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The prog metal mavens offered an excellent tribute to the Prince Of Darkness at a festival last weekend

Now officially in their third decade, the Hawklords collective continue their purple patch with latest album Time.

On the road we’ll run like a river,Headlights on, like a river we’ll run;Through the parks and through the pavilions,Like a river tonight we’ll run...

Creeping Death? Raining Blood? The Trooper? Blind? Which metal riff towers above the rest?

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Eric Gales, Tyler Bryant, Starbenders and more

Thousands of fans, hundreds of bands and tonnes of mud: but Wacken is still the best metal festival around