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“Every time I go on tour, I miss it a lot”: What are Babymetal’s favourite foods? We found the answer!

We got Japan’s kawaii metal stars to put together their dream menu, from hamburgers to simmered pumpkin

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“Yes, we sell out – we sell out every seat in the house, every time we play!” 11 times Metallica were accused of ‘selling out’ for ridiculous reasons

Playing acoustic guitars. Making a music video. Getting haircuts?! Here are all the times Metallica incensed heavy metal’s purists.

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Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi on the time three angels "saved" his life after getting into a serious car crash: "It’s been said that they saved me for a purpose, because I went on to invent heavy metal"

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi once got into a car accident as a teenager and believes three supernatural entities "saved" him from the wreckage

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“This track has it all!” Synthwave star Carpenter Brut returns, teams with Ulver, soundtracks American Psycho comic with Billy Idol cover Eyes Without A Face

Ulver frontman Kristoffer Rygg lends his voice to the first new Carpenter Brut track since 2022

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A new biography on the late Motorhead guitarist 'Fast' Eddie Clarke is on its way

Make My Day: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Of Fast Eddie Clarke will arrive in a box set with a four-CD career retrospective

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Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler opens up on past mental health struggles: "Unless you’ve experienced true depression, you can’t describe it"

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler discusses his past battle with depression

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See Metallica’s James Hetfield get into a firefight in trailer for western thriller The Thicket

Papa Het will appear alongside Game Of Thrones star Peter Dinklage when The Thicket comes out in September

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"I was left standing alone in the dark,trying to match up to these iconicsingers that had gone before": The chaotic tale of Black Sabbath's Tony Martin era

Dio was out, Gillan was gone, Geezer had given up, and Ozzy had declared war. Light came in the shape of Tony Martin, and the next chapter in Black Sabbath's story

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“Our most dynamic and powerful album to date”: Deathcore heroes Fit For An Autopsy announce new album The Nothing That Is

The New Jersey aggressors will tour the US with Bodysnatcher, Distant, Sylosis and Judiciary in autumn

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“Some of the riffs are really heavy and tasty”: Mastodon are hard at work making “two different projects”

Expect double trouble from the Atlanta sludge/prog pioneers – and expect it to be heavy as hell

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“I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man! I’m in Arizona!’” In 1993, Kurt Cobain asked Sepultura man Max Cavalera where to get heroin in Brazil

When trying to score drugs at a South American festival, Nirvana’s leader turned to what he believed to be a local expert

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“I thought you might like to do a little bit of singing!” Watch Bruce Dickinson play Iron Maiden classic Alexander The Great at a solo show in Greece

It marks the first time Dickinson’s played an Iron Maiden song with his solo band in 22 years

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Japan’s post-hardcore dynamos Envy announce first album in four years, Eunoia

Listen to post-rocking lead single Beyond The Raindrops here

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“I have a fantastic therapist who helps me”: Jay Weinberg is in counselling to “process” Slipknot exit

“It’s important for me to do the right work of processing these events,” the now-Suicidal Tendencies drummer says of his Slipknot stint

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“Ay, Geezer! Let’s play Villa Park!” Watch Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler star in trailer for beloved Birmingham football club Aston Villa’s new home kit

The hard-rocking Brummie icons help their hometown club reveal their 2024 home kit

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"Don’t let this small moment in time define you." Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale's powerful message to Ingrid Andress after her disastrous US national anthem performance went viral

Ingrid Andress made headlines last week for a messy and worrying performance of The Star Spangled Banner at the Home Run Derby

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"This is Sabaton for shaggers." New Powerwolf album Wake Up The Wicked is epic, catchy and brilliantly daft - like all the best power metal should be

You won't get any surprises from Powerwolf at this stage, but with songs this good, who cares?

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Ian Gillan says Black Sabbath were more "important" than Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin: "Without them there would have been no grunge or heavy metal"

Ian Gillan on the "unholy trinity" of British rock bands, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and why the Brummie Rock Gods were the "most important" of them all

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“A noose was put in my family’s garage.” Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello remembers the racism he endured as a kid

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist reflects on the darker details of his Chicago childhood in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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"There’s no bad blood." An update on new Nightwish album Yesterwynde, why they still won't tour and what comes next

Nightwish mainman Tuomas Holopainen lifts the lid on album number 10

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"I can't do it!" Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain reveals which classic song he has to play differently live since his stroke in 2023

Incredibly, the beloved Iron Maiden drummer went out on tour just months after suffering a stroke

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"Emails were exchanged with Ian Anderson, containing something that could be described as music": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt is unable to tell you what he'd like to tell you

Swedish proggers Opeth have European festival dates throughout the summer before heading to the US, and have a new album in the can

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"The woody base of papyrus and patchouli leaves the senses longing for more in a rhythmic exchange of back and forth": Yes, Tony Iommi has released a new scent

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi has launched his second cologne in conjunction with Italian perfume company Xerjoff

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Rejoice! An official Ozzy Osbourne colouring book is on the way

Disclaimer: Bats not included

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Slash cancels four shows on S.E.R.P.E.N.T. tour due to unforseen circumstances

Slash's all-star blues tour kicked off earlier this month

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