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“Everyone was singing about Satan back then, but I don’t believe in Satan so I needed something that was real to me”: How Amon Amarth became the world’s favourite 21st century Viking metal berserkers

Amon Amarth’s 2008 album Twilight Of The Thunder God transformed them from death metal hopefuls into all-conquering Viking metal chieftains

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Why Robert Trujillo hasn’t written much Metallica music: “These guys write amazing songs, and I’m not going to suddenly insert myself”

The bassist has co-written only a handful of Metallica tracks since joining the metal titans in 2003

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“If you look at the leads he was doing and when he was doing them, he kind of innovated a lot of that stuff”: Slayer’s Kerry King names metal’s most overlooked guitarist

The Slayer man makes the claim while listing his five favourite players of all time

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Prog metal heroes Nevermore tease reunion with cryptic social media vignette

The American band’s ranks have included Jeff Loomis (ex-Arch Enemy), Chris Broderick (In Flames/ex-Megadeth), Pat O’Brien (ex-Cannibal Corpse) and late singer Warrel Dane

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"Rock and roll is all about being defiant." Do rappers belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Absolutely, says Offspring guitarist Noodles

The Offspring's Noodles says Rock Hall should be inclusive – but he doesn't think his band will ever be inducted

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“Thank God we had strippers! They make great money”: Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler on the chaos and carnage of making Appetite For Destruction

The inside track on Appetite For Destruction from one of the men who played on it

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"You can get clean and live a life beyond anything you’ve ever dreamed of." Lamb of God's Mark Morton shares inspiring message as he celebrates 6 years clean

Lamb of God guitarist is loving life without booze or drugs – and he wants everyone to know recovery is possible

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“I could be listening to Abba one minute and then Morbid Angel. It doesn’t seem strange to me”: How Porcupine Tree reinvented progressive rock for the 21st century metal generation

Porcupine Tree’s 2010 album The Incident capped their rise from cult psychedelicists to prog metal giants

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“There’s an unlimited amount of bad things happening in the world, real and imagined. It’s not hard for us to come up with stuff”: The story of Cannibal Corpse’s Gallery Of Suicide, the album that helped keep 90s death metal alive

Cannibal Corpse kept the deathly flag flying during the nu metal era

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“They politely said, ‘We will never air this. You are banned from MTV.’” Scott Ian reveals which song got Anthrax banned in the 80s

Didn’t see much of Anthrax on MTV during the mid-1980s? Their founding guitarist explains why

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“I’m really, really stoked about where this one’s going. It’s gonna be cool.” Myles Kennedy talks new Slash and the Conspirators album

Hot off releasing blues album Orgy Of The Damned this year, Slash is diving back into his work with Alter Bridge man Myles Kennedy

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“If it wasn’t working, I could see the point of changing. But we were more successful than ever. It was incomprehensible”: The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split

How Sepultura made their most important album – and how it tore them apart

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“It’s only a matter of a couple weeks before everybody converges on to the studio”: Megadeth are working on their next studio album

Sounds like Dave Mustaine’s thrash icons won’t take another six years to release their next album…

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"Most of my favourite bands, their fourteenth album was shit": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on ABBA, nearly buying a record shop, and their awesome 14th album

When ABBA-mad Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt met one of their singers, he “lost it”. She didn’t sing on their new concept album, but some other, perhaps unlikely, big names did

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"I cut grass all day long." What Joey Belladonna did when he was fired by Anthrax

After being let go by Anthrax in 1992, Joey Belladonna made a living working at a horse barn

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“At one point he brings out his death ray and starts randomly firing it at people. It’s just totally insane!”: Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett’s five favourite cult horror movie villains

Kirk Hammett knows his horror – and these are his ultimate movie villains

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"I was in the hallway with Slipknot and I got screamed at." Vended might have big links to heavy metal royalty, but that doesn't mean they're getting an easy ride

Vended feature two spawns of Slipknot, but they're attempting to build their own legacy through their own terms. We head to LA to find out more

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"People said, 'You're going to be a one hit wonder.'" How Higher cemented Creed as rock's new superstars

Inspired in part by recurring nightmares and visions of heaven, Higher cemented Creed as one of the most successul rock bands of the new millennium

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“It’s a very dark record. Randy had a lot to get off his chest. You can hear a real mania in the way we played”: The chaotic story of Lamb Of God’s New American Gospel, the album that kickstarted 2000s metal

Lamb Of God’s New American Gospel ushered in the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal a couple of years early

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"We have lost friends, to ODs, suicide. And we see each other out there still holding it down." How Papa Roach survived the rise and fall of nu metal to be bigger than ever in 2024

From touring with Korn and meeting pop stars to barely selling 200 tickets and almost getting dropped from their label, Papa Roach endured to prove themselves the ultimate rock survivors

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"They are honouring Chester's memory but also creating their own legacy." How Linkin Park pulled off the biggest comeback of 2024

The countdown, the comeback, the controversy - Linkin Park's return was one of the biggest stories of 2024

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"Every night of our tour, we'd get a report about weapons being confiscated." We went backstage with Powerwolf, Hammerfall and Wind Rose on the power metal tour of the year - and it was even more ludicrous than we'd imagined

Inside the biggest (and most over the top) power metal tour of 2024

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"It felt like someone took a 300-pound man off my shoulders." John Corabi on being fired by Motley Crue

John Corabi says being let go by Motley Crue was a bummer – but it also came with huge relief

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"I don't care if they call us a metal band or punk or anything." Donita Sparks is okay with whatever label you want to give L7 – as long as you're still listening

L7 have always walked the line between metal, punk and grunge

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“We had an exploding Marshall cabinet. The roadies put too much gasoline in it, and it almost blew Ritchie Blackmore offstage”: A metal fan’s guide to Deep Purple, one of hard rock’s original Holy Trinity

Along with Sabbath and Zeppelin, Deep Purple helped craft the primordial goop that spawned metal

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