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The 10 greatest final albums in heavy metal history

These masterpieces by Black Sabbath, Motörhead and White Zombie made sure their careers ended on flawless form

Metal Hammer

Cool new proggy sounds from Haken, Devin Townsend, Temic, Prince Of Failure and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Top new prog you need to hear from Chantelle Smith and Richard Wileman, Revealing Chaos, Seven Eyed Crow and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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The story of Genesis and A Trick Of The Tail is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Hawkwind, Clannad, Devin Townsend, Ed O'Brien, Bruce Soord, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Crown Lands, Midge Ure, Yes and loads more...

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“I’m just looking forward to seeing you all again." Devin Townsend announces return to live performance after enforced hiatus

Devin Townsend's Metamorphosis tour of the UK and EU starts on September 1 and runs through to October

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Great new proggy sounds you need to hear from Crown Lands, A.A. Williams, Devin Townsend, Tarja and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Top new prog from VMBRA, Kristoffer Gildenlöw, Lost In Kyiv and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 16, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Lemon Twigs, Devon Townsend, All Them Witches and more

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

Sabaton, Devin Townsend and Corrosion Of Conformity are among the best new metal songs this week

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Great new prog you must hear from Devin Townsend, Green Carnation, Midge Ure, Teramaze and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Cool new prog you must hear from Hanry, Advent Horizon, Coal & Crayon and more in all new racks Of The Week

Louder

10 years after promising a “symphony of c*cks and v*ginas and death”, Devin Townsend has finally announced his life’s work The Moth and released its unhinged lead single

Devin Townsend has reached peak Devin Townsend, unveiling a 24-track behemoth with choirs, orchestras and a song called We Don’t Deserve Dogs. Listen to maximalist preview Enter The City.

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“We’re selling out shows, we’re climbing the bills, but there’s so much pressure to reach more success”: As one of the UK’s leading bands stop touring, we need to talk about the toxic effect a ruined music industry is having on heavy metal

Metalcore stars While She Sleeps are taking a hiatus from the road – if things don’t change, more artists will follow

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“Mikael Åkerfeldt and I were close for a while. We wound up with the same management and drifted apart”: Devin Townsend discusses his prog world (while he’s hiding from his dogs)

Stick-collecting Canadian who preferred Motorhead to Marillion says Captain Beefheart didn’t know he was nuts, the Interstellar soundtrack floored him, and the Wildhearts are prog

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“Looking forward to seeing what the future holds”: Eric Gales joins Stephen Carpenter, Devin Townsend and Sophie Lloyd in the Kiesel artist ranks – is a signature guitar in the works?

The blues maestro previously worked with Magneto Guitars, but his surprise move to Kiesel could lead to a new signature

Guitar World

“Josh Homme said, ‘Do you want to come over?’ I was like, ‘So, you want to do Kyuss, but no John Garcia?' I’m good.’ I was bitter, I guess": Scott Reeder on the last days of Kyuss, QOTSA and what he told James Hetfield after that Metallica audition

The veteran bassist enthuses about his Spinal Trap tribute album, his part in a James Hetfield lyric session and the heady days of desert rock

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"It’s bat***, bug****, bull****. If you really dislike the band, it’s utter dog****." Between The Buried And Me finally bite off more than they can chew with The Blue Nowhere

They might be prog metal geniuses, but Between The Buried And Me are also still fallible

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“There are three more songs somewhere on a hard drive. I will release them before I die!” The story of the star-studded EP Gojira have been sitting on for 15 years

Gojira began work on their fabled Sea Shepherd EP in 2010. A decade and a half later, it still hasn’t come out. We ask, what on Earth is going on?!

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“It’s pretty progressive, but it’s not Rush, is it? It’s not Dream Theater. The virtuosity comes in the details and subtlety”: When TesseracT introduced themselves and explained the djent movement

At a time when online musicianship was still regarded as a bit geeky, the quintet were preparing to launch debut album One and embark on their first US tour – and they had plenty to say about filesharing, stats and haircuts

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“Unparalleled amplification for digital guitar rigs”: Laney expands its Devin Townsend and Guthrie Govan-approved FRFR active speaker range with a compact 1x10 250-watter

The LFR-110 promises “studio-quality” sound and portability – and it will make your amp modelling rig easier to carry around

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“This upcoming tour will be the last time you get a chance to see me for quite sometime. I am going on a vacation”: Devin Townsend announces an indefinite break from touring – but it sounds like he's going to be keeping himself busy in the coming months

Townsend’s forthcoming hiatus from the road will see him launch The Ruby Quaker YouTube series, allowing him to explore “dozens of creative ventures” he never had time for before

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Devin Townsend to take indefinite hiatus after North American tour

Devin Townsend will take a break from touring following the conclusion of his May trek.

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"Life has simply caught up with me": Devin Townsend is taking an indefinite break from touring

Devin Townsend won't be going on the road for "the foreseeable future" after his upcoming run of PowerNerd live shows

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“I was always hoping that I would be taken away by aliens at some point”: The strange story of Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine: Biomech, the album which launched his solo career

How Devin Townsend made his 1997 solo debut album Ocean Machine

Guitar World

“A sophisticated ambient soundscape-generating device that’s like an instrument unto itself”: Mooer Ocean Machine II review

Devin Townsend’s delay, reverb and looper makes a spectacular return – and it’s the pedalboard sequel we’ve all been waiting for

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"I first heard it when I started taking acid": Devin Townsend picks the soundtrack of his life

Canadian maverick Devin Townsend names his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the music he listens to while mowing the lawn

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“I thought it was just going to be a fun little party record, but my grief started leaching into the music”: Devin Townsend is slightly embarrassed by his new album, and that’s a good thing

PowerNerd, the first of three autobiographical albums, was transformed into something unexpected as he began feeling like a liar, and wound up facing his 15-year-old self

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The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer

From Judas Priest to Opeth, Poppy to Bring Me The Horizon, these are the metal albums you said defined metal in 2024

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