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“People were letting surfers fall hard into the crowd”: Fans at recent Sleep Token show reportedly dropped crowd-surfers, and now everyone is arguing about concert etiquette

A woman who attended Louder Than Life festival claims that she was knocked out after a crowd-surfer got dropped on her during Sleep Token’s performance

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Watch Slayer charge through Hell Awaits during the fieriest rehearsal video you’ll probably ever see

Lots of metal bands want to tear the house down – Slayer are doing their damnedest to burn it down

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Lamb Of God seem to be teasing new music for later this week

The Richmond groove metal heavyweights are hinting that something will go down on Thursday, October 2

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine’s spat was blown out of proportion, says support act: “Whatever was going on, they were professional enough to keep it from affecting the tour”

Bleed From Within supported Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine at multiple US shows, and singer Scott Kennedy says the co-headliners’ falling-out “wasn’t as bad as it was made out to be”

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"Smell this! It smells like my childhood!" Bombsites, buttocks, and two encounters with Ozzy Osbourne

Interviewing the Prince Of Darkness was not like interviewing other members of the rock royalty

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“I became more and more angry. Love is like a mental disease that everybody wants to catch… It can feel so damaging when you’re in the middle of it”: Opeth and the making of Sorceress

Mikael Åkerfeldt on his violent games, hotel balcony prank, soaking a label exec in vodka, and being left to make music his own way

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"It's Axl like you've never seen him before, on the front lines of a battle for humanity's future": Introducing Axl Rose: Half-human, half-robot comic book hero

Join Axl Rose as he becomes entwined in a deadly conspiracy

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"There’s really no way you should be ignoring this band." If you're going to dive into one metal album this week, you should probably make it Orbit Culture's excellent Death Above Life

Orbit Culture return with yet more evidence of why they're one of the best bands in the current European metal scene

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Ghost announce 2026 North American tour

North America! Prepare to get Ghosted!

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Thrice – Horizons/West review: timeless elegance from one-time post-hardcore wonderkids

The California four-piece offer another platter of soulful rock’n’roll that bucks trends and plucks heartstrings

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"Nobody liked the song when I put it in the cut!" Why Peacemaker showrunner James Gunn used a cult Swedish metal band to soundtrack that shocking episode six twist

The new episode of Peacemaker featured a hell of a plot twist - and showrunner James Gunn turned to heavy metal to soundtrack it

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“It was like watching Muhammad Ali shadow box – that intense”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on watching Black Sabbath soundcheck at Back To The Beginning

The bassist, who used to play in Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band, compares seeing Sabbath onstage to watching Muhammad Ali in the ring

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“I don’t try to point out stupidity, and I don’t like to make people feel bad – unless they annoy me”: The Beatles-inspired 90s song that finally gave these thrash heavyweights the mainstream hit that had eluded them

Just like the Pied Piper…

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“This is it, folks. The start of a genuine phenomenon”: The best metal debut album from every year of the 1990s

The classic debut albums that shaped metal’s golden decade

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“It was prophetic. Right after that exploded, Limp Bizkit, all of these groups, was doing what was being done on that record”: This 1993 action movie was a bomb. But it produced one of the most revolutionary soundtracks of the decade

Box office bomb, killer soundtrack

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"I always thought power metal is cheesy. We are not cheesy, **** that." Pumpkins, power metal and the mostunexpected reunion in metal: Helloween are better than ever

How Helloween's Pumpkins United has reinvented power metal's first breakout stars

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“I have to make the responsible decision – there’s just no way I can sing like this”: Avenged Sevenfold have postponed their 2025 South American tour at the last minute due to M Shadows’ vocal injury

The shows will be rescheduled for January

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"I watched Ozzy's last concert!" Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley on why he used Metallica, Sabbath, Pearl Jam and more to soundtrack season one

Noah Hawley gave Alien: Earth a metal as hell soundtrack. What did you think of the show?

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“We opened with it and the crowd broke through the barrier. We had to stop midway because people were getting hurt”: The game-changing late 80s single that put an obscure band from San Francisco on the map and helped ignite the alt rock explosion

New singer, new sound, the start of a whole new era

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“Two nights of heat, jumping, singing, passion, rawk, roll and filming”: Ghost delivered a blockbuster concert movie with Rite Here Rite Now. They’re going in a totally different direction with the follow up

Ghost will be hitting the screen again

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“We stand for something more than a faded sticker on a skateboard”: Every Propagandhi album ranked from worst to best

Propagandhi have been putting out top-notch punk/metal for four decades

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

Judas Priest, Kreator and Soulfly are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Linkin Park just did a surprise set on Kai Cenat's record-breaking Mafiathon 3 livestream - watch videos here

One of the world's biggest bands just popped up with one of the world's biggest streamers

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"I liked heavy metal because everyone hated it." Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes on dodging plant pots, nearly-severed fingers and why nu metal ruined metal

Godfather of goth metal, Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes shars his wisdom

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Creeper share new single Prey For The Night, another typically understated gem from the goth-punk giants

It’s the latest cut from their forthcoming sequel record Sanguivore II, due out on Halloween next month

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