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Closing the door on five decades as a band, BLACK SABBATH’S last-ever tour finished with an emotional show at Birmingham NEC on February 4. They played 15 songs, culminating in the legendary Paranoid. It was finally The End, and Team Hammer have dressed in black ever since.

METALLICA hooked up with Lady Gaga to perform Moth Into Flame at the Grammys. When James Hetfield’s mic failed, the singer shared hers – but that didn’t stop Papa Het storming offstage at the end. Later, Master Of Puppets was played as Megadeth collected the Best Metal Performance award for Dystopia. Awwwwwwkwaaaaaard ....

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN’S tourbus crashed in Poland. The band had been travelling from Warsaw to Krakow when a truck rammed into the vehicle. They came away unhurt, though some of their crew were hospitalised. “It felt like being hit by a missile,” they said

in a statement.

After SUICIDE SILENCE released new tracks Doris and Silence, fans launched a petition to stop Nuclear Blast from putting out the band’s self-titled album. More than 5,000 people signed it, in protest of their decision to abandon deathcore, with one even claiming “Nickelback is heavier”.