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MYSTERIOUS: Metalhammeruk - What They Never Told You

Watch: we asked people at Reading Festival to finish these iconic metal lyrics and it didn’t go well

“Exit light, enter plight”, apparently

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Watch: we asked people at Reading 2025 what the most metal thing they’ve ever done at a festival was

From hellacious moshpits to getting piercings in a tent, artists and attendees at Reading festival tell us some of their most metal tales

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So there's a Sleep Token tribute band now and it honestly looks like great fun

Watch a video from Sleep Broken's performance in Milton Keynes this past weekend. What would Vessel make of this?!

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I took my mum to one of Europe’s heaviest metal festivals, and her reviews of the bands are glorious

My mum joined me at Bloodstock Open Air to watch Gojira, Machine Head, Emperor and many more – this is what she thought of their shows

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I just spent four days at the muddiest metal festival on the planet - here's why I'm desperate to go back

Thousands of fans, hundreds of bands and tonnes of mud: but Wacken is still the best metal festival around

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9 moments that made me cheer, laugh, despair and cry like a baby at Black Sabbath's epic Back To The Beginning show

Filing down the biggest heavy metal show ever to pick out some key moments was hard - but I did it anyway

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Red Arrows, mosh pits and goth kings: our 8 favourite moments from Glastonbury 2025

From punk, metal and hardcore bands bringing the heavy to surprise sets and emotional tributes, Glasto 2025 had it all

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Native James just brought grime metal to Glastonbury - and Glasto lapped it up

The UK’s premier proprietor of grime metal makes a big impact on the Greenpeace stage

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8 things we learned at Download Festival 2025

From Spiritbox and President to Cradle Of Filth, Anaal Nathrakh and erm, The Vengaboys, these are the bands that ruled and defined Download Festival 2025

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Watch latest masked metal sensations President play their first ever show at Download this past weekend

Mystery masked metallers President take a big leaf out of Sleep Token's book and draw a packed-out crowd at Download

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