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Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: October 24 2025
Puscifer, Bad Omens and Poppy are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
Robert Plant on musical freedom, unfinished business, and getting confused with Robert Palmer
Robert Plant talks about his latest group Saving Grace, and compares nights out in small provincial towns to meetings with Barack Obama and Prince Charles
The story of Slayer’s Angel Of Death – the fastest, freakiest and most controversial song in thrash metal history
The opening song from 1986’s Reign In Blood affirmed Slayer as thrash metal’s scariest scare-mongers
The bizarre story of Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror swapping singers in the 90s
These two underground favourites found themselves trading singers like football stickers in the 90s
“There was a real sense of excitement. We had a point to prove: this is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world." How Iron Maiden went from East End outcasts to the world's most loved heavy metal band
Iron Maiden legends Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris look back at 50 years of heavy metal history
The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie
A three-minute rush of hedonism, Placebo’s alt-rock anthem raised two fingers to Britpop and got them on Top Of The Pops – so why do they feel so ambivalent about it?
This cult 90s film soundtrack mixed Slayer, Metallica and Korn with edm icons
Years after Judgement Night blazed a trail with hip hop and metal, this album seemed destined to do the same with metal and edm. So why didn't it?
An oral history of Iron Maiden's iconic mascot Eddie the 'Ed
An oral history of Iron Maiden's iconic Eddie the 'Ed by those who know him best
