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The 10 best black metal albums of 2024

You may as well rename Ihsahn, Zeal & Ardor and Witch Club Satan “Spinal Tap”, because there was none more black in 2024

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Guns N' Roses announce 2025 tour dates including first-ever show in Saudi Arabia

Guns N' Roses will play 24 shows across the Middle East and Europe next summer

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"He was a drummer before I was a singer, a pilot before I was a pilot": Watch Bruce Dickinson pay tribute to Nicko McBrain during his final Iron Maiden show

Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain has retired from touring after 42 years

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"A name familiar to many of our fans." Iron Maiden announce new touring drummer following departure of Nicko McBrain

A day after the sad news that Nicko McBrain will be retiring as Iron Maiden's full-time drummer, his replacement has been revealed

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“He wasn’t a phoney. He didn’t have to be somebody else – he felt comfortable being himself“: We lost Dimebag Darrell 20 years ago today. His brother Vinnie Paul never let his memory die

Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell died 20 years ago today, on December 8, 2004. In 2007, his brother Vinnie Paul paid tribute to a giant of metal

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"It's a beautiful song with a bit of a dark edge." Comic Chris McCausland on why he chose Metallica's Nothing Else Matters for his latest performance on Strictly Come Dancing

Watch Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell wow the Strictly judges with Viennese Waltz set to Metallica classic

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“There were fire, floods and riots. We saw LA being destroyed. We channelled that into the record”: How Fear Factory predicted the apocalypse with industrial-metal masterpiece Demanufacture

The story of Fear Factory’s Demanufacture, the album that rewired metal forever

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“At any venue, every time, this band play like their lives depend on it”: While She Sleeps reiterate their place among the metalcore elite with exhilarating London show

While She Sleeps’ second of two nights at O2 Forum Kentish Town may not have the scale of their Ally Pally concert last year, but what’s lacking in size is made up for in killer songs and blinding lights

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“It was a reaction to a life of being bullied and also a celebration of fun. A lot of the metal world didn’t understand that”: How Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst became nu metal’s biggest star – and lived to tell the tale

With his red cap and hip hop swagger, Fred Durst was the biggest and most divisive star of the nu metal era. But that’s only half the story

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"Today will be my final gig with Iron Maiden." Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain retires from band after 42 years

Beloved Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain is officially stepping away from the band

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Savatage announce London Shepherd's Bush Empire show for June

US prog metal legends Savatage will play their first live shows in over a decade with singer Zak Stevens throughout Europe next year

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“Given the state he was in I would have given him two years, tops. But Sharon literally rescued him”: Inside the booze-soaked 35-year friendship between Lemmy and Ozzy Osbourne

Drink, drugs, urinating up unsuspecting keyboard players’ legs – fellow hellraisers Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy were partners in crime for decades

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“I just see a pie hit me in the grill”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on the rock legend who caked him in the face onstage

It was the Metallica man’s birthday and an iconic rock veteran wanted to make sure it was properly celebrated

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“Just got a hernia singing with a metal band in Austria”: Talk show host extraordinaire Conan O’Brien fronted an extreme metal band last night

He welcomed Slipknot, Lamb Of God and more onto The Tonight Show – now, Conan O’Brien has followed in their footsteps and played with a metal band

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The 10 best prog metal albums of 2024

Leprous, Opeth, Slift and others have presented some truly forward-thinking excellence this year

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“This is a piece of Asian metal history and we’re proud to share it with the world!” Hear New Delhi metal sensations Bloodywood team with Babymetal on new single Bekhauf

The biggest metal bands in India and Japan have joined forces to make an absolute anthem

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The 20 Best Songs by The Sisters of Mercy – as chosen by former members, collaborators & more

Band members past and present, plus collaborators and peers, choose the greatest Sisters of Mercy songs

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Wardruna explore the relationship between man and bear in typically striking video for new single Birna

Norse folk shamen Wardruna will release new album Birna in January

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Doom veterans My Dying Bride end hiatus, announce first show of 2025 – with a different singer

My Dying Bride are back! There’s just one enormous caveat…

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Machine Head’s next album seems to be right around the corner…

The groove metal behemoths previously teased a new album for April, and now they’ve offered a glimpse inside the studio

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Metalcore champions Shadows Fall return with first new song in 12 years, In The Grey

The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal beloveds were twice Grammy-nominated before going on hiatus in 2012

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"We are going to bring hands down the greatest show of our careers." Bring Me The Horizon will be headlining Reading and Leeds as their only UK shows in 2025

Travis Scott, Enter Shikari, Amyl & The Sniffers, Chappell Roan, Hozier, among other main attractions for the twin town festival, to be held on August 21-24, 2025

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New Killswitch Engage album is “angry, dark and aggressive” because that’s “what the world needs right now”, says Jesse Leach

“I think a lot of us can relate to frustration, anger, betrayal, all those things, and that’s kind of what I highlighted lyrically with this album”

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Hear folk metal heroes Eluveitie’s first new single in two years, Premonition

The song will be on the Swiss outfit’s next album, expected in 2025, and they’ll probably play it on their impending European tour with Arch Enemy, too

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Metal Hammer name Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere the best metal album of 2024, top 50 revealed

Blood Incantation’s progressive death metal opus tops the Metal Hammer 2024 album of the year list. See the other 49 entries here.

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