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"I love the sleazy, lustful side of Motorhead." Severed heads, strip clubs and baptism by whisky: Why the metal world loved Lemmy Kilmister, the ultimate rock'n'roll rebel

We asked some of metal's biggest names to share which Motorhead songs mean most to them

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10 years after promising a “symphony of c*cks and v*ginas and death”, Devin Townsend has finally announced his life’s work The Moth and released its unhinged lead single

Devin Townsend has reached peak Devin Townsend, unveiling a 24-track behemoth with choirs, orchestras and a song called We Don’t Deserve Dogs. Listen to maximalist preview Enter The City.

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"She would tune her guitar to whatever mood she was in and write the song from that tuning." The legendary singer-songwriter who changed Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan's life

Tool / A Perfect Circle vocalist salutes a folk-rock icon

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“I was naked in a shower, they held me upside-down by my legs and they poured bourbon into my mouth”: How this thrash singer became the new frontman of 21st-century metal stars Children Of Bodom

Samy Elbanna of Finnish speedsters Lost Society talks about fronting his country’s biggest extreme metal band for two glorious nights last month

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"I was like, 'This is it. This is ****ing it.' I was so obsessed." Here's what Linkin Park singer Emily Armstrong thinks about the band's legendary debut album, Hybrid Theory

Surely even in her wildest dreams, Emily wouldn't have believed she'd be singing the lyrics from that album on stage with the band herself

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"This is a mallet to the back of the skull to anyone who believed their best days were behind them." One of metal's greatest modern bands have made their best album in over a decade: Lamb Of God's Into Oblivion slays

Lamb Of God's new album is their best since Resolution - at the very least

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“He seemed very polite, kind of gentle." The vocalist who traded tapes with one of black metal's most notorious characters, learned details of his brutal murder from a fanzine

Attila Csihar was offered Mayhem singer's job after becoming pen-pals with late guitarist Euronymous

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"Me and Alice were getting creative with the truth long before the Age of Fake News." Alice Cooper announces Devil On My Shoulder autobiography and book tour

Alice Cooper's memoir includes appearances from Salvador Dalí, John Lennon, Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Gerald Ford, Andy Warhol, Tiger Woods and many more

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“The next evolution of everything I’ve been building toward for years”: Former Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz launches new band Blue Medusa

Guitarists Alyssa Day and Dani Sophia join the ex-Arch Enemy frontwoman in hew newest musical endeavour

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"I was walking down the street and I saw this junkie washing out his needle with wine." How one of the most hyped metal bands of the 90s bounced back from firings, studio disasters and, erm, constipation

When Machine Head needed a good follow-up to their classic debut album, boy did they deliver - but not without facing some challenges

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"It seems like a really fitting time." Watch hardcore heroes Turnstile perform faithful cover of Stone Roses indie classic I Wanna Be Adored

Baltimore's Turnstile pay homage to Manchester giants The Stone Roses in tribute to late bass player Mani

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"There’s going to be everything from his hairbrushes to his smelly socks to his dirty paint chair." Unique Ozzy Osbourne museum exhibition to go on world tour

Sharon Osbourne says the deeply personal Ozzy exhibition currently showing at Birmingham Museum will travel the globe

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"That number-one hit poses the gentle question: 'Should I just kill myself?'" How a "throwaway" lyric written during a dark time helped turn some punk misfits into one of the biggest rock bands of the 2000s

AFI's 2006 single Miss Murder was even a Top 5 hit in Venezuela

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Reggae-rock, Southern ballads and the sound of black metal melting: the 9 heavy new tracks that everyone needs to hear this week

Skindred, Sevendust, Blackbraid and more have released scorching new singles – hear them all and vote for your favourite here

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"The LAPD chased down some of the miscreants and beat them to the ground with their nightsticks." How one of the worst riots in the history of music got a legendary metal band banned from a major Hollywood venue

Slayer were used to controversy, but when they rocked up to play the Hollywood Palladium in 1988, they didn't expect this.

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“He was, like me, wanting to focus more on creative work, as opposed to touring, touring, touring”: Steven Wilson and Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt are going to make another album together

The celebrated prog musicians previously collaborated on 2012 album Storm Corrosion, and many fans are hankering for a follow-up

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"Why have Kiss lasted in a town like Detroit? 'Cos we appeal to the real masses, the great unwashed of America." In 2003, Kiss fans coughed up $1,000 for front-row seats on their 2003 US tour with Aerosmith, and we joined the throng

“In many ways Kiss has a lot more to do with rappers, both spiritually and aesthetically, than with grunge rock music” - Gene Simmons

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Guns N' Roses announce stadium tour in Australia and New Zealand with Airbourne

Guns N' Roses will head down under following dates in Latin America, the US and Europe

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“He wanted to do something heavy. My mindset at the time was, I’d rather not”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt reveals why collaboration with Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy hasn’t happened yet

Dream Theater’s drummer has said multiple times that he wants to make music with Opeth’s frontman. So, we asked Åkerfeldt what’s taking so long.

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"We were like, ‘What if we take speed? Maybe we can play even faster!’ We were definitely better without the drugs." How Europe's biggest thrash band went from getting their mum to sign deals to satanic metal mastery

"When we heard Venom, all our songs became satanic."

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“I want to die in Lamb Of God!” The new issue of Metal Hammer features Lamb Of God on the cover – and an exclusive all-star interview with Randy Blythe

We asked Halestorm, Mastodon, Health, Clutch, Killswitch Engage, Ice-T and more to put their burning questions to Randy

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"The house had a big electric fence around it and every single window was blacked out." How a progressive rock legend helped make a 90s alt. rock masterpiece at the site of the infamous Manson Family murders

"To be honest, my manager had to talk me into this one"

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"I'd love to hang upside down in a stadium." How Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me The Horizon and Robbie Williams inspired these rising British rockers to reinvent themselves

The Hara found a whole new heavy side for their second album

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“I was like, ‘I think it’d be cool if I die and spit up blood but I need to play another show the next night.’” How Black Sabbath and ‘major death anxiety’ inspired metal’s new fantasy sensation, Castle Rat

How a fantasy doom band became a viral sensation everyone is talking about

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"I've dreaded sharing this news." Godflesh will no longer perform live after Justin Broadrick undergoes significant abdominal surgery

Godflesh frontman Justin Broadrick has undergone surgery for a "huge" inguinal hernia

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