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“I keep telling Clown that I’m just gonna throw it up on Youtube”: Slipknot guitarist Jim Root often threatens to leak long-delayed album Look Outside Your Window

Sick of waiting for Slipknot’s atmospheric rock album to come out? So is guitarist Jim Root!

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“I can’t marry you, but we can totally have an affair sometime”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale is open to singing with Skid Row again

Hale will probably never join Skid Row full-time, but she says she’ll be there if the glam veterans ever find themselves in dire straits

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“I got so tired of all these different hybrid categories, I created my own”: Ice-T names the one thing he’d change about heavy metal if he could

The outspoken Body Count frontman also names his favourite rap and metal albums in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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“He wasn’t a phoney. He didn’t have to be somebody else – he felt comfortable being himself“: We lost Dimebag Darrell 20 years ago today. His brother Vinnie Paul never let his memory die

Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell died 20 years ago today, on December 8, 2004. In 2007, his brother Vinnie Paul paid tribute to a giant of metal

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Metal Hammer name Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere the best metal album of 2024, top 50 revealed

Blood Incantation’s progressive death metal opus tops the Metal Hammer 2024 album of the year list. See the other 49 entries here.

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Slipknot, Ghost, Nightwish, Gojira and more star in Metal Hammer's blockbuster end of year issue, which comes with an Iron Maiden Powerslave patch, a Nightwish notebook and a 2025 heavy metal calendar

The new issue of Metal Hammer is our biggest of the year and it's on sale now!

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“This one shifts gears from the fast and furious energy of our two recent singles”: Hear Arch Enemy put the “melodic” into “melodic death metal” on new single Blood Dynasty

The stomping track is taken from the Arch Enemy album of the same name, out next year

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“Whenever we made a mistake, Ross Robinson would be happy, because we’d be breaking boundaries”: Sepultura name the five songs which define their career

Ahead of their impending retirement, Derrick Green and Andreas Kisser explain which songs have most shaped Sepultura’s career

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Hear Jinjer get ultra melodic on new single Green Serpent

The build-up to 2025 album Duél continues!

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"My girlfriend was a fan and she took me along...it was incredible!" System Of A Down's Serj Tankian on the first metal band he ever saw live

System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian reveals that his first ever metal show involved one of the greatest metal bands of them all

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“Within my lifetime there could be some natural disaster or a third World War that could destroy everything. I sincerely believe that we live in the beginning of the end”: How Satyricon faced the darkness with The Age Of Nero

Satyricon may have recorded their 2008 album The Age Of Nero in sunny LA, but it was steeped in bleakness and doom

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“It worries the hell out of me. We’ve been outcasts for our whole career. If what we do becomes some sort of trend, will we die with it?”: How Dream Theater became the kings of progressive metal – and stayed there

In 2009, Dream Theater released Black Clouds & Silver Linings – an album the prog metal giants claimed could give Slipknot and Trivium a run for its money in heaviness

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“There were cries of ‘Sell out!’ from the underground, but it wasn’t about selling out, it was about wanting to evolve”: How Katatonia emerged from the darkness to become metal’s most atmospheric band

Katatonia frontman Jonas Renske looks back on his band’s epic journey out of the death metal underground

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Listen to melodic new Bury Tomorrow single What If I Burn, taken from 2025 album Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience

The metalcore firebrands have offered another instantly catchy anthem and announced their next studio album

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“It was a do-or-die moment”: Arch Enemy “didn’t have high hopes” for War Eternal album after Angela Gossow left

Guitarist Michael Amott and drummer Daniel Erlandsson admit Arch Enemy considered packing it in after losing their longtime vocalist in 2014

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"I don’t like comedy heavy metal." Comedian Frank Skinner reveals the beloved British rock band he'd banish forever

British comedy icon Frank Skinner explains why he'd choose to send one of the UK's biggest 21st century rock bands to Room 101

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‘The Hu didn’t speak a lick of English, but we both knew the language of rock. It’s a tribal warrior call!”: The greatest Papa Roach collaborations, in their own words

From The Hu and Within Temptation to Carrie Underwood and Pharrell, Papa Roach are the kings of the collaboration – and here are the most memorable

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“Our favourite bands didn’t chicken out on their third record. That’s not how Master Of Puppets or Number Of The Beast got made”: How Ghost teamed up with Katy Perry’s producer to kick things to the next level with Meliora

Ghost’s third album Meliora found them going darker and poppier than ever before – and the result pointed towards what was to follow

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Order an exclusive Papa Roach bundle featuring a limited edition tie-dyed t-shirt

The new Metal Hammer Papa Roach bundle comes with its own exclusive t-shirt design and a mag packed with nu metal brilliance

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Watch pro-shot video of Thrice playing post-hardcore classic The Artist In The Ambulance live in full

The Californian dynamos played their masterpiece in full on a North American tour last year

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Serj Tankian admits he “emotionally checked out” during System Of A Down’s final albums

“I was in a weird place. I contributed creatively, but I didn’t.”

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Linkin Park go full nu metal on new single Two Faced, which lands ahead of tomorrow’s comeback album From Zero

With their new album just hours away, Linkin Park have released another taste of what’s to come

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Epica release their second song in a month, tease even more music for 2025, will sleep when they’re dead

Are Epica the busiest band in symphonic metal? It certainly seems that way…

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“It deals with the intense depression that I’ve dealt with most of my life”: Trivium’s Matt Heafy names the most personal song he’s ever written

In the new issue of Metal Hammer, Trivium’s leader names the song that most candidly deals with his mental health

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"This could all fall apart at any moment." From collaborating with Bad Omens and Knocked Loose to touring with Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy might be metal's most vital artist of 2024 (just don't call her a metalhead)

Starting out as a YouTube sensation with a robotic persona, Poppy has broken out to become a hyperpop/metal crossover star

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