Eleanor Goodman

Sophie Lloyd has gone from playing Avenged Sevenfold covers in her teenage band to working with Matt Heafy and Machine Gun Kelly

Metal Hammer went to Japan to uncover the mysteries behind Babymetal's new concept album The Other One

Iconic film and TV composer Danny Elfman talks working with Tim Burton, being a "freak" and why he's surprised the likes of Trent Reznor and Avenged Sevenfold are fans

We asked, and you voted - and we were pretty stunned by the Babymetal banger you picked as the best ever

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

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.