Download this week’s Metal Hammer podcast! Deftones, Guns N’ Roses, Slash, Killswitch Engage (yes, the Howard Jones story), Iron Maiden, Slayer, Children Of Bodom, Behemoth, Rolo tomassi, Trash Talk, Black Breath and plenty of clahning around…

Subscribe to the Metal Hammer podcast here. This week Gill And Beez chat Them Crooked Vultures, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold and Gill speaks to Alex Varkatzas from Atreyu.

In the absence of Beez, Gill brings in ‘emo correspondent’ Chris Smith and talks shite with Liam Cormier from Cancer Bats and interviews iconic rocker Alice Cooper. Click here to subscribe in iTunes.

The Metal Hammer podcast is live. Download it here! Gill and Caren chat Zakk Wylde, Black Sabbath, Rob Zombie and Hatebreed. Interviews include: Skindred, Bullet For My Valentine, Linkin Park, Lamb Of God, Cancer Bats, Dio, Airbourne and Bjorn Again!

Yes, you heard us right – the kooky coverers and two more announced for metal fest. (more…)

While Beez is on holiday Caren and Gill give you the news and chat Nine Inch Nails, Machine Head, Funeral For A Friend, Clutch, Atreyu and review albums by 3 Inches Of Blood, Shadows Fall, August Burns Red. We also speak to Download organiser Andy Copping about this year’s amazing festival and try and get him to say what he’s got planned for 2010. Also, French heaviests, Gojira and pirate metallers, Swashbuckle.

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Gill and Beez rant about Durst vs Reznor, the new Megadeth and Slayer albums, Sonisphere and dissect the new albums by Chickenfoot, Job For A Cowboy, Coalesce and there are interviews with Sonisphere head-honcho Stuart Galbraith and Atreyu’s Brandon Saller! Subscribe to us on iTunes by searching for ‘Metal Hammer’ in the iTunes store! (more…)

Gill and Beez tell all about this year’s Golden Gods, the HMS Hammer boat party and review all that they caught at this year’s Download festival!

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Gill and Beez are joined by deputy editor Caren Gibson to discuss absolutely everything you could possibly want to know about this year’s Download Festival.

Will this year’s headliners live up to expectation? Is Classic Rock Sunday a good idea? Who’s going to rock hardest? Who’s going to end their set covered in piss? It’s all here and it’s all you need to know about this year’s Download festival!

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If you can’t make it to Download this year, Metal Hammer will be on hand to bring you the biggest and best reviews live from Donington as the action unveils! Gill and Beez will also be on hand to blog about all of the backstage shenanigans on the site and on our Twitter and we’ll be bringing you the very best interviews, live from Download! Don’t miss out!

Download will take place on June 12th – 14th at Donington and will feature sets from Faith No More, Slipknot, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, The Prodigy, Limp Bizkit, Motley Crue, Marilyn Manson, Korn, ZZ Top, Down, Killswitch Engage, Journey, Clutch and many, many more.

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We promised you a special chat with Scott Ian (in which he reveals all about how Slipknot’s Corey Taylor was in Anthrax for 3 months!) and we deliver it, right now! Gill and Beez also discuss the Reznor/Manson feud, this year’s Golden Gods, Five Finger Death Punch, Download, Faith No More and review the new records from Andreas Kisser, Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster and material from the brand new Anthrax record! Ooooooh yeah!

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