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“My stroke was caused by stress." Tarja Turunen on Nightwish, buried hatchets and fighting back to good health

In 2023, the original queen of symphonic metal shared some reflections on her past

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From Metallica surprise shows to Slipknot triumphs, these are the 13 greatest Download festival sets ever

For over two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

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10 brilliant bands that broke up far too soon

Commemorating the metal and hardcore heroes who disbanded with so much more to give

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"Getting off the bus, you could be attacked by a gang of skinheads, bikers or straights. It was hairy." Riots, teargas and slamdancing – The 80s scene that helped inspire Metallica, Slayer, Napalm Death and beyond

Thrash, black metal, grindcore - none of it would exist without UK82

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“I go onstage ready to fight”: What Dragonforce’s Alissa White-Gluz has learned during her time on metal’s frontlines

The Dragonforce, Blue Medusa and ex-Arch Enemy singer reveals her greatest life lessons

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The memory remains! Rare UK TV footage of Metallica playing Reload hit officially unearthed after almost 30 years

Just in time for the metal behemoths’ reissue of their 1997 album at the end of the month

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“The kid lost his mind: ‘You’re the guy from Guitar Hero! Do you play real guitar too?’”: How a 2000s videogame phenomenon made Slash famous all over again

Guitar Hero was a worldwide smash hit – and it introduced Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash to a whole new audience

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"This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world, AI, genocide, climate change, the power elite, $$$$ hoarding pigs." Chat Pile announce third album Who Loves The Sun

Oklahoma City-based quartet to release the follow-up to 2024's Cool World in September

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"You can’t save everything you love." Soundgarden's Kim Thayil on the loss of his friend and bandmate Chris Cornell

"I could never have anticipated the vacuum, the absence, and how profound it is"

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“I heard Lars Ulrich jumped out of a helicopter as it was landing and disappeared”: What happened the night Metallica’s drummer went missing – and Slipknot and Slayer saved the day

Unexpectedly down an original member, Metallica headlined Download festival 2004 backed up by Joey Jordison and Dave Lombardo

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"The horror-obsessed metalcore mob stand out like a sore thumb." Bloody cadavers, dancing deadites and some of the catchiest tunes you'll hear all summer: Ice Nine Kills triumph in their first audition for future festival headliners

It's not quite the whole bloody affair, but INK show they're ready to jump up to bigger slots at Mystic

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“Screens and fake news and artificial intelligence… we don’t need that in the way of our connections”: How Sepultura made their technophobic final statement, The Cloud Of Unknowing

As Brazil’s groove metal heroes prepare to call it quits, we speak to guitarist Andreas Kisser about their swansong EP

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“I was in my boxers and my mother caught me in this heightened creative moment. It was pretty embarrassing”: Inspired by Tool, Led Zeppelin and classic sci-fi, Coheed And Cambria turned a tumultuous break-up into Welcome Home

Thanks to its venomous lyrics and hard, screeching riff, the 2005 single became a Platinum-selling breakthrough moment

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“Between girls, drugs and an entourage he’d bring everywhere, Pete was out of his mind more than at any other point”: How I Don’t Wanna Be Me gave gothic metal icons Type O Negative their last big anthem, but spelled the start of the end

I Don't Wanna Be Me is one of Type Of Negative's hallmark songs, but the story of its conception was, typically, surrounded by controversy, mayhem and a dose of black humour

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“You don’t know my husband, OK? I know my husband”: Sharon and Jack Osbourne defend AI Ozzy avatar amidst “cash grab” allegations

The mother and son say that the project is about making sure the Prince Of Darkness is “remembered” following his death last July

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"I told our producer, If Slash calls back, tell him I'm not there." Why Detroit rappers Insane Clown Posse blew off superfan Slash after getting him to play on their break-through album

"Our record label said, He's yesterday's news, you guys are something new"

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“I tried it for a while, and I was like, ‘This is boring! This is exhausting!’”: OG black metal mask-wearer Mortiis never wanted to be anonymous like Ghost and Sleep Token

The dungeon synth innovator didn’t enjoy pretending that he wasn’t Mortiis

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“This is a redefining evolution of rhythm games”: Songs by Ghost, Babymetal, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more to appear in new title from company behind Guitar Hero

Stage Tour, from Guitar Hero’s RedOctane Games, will be released for PC and consoles in the autumn

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“We miss him and we love him, also”: Watch Mastodon give new single Your Ghost Again its live debut and dedicate it to late guitarist Brent Hinds

The Atlanta band played their latest song at their European tour kickoff last week

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“Another band said they were going to shave all our hair off and beat us up”: Bring Me The Horizon cancelled a 2006 festival appearance for fear of being attacked

The ‘MySpace metal’ poster boys were one of the most controversial bands of their generation

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"Some of my first TV interviews were explaining that the band was more to do with the heart than burning down a church." The rise, fall and demise of HIM - Finland's goth metal princes

From Sabbath-obssessed teens to celebrities in their own right, Ville Valo reflect on 30 years of HIM

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"I could feel his heart through his chest and he passed away right there." Childhood tragedy, unlikely success and emotional reunions: Max Cavalera on how he reshaped metal with Sepultura and Soulfly

From losing his father at an early age to transforming metal with Sepultura and Soulfly, Max Cavalera looks back on a life on the front lines of metal

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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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“The guitar tone ripped my face off!” When Machine Head's Robb Flynn met Meshuggah

Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn is a Meshuggah mega-fan – so we asked him to interview metal’s most complex band

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“A few others were singing about the underside of life, but we had the heaviness to hammer the subjects home.” The inside story of Black Sabbath’s stoned masterpiece Master Of Reality

How Black Sabbath pushed metal to ever heavier levels on their immortal third album

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