"I’m freaking out!" Linkin Park land UK number one album with From Zero, and Emily Armstrong is beyond excited
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Listen to melodic new Bury Tomorrow single What If I Burn, taken from 2025 album Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience
The metalcore firebrands have offered another instantly catchy anthem and announced their next studio album
A Kreator biography is coming in 2025
Singer/guitarist Mille Petrozza has co-written a book about the thrash metal veterans’ first 10 years of service, expected next year
Arch Enemy “didn’t have high hopes” for War Eternal album after Angela Gossow left
Guitarist Michael Amott and drummer Daniel Erlandsson admit Arch Enemy considered packing it in after losing their longtime vocalist in 2014
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Axl Rose and Michael Schenker, together forever via the medium of animation
Listen to the audience playlist Mike Portnoy compiled for the Dream Theater tour
Mike Portnoy's DT40 audience playlist includes songs by Snarky Puppy, Queens Of The Stone Age, Frank Zappa, Jack White and many more
Green Day, The Prodigy, Misfits and more announced for Coachella 2025
The 2025 Coachella festival will take place in Indio, California, next April – and the headliners have been named
Fred Durst having a conversation with a goblin is the most deranged non-interview of 2024
Fred Durst doesn’t always do press, but when he does, he pretends he’s a guy called Gary who paints teabags for a living
Coheed And Cambria announce third Vaxis album The Father Of Make Believe
US prog rockers Coheed And Cambria will release their latest album The Father Of Make Believe in March
3 free months of Amazon Music Unlimited just got even better - Audible now included with a sub
Amazon Music Unlimited subscribers now get a free Audible audiobook per month - and you can currently get 3 months for free by signing up
Atreyu bassist says he has “a dent in my skull” after opening for Iron Maiden
“A lot of stuff” was thrown at Atreyu when they supported Iron Maiden in 2009, including a coin which caught Marc McKnight beneath the eye and dented his skull
Watch Rolo Tomassi play their biggest-ever UK show in new pro-shot footage
The mathcore underdogs have uploaded the entirety of their new live album, Live At The Electric Ballroom, to Youtube. Watch for free here.
Listen to the first Killswitch Engage song in five years, Forever Aligned
The metalcore mavens have also announced ninth album This Consequence, due next year
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The Last Will And Testament is Opeth at their most groundbreakingly brilliant
Opeth go Miss Marple via Edgar Allen Poe on the prog-death-jazz metal odyssey that is The Last Will And Testament
Armed with 40 years of anthems and some stellar support acts, Sepultura’s final UK show is an unmitigated triumph
Celebrating their seminal classics and modern material alike, Sepultura bow out in impeccable form at London’s Hammersmith Apollo
"One last time let's sing together!" Pop punk heavyweights Sum 41 bid London a fond farewell with an electric show at Wembley Arena
Sum 41's farewell tour touches down for their biggest UK show ever
"Two decades after shedding their punk and black metal shackles, Sólstafir still have new ideas to explore." Iceland's coolest metal band explore their own legacy on eighth album Hin Helga Kvöl
Every shade of Sólstafir gets a look in on album number eight
Rising Herts crew Defences are evolving in all the right ways on album number three
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"It's always Halloween around here." Forget Wembley; a sold out Halloween show in Manchester proves Creeper are still Britain's best cult band
Wembley might have had pyro and dancers, but a roaring crowd in Manchester proves Creeper don't need big production to put on a massive show
Prog metallers Vola evolve in (mostly) the right ways on fourth album Friend Of A Phantom
Vola continue to move their sound forward on album number four
Somehow, Brothers Of Metal have got even more ludicrous with Fimbulvinter
Brothers Of Metal harness everything from 80s glam to gothic rock on their fun as hell third album
Triumphs, setbacks and singalongs as goth metal heroes Lacuna Coil celebrate a three-decade career
Lacuna Coil might've started out in goth metal but three decades on its only a small part of their magnificent sonic offering as they return to the UK for a headline tour
Fit For An Autopsy continue to transcend deathcore on The Nothing That Is
After breaking into the US top 50 with 2022's Oh What The Future Holds, Fit For An Autopsy are still pushing boundaries of deathcore
"Maybe this was the catharsis he needed to propel his next chapter." Devin Townsend's PowerNerd isn't the all-out burst of Heavy Devy we expected, but it's still pretty damn good
Devin Townsend's latest studio album is more of a greatest hits than the return to straight-up heaviness he suggested
