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THE 9 DEFINED 1999

AFTER SEEING THE mini-moshers at my high school

CONQUER OR DIE!

PRESS/DIRK JACOBS/WOA FESTIVAL GMBH HORDES OF COSTUMED performers

“IT’S GONNA BE BRUTAL!”

Bloodstock announces the first 19 bands of its 2025 line-up – including headliners Trivium, Machine Head and Gojira

HAMMER STEREO

What’s been blowing our office speakers

WHAT DO ALIENS LOOK LIKE?

Bury Tomorrow frontman Dani Winter-Bates answers your questions on extraterrestrials, reincarnation and good dogs

KIMI

Bridear’s vocalist shares her love for J-metal, melodeath, videogame soundtracks and Metallica

OPETH

The prog metal masters make a much-anticipated return to extreme metal – and concepts

FALK MARIA SCHLEGEL

Powerwolf’s showboating keyboardist declares what he’s discovered after two decades of making Catholic-inspired lycanthropic power metal

OUR TRUTH LACUNA COIL

Comalies and Ozzfest helped introduce Lacuna Coil to the world, but the lead single from 2006’s Karmacode would see them embrace global influence

HOUSE OF PROTECTION

Former members of Fever 333 embrace the power of positive thinking

CROWNSHIFT

The Finnish metal supergroup bridging melodeath fury and prog pomp

DRAIN

Spinkicking crossover with the biggest grins in hardcore

IRESS

The Los Angeles band mixing shoegaze and doom to create ‘dream metal’

PROFILER

Bristol’s nu metal revivalists pine for simpler times

HOARD ALMIGHTY

ALT BLK ERA RAVE IMMORTAL – COMPLETIST BUNDLE

"WE WERE NOBODIES, ANONYMOUS AND FACELESS WITH NO RECORD OUT, BUT IN THAT MOMENT IT FELT LIKE MAY BE WE HAD A SHOT"

In early 1999, no one outside of Des Moines, Iowa knew who Slipknot were. And then they released their debut. Twenty-five years on, Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan, Jim Root and Ross Robinson look back on the album that changed the world

"IT'S THE BEST OF ALL THINGS SLIPKNOT"

The band are planning an incredible reissue of their debut album

WELCOME TO 10 WA

No one broke out of Des Moines… until Slipknot did. This is the story of their birth, by those who were there

(Sic) of it all

Before they’d even played in the UK, Hammer met Slipknot in Memphis, Tennessee to get inside the mind of the sickest band on the planet

LONDON CALLING

On December 13, 1999, Slipknot played their very first overseas show at London’s Astoria theatre. It was a gig that changed everything – for them and for metal

HOW SLIPKNOT'S DEBUT ALBUM CHANGED MY LIFE

Nine musicians explain why The Nine’s first record has had such an enduring impact on them

"IT GETS ME GOING AGGY!"

Iheard Slipknot for the first time when I

IT'S PUSHING BOUNDARIES

CASSYETTE: PRESS/DAVE LUNT. JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER: PRESS “It

I LOOK UP TO CLOWN A LOT

“The first song that I heard from the

IT'S WASN'T ANGER FOR ANGERS SAKE

“It came out in summer as I

THEY WERE AT THEIR MOST PSYCHOTIC

BEN BENTLEY Ihadn’t actually heard Slipknot’s debut album

I WENT FROM NICE MUSIC TI THIS UNHINGED STUFF

“I was always the kid with headphones

SLIPKNOT MADE THINGS FEEL ON EDGE

A.A. WILLIAMS: PRESS/MARC TROJANOWSKI. JOE NALLY: PRESS/ANDY FORD

IT STILL FEELS AGGRESSIVE AND VITAL

“My first Slipknot record was Vol. 3. I

EVERY TRACK IS A BANGER

BRADY DEEPROSE: PRESS & COURTESY OF BRADY. DEBBIE

HERIOT ARE HERE and they’re the new face of British metal

Heavy. Blissful. Experimental.

"LET'S GO F@#KING CRAZY!"

To celebrate Ozzy Osbourne’s imminent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, we asked metal’s biggest names to pick the Prince Of Darkness’s greatest songs, from deep cuts to all-time classics

NIGHTWISH

Yesterwynde NUCLEAR BLAST

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER

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BEWITCHER

Spell Shock CENTURY MEDIA

DELILAH BON

Evil, Hate Filled Female SELF-RELEASED

BRANT BJORK TRIO

Once Upon A Time In The Desert DUNA

COPSE

MMXXIV CHURCH ROAD           

MIMI BARKS

This Is Doom Trap SILENT CULT

FEVER 333

Darker White CENTURY MEDIA / 333 WRECKORDS

DAUFØDT

Glitter FYSISK FORMAT

DEFILED

Horror Beyond Horror SEASON OF MIST

DELVING

All Paths Diverge STICKMAN

SMALL MERCIES

Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’

EIHWAR

Viking War Trance SEASON OF MIST

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

I Am The Weapon AFM

GLARE OF THE SUN

Tal LIFEFORCE

GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT

Embers NAPALM

HERIOT

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Where Gods Fear To Speak SEASON OF MIST

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KID BOOKIE

Songs For The Living // Songs For The Dead MARSHALL

A KILLER’S CONFESSION

Victim 1 MNRK HEAVY

LEGIONS OF DOOM

The Skull 3 TEE PEE

MORK

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TRELLDOM

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SATAN

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WORLD SERVICE

Heavy metal uprisings from around the globe

SEETHER

The Surface Seems So Far FANTASY

SLOMOSA

Tundra Rock STICKMAN

SUR AUSTRU

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SWAMP COFFIN

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VENDED

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CHARLOTTE WESSELS

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What I’ll Leave Behind UNFD

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GABRIEL FRANCO UNTO OTHERS

The goth frontman talks the Ramones, his past as a “little metal shithead” and German techno sensations Scooter

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