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

Tom Morello teams up with Serj Tankian, A Perfect Circle release their first single in 8 years and we dive into Chinese deathcore in this week's best new metal song round-up

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"I am not ashamed to ask for help, as we desperately need it." The founder of one of the UK's greatest thrash metal bands has set up a Gofundme to help he and his family deal with some mounting debt

Evile's Ol Drake has helped keep true metal alive in the UK scene over the past two decades, and now he could do with some help

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"I remember us saying, ‘Well, if the band doesn’t make it, we’ll join the Marines.’" The story of the song that gave thrash metal its name

Metallica, Exodus and Slayer might've been defining thrash on the West coast, but it was in New York the genre finally got its name

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"Please experience the increasingly mysterious glow of Pink." Japanese noise legends Boris announce UK and European tour dates to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their Pink album

Boris are coming back to the UK and Europe to shake some venue foundations

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“Things are spiralling out of control!” Evanescence are on the cover of the latest issue of Metal Hammer, which comes with two exclusive gifts

Evanescence fans, you're gonna wanna get all over this one

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"Michael Jackson was huge. Whitney Houston was huge. Michael Bolton was huge. There was no place for us in that." Nirvana finished making Nevermind 35 years ago. Here's what Dave Grohl remembers from the 16-day session that changed rock forever

Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl completed recording their iconic album Nevermind on May 28, 1991

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"It's a myth to believe that people who listen to this kind of music are aggressive." Why this respected author listens to death metal to calm herself while writing

Critically acclaimed novelist Elif Shafak gives a perfect breakdown of why metal is one of the most interesting and exciting genres around

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"A Russian girl came to my parents’ door with suitcases and said, ‘I have sold everything in my life. I’m going to marry your son and live with you now." How two unknown European bands changed the face of metal in the 90s - and broke up its boys club

In 1997, two key releases by two emerging bands had a game-changing impact on the metal scene as we knew it

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"We get off stage and I haven’t seen him like that in 20 years. He was livid." How Metallica's crazy team-up with Lady Gaga started with an A-list dinner party and almost ended in total chaos

One of the most unlikely collaborations in Grammys history was also one of the most cursed, but they pulled it out of the bag

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"People come away from our shows going, ‘I cried my eyes out." Meet the cult heroes healing from unspeakable tragedy with riffs

Dimscûa are one of the UK's hottest underground bands - but they also contend with some of life's hardest experiences through colossal post-metal

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Stranger Things composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein to bring entire saga to the live arena with European tour later this year

Stranger Things 5 — Original Score From The Netflix Series will be released in two volumes on coloured vinyl in July

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"The first electric guitar ever taken into the death zone!" How you could win a unique signed guitar that's scaled a Himalayan mountain, and help underprivileged kids in the process

Korn, Green Day, Sex Pistols, Meshuggah and more sign guitar tor Metal For Nepal fund-raiser

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Slam Dunk 2026 was evidence that hardcore might just be the most exciting music scene on Earth right now

From rising bands like Guilt Trip and Pest Control crushing it to Knocked Loose and Malevolence bringing the mosh, hardcore and metalcore ruled Slam Dunk

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"It can be an exercise in self-love." How a member of indie stars Bloc Party teamed up with some of the UK's best hidden talents to make howling, noisy hardcore

The None are more than the sum of their parts, with members of Bloc Party, Youth Man, Cassels and Frauds in their ranks

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"If you're looking for a killer soundtrack to summer 2026, you just found it." Genre-fluid disruptor Ecca Vandal fulfils all her promise on the swaggering Looking For People To Unfollow

The Limp Bizkit-endorsed Ecca Vandal smashes it on her second album

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“I got a letter from Ozzy telling me my services weren’t needed and Axl had gotten rid of me”: How Zakk Wylde launched Black Label Society with the booze-fuelled chaos of Sonic Brew

In the late 1990s, Zakk Wylde formed Black Label Society during time away from Ozzy’s band. Cue lawsuits and a lot of alcohol

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"Murders, repression, stolen money, stolen land: that is dictatorship." Meet the Belarusian band whose black metal almost got them imprisoned - and caught in a warzone

Dymna Lotva's music was banned by their government and they were hunted by the police - but that hasn't stopped them speaking out

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"I said, 'I think we should write the best song in the world.' Jack Black said, ‘You can’t do that!'" How Dave Grohl, Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk and Maynard James Keenan helped Tenacious D bring the greatest tribute song ever to the world

Tenacious D had friends in high places, and they used them to bring this 2000s smash hit to life

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"She goes, 'I love your beard' and starts to clean it!" What happened when country icon Dolly Parton met Judas Priest frontman and heavy metal legend, Rob Halford

Two icons met in the most unusual of circumstances and it left an indelible impression on Rob Halford

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"We can turn people who have never heard us before into fans." If demonic riffs wrapped around heavenly melodies give you a lift, take the Earth Tongue elevator

New Zealand duo Earth Tongue's third album Dungeon Vision is out now

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Watch Halestorm pay birthday tribute to Stevie Nicks with stunning cover of Fleetwood Mac's Gold Dust Woman

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger play a series of Unplugged shows next month

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The 30 greatest Nirvana songs ever, and the stories behind them

The very best of the best of Nirvana

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"I'm not sure why these nu metal bands say Faith No More influenced them. I don't want to be held responsible for the swill they're putting out." Mike Patton on his work ethic, stealing records and what happened when INXS asked him to be their singer

In this 2001 interview, we found that musical maverick Mike Patton relished his artistic freedom following Faith No More's split

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"Noel Gallagher would be in the room across from me." From underground darlings to collabs with Mastodon and Gojira: Urne are the best-kept secret in British metal

After exploring the effects of dementia on 2023's A Feast On Sorrow, Urne decided to reconnect with metal's roots for their 2026 follow-up

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“We partied every night! We would have a hotel room and just give the details out to friends and girls, ‘We’ll see you there!’” The story of the song that made Judas Priest icons in America

With one big single, and a little help from an Iron Maiden tour, the Brummie underdogs found their footing across the pond

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