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"I thought, 'When I can play that, I'll finally admit I'm a good guitarist.'" Watch Sophie Lloyd pick out her five favourite guitar solos of all time

Guitar hero and YouTube sensation Sophie Lloyd picks out the solos that changed her life - featuring Guns N' Roses, Pink Floyd, Avenged Sevenfold and more

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"Korn got ripped off a lot." Shavo Odadjian on nu metal vs deathcore, weird lyrics and whether a new System Of A Down album can live up to their legacy

Shavo Odadjian is back in the metal world after 20 years with Seven Hours After Violet - but how will he fare against reader questions?

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

BMTH and Architects approved alt metal, Nordic folk meets extreme metal, kink-inspired industrial metal and the brothers who gave up prog for nu metal: these are the metal bands you need to hear in July 2025

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"There was something about the way he carried himself. He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell

As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apartfrom his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts

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“There was an ambulance waiting for Ozzy. Sharon says, ‘He bit into a bat’”: Ozzy Osbourne’s ex-bassist remembers the infamous bat-biting incident

Rudy Sarzo recalls the Prince Of Darkness being taken to hospital after biting the head off a bat onstage in 1982

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Why is everyone talking about Bob Vylan? Glastonbury festival's biggest controversy explained

London punk-grime duo Bob Vylan are the subjects of a criminal investigation following their set at Glastonbury. This is the story behind the biggest talking point of this year's festival

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"You want a smack in the face in the beginning." How Ghost Of Perdition went from a concept about Satanism to the defining Opeth anthem

Opeth might've ditched the concept record idea for Ghost Reveries, but Ghost Of Perdition still tells a story

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Celebrate Black Sabbath going Back To The Beginning by grabbing this exclusive Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt

Get ready for the biggest metal gig of all time by ordering this Blizzard Of Ozz tee that you won’t find anywhere else

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Watch Judas Priest pay tribute to fellow Brummie icons Black Sabbath with thunderous War Pigs cover

Judas Priest won’t be at Back To The Beginning this weekend, but that hasn’t stopped them from tipping their hats to heavy metal’s godfathers

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“I remember being physically frightened”: Tom Morello looks back on the first time he heard Black Sabbath

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist was petrified when he first heard Black Sabbath as a kid – now he’s the musical director for the band’s almighty finale

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From Black Sabbath to Napalm Death: these are the 10 greatest metal bands from Birmingham

10 brilliant metal bands that show Birmingham really is the home of metal

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"We're one of the only bands where the original members are still alive and speaking with one another": The final Black Sabbath interview

Soon there will be no more comebacks, no more tours,and no more ‘final’ shows: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill look back at their incredible career

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"This collaboration is a testament to Ozzy’s impact on the gothic and alternative communities": Ozzy Osbourne launches range of beauty products

The Ozzy Osbourne x Jolie Beauty drop will land next week

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The ‘popularity’ of an AI-generated rock band was inevitable – and it highlights a depressing fact about success in the music streaming age

A seemingly non-existent band have more than half a million Spotify ‘listeners’, but the numbers they’re piling up are just as shallow and meaningless as the computer-generated music they spit out

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The 40 best Black Sabbath songs ever

From genre-defining early cuts to underrated gems, these are the Black Sabbath songs you need in your life

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Brann Dailor's synth proggers Arcadea return with zany new video for Fuzzy Planet

Synth prog trio Arcadea, featuring Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor, will release secind album, The Exodus Of Gravity, in August

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Oh Lord, yeah: Black Sabbath team up with the Big Issue, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer for the Back To The Beginning official programme

The official programme Back To The Beginning is a unique collaboration between Black Sabbath, the Big Issue, and Metal Hammer and Classic Rock

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Watch Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk stream a one-take vocal performance of recent song Hedonist

The track is taken from Jinjer’s latest studio album Duél

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"What I stand for is probably closer to Jesus": Ghost's Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom

Tobias Forge, aka Papa V Perpetua, talks dark matters and working towards a "newer, better, bigger" Ghost

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“If anybody brings as much noise as this, I’ll retire!” The Prodigy unleash chaos at Worthy Farm with the heaviest, most intense set of Glastonbury 2025

“I think we did Mr Flint proud”

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Everything you need to know about Back To The Beginning, Black Sabbath’s reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert

From who’s playing to how to stream it, we answer all your questions about this summer’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza

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Wes Borland cosplayed as James Hetfield during Limp Bizkit’s last concert with Metallica

Limp Bizkit’s run of North American shows supporting Metallica wrapped up last week

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“We’ve been in the studio. We’ve been living in the studio, is what we’ve been doing”: Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward has two new solo albums on the way

The seminal drummer says he doesn’t “give an ‘F’” as he records his first solo efforts in 10 years

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Hot off stealing the show at Glastonbury festival, Turnstile announce UK/Europe tour dates with The Garden and High Vis

Hardcore’s good time boys will trek across Europe in October and November

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Deftones appear to be teasing the release of new music next week

The nu metal-era stars put up a graphic at their London concert on Sunday, hinting towards something going down on July 10

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