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Napalm Death, Thurston Moore, Wayne Kramer, and members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rammstein and more to appear on Ramones tribute albums
Underground heroes pay tribute to Da Bruddahs, NYC's much-missed punk rock pioneers
Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024
Five bands you mustn't miss at this year's ArcTanGent Festival
This year's ArcTanGent Festival takes place between August 14-17 at Fernhill Farm, Somerset, near Bristol
7 new progressive metal albums that break all the genre’s rules
So many prog metal bands want to sound like Tool, Gojira or Meshuggah – but not these seven forward-thinkers
The best metal albums of 2024 so far
From legends like Bruce Dickinson, Judas Priest and Kerry King to modern heavy hitters like Knocked Loose, OU and DOOL, these are the metal albums ruling 2024
Why Ihsahn and his wife want you to listen to Radiohead
When people were just beginning to see that the Emperor man was a progressive musician, he’d long been all over Thom Yorke’s artistic bravery
Ihsahn has never stopped progressing, and can’t understand why others did
The avant-garde maestro explains why his new, self-titled album is his most definitive, complex and atmospheric release yet
"The major metal magazines slaughtered Emperor's early albums." How black metal icon Ihsahn ditched corpsepaint and church burnings to become a prog master
Growing up, it was expected that Vegard Sverre Tveitan would take over the family farm. But when he rebranded himself as Ihsahn he became a pioneer of black metal, before ditching it all for prog
