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“Nothing happened in Metallica unless Cliff Burton nodded ‘yes’”: Producer recalls how metal’s biggest band “leaned on” their beloved late bassist

80s producer Flemming Rasmussen remembers Cliff Burton being the heavy metal titans’ unofficial musical leader

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“I had to put dirt and filth in the microphone to make it sound grim enough”: Black metal giants Dimmu Borgir have announced their first album in eight years, and they reunited with their classic producer to make it sound old-school

Grand Serpent Rising will come out on May 22 – listen to lead single Ulvgjeld & Blodsodel now

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Judas Priest have started recording their next album: “I don't know if I’m allowed to say that, but I’ve said it”

Guitarist Richie Faulkner says the British metal veterans were in the studio for a month earlier this year

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“It's unbelievable we survived.” How a gang of OC punks changed the face of metalcore - and ultimately became one of 21st Century metal's true stadium acts

Waking The Fallen took metalcore to the next level - only for Avenged Sevenfold to ditch it on their next album

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"Guaranteed to turn any club, field or arena into a writhing mass of sweating, crashing bodies." Every Lamb Of God album ranked from worst to best

Ranking the back catalogue of one of America’s greatest modern metal bands, from New American Gospel to Into Oblivion

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“You’re doing all the work, selling your own merch, but they’ll still come at the end of the night and take 25 percent. For what?!” UK metal band on the cusp of breaking up detail the ludicrous costs of touring in the 2020s

From carnets to bus hire and visa applications that may be declined anyway, Svalbard’s Serena Cherry sounds off on the mounting costs that are making touring unsustainable

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"Queen, Muse, black metal…I want to be able to be eclectic with it." Former Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz reveals her surprising influences, clarifies the situation about the next phase of her career

Alissa White-Gluz is working on two new albums with very different focuses

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One of metal’s biggest bands soundtrack a fist-fight featuring Bruce Campbell as Satan in the new episode of Invincible, and TV doesn’t get much cooler than that

SPOILER ALERT: watch a snippet of the blood-soaked battle here

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"I've always been drawn to the energy and storytelling of heavy metal." William Shatner announces Rob Halford will guest on his eagerly-awaited all-star heavy metal album

Captain Kirk and the Metal God are working on a cover of Judas Priest's classic You've Got Another Thing Comin'

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"I think a lot of people in rock culture can smell it." Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix loves how rock is pushing back against A.I.

Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach believes the rock and metal world won't allow artificial intelligence to stifle human creativity

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"He’s a judge! What do I say? I’m 26, I don’t know **** about the legal system!" How a fake murder story, a lawsuit and one extremely weird phone call got this classic Slipknot song removed from the world and hidden for a decade

Fans were left confused when this early Slipknot favourite suddenly disappeared from their debut album

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"I did some crazy s**t, you know!" Remembering Ozzy Osbourne's bizarre '90s collaboration with Miss Piggy

Never heard Ozzy and Miss Piggy's take on Born To Be Wild? Lucky you

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Ever wanted to hear Blink-182, Creed and Chris Stapleton hail Satan? This guitarist is turning pop-punk, country and classical songs into black metal riffs

Imperial Triumphant’s Zachary Ezrin is giving a wide array of hit songs an icy makeover

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Sepultura founders Max and Iggor Cavalera declined invitation to perform at band’s final show, claims guitarist Andreas Kisser: “They don’t want to be a part of it”

Even though Kisser spoke with ex-drummer Iggor over the phone, an onstage reunion doesn’t seem to be on the cards

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“They chose to make this buck-wild album. If Metallica can do that, then we can do that”: Why Avenged Sevenfold “fell in love” with the ever-controversial St Anger

They’re not quite there with Lulu, though

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"I took my scooter up the lift and rode it through the corridors naked in drag make-up with just a tie on." A brilliant and bonkers interview with Motorhead's late, great Phil Campbell

Equine pranks, epic benders and a million-dollar tantrum: This is what it was like being the (second) longest-serving member in rock'n'roll's greatest band

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Parkway Drive distance themselves from former employee who pleaded guilty to underage sex offence: “We support the victim 100 percent. She deserves justice.”

Jed Gordon, brother of the Australian metal band’s drummer Ben Gordon, recently pleaded guilty to having sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was in his early 20s

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Lord Of The Rings star Elijah Wood can no longer listen to Metallica’s Enter Sandman, and his infant son is to blame

“It became the only song that he wanted to hear for a very long stretch of time”

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AFI announce UK and European headline shows

Davey Havok's influential punks extend their summer in Europe

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"I was kicked out of the Deftones show 'cos I was being too aggressive in the pit. I was like, 'I used to be in this band!'" What it was like being in one of the world's biggest metal bands in their earliest days

Dominic Garcia was Deftones' original bassist, but a misunderstanding ended his tenure long before they'd eventually blow up

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"It touched something inside me the moment I heard it, and I’ve never been able to step away from it." The two-woman band from Istanbul bringing the Turkish black metal scene roaring into life

Ash Magick's nefariously old school approach has made them one of Turkey's most promising young extreme metal bands

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"I don’t want my son disrespecting women, but he always says to me, 'Mom! You have a song called Whore!'" The misunderstood singer who became a 21st century metal icon

In this Moment have been on the metal scene for two decades, but it took years for frontwoman Maria Brink to truly get her message heard

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"We were playing the first slot at noon. Nobody comes to the stage at noon but it was full of people. They were waiting for us and chanting!" How four Mongolian pals playing folk metal became their country's biggest ever rock band

The story of the Hu's unlikely ascent to heavy metal household name

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Watch lyric video for new Foo Fighters single Caught In The Echo

Caught In The Echo is the third track to be released from upcoming 12th Foo Fighters album Your Favorite Toy

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"The songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars stole was real." American fraudster earns eight million dollars streaming AI songs that no human has ever listened to

US man pleads guilty to defrauding musicians and music streaming platforms

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