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DARK SECRETS: 3 - The Real Truth

10 metal bands who ‘went soft’ – and were better off for it

Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me The Horizon and Gojira took their careers to new heights after dialling back the aggro

Metal Hammer

What Hi-Fi? Wrapped: our favourite tracks that we used to test hi-fi gear in 2023

We've shared our favourite testing tracks of 2023, with a Spotify Wrapped-style roundup - introducing What Hi-Fi? Wrapped.

What Hi-Fi?

Alien rhythms, god-level chops and samurai guitar duels: these are the best guitar albums of 2023

Guitar World staff and readers reflect on the finest fretwork captured on record this year

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Synyster Gates on the reactions to Life Is But A Dream: "I think, for a lot of people, this is the death of Avenged Sevenfold."

Avenged Sevenfold stand by their bold latest album, but their guitarist knows that for some fans it may be a step too far

Metal Hammer

The 10 best progressive metal albums of 2023

Avenged Sevenfold, Tesseract, Enslaved and more ensured that prog metal had another standout year in 2023

Metal Hammer

The 50 best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer

From Metallica to Sleep Token, Avenged Sevenfold to Babymetal, these are the best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by you!

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"They’re fearless. Their ability to just be themselves and their confidence, it’s mind-blowing." Synyster Gates reveals the young artist that reminds him the most of Avenged Sevenfold - and it might surprise you

Few bands do it like Avenged Sevenfold, but guitarist Synyster Gates has picked the artist that he feels carries their same sense of artistic fearlessness

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The new issue of Metal Hammer is a massive celebration of 2023 starring Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ghost, Babymetal, Avenged Sevenfold and more – and it comes with five exclusive gifts!

Get a Metallica patch and art print, a Ghost badge, an Iron Maiden poster and a 2024 calendar!

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Avenged Sevenfold announce North American tour dates for 2024

Avenged Sevenfold will hit the US and Canada next spring for the next leg of their Life Is But A Dream...world tour, with Poppy and Sullivan King in tow

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Hellfest release insanely huge 2024 lineup announcement: Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Machine Head, The Prodigy, Corey Taylor, Tom Morello and dozens more now confirmed

Hellfest has done it again with another absolutely stacked lineup for 2024

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The 10 longest songs by 10 iconic heavy metal bands

Metallica, Iron Maiden and Slipknot have all extended their excellence well beyond the 10-minute mark

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The best metal albums of 2023 so far

From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date

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When is Download Festival? 2024 Limp Bizkit join line-up for metal event

Download Festival is coming back once again for a weekend packed with moshpits and rock icons

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Download 2024 lineup announced: Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold to headline, plus Royal Blood, The Offspring, Corey Taylor, Machine Head, Babymetal, Bad Omens and dozens more bands also confirmed

Download's 2024 lineup is officially here

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The 11 greatest final shows in heavy metal history

From Black Sabbath to Metallica’s Cliff Burton, these excellent gigs also proved to be bittersweet goodbyes

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The 10 scariest heavy metal album covers of all time

These albums by Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Slayer will terrify you before you even press play

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“I should’ve died of alcohol poisoning!” How Waking The Fallen catapulted Avenged Sevenfold to international fame and new levels of debauchery

On August 26, 2003, Avenged Sevenfold went from underground punks to metalcore superstars with Waking The Fallen. Then the following tour tested their will to survive…

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10 classic metal albums almost ruined by one terrible song

Metallica, Korn and Machine Head have all got so close to perfection – just for one song to mess it up

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Zacky Vengeance and KHDK Electronics bang their heads together for the brain-eating Night of the Living Shred high-gain preamp pedal

“This is about recreating the sounds that made me want to play guitar in the first place” says the Avenged Sevenfold guitarist

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Avenged Sevenfold singer M Shadows picks his ten favourite concept albums

Now US metalheads Avenged Sevenfold have moved into prog metal and avant-garde concept albums, singer M Shadows reveals his inspirations

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“The essence of Zacky’s tone”: KHDK collaborates with Zacky Vengeance for gnarly Night of the Living Shred pedal

According to the Avenged Sevenfold guitarist, the grisly signature fuzz/distortion pedal recreates the sounds “that made me want to play guitar in the first place”

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Ernie Ball has unveiled Synyster Gates signature string sets – but what is that mystery guitar amp?

Two sets have been awarded to the Avenged Sevenfold guitarist, who was filmed sitting next to what could possibly be a new signature guitar amp

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What happened when Avenged Sevenfold released a prog metal concept album

With 2016's The Stage Avenged Sevenfold set themselves on a path away from their original heavy metal sound. This is the story...

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"We want to give people anxiety": how Avenged Sevenfold made 2023's strangest, most divisive heavy metal record with Life Is But A Dream...

Avenged Sevenfold shocked many fans with their eighth studio album. As the band themselves tell us, however, it was simply the record they had to make

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The best metal albums of 2023 so far

Metallica, Babymetal and Sleep Token are among the best albums of 2023 so far - and there's more to come

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