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“The spark that made heavy music interesting wasn’t there for me anymore”: How British metal didn’t quite rule the 90s

Bands from Cradle Of Filth to Paradise Lost seemed ready to thrust British metal back to the forefront. But then nu metal kicked off and swung the pendulum back to the States. This is the story of the takeover that didn’t happen.

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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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“Makes Hieronymus Bosch’s visions of Hell look like a nursery school”: Thrash veterans Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show

Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German luminaries reach a new level of pageantry

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

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“We don’t want to be just another modern death metal band. Taking ideas from David Gilmour and George Harrison is a big deal for us”: How Blood Incantation are opening the Stargate to take death metal to a higher cosmic plane

On album number four, Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky are taking their “Morbid Angel meets Pink Floyd” concept to new creative heights

Guitar World

Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures – a rich and witty retrospective that smells like chocolate

A bubbling Jacuzzi-sized fountain of molten chocolate greets visitors at the entrance to Life Pleasures, a major retrospective of British artist Helen Chadwick at the Hepworth gallery in Wakefield. The piece, named Cacao, was made in 1994, two years before the artist’s sudden death of a heart attack aged just…

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“There were death threats flying around. They were burning my effigy at punk bonfires”: The tumultuous story of Peaceville Records, the underground label that helped shape extreme metal

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Ivan Juric sets sights on ‘death metal football’ at struggling Southampton

Southampton’s new head coach, Ivan Juric, says he plans to implement an aggressive style of play similar to death metal, his favourite genre of music

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“When it came out, all we got was indifference and accusations that we’d sold out. Now it’s worshipped”: The brutal story of Carcass’s early 90s death metal classic Heartwork

Hash pipes, bust-ups and a death metal landmark – how Carcass made 1993’s classic Heartwork album

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“Getting in Angela Gossow was like throwing out your pet rabbit and getting a Rottweiler. It was a lot more brutal”: how Arch Enemy’s Wages Of Sin reinvented extreme metal for the 21st century

Arch Enemy’s Wages Of Sin marked the debut of singer Angela Gossow – and put them on the melodic death metal map

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“There are so many bands who’ve been influenced by us, even if they don’t f***ing know it”: why the world needed death metal sickos Carcass to reunite and make Surgical Steel

The story of Carcass’ 2013 comeback album Surgical Steel

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“He phoned up the Jesus Army and claimed I was possessed by demons and needed help!”: how Cathedral dragged doom metal into the 1990s with their landmark debut album Forest Of Equilibrium

Former Cathedral frontman Lee Dorrian looks back on the making of a doom classic

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Bloodstock festival adds Carcass, Sylosis, Satyricon and more to 2024 lineup

11 new bands have been added to the extreme metal festival, which will take place at Catton Hall, Derbyshire, in August

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10 amazing UK metal bands that couldn’t break America

Despite their undeniable talent, the likes of Carcass, Godflesh and Sikth never got enough praise in the States

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A beginner's guide to Earache records in five essential albums

From forward-thinking grindcore to retro rock ’n’ roll, Nottingham label Earache’s had one hell of a journey. Here’s its history in five must-hear releases.

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10 metal songs that are weirdly popular on streaming

These lesser celebrated tracks by Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Slayer and more have even outshined some of their biggest hits

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In 1991, police raided grindcore label Earache Records in search of 'obscene' material designed to 'corrupt or deprave', and seized an Alice Cooper poster

Remembering when Earache Records became a target for cops seeking material outlawed by the Obscene Publications Act

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A beginner's guide to melodic death metal in five essential albums

Born in the UK and perfected in Sweden, modern metal has a lot to thank melodeath for. Mainly via these five classics

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