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“It’s the perfect encapsulation of youthful anger… It still sounds feral and savage to this very day”: The cult 1980s classic Ghost frontman Tobias Forge calls the perfect extreme metal album

And no, it’s not by Metallica, Slayer or Mercyful Fate

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“Metal fans are still stigmatised. So I try and write lyrics with meaning, rather than standard metal lyrics”: How Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine set out to bust a few myths with Super Collider

A 2013 audience with an unexpectedly calm and approachable Dave Mustaine

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“We were weeping like little babies, trying to figure out whether to continue, and if so how”: How HIM pulled back from the brink to make their final album Tears On Tape

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Architects, Alien Weaponry and Whitechapel are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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"I remember coming to the studio and the producer just had his head in his hands and he was like, ‘Oh no, no, no!’" Why Matt Heafy had to delete and re-record all the guitar parts on a Trivium classic

Turns out a guitar that's even slightly out-of-tune can ruin a whole record...

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“Something we did do was throw out the rulebook”: Arch Enemy discuss “chaotic” new album Blood Dynasty

Band founder Michael Amott spills the secrets of Arch Enemy’s highly anticipated new album

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Mastodon’s new album is “all over the place” musically, teases Brann Dailor

“I hear some punk rock in there, but then I hear some insane prog and I hear the heaviest version of ourselves poking its head out again”

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Feel old yet? These classic metal albums turn 20 in 2025

Trivium’s Ascendancy, Bullet For My Valentine’s The Poison and Avenged Sevenfold’s City Of Evil are 20 years old now, and your knees aren’t what they used to be

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"Marriage is f*cking metal." Cradle of Filth members Marek Šmerda and Zoë Federoff married in Arizona

Cradle of Filth guitarist and keyboardist tied the knot in Tucson, Arizona

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“Metal is the only genre that’s open to so many different types of music. That’s why Babymetal is here right now”: How Babymetal smashed the barriers and defied the haters to become Japan’s biggest metal band

The rise of the of the 21st century’s most unexpected metal sensations

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“I knew The Poison was going to be massive!” Metal Hammer releases exclusive Trivium x Bullet For My Valentine bundle – featuring a t-shirt you can’t get anywhere else!

Get the newest Metal Hammer with an exclusive cover and brand-new t-shirt, just in time for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s mammoth Poisoned Ascendancy world tour

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“I’ve been sober for a few years now, so it’s kind of about that”: Jinjer singer Tatiana Shmayluk names her favourite song on upcoming album Duél

“I honestly think it is the best song Jinjer have ever written,” adds bassist Eugene Abdukhanov

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The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer

From Judas Priest to Opeth, Poppy to Bring Me The Horizon, these are the metal albums you said defined metal in 2024

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Cradle Of Filth announce new album The Screaming Of The Valkyries – but that Ed Sheeran track isn’t any nearer: “We’re not absolutely sure how it will emerge, but it’s been done”

Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, Dani Filth reveals the name of Cradle Of Filth’s next studio album and when it’s due out. He also says that their long-anticipated Ed Sheeran team-up won’t be on it.

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“A great motivation at a time when I didn’t really know what to do next”: Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick remembers playing sole gig with Ozzy Osbourne

Skolnick played one concert with The Prince Of Darkness in June 1995 before being ushered out the door by management

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“I’ve jammed with him at Kirk’s place. I’ve spent a night at his house and we’ve ended up with guitars in the kitchen”: Jerry Cantrell and James Hetfield have talked about making an album together

The two guitar heroes have recorded together in the past, and collaborated at a number of benefit concerts. Could a fully fledged album be next?

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"James and I have talked about it...kind of." Could James Hetfield and Jerry Cantrell make an album together one day?

Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell has discussed the possibility of collaborating with James Hetfield

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"I was a dangerous addict." Demi Lovato and Alice Cooper guitar hero Nita Strauss on the struggles of staying sober while touring

The ultra-talented metal guitarist says her addictions became "insidious"

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“We were the biggest of our generation of metal bands. We’d done it through hard graft and killer songs. None of that trendy image rubbish”: How Saxon’s Wheels Of Steel turned them into the NWOBHM’s first stars

No band did more than Saxon to put the NWOBHM on the map

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"We got **** in the press, we got bullied...but we’ve had the same trajectory." Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium are together on the cover of Metal Hammer for the first time ever

We speak to Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium about 20 years of The Poison and Ascendency

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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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“The seven deadly sins were invented by the church. They weren’t invented by God so I don’t give them too much credence“: How Max Cavalera came through his personal dark ages to make Soulfly’s Omen album

Quitting? That’s not Max Cavalera’s style

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“We were shocked: ‘Is this real? What does this mean?’”: Gojira reveal who came up with their fire-spewing, show-stealing Olympic Games performance

Who had the vision to let metal’s eco-warriors dominate the Paris Olympics opening ceremony? Joe Duplantier gives Metal Hammer the answer

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Metal Hammer writers name their top albums of 2024

Want to know what our writers and staffers have been spinning in 2024? Here’s the breakdown of every Metal Hammer contributors’ album of the year lists

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“We were rebels: ‘Hate us, we don’t care.’ But the more critics hated us, the more kids started showing up at shows”: The tangled tale of X Japan, Japan’s biggest rock band

Fame, death and resurrection – X Japan’s Yoshiki looks back on his band’s unique journey

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