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"Who would I like to duet with? Simon Le Bon: I’d like to bring him into prog and get him on a big chorus." Tesseract's Dan Tompkins faces down the most passionate interviewers in rock: progressive metal fans

Tesseract frontman Daniel Tompkins talks favourite lyrics, rip-off prog bands and his days as a policeman

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"The fight against Metallica was not my fight. I am glad to be friends with them." From his Megadeth days to THAT scandal, thrash metal icon David Ellefson has lived quite a life

David Ellefson talks his storied Megadeth career, bouncing back from an embarrassing scandal and the wild days of early thrash

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"Topics like necrophilia are just kind of ‘whatever’ at this point." Gore-loving death metal veterans Dying Fetus are bored of trying to shock people

We chat to Dying Fetus growler/guitarist John Gallagher about death metal, South Park and that legendary hashtag

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The 10 greatest heavy metal power trios

From Motörhead to Prong, these metal bands prove that three is the magic number

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"When you can simplify what it is you want to say it's easier for more people to connect to": How Metallica stripped away the complexity to take their music to the masses

With a little help from astrophysics, Ice-T and Heart, Metallica came up with Enter Sandman, their best-known song and a heavy metal classic

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"Things have gone further than we envisaged, but that’s life": Saxon's Biff Byford on their new guitarist, extraterrestrial life and the future

As Saxon prepare to tour The UK with Judas Priest and Uriah Heep, we catch up with frontman Biff Byford to hear about new album Hell, Fire And Damnation

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“He said, ‘How about Slayer with special guests Slayer?’ We went, ‘Wow, that could be crazy’”: the forgotten story of Slayer vs Slayer, the 80s metal Battle Of The Bands with only one winner

Two bands, one name, one crazy gig – this is what happened when a pre-fame Slayer shared a bill with another band named Slayer

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"Sometimes, incredible opportunities present themselves in surprising ways": watch the video for Eyes Wide Open, the first new music from Kittie in 13 years

Listen to the first taste of Kittie's forthcoming album, their first since 2011

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“Welcome to the new era”: Sleep Token have signed to major label RCA Records

After quickly selling out four arenas (and counting) on their upcoming UK tour, masked metal cult Sleep Token are now labelmates with Britney Spears and A$AP Rocky

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Every Emperor album ranked from worst to best

They’re the spotless masters of symphonic black metal, but which of Emperor’s four records reigns supreme?

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"The most ambitious and extravagant album of his career." Ihsahn's self-titled new album is a triumph for one of metal's greatest visionaries

Ihsahn's latest offering may just feature the best work of his career

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The 10 best Slipknot songs not by Slipknot

From Soulfly to Tetrarch, these bands’ screaming nu metal rampages would surely make Slipknot proud

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"We have a dark image and spooky vibes...but then we also have anthemic choruses." South Of Salem count Avenged and W.A.S.P. as influences and are major horror nerds. They might just be your new favourite metal band

Inside the spooky world of South Of Salem

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"Iron Maiden is a popular band among taxonomists and museum curators": Scientists in Peru name a new species of lizard after Bruce Dickinson

There's a newly-discovered lizard in the mountains of Peru named after Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson

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"No hyperbole, I think this is our best work": Pearl Jam confirm Dark Matter album details, announce World Tour

Pearl Jam's Dark Matter will be released in April, with a world tour kicking off the following month

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“That activity that a very, very small minority of people do is so selfish and so disturbing”: Bruce Dickinson admits he “lost his temper” when a fan lit a flare at an Iron Maiden show in 2022

The Iron Maiden singer admonished and swore at a fan for igniting a flare during a performance of The Number Of The Beast in Greece

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Bloodstock Open Air announces 18 more bands for 2024

Burner, Soen, Xentrix, Unpeople and more are joining the Derbyshire metal festival, which will be headlined by Opeth, Architects and Amon Amarth in August

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10 heavy metal stars who should have solo careers

From James Hetfield to Randy Blythe, we’d love to see what these heavy metal heroes can do by themselves

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Pearl Jam release explosive new single Dark Matter

Dark Matter is the title track of Pearl Jam's upcoming, Andrew Watt-produced 12th studio album - out in April

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"Danny Carey is 62 now, so there's no thought of taking 13 years for another album": Justin Chancellor offers promising update on new Tool album

Tool bassist Justin Chancellor suggests the band may hit the studio in "the second half" of 2024

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"Our tour manager had to have every city’s morgue number, just in case we found Alexi dead in his bunk": The meteoric rise and tragic end of Children Of Bodom

Children Of Bodom helped put Finnish metal on the map in the mid-90s, but substance abuse would ultimately lead to the band's dissolution - and death of iconic guitarist/frontman Alexi Laiho

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Keanu Reeves is bringing his "certainly not grunge" band Dogstar to the UK

90s alt rockers Dogstar - featuring Keanu Reeves on bass - have announced a run of shows in Europe and the UK as part of their reunion

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"See you Filthlings there": Cradle Of Filth to headline Damnation Festival 2024 with an "old school ritual performance"

Love old school Cradle Of Filth when they were trve black metal? You might want to head to Damnation Festival in November...

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AC/DC announce 21-date Power Up tour - and a new bass player

AC/DC's long-awaited return to the road has finally been confirmed

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