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The Darkness release unique cover of Christmas classic

The Darkness have launched their 2025 festive season with a cover of Cliff Richard’s Christmas classic "Mistletoe And Wine". Frontman Justin Hawkins has described their rendition as a musical departure, incorporating elements of shoegaze and drone. Earlier this year, the band released their eighth studio album Dreams On Toast which…

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"They're this generation's Iron Maiden." Canons, gas masks, castles and hellfire: power metal's biggest band Sabaton just conquered the UK's biggest arena

Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour

Metal Hammer

“A warning shot to the competition and a reminder that Fender is still very much a force in the amp modeler market”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including a new digital era for EVH

A landmark update for the Tone Master Pro, a new digital 5150III combo, and a signature capsule for Iron Maiden all landed this week

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Sleep Token have released the official colouring book you never knew you needed

The masked metal band have teamed up with Rock N’ Roll Colouring, who’ve previously made colouring books for Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Cannibal Corpse and others

Metal Hammer

The ultimate review of 2025: The best albums, the biggest events, and the megastars who rocked our world - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in our unmissable end-of-year issue: The Darkness, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Cheap Trick, Jethro Tull, Alice Cooper,Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses and more

Louder

“He proved to me long ago that Fender belongs in the world of heavy metal”: Fender honors Iron Maiden’s 50th Anniversary with a stable of limited signatures for Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Janick Gers and Steve Harris

The UK metal titans’ triple guitar team and bassist have all been honored with a range of specially tailored signatures

Guitar World

Fender and Jackson celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with limited run signature models – including a Masterbuilt Dave Murray Strat that’ll leave you losfer words

Choose your fighter, Maiden fans, with four variations on the archetypical Superstrat including a Custom Shop doozy... And it is foot on the monitor time with that Harris P-Bass

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Bruce Dickinson reflects on the fan outcry after he split from Iron Maiden: “When you left, it didn’t matter if you’d made the best record in the world – nobody could listen to it”

The legendary singer discusses how the controversy surrounding his departure from The Beast coloured fans’ thoughts on his 1994 solo album, Tears Of The Dragon

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"I couldn't believe how casual she was acting. Did she not realise how insane this was?" The story of the 15-year-old boy who flew to Rio to see Ozzy Osbourne

Stephen Rea's 40-year friendship with the Osbourne family began at Rock In Rio in 1985 - and he tells the story in a new book

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Quiz: How much do you know about Iron Maiden's breakthrough masterpiece The Number Of The Beast?

Test your knowledge of one of heavy metal's defining albums

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“I spent 14 years in the Iron Maidens. It was a great time… but I didn’t start playing guitar to be a professional tribute musician”: How Courtney Cox found her own identity bringing malevolent riffing to the coven of Burning Witches

Burning Witches' new album finds co-founder and rhythm guitarist Romana Kalkuhl and Cox following in the great tradition of dovetailing guitars. As Kalkuhl sees it, it's a sisterhood of metal

Guitar World

"I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure." Steve Harris had his doubts over Bruce Dickinson's 1999 return to Iron Maiden

How different things could have been if Steve Harris had blocked Bruce Dickinson's Iron Maiden comeback

Metal Hammer

What do Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, extreme icons Napalm Death and the cold expanses of space have in common? A new documentary featuring music from some of metal’s finest

Seas Of The Sun: The Story Of The Cluster Mission is about the European Space Agency and their 24-year-long study of space plasma

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“When Bruce came back I wasn’t 100% sure of the reasons behind it. I was like, ‘Well, okay, let’s see.’ I’ll be honest – I wasn’t sure”: How Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris made his peace with singer Bruce Dickinson

“Bruce is unusual – which is probably what makes him so good”

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“There was no way we were gonna put out the full hour-and-a-half video, because it would have been a rip-off”: The story of the great Iron Maiden live album that was lost for 20 years

Beast Over Hammersmith shows Iron Maiden in thunderous form at the height of their success. This is why it has never been seen in full.

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"It's not hard to see why they got left behind by Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon": Praying Mantis fail to surf the NWOBHM wave on Time Tells No Lies

Life at the melodic end of the hard rock spectrum was not always kind

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“I said, ‘Before we start, you know that if I audition I’ll get the gig. But be warned – I’m gonna be a pain in the arse!’”: Bruce Dickinson recalls his audition for Iron Maiden – and his crazy times with his previous band

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Iron Maiden, Limp Bizkit, Bring Me The Horizon, The Offspring, Deep Purple, Sabaton, Volbeat, Bad Omens and more sign up for stacked Hellfest 2026 lineup

Hellfest has announced another epic lineup for next year

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Iron Maiden team up with West Ham United for joint 50th anniversary football jersey

New Iron Maiden/West Ham collab celebrates band's 50th year and 50th anniversary of football club's 1975 FA Cup win

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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson took up fencing to give up groupies

Bruce Dickinson has admitted he slept around a lot and could have ended up on a "slippery slope" of sex addiction before finding fencing.

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Building the Beast: Iron Maiden's Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson on battles, breakthroughs and the birth of a legend – only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Ace Frehley, Ian Gillan, Judas Priest, Wolfgang Van Halen, Whiskey Myers, The Cramps, Stephen Dale Petit, Massive Wagons, Solstice, Steve Morse and more

Metal Hammer

"I did the entire record in a wheelchair; it was brutally painful.” How a stagediving accident, massive hospital bills and the grunge explosion turned a bunch of "dirtbag punks" into Metallica-approved stoner metal icons

A broken femur caused a massive perspective shift for former hardcore/thrashers Corrosion Of Conformity

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

Deathcore newcomers Face Yourself, NWOBHM revivalists Seven Sisters, bone-faced black metallers Abduction and videogame inspired alt metallers Luna Kills, these are the new metal bands you need to hear in November 2025

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“I had no idea it would be such a catastrophic event in people’s lives!" How leaving Iron Maiden, A Nightmare On Elm Street and the acoustic album that never was led Bruce Dickinson to write Tears Of The Dragon

Tasked with kicking his solo career off for real, Bruce Dickinson produced one of the 90s' greatest metal power ballads

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“I told him, ‘This is only a small town, we don’t have the infrastructure for an artist like you!’”: Why Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris was turned down after asking to play power metal stars Sabaton’s hometown festival

In 2017, Steve Harris’ British Lion performed at Sabaton Open Air – but not without the Maiden man convincing the band in charge first

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