The planet is f**ked and Avatar are seriously pissed about it By Eleanor Goodman Think Avatar are just about loud costumes and OTT gimmicks? Wrong. And now it’s time to get serious
Oceans Of Slumber - Oceans Of Slumber review By Eleanor Goodman Not yet rated Texan prog metallers rebuild themselves on album number four.
Lacuna Coil were the first metal band caught up in the pandemic. This is how they made it through By Eleanor Goodman When COVID-19 forced Lacuna Coil to cancel shows in March, little did they know what was coming next. Singer Cristina Scabbia looks back on the most disorientating year of her life
Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström: 10 albums that changed my life By Eleanor Goodman Avatar ringmaster Johannes Eckerström dives into his record collection and pulls out Marduk, Helloween and Beethoven
Deftones’ White Pony: the explosive story of a post-nu metal classic By Eleanor Goodman Fuelled by drugs and internal friction, and bristling against nu metal, Deftones served up a 21st century masterpiece with their third album White Pony
Papa Roach’s Infest: the rise of the underdogs By Eleanor Goodman How Papa Roach dragged nu metal into the 2000s with Infest
Paul Gray: the life and death of Slipknot’s quiet genius By Eleanor Goodman It’s been 10 years since we lost Slipknot bassist Paul Gray. From triumph to tragedy, here is his story
Bring Me The Horizon’s new single Parasite Eve is bizarre, baffling and brilliant By Eleanor Goodman Robotic voices? Eight armed nurses? The return of riffs? We crack open BMTH’s new single Parasite Eve
Papa Roach’s Infest: Jacoby Shaddix looks back at a nu metal classic By Eleanor Goodman Jacoby Shaddix’s track by track breakdown of Papa Roach’s breakthrough album Infest
Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch: “Go and do pop or hip hop. It's the only thing that’s selling” By Eleanor Goodman Korn guitarist Head answers your questions on success, sobriety and SpongeBob Squarepants
Ihsahn: why a black metal visionary has gone back to his roots By Eleanor Goodman We join Emperor frontman Ihsahn at home in Norway to find out why he’s finally reconnected with black metal
The 50 best metal bands of all time By Merlin Alderslade, Eleanor Goodman, Alice Pattillo, Dannii Leivers, Stephen Hill, Briony Edwards, Fraser Lewry We count down the 50 best metal bands to ever have troubled polite society, as chosen by you
Alien Weaponry: Three Māoris and an entire nation of Navajo metalheads By Eleanor Goodman What happens when you follow the most exciting young metal band in the world into the heart of the Navajo Nation? We join teenage sensations Alien Weaponry on an adventure like no other
Does metal have a sexism problem? By Eleanor Goodman We speak to some of the most prominent industry figures and musicians in heavy music to find out whether it’s difficult for women to break through
10 things we learned at Norway’s by:Larm Festival By Eleanor Goodman From Viking trap metal to a new Sub Pop movie, these are all the things we learned when we headed to Norway to attend the by:Larm festival
Babymetal: a new dawn for the kawaii-metal pioneers By Eleanor Goodman As Babymetal return with a new album and a tweaked line-up, we find out why they’re shooting for the stars
7 Metal bands that defined 2019 By Eleanor Goodman 2019 has been a great year for metal. Here are 7 bands who made a big impact on Metal Hammer critics
Silence Festival: Nepal's answer to Western melancholy By Eleanor Goodman Fancy a trip to the festival that puts Nepalese metal on the map? Jump on a plane to Kathmandu this month for the annual Silence Festival
Tool: The birth of the band By Jon Weiderhorn, Eleanor Goodman When Tool formed and descended onto an unsuspecting Hollywood, alternative music was about to be dragged into a whole new world of dizzying possibilities
Heart problems and art problems: Jered Threatin one year on By Eleanor Goodman, Fraser Lewry We watched Jered Threatin play to a near-empty room in London, then interviewed him about his upcoming films, about wanting the audience to leave, and about coughing up blood
Korn's The Nothing: Your ultimate track-by-track guide By Alice Pattillo, Stephen Hill, Eleanor Goodman Korn's new album promised to be their heaviest yet, but is it? We've picked apart every track to find out...
10 Rock and metal tours that went to sh*t By Chris Chantler, Eleanor Goodman, Stephen Hill, Dom Lawson, Adam Rees Meltdowns. Accidents. Implosions. Bomb threats?! We dig inside some of the most chaotic tours in metal history
Tool's Fear Inoculum: Your definitive track-by-track guide By Stephen Hill, Eleanor Goodman It's taken 13 years, but Tool's new album, Fear Inoculum has finally arrived – here's everything you need to know about it, one track at a time
Tool's Fear Inoculum: intricate, immersive, and thrillingly warped By Eleanor Goodman After well over a decade’s wait, Tool spiral out and keep going further than ever on Fear Inoculum
Slipknot's We Are Not Your Kind: Your ultimate track-by-track guide By Merlin Alderslade, Eleanor Goodman, Briony Edwards, Alice Pattillo Slipknot's new album We Are Not Your Kind is upon us – here's everything you need to know about it... one track at a time
