Metal Hammer Podcast: Help! Fashion police!
Is wearing a band tee of a band you don't know a minor indiscretion or a class A felony?
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Metal Hammer Podcast: Help! Fashion police!
Is wearing a band tee of a band you don't know a minor indiscretion or a class A felony?
Sons Of Apollo release new video for Goodbye Divinity
The prog rock supergroup will release new album MMXX in January...
Pre-Black Friday deal: Buy an Amazon Echo and get 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited free
Amazon are throwing in four free months of Music Unlimited when you buy an Amazon Echo right now, so why wait for Black Friday?
Architects release haunting acoustic version of A Wasted Hymn
Architects have released a video to accompany their acoustic version of A Wasted Hymn - original track featured on their latest album Holy Hell
The Cold Stares launch possibly haunted video for thundering rocker Into Black
Premiere: Indiana duo The Cold Stares launch video for Into Black, the third single from latest album Ways
Tool reveal Australian and New Zealand tour dates
Tool will head to Australia and New Zealand for the first time in six years on their 2020 tour in support of Fear Inoculum
The Fierce And The Dead announce March London show
Handful of tickets left for Hope & Anchor headline date...
Motley Crue’s Kickstart My Heart rocks new SpongeBob SquarePants movie
Motley Crue’s classic track Kickstart My Heart features in the new SpongeBob film - check out the trailer
Watch Nightwish perform Slaying The Dreamer live
Nightwish release video of their performance of Slaying The Dreamer - taken from Decades: Live In Buenos Aires
Jack Hues premieres video for debut single Whitstable Beach with Prog
Prog Award-winning Wang Chung man will release debut solo album next year...
Nirvana’s lawsuit against Marc Jacobs given the green light
Case centres around the ‘smiley face’ logo fashion designer used in his Bootleg Redux Grunge collection
Lonely Robot reveal run of 2020 tour dates
John Mitchell and co will head out on the road next year for a series of ‘An Evening With’ shows
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Top 10 Sci-fi movies as chosen by Cybernetic Witch Cult
The psychedelic space rockers Cybernetic Witch Cult pick the ten essential sci-fi flicks you absolutely must check out
The best smart speakers 2019: find the right voice-assisted smart speaker for you
Smart speakers can be your music-playing, smart-home-controlling, calendar-organizing best friends – and these are the very best ones
Hammer's 13: This week's best new music in metal
Updated Our fortnightly round-up of the very best new tracks in heavy rock
The story of Skid Row: Glam metal's last hurrah
As glam metal lumbered towards its demise, a band from New Jersey injected the scene with one final dose of venom
The Black Parade: Revisiting the album that made My Chemical Romance superstars
My Chemical Romance's third album, The Black Parade became a chart-demolishing, genre-spanning triumph – we look back on the album and its impact
Behind the scenes on the Megacruise: how to keep seafaring metalheads happy
Larry Morand runs rock's biggest cruises. Here he explains how it all works: the bands, the fans, and the role played by former Israeli Special Forces operatives
Best cheap camera 2019: top budget cameras for budding music photographers
So you want to be a music photographer? Then these are the best cheap cameras to get started photographing gigs with
Monsters Of Rock US 1988: The Making Of Metallica
The story of Monsters Of Rock 1988, or how Metallica came to claim the throne of modern metal
The first winner of the Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 is...
This amazing shot of a crowd-surfing Damian Wilson takes first prize in the first round of our photography competition. Plus: Round 2 is launched!
Top 10 up-and-coming UK extreme metal bands
Premiere British brutes Viscera (ex-Sylosis, Heart of A Coward, Martyr Defiled) discuss their favourite emerging death metal influenced acts
The Joy Formidable: A Balloon Called Moaning 10 years on
The Joy Formidable revisit their debut album, A Balloon Called Moaning, one track at a time
Patti Smith: Every album ranked from worst to best
Creative polymath Patti Smith is one of music's most unique voices – here we go through her back catalogue in order of greatness
Latest Reviews
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Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders' Get The Money: the post-grunge Ringo’s All-Starrs
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins delivers impressive solo LP Get The Money
Marillion - Afraid Of Sunlight Deluxe Edition review
Not yet ratedIn two deluxe editions, this 1995 gem sees the light of day once more...
The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed 50th Anniversary Edition album review
The Rolling Stones’ 60s high-water mark Let It Bleed, now in a multi-format package with extras
Jeff Lynne’s ELO: From Out Of Nowhere - frailty and manufactured perfection
Mostly a sparkling continuation of Jeff Lynne’s return to form on From Out Of Nowhere
Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Colorado: incensed yet infinitely vulnerable
Neil Young and the old posse saddle up in some style on Colorado
Black metal legends Mayhem channel De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas with new record Daemon
Oslo’s second-wave black metal forefathers, Mayhem, are still defining the state of the art
Hawkwind's All Aboard The Skylark: the search for space continues
A welcome return to space for Hawkwind as it's All Aboard The Skylark
Airbourne's Boneshaker is a ferocious old-school rock'n'roll romp
AC/DC’s sonic heirs, Airbourne, dispense once more with the graces in new album Boneshaker
Phil Campbell's Old Lions Still Roar: Lemmy would be proud
Life after Lemmy sees Phil Campbell's mane event realised with star-studded solo album Old Lions Still Roar
Airbourne's Boneshaker: loud, violent, and about as subtle as a punch in the face
Airbourne's fifth album Boneshaker proves that they're rock’n’roll for life – and you better believe it
Leprous - Pitfalls album review
Not yet ratedPowered by their singer’s struggle with mental health the Norwegians have pushed through their metallic boundaries to deliver something that even they didn’t expect to create
