Sleep Token invite listeners to "confront what lies beneath the mask" on exultant new single Damocles
Vessel and co. will release their new album Even In Arcadia next month
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Sleep Token invite listeners to "confront what lies beneath the mask" on exultant new single Damocles
Vessel and co. will release their new album Even In Arcadia next month
Hear power metal wardogs Sabaton dive into mediaeval history with new song Templars
The armour-plated Swedes have signed to Better Noise Music and are readying their next album
Original Kiss drummer Peter Criss announces first solo album in 18 years
The Catman's new album includes contributions from John 5, Billy Sheehan, Paul Shaffer and more
"Life is beautiful!" Voyager share their first new music since singer Danny Estrin's cancer diagnosis
Australian proggers Voyager share video for emotive new comeback single Seen Better Days
Watch the video for the first new music from the original Alice Cooper Band in half a century
Black Mamba comes from the Bob Ezrin-produced Revenge of Alice Cooper, out in July
Days after their singer adopted two bear cubs, Slaughter To Prevail announce new album Grizzly – stream lead single Russian Grizzly In America
We’re starting to think Alex Terrible likes bears…
Babymetal’s new album, Metal Forth, has been delayed
Japan’s kawaii metal sensations have pushed their upcoming release back by two weeks
Watch Trivium react to a music video so bad they didn’t release it for 20 years
Trivium made two versions of the video for Dying In Your Arms – the first try was so dreadful that it’s only now seeing the light of day
Ozzy Osbourne has started “endurance training” ahead of final Black Sabbath show
The Prince Of Darkness will step onstage for the last time at Birmingham’s Villa Park on July 5
Heriot’s Debbie Gough reveals which Billie Eilish song inspired the metalcore hellraisers’ new album (no, seriously)
The Eilish song was a “reference point” for one of UK's most celebrated young heavy bands
Ghost fans are selling fake money dropped during the band’s Skeletour dates in exchange for real money
Why not spend £50 on some Frater Imperator banknotes that have no cash value? We can think of a few reasons why not…
Power-stances at the ready, because Ghost have dropped their most 80s-coded single to date with the fist-pumping, hope-filled Peacefield
Ghost have shared the latest single from their forthcoming new album, Skeletá
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Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection
Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones
Heilung are the most captivating live act in the world
At London’s Brixton Academy, the ‘Amplified History’ trio expand into a dozen-strong society of vocalists, dancers and musicians, and the results are spellbinding
Killing Joke, Ministry, The Mission supergroup Sevendials deliver a deliciously warped mix of camp thrills and tense gothic drama on kaleidoscopic debut album A Crash Course In Catastrophe
Chris Connelly-fronted alt.rockers Sevendials get their groove on with A Crash Course In Catastrophe
"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant."
Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta
"Is this the ultimate Epica record?"
Epica give Nightwish a run for their money in symphonic metal brilliance
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs hone their dream to be as potent a live band as Download festival favourites Vengaboys
Newcastle's finest Pigs x 7 deliver a masterclass in stoner/doom/psych riffathons on the release day for their new album Death Hilarious
Messa mix jazz, doom, goth and so much more on The Spin
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Deafheaven's new album is tailor-made to shut whinging mouths
After straying from their black metal roots in recent years, Deafheaven come screeching back on Lonely People With Power
“This is less a concert than a hard rock workout.”
New Delhi’s viral superstars keep a sold-out O2 Forum Kentish Town singing and screaming for their entire 60-minute set
"It’s peak Cradle." British black metal institution Cradle Of Filth continue to soar
After plunging the depths of darkness in recent years, Cradle Of Filth reconnect with their gothic romantic roots on album fourteen
