Arch Enemy “didn’t have high hopes” for War Eternal album after Angela Gossow left
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Listen to the audience playlist Mike Portnoy compiled for the Dream Theater tour
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Green Day, The Prodigy, Misfits and more announced for Coachella 2025
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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
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Architects announce new album The Sky, The Earth & All Between: listen to new single Whiplash now
Brighton's greatest metal export will release a new album next year!
Poppy announces 2025 North American tour
Poppy is taking her metalcore era to the US and Canada next year!
Leprous share drum playthrough video for Atonement
Norwegian proggers Leprous will tour Europe, Latin America and return to North America in the first half of 2025
Marshall's launch their UK Black Friday sale - Save up to £110 on speakers and headphones
Marshall get in on the action early by launching their UK Black Friday sale. Sizeable discounts on the Monitor II A.N.C., Emberton II, Major IV & more
"I don’t like comedy heavy metal." Comedian Frank Skinner reveals the beloved British rock band he'd banish forever
British comedy icon Frank Skinner explains why he'd choose to send one of the UK's biggest 21st century rock bands to Room 101
Primus are officially on the hunt for a new drummer. Could it be you?
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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
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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
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"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
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