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Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi issues update on long-awaited solo album: “I’m trying to finish off what I started”

Now that Back To The Beginning is in the rear-view mirror, heavy metal’s foundational guitarist is returning to work on his first solo album in 20 years

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Ozzy Osbourne is doing retirement the right way – by painting abstract art with chimpanzees

Pieces co-painted by The Prince Of Darkness and his primate pals are now up for auction

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"This song is written for all the families torn apart by the recent immigrant purges and kidnappings": Tom Morello releases powerful new single in support of immigrant rights across America

Pretend to Remember Me arrives a week after Rage Against The Machine man Morello directed Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning celebration

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Deftones announce new album Private Music: Listen to the new single My Mind Is A Mountain now

New Deftones album private music finds the band working with an old friend once again

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“I could have ruined metal”: The man who almost sang for Metallica has no regrets

Armored Saint vocalist John Bush says it wasn’t his “destiny” to front the biggest metal band of all time

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“If I’d done normal, sensible things, I wouldn’t be Ozzy”: Ozzy Osbourne to release new memoir Last Rites, centred around his recent health struggles

The Prince Of Darkness’ second and final memoir will come out in October

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“They wouldn’t bat an eyelid at Wagner, who believed the church was linked to the downfall of civilisation. But metal is ‘wrong’?”: The metal band who made history by playing one of England’s biggest cathedrals – despite accusations of ‘blasphemy’

Symphonic metal band Plague Of Angels became the first metal band to play the 800-year old York Minster

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Eivør signs new deal with Nuclear Blast Records and announces European tour

Faroese art rocker Eivør will tour throughout Europe in Autumn 2025 and will release a new album in 2026

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“Everything blew up. ‘What do you mean you’re leaving?!’ ‘I’m not!’”: Rob Halford insists he didn’t quit Judas Priest in the 1990s

The Metal God reveals that a technicality in his contract led to him stepping away from Judas Priest for 11 years

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The Nine Inch Nails lyric that made Zeal & Ardor’s Manuel Gagneux quit his job: “I think Trent Reznor did a lot for the job market that year!”

A line from Nine Inch Nail’s 2005 album With Teeth inspired Manuel Gagneux to give up the 9-to-5 for good

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Tony Iommi compared Bill Ward to a Lord Of The Rings monster at Black Sabbath’s epic farewell gig: “You look like Gollum!”

As Ward issues a heartfelt thank you to his bandmates and fans, Sabbath’s guitarist admits he likened the drummer’s appearance when topless to an emaciated hobbit

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"We're in our seventies and late seventies, so you can only do so much": Tony Iommi reveals the songs Black Sabbath rehearsed but didn't play at Back To The Beginning

Tony Iommi has reflected on Black Sabbath's performance at Villa Park

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One of metal’s greatest cult bands have returned after 30 years –but what are the chances of a new album?

Max Cavalera: “If it was all up to me, I’d love to do it”

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30 rock and metal songs that defined the 1980s

From AC/DC and Iron Maiden to Guns N’ Roses and Faith No More, this is the soundtrack to a decade

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"He said, ‘If you play it backwards, Satan will haunt you!’" How Volbeat's Michael Poulsen went from occult-loving teenage guitar thief to leader of Denmark’s biggest metal band

Volbeat's Michael Poulsen talks us through his journey to metal stardom

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge originally planned to sing a Black Sabbath deep cut at the Back To The Beginning gig: “I was, like, ‘Can I do this?’ ‘No!’”

Papa V Perpetua sang Ozzy solo classic Bark At The Moon – but it could have been very different.

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Members of Slipknot, Lamb Of God and Anthrax set to join the Osbournes at Comic-Con Midlands this weekend

Slipknot’s Sid Wilson, Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe and Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Frank Bello will do meet-and-greets and sign autographs in Birmingham on July 12 and 13

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"Ozzy stood up, produced a Zippo lighter from his back pocket, and set Bill Ward's beard on fire": A personal insight into the chaotic, beautiful mind of Ozzy Osbourne

20 years of audiences with his royal highness, the Prince of Darkness

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Founding Monster Magnet drummer/bassist Tim Cronin dead at 63

"It is an incomprehensible void that he is leaving in our lives"

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"We raised a ton of money for a great cause": Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show expected to raise millions for charity

Tom Morello suggests charity expectations as more than five million fans access pay-per-view livestream

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“The perfect fusion of metal on metal”: You can now buy an official Iron Maiden coin from the UK’s Royal Mint

Heads it‘s King Charles, tails it’s Eddie

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"David Bowie saw something in Trent Reznor." What it was really like on Nine Inch Nails' infamous Self Destruct tour in the 90s

Panic attacks, substance abuse, wrecked hotel rooms and backstage visits by David Bowie and Lou Reed: photographer Jonathan Ranch had a front seat to it all when he followed NIN on tour

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Metal Hammer Italy launches first issue with Iron Maiden on the cover

Celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with the inaugural issue of Metal Hammer Italy – also featuring Ghost, Sleep Token, Machine Head and more

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Green Carnation announce trilogy of albums with brand new video for In Your Paradise

Norwegian heavy proggers Green Carnation will release A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia in September

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Win a Night Demon Curse Of The Damned ultimate box set

We've teamed up with cult heavy metallers Night Demon for an exclusive competition

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