Latest articles by Dannii Leivers
Vexed are showing everyone just how much it costs to be a touring band - and it's eye-watering
Despite being a popular band in the UK metalcore scene, Vexed have had to turn to fundraising to ensure they can continue to tour
Brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in June 2025
From heavygaze hard-hitters Love Is Noise and Blasphemer-sporting black metallers Ruim to Calgary goths Poltergeist and nu-gen punk Bex, these are the bands you need to hear in June 2025
Electric Callboy: "There's a difference between being funny and being ridiculous."
How Electric Callboy went from down-and-out metalcore also-rans to rave-starting, arena-filling electronicore heroes with the best music videos in the business
Every Lacuna Coil album ranked from worst to best
We’ve ranked every studio album to bear the Lacuna Coil logo, from In A Reverie to Sleepless Empire
The resurrection of Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit have proven time and again they can roll with the punches
Spiritbox's track-by-track guide to Tsunami Sea
Spiritbox's immense new album Tsunami Sea is finally here - so we got Mike Stringer and Courtney LaPlante to talk us through every track on the record
From Megan Thee Stallion to Tsunami Sea, inside Spiritbox's incredible year
How Spiritbox have taken steps to world domination
"You can hear everything from Metallica to Nick Cave and Tom Waits."
How Vice Grip took Parkway Drive from metalcore heroes to future festival headliners
The best new metal bands you need to hear in March 2025
Meet the "deathcore Slipknot" Paleface Swiss, to Danish prog metallers Danefae, concept-driven Texan metalcore mob Cantervice and UK alt metallers Vower
Jinjer have made their darkest, angriest album yet with Duél
Thought Jinjer might have used their growing popularity to write an album of big, catchy bangers? Nah. No chance
"The most successful symphonic metal band in the world." Every Nightwish album ranked from worst to best
The biggest symphonic metal band of them all have had a glittering career so far. Here is every Nightwish studio full-length ranked
Inside the rise of Poppy: metal's most vital star in 2024
Starting out as a YouTube sensation with a robotic persona, Poppy has broken out to become a hyperpop/metal crossover star
A guide to every Poppy album
We dissect the fascinating career of genre-hopping alternative artist Moriah Rose Pereira - known to millions as Poppy
"Heavy doesn’t have to start with guitars." How Heriot became UK metal's most exciting underground band
Mixing death metal, sludge, metalcore and shoegaze, Heriot represent the diverse new direction metal is headed
"They’re doing collab songs with Babymetal so we're low on the priority list." Bury Tomorrow's Dani Winter-Bates answers fan questions on meet and greets, going deathcore and the band they'd love to collaborate with
Standalone single Villain Arc suggests a heavy new direction for Bury Tomorrow - but are they really going deathcore?
"At their heaviest, they feel genuinely dangerous." Heriot live up to their potential as Britain's best new metal band on Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell
Beloved by Lamb Of God, Trivium and Machine Head, Heriot just proved that 2022's Profound Morality EP was just a taste of what they can do
Cassyette lives up to the hype on debut album This World Fucking Sucks - Metal Hammer album review
From supporting Bring Me The Horizon to writing a Eurovision anthem, 2024 has been a massive year for Cassyette - and she's just getting started
How Scowl became the most exciting new band in hardcore
Scowl could well be the next hardore band to break out of the scene
The 100 Songs That Changed Metal
From founding fathers like Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Judas Priest to metal's modern leaders such as Ghost, Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the songs that have defined a genre
"An ambitious blend of groove, death and nu metal elements, with frenzied Afrobeat polyrhythms." Dzikkuh proves Togo's Arka'n Asrafokor are the band every metalhead should know in 2024
Cited as "Togo's only metal band", Arka'n Asrafokor set their sights on global recognition with ambitious second album
"At a certain point we beat Britney Spears!" How Ice Queen made Within Temptation symphonic metal's first superstars - and changed heavy music forever
With Ice Queen, Within Temptation helped to crystallise the scene we know today as symphonic metal
Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel shares her experiences of visiting a war-torn Ukraine
Hiding from drones, hoping to hear the voice of Mark Hamill – Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel experiences the war in Ukraine first-hand in this exclusive diary
Inside the day Nightwish fired Tarja Turunen: “The whole thing was such a shock”
When Nightwish dismissed their lead singer via open letter, the fallout was so public and intense that even the Finnish prime minister got involved
