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Metal

December 2024

  • A composite image of three different people holding acoustic guitars

    2024 in Culture
    The best songs of 2024 … that you haven’t heard

  • Menacing … Corey Taylor of Slipknot at the First Direct Arena, Leeds.

    Slipknot review – metal mammoths deliver exhilarating sonic brutality

  • Remarkable … Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Lord Spikeheart, Ganavya

    Best music of 2024
    The 10 best global albums of 2024

  • Chappell Roan performing onstage

    Chappell Roan, Hozier and Travis Scott to headline Reading and Leeds for first time

November 2024

  • James McMahon also known as James Jam by Tom Oxley

    Other lives
    James McMahon obituary

    Other lives: Music journalist who was full of enthusiasm for new bands, wrote for the NME and edited Kerrang!
  • Poppy portrait

    Poppy: Negative Spaces review – screams and sweetness as metalcore meets loungecore

    On her sixth album, the multi-genre star seems to be having an identity crisis – but amid the industrial guitars and synthpop, she clearly trusts her own instincts
  • Linkin Park, with new frontwoman Emily Armstrong.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Linkin Park: From Zero review – rock’s risk takers win big with punchy comeback

    They sold millions as the most poppy and emotional band in nu-metal. Now, returning with Emily Armstrong as frontwoman, they remain just as dynamic

October 2024

  • wedding songs

    ‘We tried to get Mariah Carey … and found out she costs $1m’: the songs musicians chose for their first dance

    Does Charlie Simpson regret choosing Sigur Rós? Did Chesney Hawkes play ‘that’ song? And who picked an eight-minute jam by LCD Soundsystem? Musicians on the songs they chose for their wedding dance, for better or for worse
  • Iron Maiden Onstage<br>British heavy metal band Iron Maiden performs at Pointe East during their Killer World Tour, Lynwood, Illinois, June 26, 1981. Pictured is Paul Di'Anno. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

    Paul Di’Anno obituary

    Lead singer with the heavy metal band Iron Maiden in the 70s

    • Paul Di’Anno, early frontman for Iron Maiden, dies aged 66

    • The reader interview
      Ice-T: ‘Anybody that thinks controversy is a way to make money, it’s not. You need lawyers!’

    • ‘Being alive is kind of painful’: the bleak vision of noise rockers Chat Pile

September 2024

  • Emily Armstrong of Linkin Park performing at the O2 Arena, London, 24 September 2024.

    Linkin Park review – monster hits perfectly reshaped for a fresh chapter

    Back on the road with vocalist Emily Armstrong making their back catalogue her own, the hybrid metallers have found a new audience and a reinvigorated sense of purpose
  • Linkin Park, with co-founder Mike Shinoda, right, and new singer Emily Armstrong, centre.

    ‘Instantly a very different vibe’: the glory and controversy of Linkin Park’s explosive comeback

    On hiatus since the 2017 suicide of Chester Bennington, the rockers have had huge success with return single The Emptiness Machine – but there is disquiet over the frontman’s replacement
  • The look of an 80s medium … Gazelle Twin, AKA Elizabeth Bernholz, at Supersonic.

    Supersonic festival review – an awesome windmill of noise and connection

    This festival of heavier sounds from the fringes was a blast, from chilling Gazelle Twin to Daisy Rickman’s Krautrock-folk, noise icons Melt-Banana and locals Flesh Creep

August 2024

  • From left to right; Playboy Carti, Janet Jackson, Wendy Eisenberg.

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    All for you! Janet Jackson, Snõõper, Bob Dylan and more: the best music of autumn 2024

  • Korn frontman Jonathan Davis at Open Air theatre, Scarborough.

    Korn review – a mosh-pit erupting set drenched in dark energy

July 2024

  • Bruce Dickinson with his hair pulled back and wearing a black leather jacket, against a mid-blue background

    The Q&A
    Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? The list goes on and on … ’

    The singer on surviving a plane engine fire over the Atlantic, doing a gig in wartime Sarajevo, and a scary pair of lips
  • Balenciaga Raver Bracelet in pink, black and blue polyester, metallized polyester, cotton and sterling silver 925 is from its 53rd couture collection.

    Festival wristbands are grubby badges of honour – so Balenciaga’s £3,000 version is cringeworthy

    Emma Garland
    Wearing a soggy, stinky bracelet shows you’re part of a something communal, which is the very opposite of haute couture
  • ‘A beautiful, bold and totally involving album’ … English Teacher.

    ‘A folk music wolf in doom metal clothing’: readers’ favourite albums of 2024 so far

    Following our rundown of the best albums in the first half of the year, you responded with your own suggestions, from Kali Malone to Kim Gordon
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