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Sleep Token played their first UK show of 2024 last night – see the setlist and watch videos here

The masked metal sensations are doing their own Eras Tour, playing tracks from their three albums in chronological order

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“You have great voices here. We’d like to have you use them with us now.” Watch Pearl Jam's emotional cover of Temple Of The Dog classic Hunger Strike, performed for the first time since Chris Cornell’s death

Pearl Jam share rare outing of Temple Of The Dog masterpiece Hunger Strike in Sydney, Australia

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"My girlfriend says that I need help. My boyfriend says I'd be better off dead." Therapy?'s dark, twisted misfit anthems sound as fabulously fierce as ever on their Troublegum 30 anniversary tour

Therapy? roll back the decades in joyous communal celebration of their best-loved album, 1994's Troublegum

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Arch Enemy will tour the UK and Europe next year and they're bringing a stacked support bill with them

Folk metal heavy hitters and one of America's most exciting young death metal bands will join Arch Enemy on tour in 2025

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Watch Metallica's James Hetfield playfully do his best Rob Halford impression with the help of a helium balloon during the making of St. Anger

Papa Het can't quite reach the Judas Priest frontman's high notes without a little assistance, but nevertheless he gives it his best shot in this behind the scenes clip from Metallica's 2003 St. Anger sessions

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"This is gonna be epic!" Heavy metal royalty Saxon will play their classic album Wheels Of Steel in full on UK and Ireland tour next year

Saxon will hit the road next year to play an all-time great heavy metal album in its entirety

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"This is the tour we've been working towards." British metalcore crushers Bleed From Within announce 2025 European tour, including their biggest UK headline shows ever

Bleed From Within are making a big step up for 2025!

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Every Linkin Park album ranked from worst to best

From the history-making brilliance of debut album Hybrid Theory to the triumphant comeback of From Zero, we rate Linkin Park's impressive discography

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"My girlfriend was a fan and she took me along...it was incredible!" System Of A Down's Serj Tankian on the first metal band he ever saw live

System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian reveals that his first ever metal show involved one of the greatest metal bands of them all

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“Within my lifetime there could be some natural disaster or a third World War that could destroy everything. I sincerely believe that we live in the beginning of the end”: How Satyricon faced the darkness with The Age Of Nero

Satyricon may have recorded their 2008 album The Age Of Nero in sunny LA, but it was steeped in bleakness and doom

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Exist Immortal share video for anthemic and punchy new single By Design

London-based prog metallers Exist Immortal will release a new EP in 2025

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“The world had gone mad. The PMRC were trying to use all these great songs for their own agenda, which in the long run counted for nothing”: The story of Judas Priest’s Defenders Of The Faith, the album that Tipper Gore couldn’t silence

Controversy, chaos and “the heavy metal horn” – the story of Judas Priest’s 1984 album Defenders Of The Faith

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Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante says Metallica were right about Napster and that Spotify is where "music goes to die"

Anthrax and revived Pantera drummer says industry 'fucked us so bad. you'd make more money selling lemonade.'

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Sammy Hagar determined not to take bad blood with Alex Van Halen to his grave

Hagar hopes to make peace with former Van Halen bandmate but admits they likely won't perform together again

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“It worries the hell out of me. We’ve been outcasts for our whole career. If what we do becomes some sort of trend, will we die with it?”: How Dream Theater became the kings of progressive metal – and stayed there

In 2009, Dream Theater released Black Clouds & Silver Linings – an album the prog metal giants claimed could give Slipknot and Trivium a run for its money in heaviness

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“The most exciting underground metal lineup of 2024”: Sylosis and Fit For An Autopsy lead four hours of moshpit mayhem in London

Supported by Darkest Hour and Heriot, the co-headliners host a night of wall-to-wall adrenaline at Electric Brixton

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“There were cries of ‘Sell out!’ from the underground, but it wasn’t about selling out, it was about wanting to evolve”: How Katatonia emerged from the darkness to become metal’s most atmospheric band

Katatonia frontman Jonas Renske looks back on his band’s epic journey out of the death metal underground

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“They asked Chris Cornell – they needed an exceptional singer”: How Faith No More’s landmark alt-metal masterpiece The Real Thing could have been very different

Charismatic new singer, groundbreaking new sound, a rap-metal classic in the making – this is how Faith No More’s The Real Thing helped usher in the alt-rock decade

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"Number 1 in the UK, that’s so insane. I’m freaking out!" Linkin Park have landed their fourth UK number one album with From Zero, and vocalist Emily Armstrong couldn't be more excited

“This is very cool. It’s such a big deal to all of us!” Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda celebrates his band's fourth UK chart-topping album

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“I had a Spice Girls stage…but then I grew up and it became Deftones!” WWE superstars reveal the artists that changed their lives

WWE wrestlers including Johnny Gargano, Tiffany Stratton and Carmelo Hayes tell us about the bands and artists that have impacted them the most

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

Architects, Body Count and Spiritbox are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Listen to melodic new Bury Tomorrow single What If I Burn, taken from 2025 album Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience

The metalcore firebrands have offered another instantly catchy anthem and announced their next studio album

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“I had jellyfish stings all over my body”: From a near-death experience to international acclaim, the story of cult prog metal label Pelagic Records

The Ocean guitarist Robin Staps founded Pelagic Records to reissue one of his band’s albums. 15 years later, the label is home to post-metal’s best and brightest.

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"Alcohol is a depressant, so I got depressed": A poignant interview with the late Chris Cornell

Classic Rock's final interview with Chris Cornell: Grunge superstar, acoustic balladeer, would-be R&B lover-man, drinker

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“We go very deep into the struggles of starting the band, the impact of the tape-trading community back then, and loads of stories and interesting moments that led to the band being where we are today”: A Kreator biography is coming in 2025

Singer/guitarist Mille Petrozza has co-written a book about the thrash metal veterans’ first 10 years of service, expected next year

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