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Bring Me The Horizon Download Festival 2023
"We need to keep bringing new bands through": we talk to a Download Festival booker about the future of metal and running the UK's biggest rock fest

By Dannii Leivers Published

Download Festival has been the biggest celebration of alternative music in the UK for over 20 years - but its ability to foster the next generation has never been more crucial

Music Festivals
Metallica, Evanescence, Ghost and Disturbed performing live
The 10 greatest heavy metal live performances on late-night TV

By Matt Mills Published

Watch Metallica, Evanescence, Slipknot, Sepultura and more rock the airwaves

Concerts & Shows
Photos of Iron Maiden, Metallica, Nightwish, Slipknot and Killswitch Engage performing live
“Kirk Hammett said, ‘Ah, Cannibal Corpse – that’s an interesting name!’” 20 legendary metal bands remember their first shows

By Matt Mills Published

Everybody starts somewhere! Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slipknot and more remember their first times onstage.

Concerts & Shows
Photos of Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me The Horizon, Gojira and Myrkur onstage
10 metal bands who ‘went soft’ – and were better off for it

By Matt Mills Published

Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me The Horizon and Gojira took their careers to new heights after dialling back the aggro

Bands & Artists
Photos of System of A Down, Tool, Mastodon, Rage Against The Machine and Soundgarden performing live
20 metal bands with no bad albums

By Matt Mills Published

From Tool to Cave In and Mastodon, these metal masters all boast spotless back-catalogues

Albums
Photos of Metallica, Green Lung, Ghost, Limp Bizkit, Sabaton and Code Orange performing live onstage
Metal Hammer writers name their best gigs of 2023

By Matt Mills Published

From the monolithic Metallica to rising stars like Green Lung, these are the greatest shows that Team Hammer saw this year

Concerts & Shows
Members of the Big Four posing together in 2010
The 11 most amazing onstage team-ups in heavy metal history

By Matt Mills Published

Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne. Trivium and Slipknot. The entire Big Four. These are the most excellent onstage collaborations we’ve ever seen.

Albums
Bruce Dickinson and Rob Halford posing together in 2006
The 10 greatest guest spots in heavy metal history

By Joe Daly Published

From Bruce Dickinson teaming with Rob Halford to Dave Grohl’s Probot album, here are the times big names made great metal songs even greater

Interviews
Joe Duplantier
"The closest metal scene was two hours away. We couldn't just go and see a show." From being an outsider to playing Sepultura songs with Max Cavalera, these are the life lessons of Gojira's Joe Duplantier

By Stephen Hill Published

Joe Duplantier is one of metal's most thoughtful and widely respected figures. This is what he's learned through a career in music

Concerts & Shows
Joe Duplantier performing live with Gojira
“I cleaned the beach and dumped the rubbish in the mayor’s parking lot”: Gojira’s Joe Duplantier remembers his early environmental protests

By Matt Mills Published

Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier reflects on the “huge moment” he made headlines with his protests as a young man

Bands & Artists
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