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“He came up and said, ‘Hey Herman, how’s it going?’ That was a shocker!”: the encounter with a guitar legend that left Dragonforce’s Herman Li speechless

It takes a lot for Herman Li to be starstruck, but one iconic guitar hero managed it

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“Lemmy was standing at the door. He gave me a bullet belt and a leather jacket and said, ‘You’re in!’”: the riotous story of Motörhead’s early years and the birth of “the worst band in the world“

How Lemmy bounced back from being fired from Hawkwind and defied the detractors to launch Motörhead into orbit

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“We were broke. We couldn’t even afford food or drink. That’s how bad things were”: how Judas Priest’s Sad Wings Of Destiny finally set them on the path to heavy metal immortality

Judas Priest’s landmark second album Sad Wings Of Destiny was released on this day in 1976

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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Ozzy Osbourne, Serj Tankian and Corey Taylor all feature on some of the best new metal songs this week - but not in the way you might think. Plus - vote for your favourite!

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More than 130 fans killed in rock concert mass shooting in Moscow

Gunmen opened fire and set off explosives at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow as fans gathered for a show by Russian art rock band Picnic

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“It’s a dream come true, a collaboration only The Simpsons could have predicted”: Cypress Hill are making a 1996 Simpsons joke a reality by booking a show with the London Symphony Orchestra

Sometimes, real life can be stranger than fiction

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"Nobody picks up a guitar to be the most hated band in the world." Nickelback: Hate To Love isn't likely to win over the haters, but does shine a light on why you should never bet against one of rock's most surprising underdogs

Our take on Nickelback's interesting - if hardly explosive - new documentary

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Black Sabbath announce details of long-awaited Tony Martin era box set and The Eternal Idol is nowhere to be seen

The new set will contain remastered versions of Headless Cross, Tyr and Cross Purposes, plus a new Tony Iommi mix of Forbidden

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“It’s a beautiful song!” Hear System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian sing lead vocals on a new track by The Walking Dead/Godzilla composer Bear McCreary

The song, called Incinerator, is a single from McCreary’s upcoming symphonic metal album The Singularity, which also features Corey Taylor, Slash and more

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Does anyone else remember that time Metallica played a secret show as a Ramones cover band?

In 2002, Metallica (plus fill-in bassist Bob Rock) took the stage at a San Francisco dive bar and played songs by one of punk’s most prestigious bands

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"On this day, I see clearly..." Watch a sold-out Toronto arena sing a passionate, acapella version of Alter Bridge classic Metalingus with no band in sight in honour of wrestling legend Adam 'Edge' Copeland

Adam Copeland, formerly known as Edge, looked blown away by the crowd's passionate singalong of his classic entrance theme

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Slash interview: Growing up with the blues, assembling Orgy Of The Damned, meeting Peter Green, and the crazy journey behind that Oscars thing with Ryan Gosling

Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators start their European tour next week

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"They’re one of the greatest rock bands in history." Why Lady Gaga loves Iron Maiden (and vice versa)

Lady Gaga and Iron Maiden have a longstanding mutual respect that might surprise some, but we're absolutely here for it

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"It’s nothing whatsoever to do with the drug!" Watch the video for Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Morrison's brand new single, Crack Cocaine

Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison has teamed up with Ozzy Osbourne for this brand new single from Morrison's upcoming solo album

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"The guys stopped the song. They all looked at me like, 'What are you doing?'" How David Draiman came up with the legendary 'OOH-AH-AH-AH-AH' monkey noise on Disturbed's nu metal classic, Down With The Sickness

It's one of the most iconic moments in all of nu metal, and this is how it came about, according to the man himself

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If you're wondering how radio-friendly the new Shellac album will be, the first track is called World Series of Dick-Sucking and the closing track is called I Don't Fear Hell

To All Trains, the first Shellac album in 10 years, is coming soon, as is a UK tour from the trio

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"They’ve been vocal on everything from feminism and female rights to animal rights, police brutality and government corruption." The 80s anarcho punk icons that inspired Bob Vylan to do punk properly

Punk-grime duo Bob Vylan pay tribute to one of the 80s' most influential punk bands

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"We were hanging out with our acoustic guitars, and we wrote four songs in two or three hours": Duff McKagan and Jerry Cantrell are thinking of making an album together

The Guns N' Roses and Alice In Chains men have contributed to each other's solo releases in the past and are now considering taking the relationship further

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"Everything we're doing right now is way different." What happened the day Linkin Park played a set at Grand Central Station

On what would have been Chester Bennington's 48th birthday, watch him and his fellow nu metal stars entertain a bustling terminal at America's most famous train station

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Watch Glenn Tipton return to the stage with Judas Priest for the first time since last year’s Power Trip festival

Longtime Judas Priest player Glenn Tipton, who has Parkinson’s disease, has defied expectations that Power Trip would mark his last performance with the band

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"I wouldn’t be the singer, the artist, anything without it." New Years Day's Ash Costello on the Millennial goth post-hardcore masterpiece that changed her life

Without this classic 2003 record, New Years Day might not exist as we know them

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New Pallbearer single Where The Light Fades marks sonic shift to dark post-rock sound

US quartet Pallbearer will release their third album MInd Burns Alive in May

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"The transition into what we’re doing now has been very strange.” How Halestorm, Slash and Ghost's Mary On A Cross unexpectedly helped Blackbriar become symphonic metal's new hopes

With a DIY ethos and a surprising selection of influences, Dutch mob Blackbriar might become the next big thing in symphonic metal

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A dance remix of Disturbed’s Sound Of Silence cover has cracked the US dance charts, and it is the worst thing we’ve heard in a hot minute

If you want to hear David Draiman wailing about “silence” over an obnoxiously loud club beat, this is the remix for you…

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Watch Skindred perform ragga metal banger Nobody on Conan O’Brien in 2004 – almost 20 years before it went viral on Tiktok

19 years before it became a Tiktok trend, Skindred’s Nobody ignited US airwaves thanks to the support of metal champion Conan O’Brien

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