411 Mania — News and thoughts on Metallica topping Rolling Stone's list of the greatest metal albums of all time, Century Media going after illegal downloaders, Iron Maiden headlining the 2013 Download festival and more! more info

Guardian Music — Lucian Grainge remains bullish after music giant gets green light for £1.2bn takeover, despite EC's demand for divestmentsUniversal Music chairman and chief executive Lucian Grainge has reiterated his pledge to make £100m in annual savings after bu... more info

Metal Injection — It's only September, and we're already talking about summer festivals in 2013? I guess we are. Yesterday, the organizers of the Download Festival announced two of their headliners. Download Fest 2013 will go down June 14th through the 16th ... more info

Guardian Music — Veteran metallers plan an updated version of their 1988 setlist, promising 'plenty of pyro' and a 'proper racket'Iron Maiden will headline Saturday night at the 2013 Download festival, 25 years after their first time at the top of the bill. The Briti... more info

Metal Injection — If anything proves Rolling Stone's irrelevancy to music nowadays, it's their just-released readers poll of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time. Spoiler alert: Rolling Stone readers only heard of Metallica, Black Sabbath, Guns N Rose... more info

Metalsucks — Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris’ debut solo album, British Lion, is now in streaming in full on Metal Hammer‘s website, and holy poop on a stick, is it ever bad. For one thing, I don’t know if it’s just the quality of the stream or what, b... more info

Guardian Music — The boys are back in town to work on first new material since the death of singer Phil Lynott in 1986Thin Lizzy are set to make their first album in 29 years. The band will go into the studio next month, recording their first LP without former frontm... more info

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Prefix — Metallica join a star-studded cast (Santana, Iron Maiden, The Flaming Lips) on Re-Machined: A Tribute To Deep Purple's Machine Head, ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/listen-metallica-when-a-blind-man-cries-deep-purpl/68489/ more info

411 Mania — From Iron Maiden helping their former drummer with M.S. to Kerry King of Slayer talking about recording a new album and Epica granted a fan's wish plus free downloads and MORE! more info