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"He's jumping up in the air and breathing really heavily, making these animal noises. I'd never seen anything like it." The story of Andrew W.K. and the strangest TV performance in music history

In 2002 Andrew W.K. was interviewed on New Zealand TV series Space. It did not go according to plan

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Korn return with pounding single Reward The Scars, in collaboration with new Diablo IV expansion Lord Of Hatred

It’s the first new music from the nu metal superstars since 2022 album Requiem

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“It was cheaper to come here and rent a whole hotel out of season. The bar was open 24/7”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson recalls writing classic albums in empty Jersey hotel

The singer looks back on writing Piece Of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere In Time in a hotel on the Channel Islands

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"We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3

After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...

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"One love for the world!" French psychedelic rock mind expanders Slift announce North America, Europe and UK tour dates

Slift reveal 2026 tour itinerary

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The niece of late Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr has become a WWE wrestler – and her gimmick is pure 80s metal

Lizzy Rain joins the likes of Rhea Ripley and Seth Rollins in bringing heavy metal to wrestling fans’ screens

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"I wrote a lot of the tracks envisioning powerful live drumming – enter Dave Grohl." How the former Nirvana drummer shaped the sound of Nine Inch Nails' album With Teeth

Trent Reznor wanted his drummer to play like Dave Grohl on their 2005 album, so he got the Foo Fighter frontman stop by the studio instead

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"One of the year’s most instantaneous, joyous, technicolour listens." Mixing reggae, heavy metal, punk, hip hop and pop and never missing a beat, Skindred's You Got This is the burst of sunshine you need

Headlining Wembley Arena, selling out shows and climbing the charts: the future has never looked brighter for Skindred

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Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg reveals he first jammed with the band just 24 hours before they announced the departure of Joey Jordison

Weinberg played with Slipknot from 2014 to 2023, and admits he has "no regrets" about his time in the band as he lines up new projects

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"Veering between sweet and sour, violent metal, disturbing imagery and cutesy melodies." A guide to every Poppy album so far

From debut Poppy.Computer to this year's Empty Hands, here's what you need to know about the discography of one of modern metal's most unique creatives

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“Something we never could have imagined when this all began”: Songs by melodic death metal pioneers In Flames, At The Gates and Dark Tranquillity to be performed by Gothenburg orchestra

Two symphonic celebrations of the Gothenburg Sound will be held in Sweden on December 4 and 5, in tribute to late At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg

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"It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed

Ever heard Maynard James Keenan singing a Paul McCartney song? Now is your chance

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“The people who I know who’ve been on this journey… we’d never go back”: Ex-Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley opens up about quitting alcohol

The vocalist, who was a member of The Beast from 1994 to 1999, has been sober since June 2019

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"On his final performance, he wields words like a weapon." Following the death of their beloved frontman Tomas Lindberg, death metal legends At The Gates' produce one final triumph with The Ghost Of A Future Dead

Tomas Lindberg recorded his vocals for The Ghost Of A Future Dead the day before surgery, but still captures the magic that made melodeath a global movement

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"We were just jamming, making stuff up. Our session went totally out of the window." The true story of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin's lost jam

Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi on the legendary Black Zeppelin jam – the greatest session you’ve never heard

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"I feel like a robot and I can’t believe a crowd can care about what we’re doing." The genre-smashing underground band who recorded one of the best metal albums of the 21st century - and then disappeared

Oathbreaker seemed destined for greatness after the release of the superb Rheia. Then the band went on a near-ten-year hiatus. But why?

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Slayer to play two special US shows celebrating 40 years of Reign In Blood this autumn

Cannibal Corpse, the Cavaleras and Crowbar are among the support acts for the gigs in Minnesota and California

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"Discharge meets GBH and Motörhead at an anti-Nazi demonstration after drinking cider all afternoon in a Hackney squat." Ten obscure and criminally under-rated UK punk albums

There's more to British punk rock than Never Mind The Bollocks and London Calling

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“With all the stuff surrounding his illness and eventually passing, I had a hard time listening to it”: At The Gates drummer couldn’t listen to new album until “recently”, due to late singer Tomas Lindberg’s cancer battle

Adrian Erlandsson admits he hasn’t yet read the lyrics of the Gothenburg innovators’ upcoming record, The Ghost Of A Future Dead

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Watch former WWE World Heavyweight Champion CM Punk walk out to an AFI song and pay tribute to Harm’s Way’s Bo Lueders during his WrestleMania entrance last weekend

The Straight Edge Superstar battled Roman Reigns at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on Sunday

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"If there’s one thing that we hate, it’s being compared to Korn or Tool. We’re far better than that.” The mystery of the 90s band that almost gave the UK an answer to Limp Bizkit - then vanished without a trace

Pulkas were beloved in the UK metal press and signed to one of underground metal's most illustrious labels - so what happened?

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"I honestly wondered if this was the end for Metallica." Rehab, prison and the battle for the future of music: The story of the most divisive album in metal

Metallica almost destroyed themselves making 2003's St. Anger

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"I've got a couple of ideas I've been working on for quite some time": Fred Durst wants to set up an alternative to Coachella for musicians who aren't invited to Coachella

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst wants to start his own "gathering"

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Charity cuts ties with Sharon Osbourne after social media post in which she suggests she will attend Tommy Robinson's anti-immigration rally

Homelessness charity Centrepoint drops Sharon Osbourne as celebrity ambassador after her apparent support for far right movement

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Ten albums that prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that 1980 was the greatest year ever for hard rock and heavy metal

Ozzy reborn! AC/DC back! Iron Maiden on the prowl! 1980 rocked

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