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"Paul was read the riot act, and given the chance to put things right. But he didn't put things right": The story of Iron Maiden - the Paul Di'Anno years

As the 1980s dawned, Iron Maiden were about to record their debut album. It was the start of a journey that would launch them into the stratosphere, but there were some massive hurdles to overcome first

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Mark Wilkinson to appear at art and music event at Sudbury Arts Centre this Saturday

Fish and Marillion artist Mark Wilkinson will also will be previewing a very special collaboration between him and Prog at the event

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“That guy was hitting wrong notes with such authority that I just fell in love with it!”: Devin Townsend gives a troubled singer a much-needed boost

He also reckons that one famous guitarist was always out of tune

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2025 Grammy nominations revealed: Metallica, Judas Priest, Spiritbox, Knocked Loose, Gojira, Pearl Jam and St. Vincent amongst metal and rock names nominated

Thrash legends, metalcore heavyweights and rising hardcore ragers are included in next year's Grammy nominations!

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“The fastest album they’d made, chock full of hard-headed riffs and squealing solos”: Every song on Judas Priest’s Painkiller ranked from worst to best

As The Metal Gods gear up to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary, we revisit and re-order every track on their evolutionary opus

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Judas Priest to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary on 2025 European tour

The Metal Gods will play across the continent on their Shield Of Pain run from June to July

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Judas Priest's historic three-guitarist, two-drummer performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is now online

It's only taken the Hall Of Fame two years to upload the official footage

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“The way they craft their music, it becomes immortal”: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, metal’s best person, pays tribute to Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan and other pop giants

“I’ll still be banging my head to [Lady Gaga’s] Paparazzi on my deathbed,” the Metal God declares

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"Bruce Dickinson is like a time-traveling general from a dystopian future." Iron Maiden bring the Future Past tour to Aftershock - and it's spectacular

Iron Maiden's current world tour touches down in Aftershock for an incredible Saturday night headline set

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"Fifty years in, they still set the bar." Judas Priest bring heavy metal heaven to Aftershock with a set that's all killer, no filler

Judas Priest remind Sacramento why they are and always will be Metal Gods

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“I’m not a Satanist, I’m an atheist, but I write the best Satanic lyrics on the planet”: How Slayer went from thrash provocateurs to metal’s unlikeliest elder statesmen

Some bands mellow with age – but not thrash icons Slayer

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“Rob Halford shows up in a jean jacket and I’m like, ‘Oh, this guy, come on!’” Slayer’s Kerry King explains why Judas Priest were a “letdown” at 1981 gig

Slayer’s guitarist was gutted the first time he saw Judas Priest onstage 40-plus years ago

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Rob Halford says another Judas Priest album is “inevitable”: “This band thrives on the metal that we make”

Mere months after Judas Priest released 19th album Invincible Shield, their frontman is already looking towards a followup

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"This renaissance of heavy metal is worldwide": From Gojira at the Olympics to crazed teenage fans, Rob Halford is incredibly excited about the state of heavy metal

As Judas Priest gear up for their US tour, Rob Halford enthuses about the state of metal and reflects on debut album Rocka Rolla

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“It’s disarming being expected to do the whole ‘Oh yeah! Throw the horns, dude!’ thing. I couldn’t do it with a straight face”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt loves metal, but he doesn’t always take it seriously

Opeth released their classic 11th album Pale Communion on this day in 2014 –and Mikael Åkerfeldt didn’t care whether the gatekeepers liked it or not

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The 100 songs that changed metal

From founding fathers like Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Judas Priest to metal's modern leaders such as Ghost, Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the songs that have defined a genre

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"Tipper Gore, as misguided as she may have been, her heart was kind of in the right place." Inside Cover Your Ears, the thoughtful new documentary on music censorship starring Dee Snider, Chuck D, Jello Biafra and more

Cover Your Ears attempts to take a fair and balanced look at the phenomenon of music censorship

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“What we’ve done is to move beyond metal. There are so many ideas here that expand our horizons”: how Judas Priest reached for the sky with divisive double album Nostradamus

Judas Priest released their controversial double album Nostradamus on June 16, 2008

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Judas Priest announce 2024 North American tour with Sabaton as support

It's a heavy metal bonanza as Judas Priest and Sabaton hit the road together later this year!

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“Their music means so much to us”: Metallica’s Kirk Hammett names the band he considers the “architects” of heavy metal

Metallica’s lead guitarist tips his hat to the icons who, he believes, refined the modern heavy metal sound

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“There are no shocks on this album. I like bands to stay true to the sound that works. I’m happy that AC/DC have been making the same record for 50 years” Kerry King on his unapologetic solo debut – and how long before Slayer jump back into the coffin

As one half of Slayer’s fearsome guitar attack, Kerry King shaped the sound of extreme metal. With a new album andanew sparring partner, he hasn’t mellowed…

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"It was very British, but it shot round the world. It changed music": How the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was born, by those who were there

In the late 70s, rock music was given a steel-booted kick up the backside by a new breed of band.The NWOBHM would go on to rule Britannia – and the world

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“We’ll spend hours trying to get the grossest, most evil sounds we can. We DI’ed a fuzz and it sounded like vomiting”: Battlesnake are the triple-guitar lovechild of Queen, King Gizzard and Judas Priest you never knew you needed

We meet Australia’s three-headed metal guitar hydra –are you prepared for Battlesnake?

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"He was so drunk, slurring and forgetting lyrics and everything": The story of the historic day heavy metal killed new wave

It's memorial weekend in 1983, and the US Festival is about to change the musical landscape forever, with a little help from Van Halen

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The best metal albums of 2024 so far

From legends like Bruce Dickinson, Judas Priest and Kerry King to modern heavy hitters like Knocked Loose, OU and DOOL, these are the metal albums ruling 2024

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