Chris Motionless: 10 albums that changed my life By Merlin Alderslade Slipknot, Pantera, Weird Al Yankovic – these are the sounds in Motionless In White frontman Chris Motionless’ head
UK metallers Wargasm are soundtracking the return of NXT UK By Merlin Alderslade NXT UK is back and it's got a better soundtrack than ever with UK metallers Wargasm providing its official theme
Backxwash’s God Has Nothing To Do With This… is the most important album of 2020 By Merlin Alderslade Backxwash delivers thrilling trap metal dispatches from the battlegrounds of self-identity on debut album God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
Power Trip’s Riley Gale: “Who cares about trying to make history? Just live your life the way you want to” By Merlin Alderslade In 2018, Power Trip singer Riley Gale spoke to Metal Hammer about life, death and everything in between. Here’s what he had to say
Robb Flynn: “I’m having twice as much sex as before the pandemic. It could have been worse.” By Merlin Alderslade Dropping incendiary new songs, taking to the streets to protest, spicing things up at home: Machine Head mainman Robb Flynn hasn’t wasted his lockdown time
The Story Behind The Song: Avenged Sevenfold’s Beast And The Harlot By Merlin Alderslade How Avenged Sevenfold’s 2005 breakthrough turned them from metalcore upstarts into genuine contenders
Jay And Silent Bob’s Jason Mewes: 10 albums that changed my life By Merlin Alderslade Jason ‘Jay And Silent Bob’ Mewes reaches into his record collection and pulls out King Diamond, Slayer and Björk
Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water: inside Limp Bizkit’s obnoxious masterpiece By Merlin Alderslade Limp Bizkit’s Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water sent nu metal supernova and changed everything for the band that made it – and not necessarily for the best
Trivium’s Matt Heafy: “M Shadows saved my voice” By Merlin Alderslade From metal’s need for unity to the joys of Tiger King, this is the world according to Trivium’s Matt Heafy
Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel: “There are more better days than bad days” By Merlin Alderslade You put the questions to Within Temptation singer Sharon den Adel
The secret history of Avenged Sevenfold By Merlin Alderslade From teenage basketball camp to the arenas of the world, this is the inside story of Avenged Sevenfold’s stellar rise
Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel: “Everything is f**ked, but there are good things” By Merlin Alderslade The gospel according to Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel
David Draiman: “Aliens? I’d show them Twitter and hope they’d leave us in our misery” By Merlin Alderslade Disturbed’s David Draiman faces down your questions on Simon & Garfunkel, alien invasions and ‘Ooh wah ah ah ah!’s in the street
Kvelertak: “We didn’t know we were going to change metal forever” By Merlin Alderslade It’s been a rollercoaster few years for punk-metal mavericks Kvelertak. Now they’re back with a new singer and a shitkicking new album
The World According To Baroness’ John Baizley: “I'm a neurotic, obssessive control freak” By Merlin Alderslade Delving inside the head of Baroness frontman John Baizley
Trivium’s What The Dead Men Say: no cheese, just heavy f**king metal By Merlin Alderslade Trivium’s hot streak continues with new album What The Dead Men Say
The 50 best metal bands of all time By Merlin Alderslade, Eleanor Goodman, Alice Pattillo, Dannii Leivers, Stephen Hill, Briony Edwards, Fraser Lewry We count down the 50 best metal bands to ever have troubled polite society, as chosen by you
How Metal United World Wide is bringing metalheads together across the globe By Merlin Alderslade After putting on one night of killer gigs around the world, Metal United Worldwide is looking to go even bigger for 2020
The 20 best Avenged Sevenfold songs ever By Merlin Alderslade We count down the 20 best Avenged Sevenfold songs of all time and hear the real stories behind how they were made in this ultimate career-spanning guide to the band's best work
“Whose f**king idea was this?”: the inside story of Metallica’s S&M2 By Merlin Alderslade From Metallica's S&M2's origins in ’99 to its triumphant rebirth, we go inside the story of the metal titans’ most ambitious project
The 20 greatest horror movie themed metal anthems By Merlin Alderslade, Chris Chantler, Joe Daly, Dom Lawson, Adam Rees Metal’s history with horror movies goes back decades. We count down the 20 greatest anthems inspired by the screen, from the gruesome, to the grizzly, to the straight-up glorious
Zakk Wylde, Lzzy Hale, Zoltan Bathory and Ben Bruce: Four guitar heroes, one interview By Merlin Alderslade, Rich Hobson, Matt Mills We united four of the scene’s most prominent modern guitarists for a look at the current state of guitar music, the evolution of the guitar hero, and what it takes to be a true rock star in the modern era. Here’s what they had to say…
6 Things We Learned At Iron Maiden’s North American Tour By Merlin Alderslade We witnessed the Legacy Of The Beast tour touch down in Oakland earlier this week. Here’s what we learned from it
8 Things We Learned At Metallica’s S&M2 Show By Merlin Alderslade From dropping rarities to going Full Classical, it was a show unlike any other we’ve seen
Battle cries, tanks and an impressive body count: How Sabaton conquered Bloodstock 2019 By Merlin Alderslade Friday's headliners Sabaton brought in the heavy artillery for this year's Bloodstock
