Eleanor Goodman

From making Jason Newsted's first group her house band to bringing Sepultura to the world, Gloria Cavalera has done it all. And no, she doesn't care if people think she's "Sepultura's Yoko Ono"

Introducing Major Parkinson's experimental, atmospheric dark prog from Bergen

From Slipknot’s epic headlining set to the unstoppable rise of Spiritbox, here the our highlights from this year’s Aftershock festival

What we thought about the eighteen-legged Iowans' triumphant return to the UK

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

It’s been 10 years since we lost Slipknot bassist Paul Gray. From triumph to tragedy, here is his story

It finally happened. This century’s biggest metal phenomenon sharing a show with the biggest metal band of all time. Step this way to see how it played out when Metallica met Babymetal...

Metallica have released the first new song from new album Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, but is it any good?

Former Kyuss bassist Scott Reeder looks back on the time he unsuccessfully auditioned to replace Jason Newsted in Metallica

Onstage meltdowns, backstage fistfights, egg bombardments and empty venues – this is what happens when touring goes horribly wrong

Artist Andres Serrano looks back on his involvement with the controversial covers for Metallica’s Load and Reload albums

The tears, the tantrums, the walkouts – the story of Some Kind Of Monster, by the people who made it

From pushing Korn and Slipknot to the edge to his turbulent relationship with the nu metal scene he helped create, this is producer Ross Robinson’s rollercoaster life story

Leprous frontman Einar Solberg reveals the stealth recording sessions behind Aphelion and how the positive changes he’s been making to his life are switching up the lyrics.

How Papa Roach dragged nu metal into the 2000s with Infest

After a one year hiatus Swedish dark prog rockers Katatonia returned in 2020 with their eleventh album City Burials

Korn’s Jonathan Davis, R&B star Aaliyah and a classic Anne Rice novel - Queen Of The Damned was the perfect vampire movie for the early 00s

Metal Hammer Editor Eleanor Goodman has been living with tinnitus since she was 16. Here, Eleanor reveals what it’s like to live with the condition and what she does to protect her hearing

The Crow is one of the great comic book movie adaptations of the 90s. But it was overshadowed by the death of its star Brandon Lee

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

Inside the unstoppable rise of Spiritbox and what 2022 may hold for metal's hottest new band post-Eternal Blue

When Mastodon’s beloved manager died in 2018, they poured their grief into creating the beautiful and expansive epic Hushed & Grim

Nightwish's Floor Jansen looks back on a youth spent indulging in cigarettes and symphonic metal with After Forever and collaborating with Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel

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