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"I took my scooter up the lift and rode it through the corridors naked in drag make-up with just a tie on." A brilliant and bonkers interview with Motorhead's late, great Phil Campbell

Equine pranks, epic benders and a million-dollar tantrum: This is what it was like being the (second) longest-serving member in rock'n'roll's greatest band

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Parkway Drive distance themselves from former employee who pleaded guilty to underage sex offence: “We support the victim 100 percent. She deserves justice.”

Jed Gordon, brother of the Australian metal band’s drummer Ben Gordon, recently pleaded guilty to having sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was in his early 20s

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Lord Of The Rings star Elijah Wood can no longer listen to Metallica’s Enter Sandman, and his infant son is to blame

“It became the only song that he wanted to hear for a very long stretch of time”

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AFI announce UK and European headline shows

Davey Havok's influential punks extend their summer in Europe

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"I was kicked out of the Deftones show 'cos I was being too aggressive in the pit. I was like, 'I used to be in this band!'" What it was like being in one of the world's biggest metal bands in their earliest days

Dominic Garcia was Deftones' original bassist, but a misunderstanding ended his tenure long before they'd eventually blow up

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"It touched something inside me the moment I heard it, and I’ve never been able to step away from it." The two-woman band from Istanbul bringing the Turkish black metal scene roaring into life

Ash Magick's nefariously old school approach has made them one of Turkey's most promising young extreme metal bands

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"I don’t want my son disrespecting women, but he always says to me, 'Mom! You have a song called Whore!'" The misunderstood singer who became a 21st century metal icon

In this Moment have been on the metal scene for two decades, but it took years for frontwoman Maria Brink to truly get her message heard

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"We were playing the first slot at noon. Nobody comes to the stage at noon but it was full of people. They were waiting for us and chanting!" How four Mongolian pals playing folk metal became their country's biggest ever rock band

The story of the Hu's unlikely ascent to heavy metal household name

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Watch lyric video for new Foo Fighters single Caught In The Echo

Caught In The Echo is the third track to be released from upcoming 12th Foo Fighters album Your Favorite Toy

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"The songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars stole was real." American fraudster earns eight million dollars streaming AI songs that no human has ever listened to

US man pleads guilty to defrauding musicians and music streaming platforms

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"We need this, perhaps more than ever, and we suspect we are not alone." Hugely influential post-metal pioneers Neurosis return with stunning new album and an underground metal legend as their new frontman

"This was now or never"

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"If you ask me what it's like to be a woman in rock, I'll scream." Slipknot, snow fights and sexism: the summer that changed everything for Italy's biggest metal band

After 2002's Comalies, Lacuna Coil had officially put Italian metal on the map

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"It's probably the heaviest thing I've written in terms of lyrics." Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz’s new band Blue Medusa release debut single Checkmate

The death metal vocalist makes a fresh start and teases that the heavy new song is also one of the “lightest” things her new band have been working on

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Alissa White-Gluz shares her new band, Neurosis make a shock comeback and Ice Nine Kills turn into Steel Panther: these are Metal Hammer's tracks of the week

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“My kids sat me down and said, ‘Please stop, because you are gonna kill yourself’”: Dee Snider opens up about health issues that made him step away from Twisted Sister

A planned reunion tour was scrapped after the singer walked away due to health concerns, though the band are now coming back with Sebastian Bach on vocals

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“I wound up in a place that I needed to stop and sit with myself”: Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview

The singer/multi-instrumentalist says he’s had 430 therapy sessions in the past 70 weeks and suggests that fathering a child with a woman outside of his marriage in 2024 is part of the reason why

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"He is undergoing a full battery of tests": AC/DC's Stevie Young hospitalised in Argentina

The news comes ahead of three scheduled shows at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires

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“This was a journey of me saving myself, staying alive, keeping my family together and continuing to make music”: Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s memoir In My Darkest Hour, looking back on his cancer battle, to come out in September

The book will detail the thrash singer/guitarist’s life after being diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma at the back of his tongue in 2019

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“There’ve been times where I’ve come back from a tour and my kids don’t know who I am”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park, another Steven Wilson team-up, hating the road and why he might stop growling again

We caught up with the progressive metal mastermind and made him begrudgingly talk about his band’s magnum opus

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"I never thought someone would actually run with that song title. I suppose it's all my fault." The story of the extremely silly but surprisingly poignant Limp Bizkit anthem that made them the biggest (and most hated) metal band of their generation

What seemed like a throwaway lyric tacked onto a catchy Bizkit banger actually had some profound meaning for Fred Durst

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“We lived through a mudslide, a flood, a fire and an earthquake, and we were living on 20 bucks a day”: Lzzy Hale looks back on the industry mishaps and natural disasters Halestorm endured to make their first album

The Pennsylvania hard rockers also survived a producer stepping down and their A&R guy being fired by their label

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"Gods of metal!" Watch Dune star Javier Bardem, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello and more in the first trailer for new Iron Maiden documentary Burning Ambition

We've finally got a proper glimpse of the biggest heavy metal documentary coming in 2026!

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"I always came home with my head full of blood. They were punching holes in my head with umbrellas." Head wounds, hardcore gigs and homophobes: Paleface Swiss are changing what it means to be masculine in metal

Inspired by Slipknot, Paleface Swiss have rapidly evolved into one of extreme metal's most boundary pushing bands

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"We had friends film us and then went to bed. Imagine our surprise the next morning: we woke up and it was already viral." How one powerful video turned a group of outcasts who'd escaped war into Ukraine's biggest metal band

After fleeing war and needing a hit to keep their career going, Jinjer struck gold with a simple live video that set the internet alight

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"We miss your smile, your warmth, your creativity, your compassion and your humour." Following his death last year, metal legends At The Gates have posted a moving new tribute to their singer Tomas Lindberg

The melodic death metal innovators have also explained how they were able to record their new album following Lindberg's cancer diagnosis

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