Latest articles by Matt Mills
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
Metal Hammer's albums of the year: 2025
From chart-toppers Ghost and Sleep Token to rising stars Lorna Shore and Spiritbox, 2025 has been a massive year for metal
The 10 best black metal albums of 2025
Blackbraid, Cradle Of Filth, Deafheaven - black metal continued to dominate in 2025
Haters, look away now: Sleep Token’s Even In Arcadia has been certified Gold in the United Kingdom
The masked metal superstars have shipped 100,000 units or equivalent of their latest album in their home country
Slipknot tore Europe a new one during their tour this summer – this pro-shot footage from a Spanish festival proves it
The nine-piece played a particularly destructive show at Resurrection Fest in Viveiro, Spain in June
Watch fiery pro-shot footage of Gojira playing Olympic anthem Ah! Ça Ira! live at Bloodstock festival this summer
The metal stars kept the French Revolutionary spirit alive with their show in Derbyshire in August
The 10 best progressive metal albums of 2025
Epic space operas, anticapitalist jazz odysseys, the return of Mike Portnoy – 2025 has been a brilliant year for progressive metal
Girlschool look back on their wild life with Mötorhead
Singer/guitarist Kim McAuliffe reflects on recording the vaunted St Valentine’s Day Massacre EP and what it was like touring with rock’n’roll’s craziest band
Simon Cowell’s new boyband December 10 could be in legal trouble after getting confused for a Scottish metal group
In a now-deleted post, metal outfit December Tenth invited Cowell and co. to “get in touch with ourselves and our legal team”
Watch Avengers megastar Chris Hemsworth’s shambolic attempt to play drums with Parkway Drive earlier this year
Just because you’re worthy of wielding Mjölnir doesn’t mean you’re able to keep time
Rob Halford remembers the chaotic time Ozzy Osbourne visited Judas Priest in the studio
Wherever the Prince Of Darkness went, anarchy wasn’t far behind
"Oh my God, haven’t you died yet?" How Man On The Edge helped keep Iron Maiden going
Iron Maiden looked in real trouble after Bruce Dickinson left. They regrouped, brought in a new singer and produced some of their darkest material
President aren’t an industry plant band, says the lead singer of President
The masked band’s sudden ascension has raised a few eyebrows, but Mr President insists he isn’t backed by a “huge corporate machine”
Babymetal want to make a song with Amy Lee from Evanescence
The J-metal superstars and the Evanescence singer have both taken part in some big collaborations this year
We asked Steve Harris if Iron Maiden will do their own blockbuster retirement show like Black Sabbath, and he didn’t rule it out
Will Iron Maiden bow out with an event as huge as this summer’s Back To The Beginning? Their founding bassist knows that people want it to happen
Health dance in the face of despair on new album Conflict DLC
The lyrics on the L.A. trio’s sixth album observe the ugliness of 2025, while the music urges you to wiggle your worries away
How Her Ghost In The Fog turned Cradle Of Filth into household names in metal
How one of Britain's most infamous metal bands wrote their major breakthrough hit
Drama, violence and Jim Carrey: the story of Cannibal Corpse's Hammer Smashed Face
How death metal provocateurs Cannibal Corpse wrote the song that made them infamous
