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

Mastodon team up with Josh Homme, Bury Tomorrow go industrial and In This Moment make the world's most oppressive club anthem on this week's best new metal song roundup

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“I’ve got to credit Slipknot because they referenced Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse in interviews. I went out and bought all those records”: How Josh Middleton crushed his inner elitist to unleash a brutal Sylosis album for his teenage self

The New Flesh finds the UK metal stalwarts “regressing” to their teenage selves and Middleton taking a leaf out of Obituary and Deicide’s book with hench riffs you can hum, grooves you can move to

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“You can have a great amp but if the speaker sucks it won’t sound good”: Sylosis' Josh Middleton on the most important link in your signal chain – and how a remarkable find from Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood helped him nail Andy Sneap’s tone

The secret to great tone? Don't forget the speaker cabinet matters, too

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Metal’s hardest-working band just played the biggest show of their lives – naturally, they pulled out all the stops

Bleed From Within hit a new apex at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum, where they were backed up by special guests, bagpipe players and an uber-passionate audience

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“They asked Kate Bush, ‘Why do you write about this stuff?’ She said, ‘Well, I’m not very interesting!’ It’s the same with us”: What Sylosis learned from prog stars including Opeth, Tool and Rush

Frontman of the British metal band and his colleagues accidentally discovered a breadth of influences after feeling uninspired by their peers

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‘To say there’s no future is counterproductive’: metal megastars Architects on grief, climate and hope for humanity

Consumed by anger and still mourning a brother and bandmate, the British quartet have written their masterpiece. They explain how they’re fighting self-loathing and trying to age responsibly

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NAMM 2025: “A cornucopia of metal guitar specs” – ESP unveils LTD signature models for Slipknot's Mick Thomson, Whitechapel's Alex Wade, Rammstein's Richard Kruspe and more in epic launch

It's that magical time of the year when ESP drop dozens of new models, and once again the metal guitar specialist has gone big with artist collabs

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The busiest band in metal? One day before Slipknot support tour, Bleed From Within announce next album Zenith, release single In Place Of Your Halo

The prolific aggressors have also remixed recent track Hands Of Sin, now featuring Sylosis frontman Josh Middleton

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“Another declaration that this band are UK metal’s uncrowned kings”: Sylosis reaffirm themselves as overlooked greats on surprise EP The Path

Across five blistering songs, Reading bruisers Sylosis summarise everything that makes them one of Britain’s best metal bands

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Metalcore upstarts Heriot announce debut album Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell, release eviscerating new track Foul Void

Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell was produced by Josh Middleton (Sylosis, ex-Architects), and the only thing more metal than its title is its latest single

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Every Sylosis album ranked from worst to best

From thrash revivalists to modern metal supergroup, this is Sylosis’ spotless back-catalogue in reverse-order of excellence

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‘Humour is our biggest cultural export’: behind the scenes at a groundbreaking Jewish panto

A new production in north London is bringing the rhythms of Jewish storytelling, humour and music to the seasonal theatrical staple

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“String skipping can mimic sweep picking and cover a lot of ground”: Learn how to make your shred solos sound a whole lot more evil with this exclusive Josh Middleton video lesson

The Sylosis virtuoso teaches you five approaches to improve your metal guitar solos – and make them that bit more sinister

Guitar World

“If you want to be a well-rounded metal player, alternate picking is something you cannot skip out on”: Josh Middleton on the essential techniques and discipline of metal guitar

The Sylosis riff master unpacks some of his metal approaches and explains why practice makes perfect, even if it makes you the last person in the world anyone would want to watch TV with

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10 metal riffs that look easy but are incredibly difficult to play

From Metallica to Slipknot, Sylosis frontman and guitar virtuoso Josh Middleton picks 10 heavy riffs that are far harder than they sound

Guitar World

Architects announce departure of guitarist Josh Middleton

The ESP signature artist leaves the band after six years and three studio albums, and turns his attention to his other metal group, Sylosis

Guitar World

From swirling Hendrixian arpeggios to fresh solos from one of John Frusciante's favorite modern-day players: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

Celebrate spring's arrival with life-giving guitar goodness from Wolfgang Van Halen, Nita Strauss, Sylosis, Ayron Jones, Ida Mae and Marcus King, Hannah Jadagu, Body Type, Cory Hanson and more

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