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“Jaw-droppingly immersive, to the point that I might have cried”: Why Arctangent is my favourite festival ever – and how the 2026 edition proved it all over again

The 12th Arctangent was another showcase of genre-splicing talent, laden with quality and fostering the friendliest atmosphere I’ve ever felt at a festival

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Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: August 14 2026

Mastodon, Green Lung and Noctule are among the best new metal songs you need to hear this week

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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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“We’re selling out shows, we’re climbing the bills, but there’s so much pressure to reach more success”: As one of the UK’s leading bands stop touring, we need to talk about the toxic effect a ruined music industry is having on heavy metal

Metalcore stars While She Sleeps are taking a hiatus from the road – if things don’t change, more artists will follow

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

Rob Zombie, Lamb Of God and Svalbard are among this week's best new metal songs. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Arctangent – the UK’s best prog metal festival – announces first bands for 2026, including Igorrr, Svalbard, Alcest, Agent Fresco, Chat Pile

The most forward-thinking bands in prog, post-rock and metal will once again gather at Bristol’s Fernhill Farm next August

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"I'm working on a power metal record." Svalbard's Serena Cherry on videogames, picking up the guitar and dream projects

Which Pokémon would her bands be? How did she learn guitar? Why doesn't she play more power metal? These are the questions you asked Svalbard's Serena Cherry

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“We want to finish on a decisive high, having released four albums that we are 100 percent proud of”: UK post-metal dynamos Svalbard to break up in 2026, announce farewell tour

Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, singer/guitarist Serena Cherry describes her band’s split as a creative decision and says they have one song left to release

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I front a metal band and this is what it's like having hundreds of phones pointed at you every night on stage (spoiler: it's really weird)

Serena Cherry, frontwoman of British extreme metallers Svalbard, opens up on the experience of having your every move documented on stage

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"You cannot underestimate the impact of seeing a woman blaze a trail right before your eyes." Why Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow means so much to me – and to women in the metal scene

Svalbard singer/guitarist Serena Cherry writes about the impact Arch Enemy’s formidable ex-vocalist had on her life

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“A lot of solos in metal definitely have a formula... To me, a solo really hits home when you don’t hear the magic coming”: How Svalbard’s Serena Cherry is tearing up the metal guitar playbook

Told she was playing guitar “wrong”, Cherry instead took it as permission to embrace the unorthodox and chase metal guitar sounds from the primal to the orchestral

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Forget the 80s – the best time to be a British metalhead is now

Not only are the legends of old still touring, but a new generation of musicians are broadening the genre’s music and deepening its political engagement

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