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Download: Why You’ll Need Your Wellies
A friend of Hammer has sent us a pic of the mud situation at Donington and it isn’t pretty. Alright, you know that really irritating squelching sound that happens when you walk along muddy, grassy...
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Follow Hammer At Download On Twitter
Get all of the latest updates, live from the field and the backstage area on the Metal Hammer Twitter! We’ll also be Tweeting live from the Golden Gods and HMS Hammer this coming Monday so sign up today!
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The Golden Gods 2009 – Live!
Follow the Golden Gods live on Metal Hammer! We will be blogging every step of the way at this year’s star-studded Golden Gods on MetalHammer.co.uk! Follow Anthrax, Clutch, Malefice and Trigger the...
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Katy Perry – The Power Metal Years
There’s a headline you never thought you’d see, eh? Katy Perry (yes on the looks, no on the tunes) has had her power metal past exposed. She used to wear loincloths and built her arms up, Joey De Maio...
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Beez Does The Download Festival
Download reviews aplenty from Hammer’s resident blogger. This year’s Download festival was an outrageous experience and Hammer’s very own serial moaner (that’s Beez) has stood on his soap box and given...
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Blog: Sepultura Revisited
Inspired by the fact that Sepultura and Soulfly recently performed at the same festival, on the same bill, on the same day (and that the Cavalera Conspiracy are returning to Europe), we picked out this...
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Join Hammer On The Web
Make sure that you’re up to date with everything that is going on in the world of metal by joining our social networking empire! Listen to us ranting our opinions, we bring you the latest news and we...
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Blog: A Man Having Air-Sex To Slayer
Quite frankly, you’re not going to see anything weirder than this all week and maybe all year. It’s a man named Cock-a-licious having sex with thin air to Slayer. A man having air-sex to Slayer. You...
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Metal Hammer/Classic Rock Host NIN/JA Party!
If you’re going to see Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction at O2 tonight, then come and party with us! Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction have teamed up for the NINJA (geddit) tour and will be...
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Hammer Writer Says “Megadeth Are Better Than Metallica”
Hammer writer Dom Lawson has posted a frankly awesome blog on why he thinks Megadeth are better than Metallica. Whether you agree not, it’s a bloody hilarious read! Here’s a link to the mighty Lawson’s...
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Hammer’s Favourite Moments From Sonisphere
Come on in for the Hammer family’s favourite moments from this weekend’s Sonisphere festival! Alexander Milas, editor. 1. Black Sabbath. 2. Alice In Chains casting their spell over tens of thousands of...
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…And Death Metal For All!
Hammer scribe Dom Lawson weighs in with his unique critique on Death Metal, the fans that surround the scene and why he didn’t go to Sonisphere. If you use an internet message board, this is essential...
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Top 10 Rumours About Them Crooked Vultures Playing The UK This Week
The Metal Hammer staff have heard so many rumours about Them Crooked Vultures (Josh Homme, John Paul Jones and Dave Grohl’s new band) playing the UK this week, we’ve compiled them all for you. Warning:...
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Beez: The Mercury Music Award Is A Crock
In a year where British rock music has reached it’s highest point this decade, rock didn’t receive one nomination. What’s that all about?! So, Speech Debelle walked away with the Mercury Music Prize...
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Blog: 4 Year-Old Drums Along To ‘Harvester of Sorrow’
Take one 4 year-old kid, give him a drum-kit and one of the 80s best stomping mid-tempo metal tunes and what do you get? This killer video. If you can watch this video without grinning like a bastard,...
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Blog: DevilDriver In London 17/10/09
DevilDriver, Behemoth, Suicide Silence, Trigger The Bloodshed and Malefice lay waste to the capital! If you didn’t get to the venue early enough to catch Malefice, you really need a long, hard word...
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7 Bands That Should Never Reform
We just received an email about Creed releasing a new album. Suddenly we felt dizzy, our eyesight went blurry before being encompassed with rage. We shook our monitors screaming “WHY?!” over and over...
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Blog: The Metal Sign Holder
This video has to be seen to be believed. If only the ‘Golf Sale’ guy would do this… You’ve got to feel sorry for the guys that have to stand out on the streets all day holding a sign. Left alone in...
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Taking Dawn Tour Blog: Airbourne, Girls, Hangover, Getting Locked Out And The...
We discovered that the frontman of new Hammer faves Taking Dawn is an amazing writer, so here is the first of many amazing reports from the road! “I’m not much of a drinker. Anyone who knows me will...
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Emo Is The New Hair Metal?
Yes, we all hate emo. The whiny vocals, guitar-lite riffs and ridiculous fashion. Oh, and it’s massively popular. Just like hair metal. Read our blog on what the future might hold… In the 80s, metal...
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Blogs Of War: Los Angeles Is Fucking Dead
Hammer scribe asks ‘Is rock’n'roll dead in the city of angels?’ Introduce yourself… It’s been some months now since our long suffering editor and Gibby Haynes look-a-like Alex Milas suggested that I...
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Bloodstock: GWAR and Cannibal Corpse
Following the forced cancellation of their 2009 Bloodstock appearance, the ghouls and gremlins of GWAR are more than ready to unleash their puerile metal pantomime on an expectant audience of mostly...
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Immortal to play Bloodstock 2011!
Bloodstock Open Air Festival have announced that the first confirmed band for next year’s bash will be none other than Norway’s theatrical, fire-breathing black metal legends, Immortal. Having just...
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Bloodstock Day 3: Korpiklaani, Gojira, Bloodbath and Twisted Sister
As the gods of metal finally see fit to replace unremitting rain with relentless sunshine on Bloodstock’s third and final day, it takes Finnish folk metallers Korpiklanni to remind us what weather like...
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Mike Portnoy Leaves Dream Theater!
Multi-award-winning drummer, Mike Portnoy has announced that he is parting ways with Dream Theater, the prog-metal giants he co-founded back in 1985. Although Mike had recently been pursuing other...
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Get Deftones early exclusively through Hammer!
Tickets for the Deftones/Coheed & Cambria gig at the O2 Academy Brixton on November 17 go on sale officially tomorrow, but you can order them online today exclusively through Metal Hammer and our...
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Philly Gama Bomb: 32 Pieces Of Essential Tour Knowledge
Forget wiggling dead fish at groupies and chainsawing entire hotels in half: the modern rock tour is a less decadent, yet infinitely more rewarding and boozy affair than the cushy mega-tours of the...
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Tom Dare: “The Underground Needs The Mainstream”
Metal Hammer scribe Tom Dare discusses the often ignored interdependence of the underground and the overground metal scenes. “Metal. It’s really easy to understand, innit? You’ve got your mainstream...
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Sonic Syndicate: Nathan Biggs Reviews Korn
Nathan Biggs moved to Sweden to front Sonic Syndicate. He agreed to give us a Brit’s eye view of metal in Scandinavia. MH: You’ll know Nathan better as the singer who left our shores to join...
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Trespass America: Five Finger Death Punch Blog 6
The Five Finger Death Punch boys have been updating us on the first ever Metal Hammer Trespass America Festival – this time it’s guitarist Jason Hook’s turn… Welcome back… I guess it’s my turn again to...
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Blogs Of War: Stephen Hill Goes Back To Reading Festival 1999
Stephen Hill: Angry Man Stephen Hill loves the 90s. This is probably why he’s always talking about them. In today’s blog, Steve remembers the time he realised that The Red Hot Chili Peppers are...
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Blogs Of War: Raz Goes To SXSW (Part Two)
Upon A Burning Body: Snappy Dressers, No-Messers South By South West, one of the best festivals on the planet, takes over Austin, Texas this week for a barrage of music, art and cultural events. It...
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Blogs Of War: My Chemical Romance – RIP?
MCR: Gone but not forgotten, whatever you think of them The recent news that My Chemical Romance are calling it quits after over a decade together was met with hysterical dismay by their biggest fans...
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Blogs Of War: Merl Was A Fozzy Roadie For A Day, And All He Got Was This...
Fozzy: employing rubbish roadies since Saturday Last Saturday, our Merl got invited by WWE legend, Fozzy frontman and Hammer contributor Chris Jericho to come and be a Fozzy roadie for the day at their...
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Blogs Of War: Don’t Be A Jesse Person Or A Howard Person. Be A Killswitch...
Killswitch Engage: back on form Many people at Download last year will tell you that the defining moment of the festival – perhaps even of the summer or of 2012 itself – was seeing Tony Iommi walk out...
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Blogs Of War: I Still Listen To Limp Bizkit In 2013
Limp Bizkit: Better than you Earlier this week, mock-a-zine Vice posted an article questioning the validity of being a Limp Bizkit fan in 2013. Well, our Merl is a Limp Bizkit fan in 2013, and he...
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Live Evil: Metallica At Roskilde Festival (Setlist Inside)
Metallicaaaaaaaaah Yeah, yeah, yeah, “Metallica died when Cliff Burton died, The Black Album is overrated, Lars can’t play anymo-” shut the fuck up. James Hetfield is bellowing out I Disappear like a...
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Blogs Of War: Roskilde Might Be The Best Festival Ever
I’d already heard quite a bit about Roskilde before I got the chance to actually rock up and check it out for myself. Denmark’s (and, in fact, Northern Europe’s) premier mega-fest is renown for...
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Blogs Of War: While She Sleeps Played The Vans Shop In Camden High Street And...
While She Sleeps: Flying the flag for British metal Last night (Wednesday August 28), While She Sleeps rocked up to a tiny Vans store on Camden High Street to officially launch the countdown to Vans...
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Slayer Working On New Material?
Slayer Mark 2013 According to an article on Blabbermouth, Tom Araya and Kerry King are looking to spend some time in the studio prior to their October US tour to begin work on a brand new Slayer album....
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Machine Head’s Robb Flynn On ‘Hail To The King’: Who Knew That Rerecording...
Our Robb Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn has posted a rather cheeky new blog taking aim at Avenged Sevenfold’s chat-topping new album, Hail To The King. Have a read below… “Congratulations to Avenged...
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Avenged Sevenfold: M Shadows Responds To Robb Flynn
M Shadows and Robb Flynn: Chums in real life? Avenged Sevenfold frontman M Shadows has responded to the somewhat unseemly blog posted by Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn this week that gave a rather...
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Win A Limited Edition Playstation 3 And A Copy Of Grand Theft Auto V!
Fancy winning yourself a collector’s edition of Grand Theft Auto V and a limited-edition PS3? Well it’s your lucky fucking day, because that’s exactly what we’re giving away. CLICK HERE TO ENTER
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Blogs Of War: We Went To Rob Zombie’s ‘Great American Nightmare’ Haunted...
When we heard that Rob Zombie was putting on a special Halloween extravaganza, featuring no less than three haunted houses, we knew we had to be involved. Sadly, we’re all massive wimps and were far...
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Blogs Of War: Motley Crue – Epitaph For The Saints Of Los Angeles
Signing off: Crue with their legally-binding split deal Words: Brooke Ellis Legions of ghosts roam the City of Angels, a few notable ones, such as Marilyn Monroe and Errol Flynn, allegedly make their...
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Blogs Of War: Why It’s OK To Judge Bands On Image
Sleeping With Sirens: Is it fair to guess the kind of music this photo represents? Dom Lawson has noticed there’s a lot of ‘Rock Is Dead’ hyperbole doing the rounds at the moment, and he’s got...
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Blogs Of War: Lords Of The Riff Day 3
Orange Goblin’s Ben Ward is currently hanging with the amazing trio of bands on this year’s Lords Of The Riff tour! Here’s how it’s going so far… Day 3 – Tuesday March 18th – The Arts Centre,...
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Blogs Of War: Lords Of The Riff Day 4 + 5
Orange Goblin’s Ben Ward is currently hanging with the amazing trio of bands on this year’s Lords Of The Riff tour! Here’s how it’s going so far… Day 4 – Wednesday March 19th – Another Day Off! Woke...
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Blogs Of War: Lords Of The Riff Day 6
Orange Goblin’s Ben Ward is currently hanging with the amazing trio of bands on this year’s Lords Of The Riff tour! Here’s how it’s going so far… Day 6 – Friday March 21st – The Corporation, Sheffield...
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Blogs Of War: Lords Of The Riff Days 7 + 8
Orange Goblin’s Ben Ward is currently hanging with the amazing trio of bands on this year’s Lords Of The Riff tour! Here’s how it’s going so far… Day 7 – Saturday March 22nd – King Tut’s, Glasgow Had...
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