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"They really made me smile...it was our singer that we never got!" Metallica's James Hetfield reveals the new metal band he's loving right now - and it involves an old friend

James Hetfield was delighted to recognise an old friend singing for a new band he heard on the radio

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"I'm picking this one just to annoy Ian Paice, who doesn’t like it": Ian Gillan's five favourite Deep Purple deep cuts

Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan picks some personal favourites from the band's bulging catalogue

Louder

"It was like a spy movie; I was in a room, this light shining in my face": A true crime story of Roger Glover, a new Rickenbacker, and Smoke On The Water

Roger Glover bought a new bass guitar for the recording of Machine Head, but things did not go according to plan

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“Metallica would jam on their stuff in rehearsals, songs like Black Night and Highway Star”: Lars Ulrich on his lifelong love of Deep Purple and the genius of the Machine Head album

Lars Ulrich is a lifelong Deep Purple fan – and here’s why

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Kerry King, Creeper, Bambie Thug and more added to Download 2024

Download adds eight new names to its 2024 bill

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Win two Weekend VIP Passes, roundtrip airfare and hotel accommodation for the DWP festival of your choice - Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple, Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life or Aftershock 2024!

Louder, Metal Hammer and DWP are teaming up to offer one lucky US fan and a pal the chance to go to one of this year's biggest festivals!

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How Wind Creek Event Center Takes It to 'The Next Level of Sound'

An L-Acoustics L2 and L2D professional audio system amps things up at the concert venue.

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“I was approached to audition for Megadeth and Machine Head, but I'm not sure I'm made for being a hired gun”: Gus G explains why he turned down the opportunity to audition for two of the biggest metal bands in the game

The Firewind titan was approached by Megadeth and Machine Head in 2015 and 2019 respectively as a potential replacement for Chris Broderick and Phil Demmel

Guitar World

Godsmack, Shinedown, Killswitch Engage, The Offspring, Halestorm, Parkway Drive, Poison The Well, Machine Head and more for Inkcarceration Festival 2024

Inkcarceration have announced their lineup for 2024, with dozens of new additions joining Chimaria and Bad Omens

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"Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast!": the brutal true story behind Machine Head's Davidian, one of the defining anthems of '90s metal

The opening track on Machine Head's stunning debut album Burn My Eyes, Davidian has its roots in real life horrors

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Mystic Festival announces 17 more bands to join 2024 headliners Megadeth, Bring Me The Horizon and Machine Head

Zeal & Ardor, Kadavar and Mork are among the new names added to the Polish metal festival, held in Gdansk in June

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“Someone will send me photos of reindeer that inexplicably died in a circle and say, ‘This is so Green Lung!’ I’m like, ‘Yeah! This is working!’” How rising occult stars stumbled into a genre of their own

When guitarist Scott Black asked his grandmother for a Machine Head album, she bought him Deep Purple’s Machine Head – and so began a journey into mixing folk prog with 70s rock

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10 classic metal albums celebrating major anniversaries in 2024

From Judas Priest's seminal debut to nu metal and metalcore landmarks, these iconic records all changed the game

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"We learned so much from In Flames": Orbit Culture have toured with some of metal's most legendary names, now they're ready to conquer the world on their terms

Orbit Culture have toured with everyone from Trivium and Meshuggah to In Flames and Machine Head, but a decade into their careers they are ready to step up as one of metal's hottest up-and-coming bands

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“Kirk Hammett said, ‘Ah, Cannibal Corpse – that’s an interesting name!’” 20 legendary metal bands remember their first shows

Everybody starts somewhere! Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slipknot and more remember their first times onstage.

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Hellfest release insanely huge 2024 lineup announcement: Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Machine Head, The Prodigy, Corey Taylor, Tom Morello and dozens more now confirmed

Hellfest has done it again with another absolutely stacked lineup for 2024

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Download 2024 lineup announced: Queens Of The Stone Age, Fall Out Boy and Avenged Sevenfold to headline, plus Royal Blood, The Offspring, Corey Taylor, Machine Head, Babymetal, Bad Omens and dozens more bands also confirmed

Download's 2024 lineup is officially here

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The 20 greatest Download festival sets ever

For two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments

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Machine Head announce 2024 European festival appearances

Machine Head are returning to the festival fields of Europe in 2024

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A beginner's guide to Roadrunner Records in five essential albums

Metal's most celebrated label has put out dozens of genre-defining classics. Here are the five that tell its story

Guitar World

Alex Skolnick says Phil Demmel is the Winston Wolf of metal guitarists, as the ex-Machine Head man joins Testament’s EU tour

Metal’s own super-sub has been drafted in to cover while Skolnick takes time out due to a family emergency

Louder

The making of Deep Purple's Machine Head: "Smoke On The Water only made it onto the album as filler"

Let the members of Deep Purple MKII be your guide to the chaotic recording of Machine Head, an album that could have been very different to the one we know and love

Metal Hammer

10 legendary metal anthems whose live versions have overshadowed the originals

These ten tracks are all cornerstones of metal, but their definitive versions are undoubtedly when played live

Manchester Evening News

Review: Machine Head & Amon Amarth at Manchester AO Arena

The Vikings and Lionhearts Tour hits Manchester

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EXCLUSIVE: Why Machine Head's Logan Mader And SOAD's Shavo Odadjian Love Weed And What They're Doing About It

By Nicolás José Rodríguez and Javier Hasse.

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