Suicidal Tendencies, Queensryche and more added to Megadeth’s Megacruise
Megadeth name a further 6 bands who will join them “thrashing through the Pacific” later this year on the inaugural Megacruise
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Suicidal Tendencies, Queensryche and more added to Megadeth’s Megacruise
Megadeth name a further 6 bands who will join them “thrashing through the Pacific” later this year on the inaugural Megacruise
Tobias Forge: My kids are fans of Ghost
Ghost frontman Tobias Forge says his 10-year-old twins are fans of the band’s music - as he talks about balancing his work and family life
Metal Hammer Podcast: The Nontet
Slipknot lose a member, Metallica indulge in more S&M, and the lost MySpace milliions
Amon Amarth launch video for Raven's Flight and detail new album Berserker
Amon Amarth will release their new studio album Berserker in May - check out video the lead track Raven's Flight
Listen to Duff McKagan’s brand new solo track Chip Away
New single Chip Away will feature on the Guns N’ Roses bassist’s upcoming solo album Tenderness - out in May
Brian May shares The Grand Ultima Thule Flyby video
Queen guitarist Brian May releases “the shortest full-length movie in the world” to celebrate NASA’s New Horizons probe passing Ultima Thule
I Prevail launch video for new single Paranoid
I Prevail share promo for their track Paranoid - the latest material from upcoming album Trauma
Neal Morse details rock opera album Jesus Christ: The Exorcist
Neal Morse will release his new double solo album this summer - check out video for Get Behind Me Satan featuring Spock’s Beard’s Ted Leonard
Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess shares lyric video for solo album’s sprawling title track
Jordan Rudess releases lyric video for Wired For Madness pt. 1 - the 12-minute title track from his upcoming solo album
Megadeth's Dave Mustaine: We have about eight songs ready for Dystopia follow-up
Dave Mustaine checks in with an update from the studio, as he confirms he wants to record up to 13 tracks for Megadeth's new album
The Cranberries launch new single featuring the late Dolores O’Riordan
Wake Me When It's Over comes from the band's upcoming eighth album In the End
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“I’m a Bit of an Awkward Bastard”: an interview with Gang Of Four's Andy Gill
Content includes: fighting nazis, his love of Free, why the Chili Peppers gave him a shit in a pizza box and even some stuff about music...
10 reasons why The Analogues are the best Beatles tribute act you'll ever see
They don't look like The Beatles. They don't dress like The Beatles. They're Dutch. There's five of them. But they sound exactly like the real thing
The harsh reality of being a metal band from India
Demonstealer, frontman of Indian metal band Demonic Resurrection, reveals the reality of trying to make it in a country where heavy music struggles to be heard
Coven, blood oaths and the real story of how heavy metal was born
Devil horns, hailing Satan, a song called Black Sabbath. No, it’s not a metal highlight reel: they were all found on Coven's unsung classic from 1969
Here's what happens when you stick 5,000 metalheads on a ship in the Bahamas
We set sail on the 70,000 Tonnes Of Metal Cruise
Finland's melodic metallers Oceanhoarse get up close to the endtimes
Premiere Watch Oceanhoarse's new video for the epic new track, Death Row Center
The Top 10 most underrated Judas Priest songs
The British band have written some of the great heavy metal anthems. But these are the connoisseur’s choices
Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from The Mute Gods, JOANovARC and more...
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Opeth’s Blackwater Park: inside a 21st century prog-metal masterpiece
The album that turned a bunch of gnarly Swedes into flag-bearers for prog-metal in the new millennium
The Story Behind The Song: Death To All But Metal by Steel Panther
Michael Starr and Satchel on the track that made Steel Panther superstars
We got Melvins’ Buzz Osbourne to pick the 9 greatest Melvins albums
The Melvins records you really need to hear – straight from the horse’s mouth
Louder's Tracks Of The Week: new rock music from Baroness, Employed To Serve and more
Vote! We've rounded up this week's best new rock music – now it's over to you to vote for your winner
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Francis Rossi & Hannah Rickard: We Talk Too Much album review
After Rick Parfitt, what next for the Status Quo man?
Venom Prison’s demonic Samsara album is a twisted modern death metal classic
Brit death metal firebrands delve deeper into the dark on second album
Mystifier’s first album in 18 years is cult Brazilian metal at its best
Brazil’s subterranean terror squad return in malevolent splendour with Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia
Children Of Bodom’s blackened Hexed album is the sound of a band back on track
Finland’s melodeath favourites Children Of Bodom regain their bearings on new album Hexed
Twin Temple’s debut album is the sound of Amy Winehouse worshipping Satan
Luciferian odes find their calling in music’s golden age on Twin Temple (Bring You Their Signature Sound... Satanic Doo-Wop)
LoG guitarist Mark Morton’s Anesthetic album is an all-star show of force and soul
Randy Blythe, Alissa White-Gluz and the late Chester Bennington elevate Lamb Of God man’s debut solo album
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: The Best Of Everything album review
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' career-spanning double CD compilation, also available on quadruple vinyl
Queensrÿche's The Verdict has all their hallmarks of their early classics
Heavy and progressive, it’s business as usual for Queensrÿche on The Verdict
While She Sleeps’ provocative new album So What? is the sound of genres being mashed
Sheffield’s ever-evolving punk metallers jump off the deep end
Candlemass’ new album The Door To Doom is a masterclass in epic metal
Doom metal pioneers Candlemass enlist Tony Iommi and their original singer on stellar new album
Dream Theater's Distance Over Time is more rock than prog
14th Dream Theater studio album Distance Over Time finds the band veering delightfully off-course
