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1 week ago | 
loudersound.com | Merlin Alderslade
Last week, Metal Hammer launched its 400th issue, with masked metal mavericks Sleep Token returning to the cover courtesy of two exclusive variants you can now order online. To celebrate, we decided to throw a little launch party at the iconic Black Heart in Camden, London.
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1 week ago | 
loudersound.com | Merlin Alderslade
In case you missed the memo, nu metal has undergone a major resurgence in recent years. Be it Limp Bizkit going viral for Fred Durst’s wigs, Adidas dropping a Korn collab or Linkin Park’s mega comeback, you can barely swipe up on ‘metal-Tok’ without stumbling across some reference to the mainstream-crushing glory days of the early 2000s. It’s not just the old dogs flexing new tricks, either.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Merlin Alderslade
NowAn upcoming ‘Pride with Kehlani’ event in New York’s Central Park has been cancelled over ‘safety’ concerns following Kehlani’s recent statement that they are ‘anti-genocide’. The news comes in the wake of a threat from NYC mayor Eric Adams to revoke the event organiser’s live music license if they …
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1 week ago | 
loudersound.com | Merlin Alderslade |Matt Mills
Each year, as summer threatens to start peeping round the corner, Incineration Festival descends upon Camden Town for a full day of extreme metal heaven (er, sorry, extreme metal HELL!!!, obviously).
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3 weeks ago | 
loudersound.com | Merlin Alderslade
By the end of 2024, Tobias Forge had nothing left. Facing burnout after years of heavy touring and the grinding double whammy of making and releasing a full movie and recording a brand new studio album, the Ghost mastermind found himself at the end of his rope. “I hit a wall,” he admits today. “I realised I am not built to do that. I really can’t.”It’s understandable that Tobias had started to feel the weight of it all.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Merlin Alderslade
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Pick up a physical copy of this magazine in UK stores now | Credit: FutureBy the end of 2024, Tobias Forge had nothing left. Facing burnout after years of heavy touring and the grinding double whammy of making and releasing a full movie and recording a brand new studio album, the Ghost mastermind found himself at the end of his rope. “I hit a wall,” he admits today.
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3 weeks ago | 
loudersound.com | Merlin Alderslade
You go to enough rock and metal shows and after a while you're convinced you've seen just about every possible variation of a mosh pit there could ever be. Circle pits? Standard. Twerkle pits? Scene Queen has them down. Macarena pits? Yep, seen a few of those. I swear no metal band post-2009 has been able to play more than 10 minutes without getting everyone to go down low and then 'jumpdafuckup' together. Crowds are even rowing at Deafheaven gigs now (Amon Amarth, what have you done?!).
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3 weeks ago | 
loudersound.com | Merlin Alderslade
On July 18, Russian deathcore monsters Slaughter To Prevail will release their brand new studio album Grizzly. To celebrate, we've teamed up with the band to offer an exclusive vinyl variant that you won't find anywhere else - a seaweed green and bone-coloured number completed by a lovely big splatter of red. It looks excellent, and you can pre-order it right now from the official Metal Hammer store. There's even a pop-up cardboard bear trap in the inner sleeve. What more could you want?
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Merlin Alderslade
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3 weeks ago | 
loudersound.com | Merlin Alderslade
It was a crime against British metal that Conqueringdidn’t make Employed To Serve absolutely massive. Released in the autumn of 2021, the Woking quintet’s fourth offering was an album of the year contender, opening up their once dense and scabrous brand of metallic hardcore to go straight for the jugular with the biggest, most hook-infested songs of their career.
