The harsh reality of being a metal band from India By Ali Cooper 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
This is what it’s like getting to shoot Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne By Ali Cooper We talk to Herring & Herring, the photography company who have shot some of music’s biggest names
New Years Day invited us into the studio to talk about their new album By Ali Cooper “I’m tired of slicing open a vein and bleeding everywhere for a record. I’m starting to realise I don’t have to.”
The People vs Nergal: “When are you going to stop being an emo?” By Ali Cooper We asked you to grill the Behemoth frontman. And you grilled him
The 10 best cheesy rock albums, as chosen by Soilwork’s Björn ‘Speed’ Strid By Ali Cooper Kicking it old school, Swedish style
The 10 best metal music videos of 2018 By Ali Cooper We count down the best music videos to come from the world of metal this year
Bullet For My Valentine to headline a stage at Slam Dunk 2019 By Ali Cooper Exclusive Slam Dunk have announced Bullet For My Valentine for next year’s festival, alongside Glassjaw, Turnstile and more
New Band Of The Week: Those Damn Crows By Ali Cooper Coming from the home of Welsh rock music and related to the 21st-century’s biggest UK metal band – it feel like destiny for Those Damn Crows
New Band Of The Week: Follow The Cipher By Ali Cooper After writing for Sabaton, Ken Kängström decided to take his own bombastic ambitions one step further
How powerlifting helped Walls Of Jericho's Candace Puopolo's mind and body By Ali Cooper We sit down with Walls Of Jericho vocalist Candace Puopolo to talk about her passion for powerlifting and how it has changed her life
Howard Jones: 'The Devil You Know albums are basically dead now' By Ali Cooper The former Killswitch Engage frontman Howard Jones has rebranded and is ready to roar again
Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel: The 10 Records That Changed My Life By Ali Cooper We rummage through the record collection of Within Temptation vocalist Sharon Den Adel
Delain's Charlotte Wessels: The 10 Records That Changed My Life By Ali Cooper We raid the record collection of Delain's frontwoman Charlotte Wessels
The story behind Orphaned Land's new album Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs By Ali Cooper Orphaned Land take aim at the state of the world with their new album Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
Wednesday 13 and Courtesans at Islington Academy, London - live review By Ali Cooper Not yet rated The Gospel - live
What Halloween really means to Wednesday 13 By Ali Cooper Wednesday 13 reveals how he fell in love with Halloween and why he'd want to die first in a horror movie
How metal is Northlane's Marcus Bridge? By Ali Cooper Pitting your heroes against the test that really matters: Metal Hammer's Metal Test. This month, Northlane's Marcus Bridge steps up to the plate
Rage's Peavy Wagner shows us his, erm, bone collection By Ali Cooper The frontman of the vintage German metal heroes bloody loves bones. No, really!
Mike D'Antonio's toy collection is the coolest and geekiest thing ever By Ali Cooper Killswitch Engage bassist Mike D’Antonio lets us snoop around his nerd haul
Broken Hope's Jeremy Wagner shows us his Jeff Hanneman collection By Ali Cooper When he’s not laying down death metal riffage with Broken Hope, Jeremy Wagner curates the world’s biggest Jeff Hanneman collection
Just how metal is Misfits guitarist Doyle? By Ali Cooper Pitting your heroes against the only test that matters: Hammer's Metal Test! This month, Misfits legend Doyle takes the chair
Five minutes alone with Wednesday 13 By Ali Cooper The horror punk hero talks new music, scary TV and whether that Murderdolls reunion will ever happen…
Just how metal is He Is Legend's Schuylar Croom? By Ali Cooper Pitting your heroes against the only test that really matters
How metal is Emmure's Frankie Palmieri? By Ali Cooper Pitting your heroes against the only test that matters: This month, Emmure's Frankie Palmieri takes on Hammer's Metal Test.
We meet the people behind Crypt Of The Wizard, London's new metal record shop By Ali Cooper When we found out that a brand new, dedicated metal record shop had opened in London, we had to go investigate
