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"It crushes me not to be able to play guitar": Manowar founder Ross 'The Boss' Friedman diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease

Ross The Boss formed proto-punk band The Dictators in New York City in 1973, and metal icons Manowar in 1980

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"She’d be talking about a song with a really good guitar solo and demand we change it, make it heavier." The trailblazing metal singer who saved an influential band's career and inspired a generation of women in the process

Arch Enemy were making waves in the metal underground, but they needed someone special to take them forwards

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"What the heck were you thinking, dude? I would fall to my death." Maynard James Keenan has thoughts on Tool soundtracking that terrifying climb up one of the tallest buildings on Earth

"What balls!" Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan salutes Alex Honnold's live Netflix climb up the Taipei 101 skyscraper

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"When you listen to The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Sabbath, Zeppelin...it would have ruined them!" The one thing from today's music that would have screwed up countless classic albums, according to legendary metal guitarist Zakk Wylde

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“As soon as I heard it, I thought, Yes, that's us, that’s Ozzy's voice." Listen to Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley play the blues on a rehearsal tape lost for 46 years

A little slice of heavy metal history has been unearthed in an attic after 46 years

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"All of us are excited to return...with a few surprises in store." One of the biggest bands of the nu metal era just announced their biggest UK shows ever

Who'd have thought we'd be seeing this band headline London's biggest arena?!

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"It was an intense place to be for a gay man in that world." Faith No More's Roddy Bottum on hair metal

Queer icon Roddy Bottom of Faith No More recalls the "ugly" side of hair metal

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge says it was a relief when he lost his anonymity: “I can’t eclipse what Ghost is. I’m not interesting enough.”

Forge was revealed to be the man behind the band when he was sued by four former members in 2017

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

Mayhem, Sleep Theory and Green Carnation are among the best new metal songs this week

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“The BBC showed one minute and 10 seconds of it!” Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter: How a banned, censored and divisive single became Iron Maiden’s only UK number one

Despite a BBC ban, winning a “Worst Original Song” award and being pulled from the band’s setlist, Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter remains one of Iron Maiden’s biggest tunes

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“I guess people just don’t think like we do”: Maynard James Keenan thinks Puscifer are in the “third side-project category” but is happy on the side of the underdog

The singer believes the band have been “marginalised” due to the greater commercial success of his other two projects, Tool and A Perfect Circle

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"James says, 'Kill him!' This guy looks at the two of us and says, 'Who’s gonna kill me?' And James pointed at me." Dave Mustaine looks back on Metallica's wild early days

Metallica's early years were a wild ride

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"The idea of slowing down is unacceptable to me. I’d rather walk away than be a shadow of my former self." Twisted Sister cancel 50th anniversary reunion tour as Dee Snider quits due to health issues

The future of Twisted Sister will be decided in the coming weeks

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A lounge cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was “the creepiest thing” Ozzy Osbourne ever heard: “Which coming from him is the biggest compliment”

Pop-rockers The Cardigans put a chilled-out spin on the Black Sabbath song in 1994, and singer Nina Persson says the Prince Of Darkness was freaked out by it

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"I go onstage, I battle death, I die and I come back to life." From sword-waving rat queens to alpha bro-baiting metal singers, the new issue of Metal Hammer has four exclusive covers: Castle Rat, Sleep Theory, President and Paleface Swiss

The New Heavy 2026 has arrived, and it's starring four of the most exciting young bands in metal today

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"If there was another way around this, I would swallow my pride and say, 'I was able to find some miracle cure.'" Heavy metal legend and Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on why now is the right time to say goodbye

Dave would love to continue Megadeth even longer, but it just isn't on the cards

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"We are watching people be pushed out of their homes here in America, in Palestine, in Sudan, in Iran, everywhere." Turnstile reflect on their historic Grammy Awards triumph and vow to keep making music in solidarity with "voices that are buried"

Turnstile reaffirm their commitment to calling out injustice "in a time of heightened state violence"

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"I was being bombarded with Madonna's image on TV." How a beloved rock band took aim at a pop megastar, sampled Simon & Garfunkel and ushered in a genre-mashing masterpiece with a 90s classic

This Faith No More song is so catchy, Disturbed covered it on two separate occasions

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"It's intense back there. Everybody is nervous. And everybody's really emotional because we know it's the last time." Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Back To The Beginning: The build-up, the show and the aftershow... and the loss of Ozzy Osbourne

When Halestorm's Lzzy Hale was asked to appear at Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell show in Birmingham, ‘thrilled’ doesn’t even come close to how she felt

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"There were no rules; ideas could come from anywhere: subtle drum loops, bits of organ or abstract guitar noise, even samples of frogs or crickets." Long-awaited Slipknot project Look Outside Your Window is finally being released

Look Outside Your Window was recorded while Slipknot were in the studio making 2008's All Hope Is Gone album

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"He looked at the lyrics and goes, ‘Rock ’n’ roll cocktail – I think I invented that!'" How Queens of the Stone Age got a metal legend to sing on a single US radio would not touch

Feel Good Hit of the Summer was a commercial flop but became an instant, messy classic

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“We have the same management, and we both wear masks. Is that it?!” President vocalist blasts comparisons to Sleep Token as “lazy”

Mr President doesn’t see the similarities between his band and the other masked, anonymous, pop-metal sensations dominating heavy music discourse

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"I started meeting all these really warm, nurturing moms in school…and that wasn’t what I was experiencing at home."The heartbreaking tragedies behind the rise of metal's latest sensations

Dayseeker have been on the scene for some time, but have exploded in popularity. We go inside their story

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"If they ever approached me, of course I would have done it...but I'm kind of relieved they didn't." Mike Portnoy responds to rumours he was in the frame to join Rush following the death of Neil Peart

As much as the idea of Mike Portnoy drumming with Rush would be a prog fan's dream, Portnoy had a very respectful attitude to the idea

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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson’s next album features Sepultura members and is being recorded at Dave Grohl’s studio

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser lets some big details slip in a new social media post

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