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"We like to keep the fans on their toes, and we like to keep ourselves on our toes too." The story of Between The Buried & Me's Automata concept albums

US prog metallers Between The Buried & Me Automata concept albums were so complex the band released them as two separate discs

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“We invented the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal as a joke”: how Chimaira bounced back from the edge of oblivion with Resurrection

Chimaira helped start an entire a scene but never got the same acclaim as some of their peers. They hoped to change that with 2007’s classic Resurrection album

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"Blackwater Park has been hyped as this big breakthrough for us. It really wasn't": How stress, isolation and Grand Theft Auto III inspired Opeth to write Windowpane

After 2001's Blackwater Park, Opeth knew they needed something special. But when Mikael Åkerfeldt suggested recording two albums at once, the band were almost pushed to breaking point

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Mission From ’Arry: How Iron Maiden turned a sweary argument into the funniest metal “song” ever

Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris and drummer Nicko McBrain had a farcical falling out during a 1983 tour. When they found out Bruce Dickinson recorded it, they decided it’d fit perfectly onto 2 Minutes To Midnight’s b-side.

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

From masters of melodeath to a bimbocore queen, it's all here

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“We knew if we stuck together, we would create great things.” Amaranthe have three vocalists and make music that resembles ABBA on a bloodthirsty rampage. They might just be the most extra band in heavy metal

Swedish metallers Amaranthe open up on a career - and a sound - like no other

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"There’s odes to pop culture moments in there from Mean Girls to Michelangelo...obviously made a bit goth." Watch the fantastically bonkers video for Bambie Thug's Irish Eurovision entry, Doomsday Blue

Bambie Thug is representing Ireland at Eurovision this year, and on the basis on Doomsday Blue, they should win it all

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Avenged Sevenfold play live debuts, deep cuts and one long-lost classic at first 2024 concert

Arena-metal crew Avenged Sevenfold started their 2024 Life Is But A Dream… tour in Buffalo, New York, this week

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“We’re really proud of the track!” Tenacious D release full cover of Britney Spears’ …Baby One More Time, plus star-studded music video featuring Bryan Cranston, Ke Huy Quan, Dustin Hoffman and more

After going viral with a snippet of their Britney Spears cover, Jack Black and Kyle Gass have released the full song, along with a star-studded music video

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"Then someone shoved a copy of the band's now legendary No Life 'Til Leather demo into my beer-stained hands": The Mötley Crüe haters who paved the way for one man's discovery of Metallica

In late 1982, Metallica played their 27th show at a club in San Fransisco. One Classic Rock writer got there by accident

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"I went out expecting to see Kiss at Hammersmith Odeon and instead spent the evening in a pub with Bon Scott and Angus Young": An AC/DC story

When AC/DC headed off on their Lock Up Your Daughters Tour in the summer of 1976, a future Classic Rock writer was there every step of the way

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A biopic about Bon Scott's early life is in the works: Boy Swallows Universe actor Lee Tiger Halley set to star

The Kid From Harvest Road is currently in development in Australia, described as "a love letter to Fremantle and Bon Scott"

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"I don't like the production of that record. I don't like how it sounds. I don't like how it looks": Soundgarden look back at their breakthrough album Superunknown

Grunge‘s founding fathers, Soundgarden watched the bands they inspired shoot past them. But with their mighty fourth album, Superunknown, they would help define the 1990s

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"Oh my god!" Watch 'dwarf metal' band Wind Rose surprise two fans at an airport who were wearing their merch without knowing the band were right behind them

Imagine how happy you'd be if one of your favourite bands bumped into you while wearing their merch!

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A dad got his kids to help make a deathcore version of Old MacDonald Had A Farm and it's equal parts hilarious and adorable

This is one of the most cutest heavy metal videos you'll see this or any other week

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"The world was on fire for 48 hours and then the world moved on." Judas Priest legend Rob Halford compares his coming out experience to Billie Eilish's

Rob Halford opens up on his famous MTV interview in 1998, and explains why it was a very different situation to Billie's widely-publicised coming out as bisexual last year

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"Nobody liked us because we sounded like Foo Fighters!": the inside story of the doomed Dave Grohl album no-one ever talks about

"In hindsight, I like to think we were before our time", says Dave Grohl of his 'lost' band, Dain Bramage

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Don Broco, Frank Turner, Bob Vylan, Empire State B*stard, Wargasm and more complete stacked 2000trees line-up

July's 2000trees weekender is looking pretty, pretty good, with a host of new additions joining an already impressive bill

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"It's not a comfortable ride, but it is an electric one": GosT's Prophecy brings the synthwave pioneer back to his roots

James Lollar has been on shaky ground with GosT's most recent material, but a return to the darkest edges of synthwave re-energises the project

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"Enslaved still sound as explosive as they did when they started." Enslaved, Svalbard and Wayfarer contort black metal into startling new forms at stunning London show

At a rammed Islington Assembly Hall, a bill headed by viking explorers Enslaved pushes black metal into new, fascinating soundscapes

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"We're all in this together": In a world getting crazier and crazier, Ministry's Al Jourgensen is the unlikely voice of sanity

Ministry return as a band rather than just Al Jourgensen, and there's both venom and truth in new album Hopiumforthemasses

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Axl Rose refutes allegations of sexual abuse, cites earlier acknowledgments of consent by accuser

Legal representatives of Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose have responded to a lawsuit filed in New York late last year

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This is what Van Halen’s Jump would sound like if it were recorded by Slayer (and no, it isn’t AI-generated)

YouTuber Moonic Productions has imagined a beefed-up thrash metal redo of Van Halen’s signature song

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"This is acceptable at Amon Amarth shows only!" An audience did some viking rowing at a Deafheaven concert, and metalheads aren't too happy about it

Takes about metal concert etiquette have been fired off after fans opened an Amon Amarth-style “rowing pit” at a shoegaze gig

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“We had these guys stomp out a 700ft crop circle”: The story of when Korn played a concert surrounded by corn

Korn performing in a cornfield? It had to happen eventually!

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