Ali Cooper

1994 was the year when metal came of age, bands twisting heavy music into new forms that would echo through the ages. We take a look back at the year's essential releases

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

“I’m tired of slicing open a vein and bleeding everywhere for a record. I’m starting to realise I don’t have to.”

We asked you to grill the Behemoth frontman. And you grilled him

Kicking it old school, Swedish style

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

After writing for Sabaton, Ken Kängström decided to take his own bombastic ambitions one step further

We sit down with Walls Of Jericho vocalist Candace Puopolo to talk about her passion for powerlifting and how it has changed her life

The former Killswitch Engage frontman Howard Jones has rebranded and is ready to roar again

We rummage through the record collection of Within Temptation vocalist Sharon Den Adel

We raid the record collection of Delain's frontwoman Charlotte Wessels

Orphaned Land take aim at the state of the world with their new album Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

Wednesday 13 reveals how he fell in love with Halloween and why he'd want to die first in a horror movie

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

The frontman of the vintage German metal heroes bloody loves bones. No, really!

Killswitch Engage bassist Mike D’Antonio lets us snoop around his nerd haul

When he’s not laying down death metal riffage with Broken Hope, Jeremy Wagner curates the world’s biggest Jeff Hanneman collection

Pitting your heroes against the only test that matters: Hammer's Metal Test! This month, Misfits legend Doyle takes the chair

The horror punk hero talks new music, scary TV and whether that Murderdolls reunion will ever happen…

Pitting your heroes against the only test that really matters

Pitting your heroes against the only test that matters: This month, Emmure's Frankie Palmieri takes on Hammer's Metal Test.

When we found out that a brand new, dedicated metal record shop had opened in London, we had to go investigate

Every month, we pit your heroes against our metal test. Next up, Firewind shredder Gus G...