Latest articles by Matt Mills
Awards and no-shows: inside the depressing night Metallica split with Jason Newsted
By the time Jason took to the stage with Metallica near the end of 2000, it was so clearly already over
Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk takes aim at the term “female-fronted band”
The progressive metal singer is sick and tired of being pitted against other women in the scene
Carpenter Brut’s new album has a bad guy inspired by Elon Musk
The French artist says he sold his Tesla after the world’s richest man became part of Donald Trump’s cabinet last year
AC/DC threw Taylor Momsen a bat-themed birthday party, after she got bit halfway through a show
“When AC/DC give you a nickname, you stick with that!”
From the Crimean War to the Stranger Things finale, the story of Iron Maiden’s The Trooper
It didn’t live up to prior singles’ chart success, it was banned when it came out, and it’s got the band booed onstage. But, The Trooper is a song that Iron Maiden have never left behind.
Watch Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee react to fans’ stories about the heavy metal trailblazers
Mikkey Dee remembers life with Lemmy Kilmister while watching tributes from Motörhead super-fans
Steve Harris reveals the song he wants to bring back to Iron Maiden’s setlist
The second European leg of the band’s 50th-anniversary tour kicks off in the spring
With Sober, Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen
Sober, the seminal single from 1993’s Undertow, made Maynard James Keenan and co. a quick success story, but not everybody was a fan
Myles Kennedy looks back on the time he refused to audition for Slash and Velvet Revolver
After being diagnosed with tinnitus, the Alter Bridge singer/guitarist shot down the chance to audition for Velvet Revolver and their lineup of then-former Guns N’ Roses members
Ice Nine Kills have finished writing their horror film The Slashin’ Of The Christ and want to cast some familiar faces
The script for the horror hounds’ first foray into feature filmmaking is done, and despite its title, Spencer Charnas insists it won’t annoy Christians
The 10 best doom and stoner metal albums of 2025
2025 might have been the year we said goodbye to Black Sabbath, but these 10 albums prove their influence still looms large
The story of Rats and Ghost’s ascent to arenas
One year after their singer was sued by his ex-bandmates, Ghost regrouped and released a song which catapulted them to the next level
Dave Mustaine doesn’t know what he’ll do with himself after Megadeth call it quits
What will MegaDave get up to after retiring? Turns out, not even he’s sure
Slipknot’s Clown defends AI, breaking rank from other high-profile metal musicians
The Nine’s co-founder and percussionist asks, “What’s the difference between me pulling out my pocket producer… or me trying to get a famous producer that might not even work with me and could potentially cost me $150,000?”
The best metal albums that you almost definitely missed in 2025
From psychedelic Brazilian black metal to space-faring tech-death, you won’t discover these excellent albums in many other places
When Linkin Park exposed a different side of themselves with Breaking The Habit
Originally written by Mike Shinoda, this shining moment from 2003’s Meteora moved Chester Bennington to tears and helped Linkin Park break out of the nu metal bubble
The ultimate Motorhead playlist (as picked by Metallica, Judas Priest and more)
We asked some of metal's biggest names to share which Motorhead songs mean most to them
The 10 best alt-metal and nu metal albums of 2025
Babymetal, Bloodywood and Sleep Token pulled influence from some esoteric places this year, and they lifted metal to new heights in the process
The 10 best metalcore albums of 2025
From legends coming back strong to young artists pushing the genre forward, it's been a standout year for metalcore - and here's the proof
How Iron Maiden pushed metal to its most colossal, then pushed a bit further, to make Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
Sick of being known as ‘the devil-worshipping band’, the heavy metal legends wrote a sweeping track about a Romantic poem. They had no idea it’d be 13 minutes long, though.
The 50 best metal songs of 2025
Sleep Token, Ghost, Babymetal - these are the songs you picked as the finest 2025 had to offer
Metal Hammer staff pick the best metal concerts of 2025
The Hammer team name their greatest gigs of the year, from stadium extravaganzas to sweaty basement dust-ups
The 10 best death metal albums of 2025
Guts and glory - these are the finest cuts to emerge from the fields of death metal in 2025
