Latest articles by Matt Mills
The story of every song Dave Mustaine co-wrote for Metallica – and what Megadeth did with those riffs
From The Four Horsemen to The Call Of Ktulu, this is everything you need to know about the six (maybe seven) Metallica songs with Dave Mustaine’s name on them
Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister once rammed a cheeseburger into a $2,000,000 mixing desk because he lost an argument
“Can we get a repair man? Lemmy from Motörhead’s just trashed our desk with a cheeseburger.”
Sabaton’s singer wants to do a gig on the beaches of Normandy, on the anniversary of D-Day
The events of Operation Overlord inspired the Swedish power metal battalion’s 2005 fan-favourite single, Primo Victoria
What it’s like collaborating with Corey Taylor, according to Ho99o9’s Yeti Bones
The grime-punk duo joined forces with Slipknot’s frontman for their song Bite My Face in 2022
Slayer’s Kerry King prefers Metallica over Megadeth because “Metallica has a singer”
“Sorry, Dave!”
Biohazard’s Evan Seinfeld on the NSFW side-hustle that made him more money than music
Biohazard frontman Evan Seinfeld has no regrets about his career in adult entertainment
Dave Mustaine explains why Megadeth reimagined Metallica’s Ride The Lightning for their final album
Megadeth’s leader calls his sped-up rendition of the Metalli-classic a mark of “respect” towards his ex-bandmates
David Draiman says Disturbed need a “nice, long break” as controversial European tour comes to a close
Some of the metal band’s recent shows were rocked by cancellation and protests, in response to their singer signing an Israeli Defence Force artillery shell last year
Arctangent – the UK’s best prog metal festival – announces first bands for 2026, including Igorrr, Svalbard, Alcest, Agent Fresco, Chat Pile
The most forward-thinking bands in prog, post-rock and metal will once again gather at Bristol’s Fernhill Farm next August
Tragedy lies behind most of Mastodon’s music. Hushed And Grim was no different
In 2021 the band released their first double-length record, which would prove to be their last with Brent Hinds. They hoped it would be their last to be inspired by personal catastrophes
Tool, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, Shinedown, Halestorm, Megadeth, Alter Bridge and over 130 more bands will play next year's Sonic Temple festival in Ohio
The five-stage weekender will take place in Columbus, Ohio from May 14 to 17
Wolfgang Van Halen reacts to the term ‘nepo baby’
Naturally, the son of Eddie Van Halen has a complicated relationship with the phrase
We asked Metallica’s Kirk Hammett to name the best Motörhead song and this is what he told us
“Lemmy opens up his voice and starts singing, my mind exploded!”
Mastodon’s Brent Hinds had an “entire album” of unreleased solo songs, according to former bandmate
“He sent me the whole album of tunes,” says Duane Trucks, who drummed in Hinds’ psychobilly side-project Fiend Without A Face
Ozzy Osbourne was a big fan of Judas Priest’s War Pigs cover, according to Rob Halford
The Metal God says that The Prince Of Darkness “really loved” his band’s take on Black Sabbath’s classic
Trivium’s Matt Heafy thinks it’s “silly” that their co-headline tour with Bullet For My Valentine only lasted three months
The Poisoned Ascendancy tour was supposed to extend from January to December 2025, until Bullet pulled the plug to record their next album
Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris had to convince Sabaton to let him play their festival
In 2017, Steve Harris’ British Lion performed at Sabaton Open Air – but not without the Maiden man convincing the band in charge first
Deftones’ Chino Moreno once helped Max Cavalera bury Soulfly’s debut album on Native American ground to give it “Indigenous power”
“It was kind of crazy, but fun at the same time,” Cavalera says of the unhinged endeavour
Watch Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall drop out of a helicopter onto the Sydney Opera House, because he’s cooler than you in every way
That’s one heck of a way to announce a new live album
Disturbed’s David Draiman is beefing with John Cusack, after the Hollywood star called the singer “psychotic” for signing an IDF bomb
Draiman accuses Cusack of defending “a genocidal death cult”, as a photo of the Disturbed man writing “F*** Hamas” on an artillery shell continues to circulate
Bon Jovi announce return to the road for 2026, with shows in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York confirmed
The rock legends will embark on their first tour since Jon Bon Jovi had surgery on his vocal cords in June 2022
Psychonaut’s World Maker is a devastating space-metal odyssey everyone needs to hear
Psychonaut are far from superstars in the metal scene, but World Maker deserves to change that
Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia explains how women are “treated differently” in the heavy metal scene
The vocalist also talks about her early days in the Italian pop/dance world, exclusively in the new issue of Metal Hammer
Slaughter To Prevail guitarist denies that the band have Nazi beliefs, but admits the controversy around them is their “own fault”
Jack Simmons says singer Alex Terrible’s covered-up tattoo of a Black Sun was not an expression of far-right sympathies, claiming his girlfriend’s grandmother has the same symbol on her carpet
