Latest articles by Adam Brennan
Heaven Shall Burn are one of metal's most criminally overlooked bands. Heimat is the perfect gateway album to fix that
German metalcore veterans Heaven Shall Burn deserve to be far bigger outside of their homeland. Is this the album that will make that happen?
British metalcore is getting its moment in the sun
Bury Tomorrow's Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience reaffirms Bury Tomorrow as modern metalcore heavyweights
Whitechapel just made one of this year's most brutally intense metal albums
The deathcore veterans have released their heaviest record since This Is Exile
Every Trivium album ranked from worst to best
Rating the storied career of one of modern metal's most important bands as they head out on tour to celebrate 20 years of Ascendancy
The Halo Effect have crafted the first great melodic death metal album of 2025 with March Of The Unheard
Former In Flames men unite once more to create another blistering set of classic-sounding melodeath anthems
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
Every Testament album ranked from worst to best
Rearranging Testament's back catalogue into order of greatness
Gloomy melodic doom metal veterans Swallow The Sun sneak some welcome optimism into new album Shining - but not too much
Swallow The Sun's ninth studio album is a subtle wade into lighter waters
10 bad habits every gig-goer makes: How many gig gaffes are you guilty of?
We've all had enough of people chucking beer, chatting throughout the headliner or filming the show right in front of our faces, haven't we?
"Epic lives up to its title, treading the line between imperious grandeur and ridiculous pomposity": new VLTIMAS album lives up to its member's legendary death metal pedigree
David Vincent, Rune ‘Blasphemer’ Eriksen and Flo Mounier live up to their reputation as extreme metal's leading lights
The top 10 best Korn cover versions
From Metallica to Poison, Korn are kings of the unexpected cover version – and here are their best
Animals As Leaders’ Parrhesia album: molten noise meets next-level virtuosity
Album review: Animals As Leaders continue to push djent into bold new realms on new album Parrhesia
10 obscure but brilliant 2000s bands who should have been massive
For every Avenged Sevenfold and Killswitch Engage, there were hundreds of 2000s bands the world has forgotten. Here are 10 who should have been massive
Amorphis' Halo: "A host of anthems that the Finns’ diehard admirers will take enormous delight in"
Finnish melodeath veterans Amorphis play to their progressively minded strengths with album #14, Halo
The 25 best symphonic metal albums
From Delain and Devin Townsend to Celtic Frost, Nightwish and Cradle Of Filth, these are the 25 best symphonic metal releases that saw metal embrace its grandiose side
Aborted's Maniacult: Belgian death masters swap bloodshed for bombast
Belgium's death/grind gorehounds Aborted go all in on the grandiosity on Maniacult
Swallow The Sun's 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair – Live In Helsinki: encapsulating melancholy and might
Finland’s revered miserablists Swallow The Sun hold a majestic commemoration with 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair – Live In Helsinki
Metal heavy hitters collide with DC Comics universe on DC Dark Nights: Death Metal
Mastodon, Chelsea Wolfe, Chino Moreno and more clash on DC Comics’ multiverse-restructuring soundtrack
Red Fang’s Arrows: stoner sultans take a turn for the weird
Portland weirdbears Red Fang tweak the stoner formula on new album Arrows with impressive results
Chris Jericho wants to save this ’80s metal band from obscurity
Never heard of Siren? Fozzy’s Chris Jericho has – and he wants bring their story to the world with a new documentary
The Top 20 best Corey Taylor cover versions
Metal, rock, country, kids’ cartoon themes – there’s literally nothing Corey Taylor won’t cover
10 times metal hit the headlines for the wrong reasons
The mainstream media doesn’t bother with metal very often. And when it does, it’s usually for a really crazy reason
