Evanescence’s Amy Lee is a big Sleep Token fan: “How do they go so many different directions and call it one song?”
Evanescence’s singer has tipped her cap to masked metal cult Sleep Token in a new interview
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Evanescence’s Amy Lee is a big Sleep Token fan: “How do they go so many different directions and call it one song?”
Evanescence’s singer has tipped her cap to masked metal cult Sleep Token in a new interview
"How can anybody stand up and say ‘save the planet’? Artists are awful for hypocritical bandwagonery": Music exec hits out at musicians for continuing to make physical records during the climate crisis
A senior record industry exec thinks that physical records should be banned and that global live shows should be screened online to combat the climate crisis
Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst just collaborated with a German rapper and it sounds weirdly awesome
The Limp Bizkit frontman guests on rapper Alligatoah’s new single So Raus, and it’s shockingly catchy
System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian and Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi have teamed up for a brand new single, Deconstruction
System Of A Down’s singer and Black Sabbath’s guitarist collaborated with Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian to release a brand new song for charity
Francis Dunnery's It Bites will release new studio album Return To Natural early next year
Francis Dunnery's It Bites announce Return To Natural January live dates
Caligula's Horse stream ten-minute new single The World Breathes With Me
Australian prog rockers Caligula's Horse share video for brand new single Golem
Creeper's Sanguivore is Metal Hammer's album of the year
Creeper's magnificent vampire rock opera is officially Metal Hammer's album of 2023. Plus, the top 50 revealed!
Slipknot, Disturbed, Misfits, Limp Bizkit, Evanescence and many more for Sonic Temple 2024, tickets on sale today
Sonic Temple is looking set to be one of the biggest metal festivals in the world next year!
Big Big Train announce brand new album The Likes Of Us
Big Big Train will release The Likes Of Us, their first studio album with new singer Alberto Bravin, in March
Classic Rock Magazine: our unmissable end-of-year issue is on sale now
In this issue: the best albums, the biggest shows, the greatest songs of 2023 - plus our 2024 Calendar, a sheet of rockin' wrappin' paper, and some Classic Rock Christmas gift tags
Guns N' Roses release anguished yet epic new recording of The General
The General is the b-side to new Guns N' Roses single Perhaps, and was recorded, mixed and mastered this summer
Bloodstock festival adds Carcass, Sylosis, Satyricon and more to 2024 lineup
11 new bands have been added to the extreme metal festival, which will take place at Catton Hall, Derbyshire, in August
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“We begged Stallone to send us the whole movie. When he did, we were blown away”: Survivor were just another struggling AOR band. And then Rocky III and Eye Of The Tiger changed everything
Their killer theme for Rocky III made stars of soft rockers Survivor – but their tale of heroism and heartbreak had no Hollywood ending
10 incredible metal bands who sadly split in 2023
From Palisades to Sharptooth, we bid adieu to tons of powerhouse bands in 2023
"We haven’t had to take the devil's bargain just yet": meet Green Lung, the occult rockers who've stumbled on a formula for infernal success
Green Lung's horror theatricality and Zeppelin-style folk diversify the doom diet beyond Black Sabbath alone
Best Christmas gifts for metalheads 2023: Raise your horns with these heavy-duty gift ideas
Find that perfect gift for the special metal lover in your life with our pick of the best face-melting presents you can buy this Christmas
“When we started, it wasn’t necessarily going to be a trilogy… I like the fact that each one is a bit different. To this day that’s the best band I’ve ever been in”: Steve Hillage on Gong’s Radio Gnome Invisible era
The guitarist most associated with Daevid Allen’s band believes they launched a second wave of psychedelia with their 70s albums Chocolate Teapot, Angel’s Egg and You
“I just wanted to scream”: Taiwanese duo Laang 冷 are channelling a near-death experience into ferocious black metal
Haitao Yang was shot in the head in 2017. 18 months later, the musician started unloading his trauma into the intense black metal of Laang 冷.
“As hard as it was, and it was hard, nobody wanted to bottle out. We just knew we had a big landscape we could explore”: How Tales From Topographic Oceans became the most arduous project in Yes’ history
Used as a byword for musical over-indulgence, 1973 album fought its creators every step of the way – right down to its master tapes nearly being crushed by a bus
The albums on Stiff Records you should definitely own
Pioneering indie label Stiff Records was home to some of the great music of the 70s and 80s, from Ian Dury to The Pogues, The Damned and beyond. And these are the labe's best albums
"Our intention was to go out on stage and destroy all living things": How Gene Simmons intimidated Geezer Butler when Kiss supported Black Sabbath
Kiss supported Black Sabbath for three dates on the Sabotage tour, and Gene Simmons remembers it well
All the way to nowhere: The story of The Raspberries
John Lennon, Keith Moon and Kurt Cobain were fans. They influenced Kiss, Cheap Trick and Bruce Springsteen. So how come The Raspberries never quite made it?
"I felt a rage towards him that has taken decades to subside": The mysterious case of the fake Fleetwood Mac
Critically acclaimed and loved by their contemporaries, Stretch were perhaps doomed from the start by their involvement in one of the strangest chapters in music history
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"Rat Wars is the most personal, cathartic and brutal record of their career." With a little help from Lamb Of God and Godflesh, Health have made an album fit for goth clubs and mosh pits alike
Health's evolution from underground art noise favourites to modern metal scene mainstays has reached a new peak
"Tracing the evolution of a bar-room behemoth": Bryan Adams' Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Three nights, three albums, one stodgy tone: Bryan Adams plays the hits live at the iconic Royal Albert Hall
"Two discs, 22 songs, one very worthy epitaph": Bernie Marsden's Working Man
Working Man is the final album by blues aficionado and former Whitesnake star Bernie Marsden
"There's the overwhelming sensation that we've all just witnessed something very, very special." Riffs, witches and a Dorset Ooser: Green Lung just showed Brighton why they could well be heavy metal's next Big Deal
Green Lung show Brighton why they're one of the most talked about bands in all of metal right now courtesy of an intimate but epic show at Patterns
“The disc of unreleased live material truly captures the excitement of this line-up in full flight”: The Yes Album Super Deluxe Edition
Extended third LP, their first with Steve Howe, illustrates the amazing connection between musicians at the top of their game
"Loathe’s sound captures something timeless; it’s clear that The Warehouse was blessed tonight." Loathe put on an intimate, powerful and emotional show in Leeds - and for a vitally important cause
Loathe remind Leeds why they're one of the UK's most unique young metal bands
“A vivid, three-dimensional update… they outstrip the originals’ impact by some distance”: Peter Hammill’s In A Foreign Town / Out Of Water 2023
Van der Graaf Generator frontman has little to prove – but does it anyway with his revamp of solo albums hobbled by late-80s production values
"In a year in which both pop and rock found themselves in a sort of hiatus, Hounds Of Love represented a standout achievement:" Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love (Baskerville Edition)
A reissue of Kate Bush's 1985 album Hounds Of Love with new artwork, illustrations, and solar-powered flashing LEDs
Kiss bring the curtain down on the End Of The Road tour - and their epic 50-year career - with a spectacular, and intriguing, final bow in New York City
Or could the end be just another beginning?
Peter Gabriel's i/o. "The world has changed since 2002, mostly for the worst, but it’s a better place with i/o in it."
The ex-Genesis singer returns to the big time with his first album in 21 years to reassert his place as the doyen of cerebral art-pop.
Babymetal's 2023 World Tour comes to the UK: seldom has metal seemed more joyous, triumphant and utterly groundbreaking
Almost a decade on from their self-titled debut album, Babymetal are leading lights for the next generation of metal star
