Living After Midnight: The business of Metal in the modern era

Forging onwards and winning untold legions of black-clad devotees, even as the godfathers of the genre exit the stage, 2025 is an impossibly exciting time in the world of live metal.

Sam Law catches up with the industry’s heaviest hitters to hear how sounds from the lunatic fringe continue to drive a global phenomenon…

Whether standing proud as wrought iron or shape-shifting like quicksilver through impassable dead ends, heavy metal is music built to endure. Curtains dropped symbolically this July with the farewell celebration for genre forefathers Black Sabbath in Birmingham, UK, and, 17 days later, the passing of their iconic frontman Ozzy Osbourne, but Back To The Beginning was less heavy requiem than part of a rampant reinvigoration. As the generation of artists Ozzy…

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