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BORN TO LOSE. LIVED TO WIN

IN ACE OF Spades , Lemmy famously sang

A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Ice Nine Kills are bringing their horror movie convention to the UK – with some bloody special guests

HAMMER STEREO

What’s been blowing our office speakers

DO YOU ALWAYS SMELL LIKE A FREAK SHOW?

Avatar’s ringleader Johannes Eckerström faces your questions on Insane Clown Posse, balloon animals and why he’ll never play ska

JENNIFER HABEN

Beyond The Black’s powerhouse vocalist explains how she started listening to Whitney Houston and ended up at Lemmy

WOLFGANG VAN HALEN

Hard rock’s greatest prodigy talks joining Van Halen, opening for Metallica and trying to carve out his own legacy

CLOSER NINE INCH NAILS

How a misinterpreted horny anthem turned Trent Reznor into an unlikely – and unwilling – rock’n’roll sex god

DEVILOOF

Deathcore brutality and visual kei flair? This Japanese band are making a mark

WITHIN DESTRUCTION

The Slovenian and Thai brutes using Japanese culture to break out of deathcore

BENEATH A STEEL SKY

Meditative Scottish sextet meld post-metal’s bile with post-rock’s beauty

CWFEN

Haunting, emotive darkness from the heart of Scotland

CALL ME AMOUR

Genre-bending metal that refuses to be defined

HOARD ALMIGHTY

KREATOR

HE WAS LEMMY & HE PLAYED ROCK’N’ROLL ROLL

On December 24, Motörhead’s legendary frontman would have been 80 years old. On the 10th anniversary of his death, and his band’s 50th anniversary, we celebrate the man, the music and the myth

LEMMY FOREVER

The Motörhead icon may be gone, but he lives on in bullet casings, statues and tattoos. This is how Lemmy’s ashes were spread around the world

EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYONE ELSE

50 years, 50 songs – these are the greatest Motörhead tracks, as picked by some of your favourite metal artists

“ALL THE SHIT I’D BEEN THROUGH MELTED AWAY”

In this exclusive extract from his new book, Last Rites , Ozzy Osbourne looked back on his surprise return to the stage at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham – and how it ushered in his final chapter

REFUSE/ RESIST

From underground ragers to Amy Lee-and Fred Durst-approved metal-edged hardcore nihilists, Dying Wish are making a stand against the tides of hate

DYING WISH MATHS

Emma Boster on the musical inspirations behind Flesh Stays Together

IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS TODAY…

…you’ll find one of the most exciting metal bands of 2025. They are Orbit Culture, and they’ve lured us to their hometown in deepest, darkest Sweden

THE KNOWLEDGE ORANGE GOBLIN

Thirty years, 10 albums, a reservoir of booze – Orange Goblin are linchpins of the British metal scene. But these hairy warhorses are about to call time on their career

VIMIC

Open Your Omen SELF-RELEASED

PUPIL SLICER

Fleshwork PROSTHETIC

THE ACACIA STRAIN

You Are Safe From God Here

DESPISED ICON

Shadow Work

SMALL MERCIES

Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’

LAMP OF MURMUUR

The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy

WORLD SERVICE

Heavy metal uprisings from around the globe

OF MICE & MEN

Another Miracle

PARKWAY DRIVE

THY ART IS MURDER/THE AMITY AFFLICTION

MIMI BARKS

LO RAYS

VIMIC

WEDNESDAY 13

REFUSED

QUICKSAND / THE CHISEL

W.A.S.P.

ARMORED SAINT

BLOOD INCANTATION

ORANSSI PAZUZU / SIJJIN

PARADISE LOST

MESSA / HIGH PARASITE

FIVE MINUTES WITH DELILAH BON

The self-styled “brat punk” on dragons, pubes and murdering innocent Sims