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Bloodstock festival announces one-day Winter Gathering event headlined by doom legends Candlemass
Joining Candlemass on the lineup’s main stage will be Venom Inc. playing their 2018 album Ave in full, plus Raised By Owls, ...
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A mysterious new band has been added to Download 2025 and the internet is convinced it’s Sleep Token-related
The mystery has inherently led to some internet sleuths drawing parallels between this new outfit and similarly faceless superstars Sleep Token, who are headlining Download for the very first time in ...
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"It’s gory and romantic and brutal and I think that’s what keeps people coming back again and again." Why metal is obsessed with vampires
From Slayer singing about Dracula to Cradle Of Filth and Creeper taking style notes from Interview With The Vampire and Near Dark, this is how heavy metal has intersected with vampires in popular cult ...
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Goth is the coolest it’s been in decades – and these 9 rising metal bands prove it
You can feel that comeback in everything from The Cure’s recent return to Wednesday becoming a Netflix megahit, and it’s present in metal as well. Below, Metal Hammer ’s listed nine up-and-coming goth ...
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"Wrapping blues tradition in boundary-breaking innovation": Every Led Zeppelin album ranked from worst to best
From anonymous sixties session men to globe-straddling seventies rock goliaths - the albums that soundtracked Led Zeppelin's conquest of Earth ...
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"He would have been perfect! Maybe it's not too late!": Ozzy was once asked to audition for Pirates Of The Caribbean but Sharon wouldn't let him
On the latest episode of Billy Corgan's new podcast The Magnificent Others, in which the Smashing Pumpkins frontman "engages in profound conversations with extraordinary individuals who have reached ...
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"He was such an interesting man. A funny combination of intensity and craziness." King Crimson's Jamie Muir remembered...
King Crimson biographer and Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to percussionist Jamie Muir, who died this weekend, aged 821 ...