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Wardruna just led a Nordic ritual in London’s most beautiful venue, and I’ve never seen anything like it before

Supported by cellist extraordinaire Jo Quail, the shaman dazzle with their powerful voices and mystical production

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"There will never be another to occupy her throne": Last year Iron Maiden's iconic Ed Force One 747 was scrapped – but now you can wear it

Parts of Iron Maiden's famous flying tour bus have been upcycled

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"The band thanks Frank for his friendship, creativity, and sturdy presence": Guns N' Roses announce departure of long-serving drummer Frank Ferrer

Frank Farrer has been behind the Guns N' Roses kit for 19 years

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"It's fun to hang out in a room and write something that you think is heavy as f**k." A cast member from award-winning TV show The Bear has started a new hardcore punk band with Alexisonfire guitarist Wade MacNeil

Is the world ready for Neil Fak the punk rocker? All will be revealed when Pig Pen play their debut gig next month

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"Those sultry licks get weirder and weirder, until they resemble the sound of a UFO taking off." Masked metal weirdos Imperial Triumphant go straight on new album Goldstar

Imperial Triumphant's Goldstar is their most accessible record yet - but still weirder than a box of frogs

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"It was a middle finger to everyone who’d told us we wouldn’t do anything." A track-by-track guide to Bullet For My Valentine's The Poison

Frontman Matt Tuck shares the stories behind the songs on Bullet's groundbreaking debut

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"Katatonia should have been laid to rest!" Anders Nyström hits back after Katatonia split

Katatonia announced they'd split with founding member and guitarist Anders Nyström earlier this week

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Babymetal announce 24-date North American tour, with Jinjer and Bloodywood among supporting cast

Babymetal line up summer shows across North America

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“Absolutely wicked night!” Halsey went to see hardcore breakout stars Knocked Loose live last night

Noted metalcore fan Halsey has joined Billie Eilish and Demi Lovato in revealing they love a bit of Knocked Loose

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"When people make beds of sound like that, it goes into you in a visceral way." Hollywood superstar Cate Blanchett names her favourite rock bands

"I love their music, but I became addicted to it when I heard it live"

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“We thought we’d go really, really big from the very beginning”: Watch Dua Lipa cover AC/DC’s Highway To Hell during tour stop in Australia

Watch one of Britain’s biggest pop stars lay down a stunning rock vocal on the first night of her 2025 Radical Optimism tour

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“I’m as serious as a heart attack”: Mastodon are looking for their next guitar player – and they have a very specific list of requirements

Longtime guitarist Brent Hinds left the sludge/prog metal favourites earlier this month

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“We wanted to feel that we weren’t in a rush – even though we were. That’s how you end up singing in a sleeping bag”: From a mountain monastery to a cold bus in a snowstorm, the Von Hertzen Brothers’ Nine Lives was tough work

The Finnish brothers created a different working method for their fifth album, but to their surprise the results weren’t much different from the previous four. Which was no bad thing

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“I sped everything up a little bit, just kicked them in the *** a little”: Dave Lombardo looks back on the day he drummed in Metallica

When Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was taken ill before Download festival 2004, Lombardo and Slipknot’s Joey Jordison filled in

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Katatonia and guitarist Anders Nyström go their separate ways

Katatonia have just announced a European tour for November and December

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"Everybody's gonna be playing Sabbath songs, it's gonna be pretty mindblowing." Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde says that Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning homecoming will be "special for everybody", but he hopes it won't be Ozzy's last show

Zakk Wylde is excited for Ozzy and Black Sabbath's final bow this summer, but would be up for another Ozzy tour

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"Nu Delhi is an exhilarating rush that should see Bloodywood’s star rise still further." India's biggest metal sensations have produced another iron-clad rager with their second studio album

Indian nu metal machine Bloodywood are packing nothing but bangers

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"Now this is hilarious!" Rob Zombie reacts to Daily Mail-concocted "outrage" over his "violent" new children's book Z Is For Zombie

"Is it problematic to expose children [to this] and glorify characters who are depicted committing murder, torture, sexual assault, body mutilation, necrophilia etc?"

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"Bruce Dickinson, if you read this: call me!" Avantasia and Edguy frontman Tobias Sammett is a legend to power metal fans - so we got them to interview him for us

Avantasia frontman Tobias Sammet takes fan questions on power metal, dream guests and more

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“I went from being James LaBrie’s biggest critic to being his biggest cheerleader. I want him to succeed more than anybody”: Now Mike Portnoy is back in Dream Theater, he only wishes it had happened sooner

Co-founding drummer discusses how easy 16th album Parasomnia came together, his sadness when he thought a reunion might not happen, and how he’s not quite the control freak some people think he is

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“Music is viewed as one of the highest art forms, if not the highest artform, because it is able to be spiritual and sacred”: How Sunn 0))) conjured good vibrations and dark magic with drone masterpiece Monoliths & Dimensions

Drone visionaries Sunn 0))) continued their journey into the heart of darkness with 2009’s Monoliths & Dimensions

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“I can’t see us ever writing songs about boning strippers and doing cocaine in limousine jacuzzis”: How Alice In Chains came to terms with their dark past on The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

Alice In Chains’ unexpected comeback continued with 2013’s The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

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“We have a Grammy-winning producer, a trained Shakespearian actor and a carpenter”: The death and resurrection of Hell, the occult metal pioneers that history forgot

How cult early 80s metallers Hell bounced back from tragedy nearly 30 years later

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“What did we get for being innovative? We got slaughtered by everyone. That’s what you face for trying something new”: How Saxon made Crusader, the album that marked the end of their early 80s glory years

Biff Byford looks back on Saxon’s divisive 1984 album Crusader

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Disturbed pyrotechnics damage famous Chicago Bulls championship banners during hometown show

Wayward pyro at Disturbed show in Chicago leads basketball team's NBA championship banners to be removed for repair

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