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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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"It was all a bit exhausting and emotionally draining": Meet the man who auditioned to replace Bon Scott in AC/DC and Paul Di'Anno in Iron Maiden

Terry Slesser, singer with Paul Kossoff’s Back Street Crawler, recalls the days when AC/DC were a humble support act

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AC/DC to reissue original Australian versions of High Voltage and T.N.T., but there's a catch

Grab 'em while you can

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“You don’t need to spend 10 years to make an album”: Ex-Tool bassist Paul D’Amour slams band’s songwriting process

Tool’s former bassist has explained how the prog metal icons’ “frustrating” songwriting led to him leaving the band

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Watch Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Phil Collins serenade the Queen with Black Sabbath’s Paranoid in 2002

In 2002, The Prince Of Darkness cleaned up his act for one night only, performing a Black Sabbath classic to help mark Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee

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Ghost fans think the metal stars will release a brand-new single very soon

Armchair detectives have raided the ASCAP songwriting directory and potentially found details of a new Ghost track

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“James said: ‘You guys are ballsy as hell!’” Alien Ant Farm frontman Dryden Mitchell reveals the surreal moment Metallica’s James Hetfield took him and his parents to dinner

Metallica frontman Papa Het continues to earn his stripes as the nicest man in metal

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Kerry King didn’t tell his solo band that Slayer were reuniting: “I didn’t want anybody to start getting cold feet”

Slayer’s guitarist also reveals that the thrash metal giants turned down offers to come back “probably every month” for five years

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"Thumps to the back of the head are tempered by prog, synths, sax and slowcore." Doom champions Pallbearer branch out on emotionally devastating new album Mind Burns Alive

After dipping their toes in the prog pool with 2020's Forgotten Days, Arkansas doom-mongers Pallbearer embrace experimental sounds with new album Mind Burns Alive

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“The lights would go out and 15 kids would beat the crap out of me”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson opens up on traumatic boarding school days

The Iron Maiden vocalist has reflected on his difficult early years in public school

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“I don’t want to hold you guys back. This is your dream.” Serj Tankian recalls the moment he invited System Of A Down to find a new singer, and even offered to train his replacement

Serj Tankian reveals that System Of A Down considered replacing him in 2018

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"The most aggressive thing Kerry King has produced since God Hates Us All": Kerry King's solo debut From Hell I Rise sees the thrash legend at his tooth-gnashing, head-banging best

Slayer might have called it quits in 2019, but From Hell I Rise proves Kerry King still has a lot to say

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Baroness, Graveyard and Pallbearer have announced the psychedelic tour you need to see in 2024

Stoner metal stalwarts Baroness, occult rockers Graveyard and proggy doom dealers Pallbearer will hit the UK and Europe together this autumn

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Slayer’s Kerry King wants to record his second solo album this year: “I’ve got everything in place to make that happen now”

His solo debut From Hell I Rise isn’t even out yet, but the Slayer guitarist already has plans for a followup

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Watch Ministry play songs from maligned albums With Sympathy and Twitch for first time since 1980s

Al Jourgensen’s industrial icons exhumed their earliest material this weekend, after their leader disowned it for years

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“On the first day I was terrible, I didn’t like my performance”: Eloy Casagrande explains how he joined Slipknot, reveals band is writing new music

Slipknot’s new drummer has given his first in-depth interview since joining the nu metal nine-piece

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AC/DC share first photo of new 2024 lineup featuring drummer Matt Laug and bassist Chris Chaney

AC/DC are set to hit the road on their Power Up tour and the current lineup can be seen in new rehearsal photo

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"They came to my house, we jammed together in my studio, they even played with my dog." How System Of A Down's Serj Tankian almost signed a young Muse to his own label - but was "screwed over"

In an exclusive extract from his new book Down With The System Serj Tankian reveals the strange story of how he almost signed British rock giants Muse

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“We needed a female vocal and Katy Perry was hanging around the studio. She came in, did it… then she got big!”: the greatest P.O.D. collaborations, in their own words

From Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe and Suicidal Tendencies’ Mike Muir to an unknown Katy Perry, P.O.D are the kings of the collaboration – and here are the most memorable

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10 brilliant, bizarre and utterly WTF Lemmy collaborations

From Slash and Dave Grohl to glamour models and 80s girl groups, Lemmy worked with ’em all

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“Metallica can play 60 more Lulus. They’ve earned the place to do whatever they want”: how Jason Newsted escaped the shadow of metal’s biggest band to forge his own career

In 2013, Jason Newsted released Heavy Metal Music, the debut album by his band Newsted –proof that he was at ease with his own past

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Def Leppard's Joe Elliott has a problem with the "silly, silly term" that is heavy metal

They may be one of the shining lights of NWOBHM –but Joe Elliott insists Def Leppard are not a heavy metal band

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“We didn’t want to be some huge rock’n’roll band. We wanted to make music for the people”: the inside story of Kyuss’ Blues For The Red Sun, the classic album that changed the course of stoner rock

How cult stoner rock visionaries Kyuss made 1992’s classic Blues For The Red Sun

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