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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

Meet the "deathcore Slipknot" Paleface Swiss, to Danish prog metallers Danefae, concept-driven Texan metalcore mob Cantervice and UK alt metallers Vower

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“Don’t relationships always get nasty in the end? A few knives get stuck in and before you know it, it’s out of control”: How Judas Priest reunited with Rob Halford to regain the metal throne with Angel Of Retribution

In late 2004, Classic Rock joined the reunited Judas Priest on the road in Spain

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“I wrote to Vincent Price. I didn’t expect a reply, but he knew who I was. He really got stuck into the role”: The twisted story of Alice Cooper’s shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare

How Alice Cooper made shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare – with help from a horror icon

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

Bad Omens, Employed To Serve and Deafheaven lead this week's best new metal songs

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Slayer are teasing a return to the UK

The thrash metal legends' surprise reunion rumbles on as they confirm shows in Canada and the US, and tease appearances in England and Wales

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Limp Bizkit to play Reading and Leeds 2025, more than 25 new names also added

Nu metal legends Limp Bizkit are amongst dozens of new additions to this year's Reading and Leeds lineup

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Sleep Token have shared sheet music for what might be a new song - here's what it sounds like

A pianist has played the sheet music shared by Sleep Token's mysterious new social media accounts. It sounds pretty damn good!

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Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian have covered Kansas' Dust In The Wind and it's the most gorgeous song you'll hear all week

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor and Bad Omen's Noah Sebastian perform a stunning duet on the soundtrack for the upcoming wrestling film Queen Of The Ring

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"There are some things AI can’t replace, and that is drinking two-litre bottles of cider and ****ing yourself in a field." We're going to miss Ithaca dearly, and this interview with Djamila Azzouz shows why

Ithaca might be about to head off into the sunset, but not before we get one last brilliantly chaotic interview with singer Djamila Azzouz

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"People are baffled if I say I love Taylor Swift." Modern metalcore icon Chris Motionless on being a Swiftie, ice hockey and why Motionless In White are taking their time on a new album

Chris Motionless on ice hockey, being a Swiftie and why Motionless In White are taking their time on the new album

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“Haven’t we been f***ing great tonight?!” Prog metal legends Opeth bring a career-spanning setlist, staggering visuals and more than a little self-confidence to sell-out London show

Rejuvenated after latest album The Last Will And Testament, the prog/death metal masters honour both sides of their sound with cinematic accoutrements

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Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Evanescence and more announced for Louder Than Life 2025

Louder Than Life 2025 is go and it is STACKED!

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"Someone get Papa Emeritus on the phone." Green Lung just confirmed they're doom metal's breakout band with a massive London show

Green Lung's mix of Black Sabbath dread and Ghost theatricality makes them perfectly suited for massive venues

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Get new Skunk Anansie album The Painful Truth on white splatter vinyl, exclusively through Classic Rock

Only 300 copies are available, so order yours now!

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“Want to scare people these days? Forget about Satan and drugs. Bring on the evolutionary biologist”: Nightwish were accused of seeking to shock by working with Richard Dawkins. Instead they explored the poetry of science

Endless Forms Most Beautiful started with a handwritten letter and resulted in an extraordinary, inspiring concept album – plus the professor’s first-ever prog performance at Wembley Arena

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"You can only be what the public thinks you are for so long before it becomes boring": The story of how Metallica got themselves an orchestra – and the album that followed

With Metallica’s S&M reaching the grand old age of 25, we look back at how, and why, the world’s leading metal band teamed up with – shock, horror – the San Francisco Symphony

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"We came out and started rocking and almost everybody in the club walked out": Nita Strauss remembers the worst gig of her life

At least her dad stuck around

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Full lineup announced for Rocklahoma 2025 festival

Five Finger Death Punch, Breaking Benjamin and Shinedown will headline this year's Rocklahoma event in Pryor, Oklahoma

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“Strap in for one of the most fun summer shows of your life!” Killswitch Engage, Parkway Drive, I Prevail and Beartooth to co-headline ultra-stacked US metalcore tour

The Amity Affliction, The Devil Wears Prada and more will also populate the obscenely huge bill at the travelling Summer Of Loud festival

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“The last six years have been full of some of the worst times I’ve been through”: A documentary about Ozzy Osbourne will hit Paramount Plus later this year

Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now is currently in production and chronicles the Black Sabbath singer’s life since he suffered a spinal injury in 2019

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“I was thinking, he has to go.” Architects vocalist Sam Carter initially wanted guitarist Adam Christianson fired following 2024 controversy

Sam Carter admits that he wanted Adam Christianson gone from Architects after the guitarist shared a transphobic post online

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Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower shares gorgeous cover of Sleep Token’s Euclid

Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Vecna in Stranger Things, has unveiled a cover of the Sleep Token track Euclid

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An unreleased solo album by Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge seems to have leaked on Youtube

Forge recorded a solo album called Passiflora in 2008, but it was never given an official release

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Disturbed announce arena-scale The Sickness 25th-anniversary UK and Europe tour, Megadeth opening

Supported by thrash metal royalty, Chicago’s nu metal stars will play their debut album in full at some of the biggest venues they’ve ever headlined

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Black Sabbath's Live... Gathered In Their Masses concert film is now free to watch on YouTube

The footage was recorded on Black Sabbath's 13 tour of Australia in 2013

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