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Ross 'The Boss' Friedman, founding guitarist with Manowar and The Dictators, dead at 72

News of Friedman's death comes just weeks after he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Sabaton, Devin Townsend and Corrosion Of Conformity are among the best new metal songs this week

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"They combine the best parts of Rammstein, Iron Maiden and Ghost". Flame-throwing organs, witch burnings and inflatable pickaxes: Heavy metal's nerdiest subgenre just conquered one of the UK's most iconic arenas

Powerwolf might have enough pyro to level a city, but they've got singalongs to unite the masses

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“Armour-plated anthems about guns, battles and dudes shooting other dudes”: Every Sabaton album ranked from worst to best

What’s the most bulletproof entry in the Swedish wardogs’ back-catalogue?

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"I'm on a pyre, a monk sentences me to death, and I will burn. Burn, burn, burn." Why you should probably go and see Powerwolf this week

German metallers Powerwolf gear up for their biggest ever UK show at Wembley on Saturday, and promise some surprises

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"They're this generation's Iron Maiden." Canons, gas masks, castles and hellfire: power metal's biggest band Sabaton just conquered the UK's biggest arena

Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour

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"He walked through the airport wearing a soldier’s helmet, holding two massive boxes that said ‘GUNS’ on the side. The security said ‘What is in there?’ He said, ‘Guns! Can’t you read?!" Inside the top-secret HQ of Sabaton, power metal's biggest band

20 years on from their debut, Hammer joined Sabaton in their hometown of Falun to dive into the band's history

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"We are not a political band. Everybody wants to have an opinion, and save the world with their opinions, but it doesn’t change the world." Why Sabaton won't sing about current conflicts

For 20 years Sabaton have sung about battles and warriors, but they admit there's lines they won't cross

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Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit, Bring Me The Horizon, The Offspring, Deep Purple, Sabaton, Volbeat, Bad Omens and more sign up for stacked Hellfest 2026 lineup

Hellfest has announced another epic lineup for next year

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"It had a second life through social media, eight years after the album!" This is what it’s like when your song goes viral almost a decade after you released it, according to Swedish power metallers Sabaton

2016 single The Last Stand has racked up some impressive numbers through social media, despite not being the album’s biggest hit when it came out

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“I told him, ‘This is only a small town, we don’t have the infrastructure for an artist like you!’”: Why Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris was turned down after asking to play power metal stars Sabaton’s hometown festival

In 2017, Steve Harris’ British Lion performed at Sabaton Open Air – but not without the Maiden man convincing the band in charge first

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Sabaton Legends review: If you've ever found the biggest power metal band on Earth too war-obsessed, they've got something new for you

Sabaton mix it up on album 11

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“Our town has been polluted by heavy metal!” Sabaton storm the cover of the new Metal Hammer

We speak exclusively to Sabaton ahead of their brand new album, Legends

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Sabaton, Mudvayne and Limp Bizkit are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Sabaton x Nothing More is one of the most surprising heavy metal collaborations we’ve heard all year – and it doesn’t sound half bad

The two bands have teamed up for Crossing The Rubicon, the fifth single from Sabaton’s upcoming album Legends

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Sabaton, Hatebreed and Helloween are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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"It's like the story continues, but goes way back in time": Sabaton's upcoming album Legends will tell the stories of 11 great historical figures

Legends will be released in October ahead of the Legendary European tour

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The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week

Start your summer right with these new noises from Sabaton, Killswitch Engage, Battle Beast and more, then vote for your favourite

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These are the 12 new metal songs you need to check out this week

Linkin Park, Sleep Token, Ghost, Sabaton and more have spoiled us with excellent songs this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.

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Hear power metal wardogs Sabaton dive into mediaeval history with new song Templars

The armour-plated Swedes have signed to Better Noise Music and are readying their next album

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"I never thought I’d make my living playing heavy metal." How Sabaton's Joakim Broden became the singer of the biggest power metal band in the world

Sabaton might not agree with the power metal tag, but they reinvented the genre for the 21st Century

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Sabaton to release World War I-themed movie on streaming services this spring

Stream it on Apple TV, Google Play, Youtube or Amazon Prime ahead of the power metal battalion’s European tour later this year

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"Every night of our tour, we'd get a report about weapons being confiscated." We went backstage with Powerwolf, Hammerfall and Wind Rose on the power metal tour of the year - and it was even more ludicrous than we'd imagined

Inside the biggest (and most over the top) power metal tour of 2024

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“We wanted to look like something never before seen in heavy metal. What would be wilder than denim and leather? Animal fur!” How Manowar helped invent power metal with Hail To England

Bow down before Manowar’s false metal-slaying third album, 1984’s Hail To England

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“Fans will experience something unprecedented”: Sabaton announce 2025 European tour featuring biggest-ever UK shows

The Swedish war machine will roll through Europe from November to December 2025

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