Former Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul dead at 54
Update Vinnie Paul, who co-founded Pantera and played with bands including Damageplan and Hellyeah, has died at the age of 54
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Watch Paul McCartney surprise fans with James Corden on Carpool Karaoke
Macca takes James Cordon on an unforgettable trip through Liverpool in latest episode of Carpool Karaoke
Tarja premieres live video for Undertaker
Tarja Turunen releases live video for her track Undertaker - taken from her upcoming album Act II
Thunder announce annual Christmas show details
Thunder will play their annual Christmas show on December 21 – as frontman Danny Bowes teases band’s future plans
Haken plan to release new studio album later this year
Drummer Ray Hearne reports that work is well under way on the follow-up to 2016’s Affinity - and they’re in the studio with Adam "Nolly" Getgood
Watch Devin Townsend Project deliver stunning live version of Regulator
Devin Townsend Project launch video for Regulator – taken from upcoming album Live At The Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv
Albums by Creedence Clearwater Revival duo Doug Clifford and Tom Fogerty reissued
Exclusive Clifford’s 1972 album Cosmo and Fogerty’s Excalibur from the same year released today on vinyl and digital platforms – listen to Clifford’s Regret It (For the Rest of Your Life)
Def Leppard report they're working on three new tracks
Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen reports that Def Leppard have been working on three new tracks - says he loves the direction of the material
Drummer Cato Bekkevold parts ways with Enslaved
Enslaved drummer Cato Bekkevold announces that he’s leaving the band amicably after 15 years to spend more time with his family
Metal Hammer Podcast: Should phones be banned at gigs?
On this week's podcast we debate whether phones ruin gigs and which metal musician would be the best Gandalf
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Tracks Of The Week: new music and videos from Black Label Society, Massive Wagons and more
What's that? You want to hear new music, from a delectable spread of rock's fresh faces? Plus some stuff from the guys you already know and love? Ooh go on then...
Louder's Tracks Of The Week: New music from Paul McCartney, Code Orange, Bad Religion and more
Vote! It's that time of the week, when we ask you to brutally analyse the week's best new music and crown a winner...
California's far-reaching doom crew Amarok unveil their debut album
Premiere Dive into the bottomless well that is Amarok's debut full-length, Devoured
Heavy Metal World Cup: Gojira vs Immortal
France's Gojira face off against Norway's Immortal in the penultimate match of the opening round
The 50 best metal albums of 2018 (so far)
These are the best metal albums from the first half of 2018
Crazy Town play Butterfly on kids' instruments
Crazy Town reinvent their smash-hit Butterfly on children's instruments
The 10 best Epitaph albums, as chosen by This Wild Life
The finest albums from the Epitaph canon, plucked from the minds of This Wild Life
Heavy Metal World Cup: Iron Maiden vs Rammstein
England's Iron Maiden take on Germany's Rammstein in the opening round of the Heavy Metal World Cup
Malakian! Iommi! Hale! Hammett! It's the Metal Hammer Guitar issue!
An all-star cast of guitarists invade the Metal Hammer guitar issue – on sale now!
Heavy Metal World Cup: Parkway Drive vs Ghost
Australian mosh-mongerers Parkway Drive face off against Swedish occultists Ghost
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Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch album reviewed
Trent Reznor's merry men return with an album that sounds "like the end of music" and a bit like Slaves "if they were strapped to the bonnet of a truck with their nipples wired up to the battery and their arses stuffed full of asbestos."
The Darkness – Live At Hammersmith album review
Touching you, touching me: Lowestoft legends camp it up on raucous live album.
Megadeth – Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good: The Final Cut album review
Reissue with-added-live-tracks of Megadeth's debut reminds you of just how thrilling the band were.
Jethro Tull – 50 For 50 album review
The best of 50 years of Jethro Tull, hand-picked by Ian Anderson himself.
Marduk – Viktoria album review
Sweden’s black metal institution Marduk battles through the potshots with Viktoria
Khemmis – Desolation album review
Denver’s doom-weighted heavy metallers Khemmis move up another level with Desolation
Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch album review
Trent Reznor completes his new Nine Inch Nails trilogy in terrifying fashion with Bad Witch
Yob – Our Raw Heart album review
Oregon’s psych-doom colossus Yob rises again with Our Raw Heart
Kamelot – The Shadow Theory album review
Floridian power metal troupe Kamelot get cerebral with an ambitious concept on The Shadow Theory
Burgerkill – Adamantine album review
Indonesia’s metal kings Burgerkill set out to build their empire with Adamantine
