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

Metalsucks — Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here’s managing editor Andrew Bonazelli… Mastodon, Opeth and Baroness are all multiple Dec... more info

ContactMusic — British rockers Iron Maiden have been helping their former drummer Clive Burr in his multiple sclerosis battle over the last 10 years after setting up a fund to get him through the health crisis The group founded The Clive Burr Trust in... more info

Metal Injection — There is a Deep Purple tribute album on the horizon. Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head comes out on September 25th and will have DP tributes by Iron Maiden, Black Label Society, Steve Vai, Santana and the singer of Papa Roa... more info