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“Ringo Starr set down rules for us to follow. There was to be no riding of motorbikes on the grounds – so we did that. What do you expect from a heavy metal band?” The crazy story of British Steel, the album that turned Judas Priest into superstars

1980’s British Steel officially sealed Judas Priest’s status as metal gods

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“It deals with depression, girlfriends, substance abuse – all that stuff. We exorcised some demons”: How Lamb Of God turned from political fury to personal darkness on Sacrament

2006’s Sacrament is still one of the most intense albums Lamb Of God made –and there was a reason for it

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"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant." Tobias Forge's Satanic Swedes have made the biggest, most joyous and sweetest album of their career

Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta

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"I hated everybody. I had no friends." The wild, unapologetic life of punk rock's forgotten hellraiser, Casey Chaos

How Casey Chaos became a punk rock icon for the nu metal generation

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“I’m drawn to melody and drama - AOR and yacht rock”: Tobias Forge says the new Ghost album combines smooth ’80s sounds with Black Sabbath-inspired lyrics

“That kind of music comes very naturally for me,” he says

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"Ozzy and I were like a couple of naughty schoolkids." Zakk Wylde shares his favourite (not so) wholesome memory of hanging out with The Prince Of Darkness

Sneaking beers on tour in Japan? Heaven forbid

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"Five were f***ing horrible." Skunk Anansie icon Skin shares what it was like being buddies with David Bowie and Lemmy, and run-ins with 90s boybands

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“They’re outlaw bad boys who’ve got no business with fanciness or politeness!” Amon Amarth, Grand Magus, Wardruna and more explain why metal loves Vikings so much

We got bands and academics to tell us why heavy music can’t get enough of big, burly berserkers

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Exclusive Employed To Serve bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now

To celebrate incredible new album Fallen Star, we've teamed up with Employed To Serve for this exclusive bundle

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“Satanized is a song about love”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge breaks down every track on new album Skeletá

Get to know Ghost’s new album before it drops on April 25

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“We started performing rituals to conjure entities. From that point on it was all about making music that would please these gods”: The unholy story of Morbid Angel and the birth of death metal

How a bunch of kids from Florida took metal into extreme new realms

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“It’s obvious that one day this’ll all die out, just like every sort of music does. There is no point in worrying about it”: How Bring Me The Horizon made their mark from the start with Count Your Blessings

Bring Me The Horizon were dealing with the haters from the start

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“Once James Hetfield said he liked the album, that was it. He said that it kicked his ass”: How Machine Head’s The Blackening became their own Master Of Puppets

The Blackening remains Machine Head’s masterpiece

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Ghost fans! Get this world-exclusive bundle featuring Skeletá on vinyl, Metal Hammer’s new issue with a cover you can’t buy anywhere else, and more

Celebrate the release of Ghost’s Skeletá with this stacked Metal Hammer package – available only through our webstore!

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The new issue of Metal Hammer features Ghost on the cover – and comes with three exclusive gifts!

Get your hands on a new Grucifix patch, a purple logo patch, and a special art print

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“She was literally getting onto the plane. I felt awkward about it, but I’ve got a bad enough reputation and so has she”: The classic Megadeth song that was originally supposed to feature Lisa Marie Presley

This Megadeth anthem could have sounded very different

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“We were a bit drunk, and I slurred to Ronnie, ‘Do you fancy doing an album?’ It was as simple as that”: How Heaven & Hell resurrected Black Sabbath’s other classic line-up with The Devil You Know

Heaven & Hell’s The Devil You Know was a Dio-era Sabbath record under any other name

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“You’ve no idea how cold it was – totally freezing. I know we’re a doom band, but this was suffering way beyond the call of duty”: How Candlemass changed metal forever with doom landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Doom metal never sounded so huge as it did on Candlemass’ game-changing 1986 debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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Ministry announce summer headline shows in the UK and Europe

If you had hoped to see Ministry outside of a festival next summer, you're in luck

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Prog and Metal Hammer partner with this year's post-rock and prog metal two-day event Pelagic Fest

Prog and Metal Hammer partner with post-rock and prog metal event Pelagic Fest which takes place in Maastricht in August

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“People are intimidated, or say I give off some bad vibe. But if you want to get a reaction out of a crowd, you better have an ego”: How Disturbed’s David Draiman became the metal star the press loved to hate

In the 2000s, sections of the UK press hated Disturbed – and singer David Draiman was trying to work out why

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“I’m not a role-playing games guy. I’m not about drinking beer and singing folk songs. I’m all about sex, blood and rock’n’roll”: How Finnish glam-goth metal icons The 69 Eyes blazed a trail for HIM

Before Ville Valo and HIM, there was Jyrki 69 and The 69 Eyes

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"Nu Delhi is an exhilarating rush that should see Bloodywood’s star rise still further." India's biggest metal sensations have produced another iron-clad rager with their second studio album

Indian nu metal machine Bloodywood are packing nothing but bangers

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“We have a Grammy-winning producer, a trained Shakespearian actor and a carpenter”: The death and resurrection of Hell, the occult metal pioneers that history forgot

How cult early 80s metallers Hell bounced back from tragedy nearly 30 years later

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“What did we get for being innovative? We got slaughtered by everyone. That’s what you face for trying something new”: How Saxon made Crusader, the album that marked the end of their early 80s glory years

Biff Byford looks back on Saxon’s divisive 1984 album Crusader

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