Latest articles by Matt Mills
Jason Momoa reveals how he got the job compering Black Sabbath’s final show
The Minecraft Movie actor still has no idea what he’s going to do onstage, though
Ghost’s Tobias Forge breaks down every track on new album Skeletá
Get to know Ghost’s new album before it drops on April 25
Slayer announce only North American headline show of 2025, with Knocked Loose and a host of thrash metal legends supporting
Slayer are coming to a venue near you, but only if that venue is Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania
Here are the famously ‘terrible’ metal albums we can’t get enough of
From Metallica and Lou Reed’s Lulu to Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying, the Metal Hammer team band together to defend their favourite clangers
Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora
The frontman’s only solo album leaked in February after going unheard for 17 years
I asked a death metal supergroup to name the most brutal death metal albums of all time
Lik guitarist (and Katatonia bassist) Niklas Sandin picks the five most gut-churning, face-scrunching and ball-kicking albums to ever crawl out of death metal
Metallica’s Master Of Puppets has been streamed one billion times on Spotify
Master Of Puppets gets added to Spotify’s elite Billions Club, joining fellow Metallica hits Nothing Else Matters and Enter Sandman
Ghost’s Tobias Forge explains the struggles of being a masked, anonymous metal musician
Before a 2017 lawsuit revealed that Tobias Forge was Ghost’s Papa Emeritus, the frontman went to great pains to keep his identity secret
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Every Bleed From Within album ranked from worst to best
From deathcore debut Humanity to anthemic new album Zenith, we rank the back-catalogue of Scottish metal’s favourite sons
Sleep Token drop another new single Caramel – listen here
Vessel and co. will release their new album Even In Arcadia next month
These 9 metal bands paved the way for Sleep Token
Get to know the pioneers who walked so Sleep Token could run
This is the Metallica song that makes Kirk Hammett cry – and it’s really not the one you’d expect
Turns out it’s not Fade To Black, One or Mama Said that gets Metallica’s guitarist misty-eyed…
Tobias Forge says most Ghost songs aren’t about the Devil
Despite having written such songs as Satanized and Devil Church, Tobias Forge insists his band aren’t actually obsessed with Old Scratch
This WWE icon once invited a fake Sammy Hagar backstage and watched him snort so much cocaine his nose bled
“There’s people trying to get in the locker room, but we’re like ‘Go, go, go!’ and he’s snorting this big line of cocaine”
Machine Head toured America six days after 9/11
Robb Flynn looks back on Machine Head playing across the US less than a week after the September 11 terrorist attacks
Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale: “All these men were like, ‘Lose your brother, lose the band, lose your buddies – you should be in pop’”
Halestorm’s singer/guitarist says that a number of businessmen tried to pull her away from being in a heavy metal band during her teens
While Kirk Hammett hails Black Sabbath as metal’s founders, Ghost’s Tobias Forge names the “neglected” aspect of their sound
As the build-up to Black Sabbath’s farewell show continues, Metallica’s guitarist and Ghost’s mastermind explain why the Birmingham four-piece are so special
"I had Nails, Oathbreaker, Power Trip, Billie Eilish and Labrinth on my writing playlist.”
We have a quick catch up with the frontwoman of one of UK metal's most exciting bands
Deafheaven's new album is tailor-made to shut whinging mouths
After straying from their black metal roots in recent years, Deafheaven come screeching back on Lonely People With Power
“This is less a concert than a hard rock workout.”
New Delhi’s viral superstars keep a sold-out O2 Forum Kentish Town singing and screaming for their entire 60-minute set
The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga announces debut album with her heavy metal band The Yagas
The Oscar-nominated actor and her band will release Midnight Minuet next month
Evanescence release new song Afterlife from Devil May Cry TV series soundtrack, have their next album in the works
It’s an exciting time to be a fan of Amy Lee and co.
