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"These songs are so good that even a band called Rotting Christ should be able to capitalise." With Pro Xristou, Greece's premier extreme metal band have just crafted their most accessible - and perhaps most magnificent - album yet

Rotting Christ have written the most immediate hooks of their career without compromising one jot

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“Nothing against Maiden, but their songs have gotten so long”: Kerry King critiques Iron Maiden’s recent albums

The Slayer guitarist admits he doesn’t have the attention span for Iron Maiden’s double albums The Book Of Souls and Senjutsu

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Slash confirms Guns N' Roses are planning to make a new album

Guns N' Roses are "trying" to make the follow-up to 2008's Chinese Democracy

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“The paganism was never a problem. All of us shared an interest in that side of things”: the story of Sabbat’s cult late 80s pagan-thrash classic Dreamweaver: Reflections Of Our Yesterdays

UK thrashers Sabbat made an overlooked classic with their second album, Dreamweaver: Reflections Of Our Yesterdays

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“It was an intense process being in this band. By the end, everyone was, like, ‘I don’t need to see you again, ever’”: the rise, fall and spectacular resurrection of Faith No More

How Faith No More’s brilliant 2015 album Sol Invictus completed the most unlikely comeback of the 21st century

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“The comeback few expected but everyone wanted”: AC/DC’s Power Up tour – the first review

AC/DC kicked off their first tour in eight years with a show in Germany. We were there

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AC/DC have played the first show of the Power Up tour as new bassist Chris Chaney joins the party - watch videos

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The 14 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

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

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Listen to Body Count's first single for four years, Psychopath, featuring Fit For An Autopsy's Joe Bad

Rap metal icons Body Count, featuring the one and only Ice-T, are officially back

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“I could be onstage in front of thousands of fans singing my music back to me, and I’d feel empty and miserable”: the dark and twisted history of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails

How Trent Reznor turned Nine Inch Nails from one-man studio project into one of rock’s most iconic bands

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“The most bittersweet listening experience of the year cuts close to the bone.” Shellac's To All Trains is Steve Albini's epitaph, and it's as thrillingly intense, darkly amusing and pleasingly unsentimental as expected

To All Trains, Shellac's first album in 10 years, is a worthy tribute to the force-of-nature that was Steve Albini

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Poison The Well announce their first London club show in 15 years, with tickets on-sale today, May 17

Want to see Poison The Well play their first London headline show since 2009? Do not sleep on snapping up tickets

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“Dystopian in mood, it’s a reflection of the angst and anti-authoritarian attitude I had to conformity.” Listen to Serj Tankian's 'new' single A.F. Day, originally written for System Of A Down

Listen to the first song from System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian's solo EP Foundations

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“Every morning first thing I think about is getting a little Punk Bunny inside me.” Green Day launch their own Punk Bunny coffee brand, because running a punk rock empire in 2024 is an exhausting business

Hallelujah! There's a new "badass" Green Day-branded coffee on the market

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“I’m climbing out of the ashes of Slayer”: Kerry King’s exclusive track by track guide to his new album From Hell I Rise

Kerry King’s first post-Slayer album, From Hell I Rise, is almost upon us. Here’s what to expect, in his own words

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"Dark Superstition is the moment where Gatecreeper become a more well-rounded and versatile heavy metal band." Gatecreeper confirm their status as one of the most exciting bands in death metal with album three

Gatecreeper have evolved nicely without compromising their extreme metal roots on the excellent Dark Superstition

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"You’re absolutely right." Slipknot confirm rumours that brand new song Long May You Die, their first with new drummer Eloy Casagrande, is coming

Slipknot have been busy: a new song is officially on the way!

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"I insist upon being great. You don’t always reach that pinnacle, but I insist upon it": The A-Z of Ronnie James Dio

In his decades fronting Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio and more, the little man with the huge voice made a great many friends – and more than a few enemies

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Documentary about Māori metal sensation Alien Weaponry to premiere at Tribeca Film Festival next month

Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara documents the rise of the New Zealand groove metal champions and features members of Lamb Of God, Gojira and Testament

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Heavys H1H headphones review

The first-ever headphones designed with metal fans in mind pack a punch and deliver beautiful slabs of sonic mayhem

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“People were crying and screaming and smiling from ear to ear”: Marty Friedman revisits Megadeth reunion at Budokan

The former Megadeth guitarist performed with the thrash metal favourites in his new home country of Japan last year

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Judas Priest’s Rob Halford reflects on the PMRC: “It was a political hack job”

The Metal God has some stern words for the US government committee that named Judas Priest’s Eat Me Alive as one of its “filthy 15” songs

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"You really can’t exhort The Man to ‘Suck my *****’ without the spectre of Eric Cartman demanding that you respect his authority": Peter Tagtgren's electro-metal side project Pain embrace sardonic gothic fun on I Am

Hypocrisy frontman Peter Tägtgren takes a break from singing about aliens and conspiracies to indulge electro-goth dancefloor fillers with side project Pain

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“Our live show is some next-level energy”: Ragga metal pioneers Skindred announce autumn UK tour

Benji Webbe and the boys will hit the road again from October to November

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“I think Jeff not being around had a lot to do with Tom leaving Slayer”: Jeff Hanneman wouldn’t have wanted Slayer to retire, says Kerry King

Slayer guitarist Kerry King has said that the late Jeff Hanneman would have wanted the metal legends to stay together

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