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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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"Ever wondered what Trent Reznor would be like with a couple of glowsticks and a string vest?" Nine Inch Noize captures Coachella's most vibrant team-up in a rave-happy remix

Nine Inch Nails and recent tourmate Boys Noize have teamed up for a killer remix album to commemorate their Coachella sets

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"The fans always come first." Iron Maiden won't be attending their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Iron Maiden aren't snubbing the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, they just won't be there

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The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Black metal sax solos, wild prog metal symphonies and a new album from technocore masters Electric Callboy lead this week's best new metal songs

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"There’s a dead rat hanging in my face, a guy playing a flute and this topless lady belly dancing." Ex-members of Papa Roach, Trivium, Faith No More and Opeth on what it's like being in a major metal band before it blows up

It's a long way to the top, if you play rock'n'roll

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A petition has been launched to save the legendary London studio where Iron Maiden recorded The Number Of The Beast and Def Leppard recorded Pyromania

"If this development goes ahead, we will lose far more than a studio"

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“I could go to a festival in a unicorn outfit and no one would bat an eyelid. Nobody cares”: From teenage rebellion to gatekeeping and mental health, we interviewed a therapist to try and understand how metalheads’ brains work

Why do some people love metal while others hate it? Why do metalheads gatekeep? And does heavy music make us more logical thinkers? We hit a practicing therapist with the big questions.

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"I jumped through a window and hit one. Someone started choking me; I was basically blue by the time I was rescued." Russian Nazis, emotional encounters with Dio and rumours about Tom Hanks: Shane Embury on almost 40 years of Napalm Death and beyond

Extreme metal legend Shane Embury shares some of the wildest stories from his life in Napalm Death and beyond

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“I told her to write a poem about batteries that are dying that cannot be recharged”: Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan explains how Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia ended up on Look Outside Your Window

Scabbia, who was in a relationship with ’Knot guitarist Jim Root from 2004 to 2017, lends her voice to two songs on the long-delayed project

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"We had a lot of fun revisiting these songs and hope you enjoy. Listen LOUD." Trent Reznor reveals details of the forthcoming Nine Inch Noize album, coming later this week

The story behind the new Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize collaboration

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"I just feel so lucky to be considered in the same breath as some of the other artists on there." Former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley shares his feelings on being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

Maiden's 90s vocalist admits it's a "real privilege" to be included with artists like Billy Idol, Joy Division and Oasis in this year's nomination

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