Latest articles by Joe Daly
"I'm really starting to get the itch. I want to headline arenas" - Rival Sons on the album that should take them to the next level
After six albums in 15 years and touring alongside a raft of A-listers, new album Darkfighter finds Rival Sons ready to take it to the next level
How Tenacious D's satanic stoner comedy The Pick Of Destiny went from box office bomb to cult classic
What Tenacious D's comedy rock opera The Pick Of Destiny lacked in box office returns, it made up for in heart and star cameos
Here are Metallica's ten fastest songs, ranked by BPM
Here's all the proof you need that when they fancy it, Metallica know how to put the pedal to the metal
We got Tenacious D to interview Ozzy and it turns out even Jack Black gets star struck
Metal, movies and Randy Rhoads – this is what happened when Tenacious D interviewed Ozzy Osbourne
Here are the hardest songs to play by each of the Big 4, as chosen by one of thrash metal’s greatest drummers
Jon Dette has played with two of the Big 4, so he knows exactly which songs by Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth are toughest to nail
Immortal’s War Against All: thrilling riff-powered noise from Norway‘s black metal crusaders
Album review: one-man army Demonaz delivers the black metal goods on Immortal’s new album War Against All
“Metallica loved it”: why Hesher is the greatest Hollywood movie ever to be inspired by Cliff Burton
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt channelled late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton as the nihilistic title character in cult movie Hesher
Ozzy Osbourne reveals his favourite horror movie ever: "we were *****ing ourselves!"
Ozzy Osbourne reveals his favourite horror movie of all time in an exclusive new interview with Metal Hammer
Ozzy Osbourne will play more shows even if he has to be wheeled out on stage: "it’s not a job, it’s a ***ing passion!"
Ozzy Osbourne may be done with lengthy tours, but don't bank on Power Trip festival being his final show
Lemmy once tried to kick Tenacious D off a Motorhead show...so they snuck on stage and played anyway
Lemmy didn't feel Motorhead needed a warm-up band for their LA show in 2011: "We were like, ‘Oh ****, Lemmy hates us."
Ozzy Osbourne names his dream supergroup
In an exclusive interview with Metal Hammer conducted by Tenacious D, Ozzy names the five musicians, alive or dead, he'd love to work with the most
10 great heavy metal songs that came before Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath may have been the official ground zero for metal, but these heavy-as-lead bangers all predate that classic first album
Angry again: how Last Action Hero's incredible soundtrack helped keep metal alive in the 90s
Megadeth, Anthrax, Alice In Chains, Queensrÿche... Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero may have flopped with critics, but 30 years on, its soundtrack is an absolute classic
Inside Nuno Bettencourt's charmingly weird first meeting with Eddie Van Halen: "other than Elton John, he’s the only musician that kissed me on the lips"
When an overawed Nuno Bettencourt finally got to meet his hero Eddie Van Halen, he could not have predicted what happened next
10 things you never knew about The Darkness' Permission To Land
Turning 20 this year, The Darkness' classic Permission To Land was like a glittery rocket fired into the heart of the early-00s rock scene
10 things you never knew about Iron Maiden's Dance Of Death album
From trampolinists and human chicken legs to religious battles and, yes, that artwork, here are ten fascinating things you might not know about Iron Maiden's Dance Of Death
The metal as hell moment Christopher Lee warned us all off black magic: "You not only lose your mind...you lose your soul”
Legendary actor and honorary heavy metal hero Sir Christopher Lee had some choice words in response to rumours he owned a huge collection of occult books
"A lesser band might have been humiliated" - the story of the first Kiss show
It's a cold night in New York, and Kiss are about to play their first show... but there's almost no one in the crowd to witness history in the making
Tobias Forge on what 2023 holds for Ghost: “There’s going to be a change. Good change”
2022 was a massive year for Ghost, but Tobias Forge says there’s more to come in 2023
The 50 best metal albums of 2022
From Ghost and Slipknot to Zeal & Ardor and Ithaca, these are the best albums of the last 12 months
The 10 heavy metal biographies you need in your life
From Bruce Dickinson and Dave Mustaine to Rob Halford and Dee Snider, these are the must-read accounts of some of heavy music's most iconic names
The 10 best black metal albums of 2022
From Abbath and Blackbraid to Gaerea and Zeal & Ardor - these are the 10 best black metal albums of 2022
The 10 best doom metal albums of 2022
From Conan and BlackLab to Crippled Black Phoenix and MWWB, these are the 10 best doom metal records of 2022
