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๐Ÿ“บ๐Ÿ”ฅ The Inbetweeners Are Back! Netflix Confirms Third Film With the Original Cast

Ooh, Netflix fwends! Will, Simon, Jay and Neil are officially reuniting for The Inbetweeners 3 โ€” and filming is already underway in the UK. Sound the car horn, hide the briefcase and keep Jay away from the internet because Britainโ€™s most gloriously hopeless friendship group is heading back to our screens. Netflix has officially confirmed that The Inbetweeners 3 is...

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๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿ“บ When Korn Invaded South Park and Premiered โ€œFalling Away from Meโ€

Long before celebrity cameos became standard television business, South Park handed an entire Halloween episode to one of the biggest bands on the planet โ€” then let them become a cartoon version of the Scooby-Doo gang. Honestly, 1999 was a different beast, mun. ๐Ÿ”ฅ On 27 October 1999, Korn appeared in the brilliantly unhinged third-season episode โ€œKornโ€™s Groovy Pirate Ghost...

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๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿบ First Look Inside Ozzyโ€™s Bar at Universal Studiosโ€™ Halloween Horror Nights 2026

The Prince of Darkness has taken over Universal Studios โ€” and the bar looks ready to go completely off the rails! ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿ”ฅ Forget your ordinary theme-park watering hole. Universal Studios Hollywood has opened an entire bar dedicated to the late, great Ozzy Osbourne, and judging by the first footage from opening night, it is darker than a Black Sabbath riff...

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๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿ“บ Did SOS Bring One of the Heaviest Songs Ever to Prime-Time TV?

The Britainโ€™s Got Talent semi-finalists have reopened the debate after blasting their original track โ€œMonstersโ€ across the nation Saturday-night television usually serves up sparkling dance routines, tear-jerking ballads and enough dramatic pauses to fill Wembley Stadium. Then SOS arrived and brought the bloody breakdown. ๐Ÿ”ฅ The self-described โ€œalt-rock boybandโ€ have shared a headbanging rehearsal clip alongside one brilliantly cheeky question:...

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๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ”ฅ POSTHUMAN CODE: NORWAYโ€™S ENIGMATIC METALCORE ENTITY EXPLORING HUMANITYโ€™S DARKEST FUTURE

Something is stirring in the cold shadows of Norway โ€” and it sounds like the machines have finally learned how to breakdown. ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Posthuman Code is an enigmatic melodic metalcore entity operating at the point where raw human emotion collides with advancing machine dominance. Crushing riffs, cinematic atmospheres, soaring melodies and electronic textures combine to create a sound built for...

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๐ŸŽป๐Ÿ”ฅ YOU KNOW IT FROM THE FIRST SECOND โ€” LINKIN PARKโ€™S โ€˜FAINTโ€™ GETS A MASSIVE SYMPHONIC MAKEOVER! โšก๐Ÿค˜

There are certain songs that need a full verse before your brain clocks whatโ€™s playing. Then thereโ€™s Linkin Parkโ€™s โ€œFaintโ€. One second. Thatโ€™s all it takes. โšก The moment that frantic, unmistakable opening kicks in, an entire generation is instantly transported back to battered CD players, oversized hoodies, questionable spiked hair and bedrooms covered in Kerrang! posters. Now, Global Symphony...

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๐Ÿ“ผ๐Ÿ”ฅ THIS LINKIN PARK CASSETTE PLAYER IS PURE 2000s NOSTALGIA โ€” BUT THEREโ€™S A CATCH! ๐Ÿค˜

Just when we thought Linkin Park collectibles couldnโ€™t get any cooler, a miniature cassette player packed with retro nu-metal swagger has started doing the rounds online โ€” and fans are absolutely losing their minds over it. ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐ŸŽธ Created by Linkique and sold through Cassetteque, this interactive music player looks like something Mike Shinoda might have designed after being locked inside...

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๐Ÿ”ฅ โ€œITโ€™S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAINโ€ โ€” TWO YEARS SINCE LINKIN PARKโ€™S LEGENDARY RETURN ๐Ÿค˜

Two years ago, millions of Linkin Park fans were staring at their screens with absolutely no idea what was about to happen. Rumours had been flying. Mysterious countdowns had appeared. Social media was melting faster than a Greggs sausage roll left on the dashboard in July. Then, on 5 September 2024, the lights dropped inside a Warner Bros. sound stage...

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๐Ÿšข๐Ÿค˜ 70000 Tons Of Metal Unveils First 30 Bands for 2027 Cruise โ€” And Public Tickets Are About to Set Sail! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŒŠ

Pack the sun cream, polish the battle jacket and make sure your sea legs are ready, because 70000 Tons Of Metal is preparing to unleash another floating heavy metal invasion! ๐Ÿค˜โš“ The worldโ€™s biggest heavy metal cruise has revealed the first half of its enormous 2027 line-up, with Arch Enemy, Exodus, HammerFall, Moonspell, Evergrey, Primal Fear, Wolfheart and Uli Jon...

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๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿค˜ DAVE MUSTAINE HITS THE ROAD FOR THREE-CITY โ€˜IN MY DARKEST HOURโ€™ BOOK TOUR ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Megadeth main man, thrash-metal architect and professional survivor Dave Mustaine is swapping the stage for the storytellerโ€™s chair as he launches a three-city American book tour supporting his powerful new memoir, In My Darkest Hour. The book arrives on Tuesday, 8 September 2026, taking readers deep inside Mustaineโ€™s battle with cancer, his fight to preserve that unmistakable voice and the...

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๐ŸŽƒ๐ŸŽธ SLASH UNLEASHES TWO LIMITED-EDITION HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS VINYL PRESSINGS! ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ

Lock the doors, dim the lights and check beneath the turntable โ€” Slash is bringing his terrifying music from Universal Studios Hollywoodโ€™s Halloween Horror Nights back to vinyl! ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿ‘ป The Guns Nโ€™ Roses guitar legend has resurrected both volumes of Music Of Universal Studios Hollywood โ€“ Halloween Horror Nights, with each album receiving a brand-new, suitably sinister colour pressing. Released...

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๐ŸŽธ FOREIGNER STRIP IT BACK FOR INTIMATE โ€˜UNPLUGGEDโ€™ EUROPEAN TOUR โ€” INCLUDING LONDON AND DUBLIN! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Classic-rock giants Foreigner are turning down the amplifiers โ€” but certainly not the emotion โ€” for a rare run of intimate acoustic concerts in April 2027. The newly announced Foreigner Unplugged tour will visit just four European cities, giving fans the chance to hear some of rockโ€™s biggest anthems completely reimagined. Weโ€™re talking huge melodies, stripped-back arrangements and enough classic-rock...

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โ˜•๐Ÿค˜ ANTHRAX UNLEASH LIMITED-EDITION โ€˜CURSUM PERFICIOโ€™ COFFEE โ€” CAFFEINE AND THRASH COLLIDE! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Anthrax have spent more than four decades waking up metalheads with crushing riffs, thunderous drums and choruses capable of rattling every window in the street. Now theyโ€™re doing it with actual caffeine. โ˜•๐Ÿ’€ The New York thrash legends have joined forces with Chicago roasters Dark Matter Coffee to create a limited-edition Cursum Perficio blend celebrating the arrival of their long-awaited...

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๐Ÿค˜ IRON MAIDEN BRING EDDIEโ€™S DIVE BAR TO AMERICA FOR PRE-SHOW PINTS, MAYHEM AND METAL! ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Iron Maidenโ€™s colossal Run For Your Lives World Tour is tearing into the United States โ€” and Eddie isnโ€™t arriving quietly, mun! ๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ For the first time, Maidenโ€™s brilliantly boozy Eddieโ€™s Dive Bar experience is heading Stateside, giving fans the chance to gather before selected shows for Trooper beer, exclusive merchandise, food, entertainment and enough Maiden-fuelled madness to wake the...

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๐Ÿค˜ THE DAY OZZY OSBOURNE DISCOVERED GRINDMOTHER โ€” AND HELPED TURN A SCREAMING GRAN INTO A METAL SENSATION ๐Ÿ”ฅ

A 67-year-old grandmother, one furious grindcore anthem and a priceless reaction from the Prince of Darknessโ€ฆ this might be the greatest metal origin story ever told. Heavy metal has given us fire-breathing bassists, bat-biting frontmen and guitarists dressed as intergalactic warriors โ€” but even the scene wasnโ€™t prepared for Grindmother. Back in late 2015, the Canadian great-grandmother unleashed her first...

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