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Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: September 5 2025
From the mega Amy Lee/Poppy/Courtney LaPlante collab to Alter Bridge and President, these are the new metal songs you need to hear this week.
I'm a singer in a metal band living with HIV. Here's how my diagnosis has impacted my life and career so far
On October 14 last year, I received a letter that would change my life - and the way I feel about touring with Tallah
How Florida became the death metal capital of the world
With the likes of Morbid Angel, Deicide and Death leading the charge, death metal blew up in Florida in the late 80s and early 90s
I’m a lifelong deathcore hater, but these five bands are actually giving me faith in the genre
Lorna Shore, Fit For An Autopsy and latter-day Whitechapel are forcing me to respect what used to be the worst style of music in the world
“The song was haunted!” Marillion producer Dave Meegan’s fight to make Afraid Of Sunlight
He eventually came to love the 1995 release – but he’s glad he didn’t like it at the time, and he helped the band develop a method of working they still use today
What each member of Radiohead has been up to since their last tour in 2018
Their band might have been inactive since 2018, but Thom Yorke, Ed O'Brien, Philip Selway and Greenwoods Colin and Jonny definitely haven't...
Lzzy Hale's wild tales of Ronnie James Dio, Alice Cooper, Skid Row and more
She’s shared stages with Slash, Skid Row and Tom Keifer, and bonded with Ann Wilson and Amy Lee. She’s Lzzy Hale, and these are her stories
“It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” The inspiration that helped David Gilmour create Luck And Strange
Collaboration, family, mortality and that stridently emotive guitar work - it's all there on David Gilmour's fifth studio album Luck And Strange
“We were the antithesis of Britpop – we really hated all that kind of thing." Every Idlewild album in the band's own words
Scottish rockers Idlewild are poised to celebrate their 30th anniversary with the release of their self-titled 10th album. Frontman Roddy Woomble talks us through the history of the band, album-by-album
