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“It streams more than double any other track we have weekly, yet a portion of the fanbase acts like it was a failure.” How Avenged Sevenfold’s “funny little experiment” with Hail to the King yielded extraordinary results

Six months before the release of Hail to the King, M. Shadows told Metal Hammer that Avenged Sevenfold's new album would have more of a...

“People that do this that don’t have huge egos have huge problems.” Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger says that a life in rock and roll will “permanently damage” you psychologically

The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger has acknowledged that life in a successful rock and roll band is "obviously not normal", and admitted that "psychologically...

“We love her, and we want her to feel the full strength of the community that has loved and supported her for so many years.” L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer

L7 bassist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and is undergoing treatment. Finch will no longer take part in...

“Did he ask me to write a song with him? I didn’t take that seriously. We’d had a few pints.” The night Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder partied ’til dawn with Bob Dylan in an Irish bar

The list of performers assembled at New York's storied Madison Square Garden on October 16, 1992, to celebrate Bob Dylan's 30 year recording history was...

Emptiness – Nowhere Speaks Review

Emptiness, nothingness, absence, non-being: such evocations of negation abound in extreme metal, often justifiably given the visceral analogy between dense dissonance and existential dysphoria. Among...

“Queen’s tech said, ‘The lads would love to see you.’ It was a set-up – when I got there they’d set up the studio for me”: Steve Howe’s favourite moments as a guitar for hire, and the one that got away

Before Steve Howe joined Yes in 1970, he’d built a respectable career as both band member and session player. Even after becoming one of prog’s...

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