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"I would literally bring my laptop on stage." Scott Ian says he used to play online poker during Anthrax shows

The admission comes as Anthrax begin their latest tour without longtime drummer Charlie Benante

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"I know he would be into this." Jack Osbourne responds to criticism of Ozzy AI avatar plan

The Osbournes have come under fire for digital Ozzy but Jack insists his dad would have approved

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"I remember when I first heard Nevermind and I was like, 'OK, it's on'." Radiohead's Thom Yorke recalls the moment he realised Nirvana were going to change the world

Radiohead frontman on getting excited about new music and not obsessing over the past

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"A riot broke out. The barrier had collapsed and broke somebody’s leg...people were just tearing stuff apart!" From being hired, fired and hired again by one of metal's most influential bands to a life of sobriety, Exodus' Rob Dukes reveals all

He's had one of the most unique career trajectories in metal - but now Rob is back where he belongs

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"I’d log onto a school computer, listen to Evanescence and write 60 poems by the time the album was over." Melding visceral grime with pulsating metal, Native James is one of the UK's most unique and exciting new artists

From making poems in school to playing Reading, Leeds and Glastonbury, Native James has confirmed himself as an artist with superstar potential

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

Japanese boundary pushers SiM unite with Hanabie., Witch Club Satan seethe about the state of the world and President goes electro in this week's best new metal songs round-up

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"The narrative has been where I’m just a soul that’s been beaten down by the world. It is actually quite the opposite." Cat souls, all-star collabs and sock-puppets: how Poppy became one of metal's biggest personalities

From hyperpop maverick to one of the most in-demand collaborators in metal Poppy's journey is full of twists and turns

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"The house was absolutely demolished by the time we finished playing." The story behind the wildest gig Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde ever played

"It was every parent’s nightmare"

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"Nobody understands how hard we had to work to get accepted. People were originally scared to play our record." How a grudge against the bands they inspired and an obscenely expensive bill pushed Korn to write one of their biggest anthems

Korn's Here To Stay proved the nu metal legends weren't going anywhere, but its creation was chaotic and expensive

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“I hope they get sued. It’s a shameless ripoff. They should be slapped on the wrist for that.” How Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen - with their classic song Sober

Sober, the seminal single from 1993’s Undertow, made Maynard James Keenan and co. a quick success story, but not everybody was a fan

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"I was 21 years old. I don’t think it matters how old you are – there’s no way to be prepared for it." The story of the one simple but devastating question that led to Evanescence writing their biggest hit, Bring Me To Life

It was a simple conversation with her future husband that helped Amy Lee write the anthem of a generation

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Get Tarja's upcoming album Frisson Noir, a signed ‘Frisson Noir Philosophy’ sheet and an art print with Prog's great new bundle. Pre-order yours here...

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"We're going to take it all around the world. People can talk to him and he will talk back." Jack and Sharon Osbourne are preparing a future in which Ozzy will live on digitally

Get ready for Ozzy 2.0

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“Born out of my own struggle with existential crisis and trying to make sense of belief, mortality and humanity’s relationship with faith”: President begin debut album Blood Of Your Empire campaign with new single Doom Loop

Their first full-length statement drops on September 4 via Atlantic

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“We pulled out chainsaws and tore our guitars apart. I had a shotgun with blanks in it, and I was shooting it inside the Palladium”: Inside the chaotic birth of prog metal provocateurs Tool

They’ve sold millions of albums, won four Grammys and inspired legions of copycats, but this is where the legend of Tool kicked off

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Rail firm bans Download festival-goers from bringing wheelie bins full of beer onto trains: “While it might seem like a great idea, it just isn’t safe”

“Our teams will be on hand at stations to support customers and help them complete their journeys, without their bins or trolleys, as smoothly as possible,” says East Midlands Railway

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“I want to ensure my truth is told and set the record straight”: Tailgunner guitarist steps down following allegations against the rising heavy metal band’s bassist

Rhea Thompson claims she was replaced for a tour without being told and got “ignored” by her ex-bandmates

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Haken share first new music in three years with epic single In A Fever Dream

Haken announced the departure of guitarist Charlie Griffiths and bassist Conner Green at the beginning of this year

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“People think that Enjoy The Silence could be one of our songs. That was the whole point”: From modern goth anthems to a career-defining Depeche Mode cover, Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia breaks down her life in 11 tracks

The vocal dynamo looks back at her three decades on Italian metal’s frontlines

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“It’s stupid to label anyone a saviour of a gigantic rock world that still exists”: Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersack is a Yungblud supporter, but doesn’t think that rock needs a “saviour”

The singer takes issue with the mainstream positioning Yungblud as the man “saving” heavy music

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“Without them, the face of metal would be very different and, probably, much worse”: Everything you need to know about every At The Gates album

Revisit each entry in the death metal maestros’ game-changing discography

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Kissmas Day, millions of dollars and the road to the bargain bin: Why the four solo albums were the beginning of the end for Kiss

Kiss's solo albums were meant to be a celebration of their dominance: Instead, they signalled the start of the decline

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“We found an enormous old-school brewery and made up the orchestra so they looked zombified”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson premieres music video for re-working of 1994’s Tears Of The Dragon

The singer released More Balls To Picasso, a remixed version of his second solo album, last year

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“You know what's really gonna make us money? This rodent-themed mediaeval doom metal band”: Castle Rat’s Riley Pinkerton shoots back against “industry plant” allegations

The “super DIY” US band crowd-funded their second album last year

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“I played Doom before I was even into metal. A lot of my love of thrash comes from slaying beasts in Doom”: How Doom and its iconic soundtrack converted the next generation of metalheads

The 1993 shoot-’em-up was wildly violent and hugely successful. Thanks to Bobby Prince’s awesome soundtrack, it was also beloved by the metal crowd.

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