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"It's doom, but with the added vibe of a winter burial on the outskirts of a desolate industrial town." Nintendocore, unblack metal and some of the weirdest metal subgenres you never knew existed

When saying you love metal isn't simply enough for some people

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Electric Callboy hit the apex of their dance-metal era on floor-filling new album Tanzneid – with a little help from Babymetal and The Offspring: “It may not represent a dramatic reinvention, but it doesn’t need to”

The electronicore six-piece double down on everything that’s made them festival crowd-pleasers

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"There were days when leaving Japan made us feel lonely, and days when things got so tough that we wanted to give up." A track-by-track guide to the songs that defined Babymetal

Babymetal talk us through the songs that charted their journey from Japanese curio to international metal stardom

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"This is the experience Babymetal have wanted to give fans for a decade." Download's most cursed band finally bring the show we've all been waiting for

Sunshine, riffs and bops: Babymetal finally shake off their Download curse in style

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From Metallica surprise shows to Slipknot triumphs, these are the 13 greatest Download festival sets ever

For over two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

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“This is a redefining evolution of rhythm games”: Songs by Ghost, Babymetal, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more to appear in new title from company behind Guitar Hero

Stage Tour, from Guitar Hero’s RedOctane Games, will be released for PC and consoles in the autumn

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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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"Having people fire unfamiliar words at us was really frightening." How one bizarre but brilliant song about chocolate brought Babymetal to the world - and confused the hell out of the heavy metal scene

In 2014, one viral, sugary-sweet anthem introduced metal to one of the most unique and divisive bands in its history

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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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Babymetal announce a tour of the Americas with support from Halestorm and Violent Vira, plus an expanded edition of last year’s Metal Forth album featuring Bring Me The Horizon’s Jordan Fish

A busy summer and autumn for the Fox God

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The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)

From legends like Iron Maiden and Metallica to rising stars such as Bloodywood and Spiritbox, these are the metal albums that have defined the 2020s so far

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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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My Chemical Romance, Tool, Limp Bizkit and Pierce The Veil to headline Aftershock festival 2026; The Offspring, Queens Of The Stone Age, Babymetal and more than 130 other acts also confirmed

The Sacramento festival will return to Discovery Park from October 1 to 4

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Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit, Tool, Babymetal, Alice Cooper, Halestorm and almost 200 more bands to play huge Louder Than Life 2026 lineup

One of America's biggest rock and metal festivals has unveiled its full lineup for 2026

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Metal Hammer reader's poll - the best metal albums of 2025

From Ghost to Sleep Token, Babymetal to Spiritbox, these are the albums you said defined metal in 2025

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The 50 best metal songs of 2025

Sleep Token, Ghost, Babymetal - these are the songs you picked as the finest 2025 had to offer

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“An artist I have admired for such a long time”: Now that they’ve crossed everyone from Bloodywood to Five Finger Death Punch off the bucket list, Babymetal want to make a song with Amy Lee from Evanescence

The J-metal superstars and the Evanescence singer have both taken part in some big collaborations this year

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Iron Maiden, Ghost, Babymetal and more star in Metal Hammer’s blockbuster End Of Year issue, which comes with an exclusive Iron Maiden pin badge, Halestorm sticker and a 2026 heavy metal calendar

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From Sleep Token breaking records to Xenomorphs rocking out to Tool, these are the 11 metal songs that defined 2025

Whether topping charts or going viral, metal made a big impact in 2025 - here's the proof

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"These typical metalheads, long-haired with their jackets, they’re the ones standing there and singing Backstreet Boys and Cascada." Five minutes with Electric Callboy, the band "making metal accessible"

Electric Callboy have metalheads singing along to 90s pop classics, and they love it

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Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West and her friends dressed up as Babymetal for Halloween – and they absolutely smashed it

It looks like the Kardashians are keeping up with one of heavy metal’s most successful bands

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Sabrina Carpenter’s SNL Performance Slammed For ‘Disrespecful’ Cultural Appropriation

"Appreciation without understanding always ends up looking lazy."

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The new Japanese Prime Minister appeared on Babymetal's podcast and talked about her love of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Deep Purple

"I play songs like this to let off steam" - Sanae Takaichi

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“I had to sell my phone to buy my first guitar because my parents wouldn’t let me get one! It was a very, very bad acoustic – a knock-off Gibson called Givson”: How Bloodywood went from dodgy guitars and YouTube covers to India's biggest metal band

Determined to retain folk roots in his heavy output, he talks manifesting their Babymetal collab, inexperienced luthiers, a knock-off Strat with a strangely quiet third string, and how to choose a modeler now they’re all as good as each other

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The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)

From Cradle of Filth to Whitechapel, Bloodywood to Spiritbox, these are some of the best metal releases of 2025 so far.

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