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"If someone’s gonna set themselves on fire, it might as well be me." Dementia, pyro and shouting wizards: backstage with one of metal's most shocking success stories, Lorna Shore

Lorna Shore played their biggest UK tour to date at the start of 2026, cementing their claim on the title of deathcore's biggest band

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“It was our first clandestine operation, gathered in a larder listening to church bells tolling”: Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive HIM cover, t-shirt and signed art card

Celebrate 30 years of goth metal’s finest in style

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"One of my best friends died. I told our vocalist if he could write lyrics to tell that story, it'd mean the world to me.” Meet the metal band who aren't interested in gimmicks - only overcoming tragedy

Perpetual Paradox aren't trying to keep up with the scene - they're finding healing through their own tragedy and trauma

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"Sometimes the occasional fool would break out a knife." From defining a genre to wild generator parties and the 90s metal reunion everyone's waiting for, Kyuss legend John Garcia looks back on his life

From Kyuss to Hermano, Slo Burn and Unida, John Garcia helped define a genre. Just don't call him a stoner metal legend.

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“We were just kids who didn’t know what ‘authentic’ metal was supposed to be”: Babymetal look back on the hate they endured amidst the viral success of breakout single Gimme Chocolate!!

The J-metal idols admit that some of the responses to their 2014 hit were “frightening”

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"Lemmy said: 'I’ve got some friends in Texas. Do you need any weapons?'" After years of trauma, Corrosion Of Conformity are on the comeback trail - for the second time

Stoner-metal icons Corrosion Of Conformity are back in the groove

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Hear Slipknot’s Corey Taylor rage against social media on new Motionless In White single Playing God: “The internet has gotten worse and worse”

The furious track is taken from the metalcore quintet’s upcoming album Decades

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Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz has joined British power metal heavyweights DragonForce: “I can’t wait forthe fans to see her and hear what we have been working on”

The band will give their first performance with their new, two-vocalist lineup at US festival Welcome To Rockville this weekend

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"I had to run out of the control room, and I found myself standing in the kitchen, sobbing away. James came into the kitchen in the same condition: he was sobbing too." The Metallica song that made both James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett cry

One Metallica song above all others had a profound effect on James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett

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“I got punched in the face and I punched back, and that’s crazy?” Machine Gun Kelly remembers his feud with Slipknot’s Corey Taylor a little differently to the rest of us

The rapper-turned-rocker insists he merely “punched back” at the metal star, even though the spat stemmed from comments he made lambasting the heavy music scene

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"I worked at the World Trade Center...I left at 2am on September 11." From working as an opera singer, DJ and Playboy model to finding her true calling in heavy metal, the incredible story of Huntress singer Jill Janus

Much-missed Huntress singer Jill Janus had one of the most unusual career paths in heavy metal history

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“I was a horrible addict… I would rather live than be in your band”: Jason Newsted reveals how addiction struggles contributed to Metallica exit

The veteran bassist says that the metal giants’ refusal to slow down and let him seek help played a part in his 2001 departure

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"I had that thing of, 'I don’t wanna play that song because every time I sing it, I start crying.'" From falling in love with Nirvana to channelling Iron Maiden and embracing activism, some life lessons from Within Temptation's Sharon den Adel

Fronting one of Europe's biggest metal bands has given Sharon a special kind of insight through her career. Here's what she's learned

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"There were nights when everything felt like it might collapse." Inside Thailand's passionate but criminally ignored metal scene, from alley bars to open air festivals

We head inside the Thai metal scene via the country's biggest rock festival, Rock Alarm. Our hosts? Bangkok metalcore crew Defying Decay

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“I’m just looking forward to seeing you all again." Devin Townsend announces return to live performance after enforced hiatus

Devin Townsend's Metamorphosis tour of the UK and EU starts on September 1 and runs through to October

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"We built this band like a battleship." Five Finger Death Punch announce huge European and UK tour, including biggest ever UK headline show, with Lamb of God and Bleed From Within to support

Arena metal main eventers Five Finger Death Punch will be bringing some US and UK riff monsters with them for the ride when they hit the UK and Europe in 2027

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"We're not a bunch of poodles." Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson explains why the band didn't get too hands on in the making of their new documentary, Burning Ambition

You might assume that Iron Maiden wanted strict creative control over the definitive telling of their story. You'd be wrong

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"We thought Venom were excellent. But then they came to New York and we found out that they weren't joking." Why the Beastie Boys were disappointed to discover that British metal legends Venom weren't a comedy band

Venom: unlikely heroes to the New York hardcore community

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"We didn’t have television in Israel and when I first saw the news, I thought there was a guy inside the box." Condoms, coffins and capitalism: a far-reaching interview with Gene Simmons of Kiss

Kiss legend Gene Simmons has been on this planet for over seven decades. Here's some things he's learned...

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"We have a lot to prove because of Butterfly. We have to prove we’re aggressive punk kids." How a Red Hot Chili Peppers instrumental turned Crazy Town into a one-hit wonder and earned Anthony Kiedis a fortune for doing absolutely nothing

Crazy Town had two failed singles under their belt, then a nu metal ballad turned their world upside down

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"I got $100 to do the job, and it was a full day with Michael Bolton." From Saturday Night Live and King Diamond to Eurovision and pagan rituals, Myrkur has tales to tell

Amalie Bruun (aka Myrkur) shares how she entered Eurovision to honour her late father, how she ended up on a viral SNL skit and why her five-year-old is friends with King Diamond

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"It’s strange to grow up feeling like 230lbs of mucus and then see all these girls taking their clothes off and throwing them at you." Why one of 90s metal's most unlikely sex symbols wrote a 60s pop bop Austin Powers would be proud of

Peter Steele was a contrarian at the best of times, and rarely more so than when he oversaw Type O Negative'a most surprising single

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Former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert facing possible life sentence after charges upgraded to attempted first-degree murder

Ebert previously charged with attempted second degree murder and first degree assault on Turnstile frontman's father but now faces more serious charge

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Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted celebrates all clear from throat cancer

Ex-Metallica man Jason Newsted "free and clear" of cancer after intensive treatment

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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Loathe finally return, Bahrain produces a mystical death metal band and things take a turn for the occult in this week's best new metal song round-up

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