two music giants bumped into each other, one of them was a little overawed by the whole thing

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Megadeth, Rob Zombie and Poppy are among the best new metal songs this week

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"I went from touring to working behind a bar in Manhattan, busting my butt to pay bills." How one of metal's most beloved bands reunited with an old friend to get a much-needed new lease of life

These metalcore legends faced an uncertain future following the exit of their much-loved frontman, but all was not lost

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Former Scorpions / Michael Schenker bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71

"Though the strings have gone silent, his soul remains in every note he played and in every life he touched"

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"He figured we were gonna get knifed...some guys were swinging pool cues!" From Peaky Blinders bar fights to being Slipknot-endorsed, how four Swedish hillbillies became one of metal's most exciting bands

Endorsed by Slipknot, Machine Head and Trivium, Orbit Culture are one of extreme metal's hottest new bands

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"Guns in the house means it becomes a hostage situation." This is what happened when a Los Angeles SWAT team swooped on ex-Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri - and the stand-off that followed

The former QOTSA bassist faced a potential prison sentence of up to 15 years

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"We’re gonna come back – it’s gonna be bigger than Oasis." Kyle Gass reflects on the "highly inappropriate, dangerous" joke that forced Tenacious D to go on hiatus, and reveals his horror over the "tsunami of s**t" that followed

Tenacious D's Kyle Gass on the joke which caused the group's world to crumble around them

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"They got all these Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne albums and burned them…then ran away because they were scared." Car crashes, Satanism and 28 Years Later: the story behind Iron Maiden's classic anthem The Number Of The Beast

From ominous omens to a horror film that got everyone talking, the legacy of The Number of The Beast is bigger than ever

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"We all had that feeling that nobody had ever heard anything like this before": How Iron Maiden got their man and made the album that sent them stratospheric

An exclusive extract from Iron Maiden – Infinite Dreams: The Official Visual History

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"Like a fantastic beast sprung from Dante's Inferno": Meet the 67-million-year-old Triceratops skull named after Ozzy Osbourne

The late Black Sabbath frontman is now the subject of a dinosaur-themed tribute

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"There was a lot of tension throughout. I’m surprised they didn‘t fire me early on!" Producer Michael Beinhorn reflects on the "difficult" challenges he faced recording Soundgarden masterpiece Superunknown, and how Frank Sinatra helped

The making of Soundgarden's fourth album was no picnic for the Seattle band

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