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At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg dies aged 52 following cancer battle
The frontman, known for his existential lyrics and characteristic scream, revealed last month that he was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma in December 2023
Kiss’s Gene Simmons claims he learned humility from Ozzy Osbourne
Simmons calls the late Black Sabbath singer’s attitude “a good lesson for idiots like me who sometimes, guilty as charged, get full of themselves”
Bloodstock festival adds Saxon as first-ever Thursday main-stage headliner; 26 other bands also confirmed
The UK heavy metal stalwarts will return to the top of the bill at the Derbyshire weekender, 25 years after they headlined the first-ever Bloodstock
Watch members of Iron Maiden and Tool jam a Jeff Beck song at a wedding last week
Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith and partially-retired drummer Nicko McBrain performed with Tool bassist Justin Chancellor at Smith’s daughter’s wedding on Friday
Judas Priest recorded a cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs featuring Ozzy Osbourne – and they’re going to release it soon
“The green button’s almost ready to go,” says frontman Rob Halford
Wolfgang Van Halen on meeting Ozzy Osbourne and the original plan for Back To The Beginning
The singer/multi-instrumentalist dropped out of Ozzy’s final show due to a schedule change, but he got to meet the Black Sabbath frontman at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame the year before
Sabaton x Nothing More is one of the most surprising heavy metal collaborations we’ve heard all year – and it doesn’t sound half bad
The two bands have teamed up for Crossing The Rubicon, the fifth single from Sabaton’s upcoming album Legends
Wolfgang Van Halen explains the risk of playing his dad’s songs onstage
Wolfgang has performed Van Halen songs in public on only two occasions since his father Eddie passed away in 2020
Watch Metallica play Master Of Puppets to just 500 people at ultra-intimate show last month
The heavy metal giants held one of their smallest-ever shows in Long Island on August 28
Motörhead to be celebrated on punk rock tribute album featuring Pennywise, Anti-Nowhere League and others
Killed By Deaf: A Punk Tribute To Motörhead will be out on October 31
Deathcore's biggest band just made an extreme metal album fit for arenas
Lorna Shore continue to raise the bar for deathcore and extreme metal in the mainstream
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson says he’d have been “comfortable” if cancer treatment irreparably affected his singing voice
“That’s when the thought formed, ‘What do I actually do with my life?’ Am I just a human noise generator? Or am I actually telling stories?”
Deftones got their first major record deal because Madonna liked their music
The California alt-metal band released their first five albums via Madonna’s label, Maverick
Slaughter To Prevail’s Alex Terrible addresses allegations of having racist and transphobic beliefs in new interview
The deathcore star claims that his now-covered tattoo of the Black Sun, an image associated with white supremacist movements, was not an expression of neo-Nazi views
System Of A Down announce European stadium tour with support from Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath
The nu metal-era four-piece will bring a star-studded lineup to seven stadiums in the UK and Europe next summer
Are System Of A Down teasing their first European tour since 2017?
The Armenian-American band projected their logo onto multiple buildings across London on Monday night, and teasers have reportedly also been sighted in Italy and Germany
Nightwish’s Floor Jansen goes on vicious tirade against Christianity
Nightwish’s lead singer takes no prisoners when asked whether she has religious beliefs or not
Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson sing Judas Priest with a busker on the streets of New Orleans
The odds of a metal icon joining you for a singalong on a random street corner are low, but never zero
President haven’t even released an EP yet and they’re already headlining a festival
The faceless four-piece will top the bill at Takedown festival in Portsmouth, UK on April 4
Yungblud wore Ozzy Osbourne’s necklace during tribute performance at the VMAs last weekend
The 28-year-old had a piece of the Prince Of Darkness with him when he sang Crazy Train, Changes and Mama, I’m Coming Home in New York on Sunday
In perhaps the first wholesome story in Slayer history, Tom Araya renewed his wedding vows over the weekend – and Gary Holt officiated the ceremony
Holt swapped his Kill The Kardashians top for a clerical shirt on Saturday
Chino Moreno reacts to Deftones being called ‘the Radiohead of metal’
Thanks to their constant evolution and introverted sound, the California metal band have been compared to the UK alt-rockers multiple times over the years
The story of the star-studded EP Gojira have been sitting on for 15 years
Gojira began work on their fabled Sea Shepherd EP in 2010. A decade and a half later, it still hasn’t come out. We ask, what on Earth is going on?!
