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Enter Shikari Bull video still

Watch a raging bull cause havoc in Enter Shikari's video for Bull featuring former The Voice contestant Cody Frost

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"This song is about those who damage your mental health, your self-esteem, and even your very identity" says Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds

Enter Shikari, Misfits and Arch Enemy will appear in Taking Note, an animal rights and music documentary

Enter Shikari, Arch Enemy and Misfits to appear in animal rights documentary

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The team behind Taking Note – The Animal Rights Music Documentary are currently seeking donations to help film secure 2023 release

A scene from the Emma Ruth Rundle documentary All I Know of Love

Watch Emma Ruth Rundle's new tour documentary All I Know of Love

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Folky post-rocker announces 2023 North America tour

Louis Tomlinson

A member of One Direction has released an angsty electro-punk single, and it won't make you want to slice off your ears

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Louis Tomlinson's new single Out Of My System isn't a million miles away from Bring Me The Horizon at their poppiest

Tom Morello and 2022 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Dr Carolyn R Bertozzi

Tom Morello's ex-bandmate has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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The guitarist studied at Harvard with Professor Carolyn Bertozzi and played in band, Bored of Education

The Smashing Pumpkins on stage in Dallas, October 2022

The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction kick off 32-date North American tour

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The alt-rock dream tour opened its account with a show at American Airlines Arena in Dallas on October 2

A clip from Nickelback's new video for San Quentin

Nickelback share their new video for San Quentin

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The four-minute clip was actually filmed 940 miles away from California's oldest prison

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Alter Bridge share lyric video for This Is War

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The song is taken from their forthcoming seventh album, Pawns & Kings, out October 14

Fever 333

Fever 333 will continue despite losing guitarist and drummer, vows vocalist Jason Aalon Butler

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Aric Improta and Stephen Harrison quit the band yesterday, citing "creative differences" and internal problems

There’s a new Slipknot album coming soon – here’s everything we know about it

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Updated Slipknot are releasing a new album in the near future. Here’s everything we know about it so far

Don Brautigam's Master Of Puppets painting

How a James Hetfield doodle led to one of metal's most iconic album covers

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The story behind Metallica's Master Of Puppets album artwork

Metallica's Nothing Else Matters video

Video Breakdown: Metallica – Nothing Else Matters

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A look Metallica's Nothing Else Matters clip, scene by scene

Metallica St Anger era

St. Anger: A banger or a clanger?

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When Metallica's St Anger was released in 2003 it split fans right down the middle. Here we look back on the album and ask: banger or clanger?

Metallica Week: The Ultimate Archive – the albums, the interviews, the songs

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In the week Metallica release S&M2, here’s every interview, feature and review you need from the Metal Hammer and Classic Rock archives

Black Sabbath, 1970: Bill Ward, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler

How Paranoid Made Black Sabbath Heavy Metal Superstars

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Black Sabbath and friends on the surprise impact of their second record, how the title track almost wrote itself and why Ozzy and Geezer fought to keep it off the album...

Download Dog

Download Festival announce stage times

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Download Dog has delivered this year's stage times, and we've put them on the internet

Dave Grohl

50 facts you might not know about Dave Grohl

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As the Nicest Man In Rock™ reaches his first half century, we explore the lesser known side of the Foo Fighters leader

Aimee Osbourne

Hear captivating new single from Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter Aimée

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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s daughter Aimée will release her debut album in October. Hear her new single House Of Lies.

Bad tattoos of rock stars photoshopped onto the real thing is still the best thing ever

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We took the ultimate rock star tattoo fails and transposed them onto their real life counterparts. The results are horrific.

Photo of Ozzy OSBOURNE and BLACK SABBATH; Ozzy Osbourne performing live onstage

Fear And Loathing In Los Angeles: The Story Of Black Sabbath's Vol. 4

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After three albums in two years, Black Sabbath decamped to LA to work on their next album, somehow, in between cocaine, getting naked, divorce and ongoing paranoia, Vol.4 got made...

Violet Grohl

Watch Dave Grohl’s 15-year-old daughter Violet front Foo Fighters at Lollapalooza

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Check out Violet Grohl singing lead vocals for Foo Fighters at the band’s headline appearance at Lollapalooza

Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl to publish memoir, The Storyteller, in October

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‘I’m excited and honoured to announce The Storyteller, a collection of memories of a life lived loud,’ says Grohl

Foo Fighters

Watch Foo Fighters cover Queen’s Somebody To Love in a California club

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Watch Taylor Hawkins unleash his ‘inner Freddie’ on Foo Fighters’ killer cover of Queen’s Somebody To Love

Dee Gees

Watch Foo Fighters hilariously troll Westboro Baptist Church by performing Bee Gees cover on a flat-bed truck

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Foo Fighters take the piss out of Westboro Baptist Church bigots once more

Violet Grohl

Dave Grohl recruits Krist Novoselic and Dave Lombardo to back his daughter Violet on US TV

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Dave Grohl to reunite with his former Nirvana bandmate Krist Novoselic on Jimmy Kimmel show this week