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Watch rising death metal stars Orbit Culture play tooth-rattling single While We Serve on their 2024 tour

The Swedish metal force obliterated Europe in the spring and are about to play across America with Slipknot

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The 20 most metal videogames ever

Doom, Skyrim, Brutal Legend - we dug through videogame history to pick out the most metal-friendly games of all time

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce extra Ascendancy / The Poison 2025 tour dates, plus stellar support act

The metalcore heroes will be playing their classic albums in full to mark their 20th anniversaries

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“They’re the all-in-one stop for what I'm looking for”: Seymour Duncan debuts signature Blackouts for Trivium’s Corey Beaulieu, treating its active metal humbucker to a distinct sonic twist

Available for six- and seven-string guitars, the pickups feature an EQ voicing sculpted for Beaulieu’s “chugging riffs and intricate leads”

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“A lot of guys can play awesome guitar but there’s very few super-shredders like that”: members of Slayer, Nightwish, Mastodon and more salute the genius of Alexi Laiho

Late, great Children Of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho was born on April 9, 1979

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"We’ve never done a proper, real tour together. Which is nuts, because we’ve toured with everyone!": How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine have teamed up for 2025's biggest metal event

In 2005, two rising stars of metal's next generation released landmark albums. Next year, they'll tour together for the first time to celebrate them

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"Before Deathgasm, whenever movies needed a bully, they put them in an Anthrax t-shirt": One of the best heavy metal movies ever is getting a sequel, and it's going to be even more bloody, messy... and metal (of course)

Writer/director Jason Howden is working on Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon with soundtrack contributions from Matt Heafy

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"I would assume it’s going to happen." Are Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine going to release a song together?

Two modern metal greats could be cooking up something special

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“Vultures were on the bedpost. It was a dark road and I was losing my lust for life”: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is metal’s great survivor

Drugs, feuds, bitter ex-bandmates – Dave Mustaine has weathered everything life threw at him. And in this classic interview from the Metal Hammer archives, he wasn’t about to roll over yet

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“Laid To Rest is 20 years old!” This new comedy sketch about ‘modern metal classics’ will make you feel old, guaranteed!

Lamb Of God, Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine have been around for two decades now, and your lower back isn’t in the shape it used to be

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“It’s heavy, it’s dynamic, it’s technical!” We got Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine to name the best song on each other’s classic 2005 album

Ahead of their Poisoned Ascendancy co-headliner, we asked Trivium to pick the best song on The Poison and Bullet For My Valentine to choose their favourite Ascendancy track

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"This is going to be the metal tour of 2025." Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce co-headlining UK tour, playing classic albums Ascendancy and The Poison in full

Two of the biggest metal bands of the modern era will play their two most celebrated albums in full!

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine clear Instagram profiles, post Ascendancy and The Poison album covers – are they teasing something special?

Two of metalcore’s leading lights have posted their classic 2005 albums on social media, and we think something’s up

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The 10 best Metallica songs not by Metallica

From Avenged Sevenfold to Evile, many have used the Four Horsemen’s influence to pen some similar yet still-incredible anthems

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NAMM 2024: Trivium’s Alex Bent announces signature Axis bass drum pedal, “I’m super-stoked to have my own pedal with Axis. I’ve got custom artwork on these from Half Sumo Collective… I hope you guys dig them as much as I do.”

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"We learned so much from In Flames": Orbit Culture have toured with some of metal's most legendary names, now they're ready to conquer the world on their terms

Orbit Culture have toured with everyone from Trivium and Meshuggah to In Flames and Machine Head, but a decade into their careers they are ready to step up as one of metal's hottest up-and-coming bands

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The 50 best metal songs of 2023 (as voted by Metal Hammer readers)

From Sleep Token and Ghost, Babymetal to Metallica: 2023 has been a year of heavy metal bangers - these were the 50 best of them all, according to you

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The 11 most amazing onstage team-ups in heavy metal history

Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne. Trivium and Slipknot. The entire Big Four. These are the most excellent onstage collaborations we’ve ever seen.

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"I got married two years ago and this was on par with that." On Trivium's last tour for "quite some time", we learned two things: 1) their shows are still some of the most intense in metal and 2) fans really love their 'Pig Pen'. Erm...

Trivium are preparing to go on a much-needed break, but we caught up with the band to talk everything from their beloved 'Pig Pen' to their incredible recent run of albums

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"Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to introduce a friend of ours." Watch Trivium's Matt Heafy guest with Bullet For My Valentine for a special version of Tears Don't Fall

Two of the most important metal bands to emerge in the 2000s teamed up in style this past weekend

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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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Trivium are about to take a break from touring, but their live show still proves they’re one of the greatest metal bands of their generation

As they start their “last tour for a long time”, modern metal heroes Trivium honour classics and deep cuts alike with an impassioned performance

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“Fluence pickups are unlike anything else there is”: Slipknot’s Mick Thomson is latest high-profile metal player to join Fishman’s artist roster

The question is when we will see them on a new ESP signature model

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Trivium's Paolo Gregoletto rips on nu metal, sparks big debate: "it was a very, very bad genre and anyone saying otherwise is a sicko"

Trivium bassist Paolo Gregoletto ignites a debate about nu metal following a series of controversial tweets

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Trivium's Matt Heafy stops show and saves crowdsurfing fan from injury

Trivium fan was seconds away from a crowdsurfing accident when frontman Heafy leapt to his rescue

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