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“We're gonna ask him, give him a three-minute long session and let him rip”: Tim Henson reveals the surprising collabs Polyphia are eyeing up for their next album

The band have already started looking ahead to their fifth album, which will once again include some big-name stars

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Watch Babymetal and Electric Callboy play infectious new song Ratatata live together

The kawaii metal sensations and the party-metal duo performed at Babymetal’s Fox Fest and are currently playing the European festival circuit

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Babymetal announce massive 2024 tour with bimbocore provocateur Scene Queen

The J-metal idols will spread the gospel of the Fox God across North America in November and December

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The 9 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Nightwish, Babymetal with Electric Callboy and Zeal and Ardor are among the best new metal songs this week. Vote for your favourite!

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Watch Babymetal embrace their silly side, do karaoke and team with glitter ball-wearing Electric Callboy in the completely crazy video for Ratatata

The kawaii metal idols have joined forces with Germany’s synth-metal party animals for an outrageous new track

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"I'd cover Metallica's St. Anger": Babymetal talk touring, collaborations and opening the door for Japanese metal

Babymetal take your questions on dance routines, dream festival line-ups and the kind of videogames they'd love to soundtrack

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"We want to put out positive messages even when the music is its most brutal." Rising Japanese metal stars Hanabie have their sights set on world domination

Merging metalcore, EDM, nu metal and hyper-pop, Hanabie are the latest metal sensation to emerge from Japan

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"I have a dream of holding a festival that brings together female vocalists such as those in Evanescence, Nightwish and Arch Enemy." Babymetal reveal their dream festival lineup

Japanese metal superstars Babymetal tell us what their ultimate festival bill would look like

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"Even if you listen to a band every day, go to every show and follow their every move, they are not your friends." From Bad Omens to Sleep Token, it's time to talk about toxic fandom in metal

Fandom is an integral part of rock and metal culture, but with the internet giving us access to every aspect of a musician's life, is it any wonder members of various big metal bands are ditching social media entirely?

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The 50 best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer

From Metallica to Sleep Token, Avenged Sevenfold to Babymetal, these are the best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by you!

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Vote for the best metal song of 2023

From Sleep Token to Metallica, Ghost to Babymetal, 2023 has seen some massive new songs. But now we need your help to crown the best metal songs of the year.

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The new issue of Metal Hammer is a massive celebration of 2023 starring Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ghost, Babymetal, Avenged Sevenfold and more – and it comes with five exclusive gifts!

Get a Metallica patch and art print, a Ghost badge, an Iron Maiden poster and a 2024 calendar!

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Babymetal's 2023 World Tour comes to the UK: seldom has metal seemed more joyous, triumphant and utterly groundbreaking

Almost a decade on from their self-titled debut album, Babymetal are leading lights for the next generation of metal star

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Vote for the best metal album of 2023

Metallica? Babymetal? Sleep Token? We need you to tell us which metal albums have excited you the most in 2023

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The best metal albums of 2023 so far

From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date

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Download 2024 lineup announced: Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold to headline, plus Royal Blood, The Offspring, Corey Taylor, Machine Head, Babymetal, Bad Omens and dozens more bands also confirmed

Download's 2024 lineup is officially here

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The 20 greatest Download festival sets ever

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

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Gossamer tremolo picking and the stuff of Phrygian nightmares: This week's essential guitar tracks

Unmissable new songs from Fiddlehead, HotWax, Guns N’ Roses, Emily Wolfe, Born of Osiris, Babymetal ft. Tom Morello, CLT DRP, and more

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

Within Temptation, Babymetal and Corey Taylor are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Videogames, office rage and, erm, sweets: inside the wild and colourful world of Hanabie, Japan's next metal superstars in waiting

Mashing furious, stomping metalcore with dizzy electronica and fun, colourful aesthetics, Hanabie are the breath of fresh air metal needs

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Hanabie's colourful, genre-mashing Reborn Superstar! has confirmed the arrival of Japan's next great crossover metal stars

Mixing a tongue-in-cheek kawaii image with pummelling metalcore, propulsive edm and hyper-pop, Hanabie's new album is unlike anything else you'll hear this year

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People are losing their minds over Lil Uzi Vert's bizarre cover of System Of A Down's Chop Suey

Featuring collaborations with Babymetal and Bring Me The Horizon, rapper Lil Uzi Vert's new album is indulging their love of rock music - but their cover of Chop Suey is something else

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The best metal albums of 2023 so far

Metallica, Babymetal and Sleep Token are among the best albums of 2023 so far - and there's more to come

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The Hu: "There's no doubt we'll work with Babymetal again"

The Hu brought Mongolian folk metal to the masses, but bandleader Gala reveals the band still have plans for everything from a Babymetal collab to a concept album

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Sabaton took over a Swedish island in the dead of winter and it was as crazy as it sounds

What happened when the world's biggest power metal band invaded a tiny Swedish island?

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