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Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse Of The Heart was originally written for a Nosferatu musical: “If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines. It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in the dark"
Jim Steinman wrote Bonnie Tyler’s smash power ballad Total Eclipse Of The Heart - once titled Vampires In Love - for an abandoned Nosferatu musical, before it once again found its home in another fang-toothed Broadway show
Ice-T on Body Count, dream collabs and the rage behind Cop Killer
Ice-T reflects on the rage behind Cop Killer, the best rap and metal albums and dream collabs as he answers your questions
Blondie's Debbie Harry on the 'chic' drug scene she found in 1960s New York
"It was the 1960s, man."
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
How the return of Jane's Addiction was floored by a punch thrown by their singer
It was all going right until it went very, very wrong
“Few can claim to have such a diverse catalogue”: Gryphon’s Dave Oberlé looks back
He’s worked with Steve Howe, Wire and Gandalf’s Fist, and even on a metal magazine – but it’s the quirkiness and curiosity of his own band that makes the singer and percussionist most proud
"Slash is the reason I picked up a guitar, when I was nine": Meet Grace Bowers, the teenage guitar sensation who's getting the attention of the A-list
Praised by Brian May, feted by Eric Clapton and Dolly Parton, Grace Bowers is on the road to stardom – and she's still only 18
Bullet For My Valentine almost broke up, but a billion streams says they're ready to celebrate
Touring with Trivium, Bullet For My Valentine will be "throwing the kitchen sink at making the show look fantastic"
Robert Plant never liked the idea of Led Zeppelin being labelled a heavy metal band
"That period had a lot of people cavorting around using their manhood as the main weapon to sell records"
“I felt straight away that we were back": The power of music compelled Beardfish to return
Unable to decide on who should leave, the band of friends broke up in 2016. To their own surprise and delight, they’re back with new album Songs For Beating Hearts – and loving their work more than ever
Cradle Of Filth announce new album The Screaming Of The Valkyries – but that Ed Sheeran track isn’t any nearer
Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, Dani Filth reveals the name of Cradle Of Filth’s next studio album and when it’s due out. He also says that their long-anticipated Ed Sheeran team-up won’t be on it.
Five minutes with nu gen provocateur Mimi Barks
Mimi Barks on her recent UK tour, the strangest shows she's played and serving "super-rich" people coffee in fetish gear
How The Nice got started by fibbing about their songwriting skills
Prompted by a disagreement that spilled into the public domain, co-founders Keith Emerson and Lee Jackson once visited the Prog office to set things straight
The Van Halen albums you should definitely listen to
Van Halen albums have it all: One of the most innovative guitarists of all time, your choice of rock star frontmen, and great tunes
Peter Perrett and the long road to a genuine late-career masterpiece
A late-career starburst in his drugs-hastened twilight years, former Only Ones frontman Peter Perrett’s latest solo album is the best he's ever made
Ice-T on Law & Order, not blowing up the planet, and breathing new life into a Pink Floyd classic
A quiet word with Body Count's Ice-T
Brothers Osborne's TJ Osborne on the fine line between country and rock’n’roll
Country rockers Brothers Osborne play UK and Ireland shows in January
Oceans Of Slumber’s return to prog metal with Where Gods Fear To Speak
With a Chris Isaak track acting as an ode to Type O Negative, the Texans found inspiration for new concept album Where Gods Fear To Speak in America’s current environment of uncertainty
