Luke Morton
Luke Morton joined Metal Hammer as Online Editor in 2014, having previously worked as News Editor at popular (but now sadly defunct) alternative lifestyle magazine, Front. As well as helming the Metal Hammer website for the four years that followed, Luke also helped relaunch the Metal Hammer podcast in early 2018, producing, scripting and presenting the relaunched show during its early days. He also wrote regular features for the magazine, including a 2018 cover feature for his very favourite band in the world, Slipknot, discussing their turbulent 2008 album, All Hope Is Gone. Luke has since gone on to join Kerrang!, serving as Digital Editor for his first few years before being promoted to Editor as the brand pivoted to a digital-only platform in 2021. He supports Lincoln City football club and went to his first WWE Wrestlamania event in Orlando in 2017.
Latest articles by Luke Morton

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On this week's Metal Hammer Podcast we review this year's Bloodstock festival plus discuss news from Venom Prison, Megadeth and more!

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Okilly Dokilly are bringing their Ned Flanders brand of metal to the United Kingdom

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Car Bomb's guitarist picks his favourite Gojira songs of all time

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Premiere Watch Urne's new video for The Lady & The Devil, taken from their new EP The Mountain Of Gold

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Exclusive Solstafir will return to the UK and Ireland for a tour in December

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Sinsaenum mainman Frédéric Leclercq gives the lowdown on new album Repulsion For Humanity

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Nightwish brought their Decades tour to Bloodstock festival, and they had a few fiery tricks up their sleeve

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Killswitch Engage's former vocalist Howard Jones appeared onstage in London to perform The End Of Heartache

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Gojira closed the second night of Bloodstock festival and cemented themselves as one of the best metal bands in the world

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Judas Priest closed the first night of Bloodstock festival and proved that heavy metal will never die

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Premiere Pengshui are blurring the lines between rowdy punk and bass music and they're only just getting started

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God Complex are one of the newest bands bringing serious savagery to the world of metal, and this is what they're all about

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Taken By The Tide's vocalist Phil Illsley guides us through the band's brand new Revenge EP

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On this week's podcast, we're talking Spotify, Behemoth, Slash, Heavy Montreal, Manowar and much more!

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Behemoth have released their first new music in four years with God = Dog, but is it any good?

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Stephen Colbert comes to the aid of Flaw, proving he is the hero all touring bands need

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Korn are heavy, distorted and full of angst. So how will the elderly community react to their music?

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French crossover metallers Rise Of The Northstar pick their all-time top 10 best anime

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2017/18 has been one of the most fruitful periods of metal from the UK in a long time, but we've still been snubbed by the Mercury Prize

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The lineup for Jasta And Friends' European tour is starting to take shape

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Korn's smash hit Freak On A Leash has been given a swing makeover

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In this week's Metal Hammer Podcast we're talking Kvelertak, Papa Roach, Volbeat, Opeth and more

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Korn and corn, together at last!
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