
Metal Hammer
Founded in 1983, Metal Hammer is the global home of all things heavy. We have breaking news, exclusive interviews with the biggest bands and names in metal, rock, hardcore, grunge and beyond, expert reviews of the lastest releases and unrivalled insider access to metal's most exciting new scenes and movements. No matter what you're into – be it heavy metal, punk, hardcore, grunge, alternative, goth, industrial, djent or the stuff so bizarre it defies classification – you'll find it all here, backed by the best writers in our game.
Latest articles by Metal Hammer

Debate: who are the greatest metalcore band of all time?
By Metal Hammer published
Killswitch Engage? Converge? Architects? Tell us who’s the best of the blegh-st

The best metal debut album from every year of the 1990s
By Metal Hammer published
The classic debut albums that shaped metal’s golden decade

Avenged Sevenfold have postponed their 2025 South American tour at the last minute due to M Shadows’ vocal injury
By Metal Hammer published
The shows will be rescheduled for January

Ghost delivered a blockbuster concert movie with Rite Here Rite Now. They’re going in a totally different direction with the follow up
By Metal Hammer published
Ghost will be hitting the screen again

Calling all Ghost fans! Get your hands on an exclusive array of bookazine bundles with a glow-in-the-dark t-shirt and puff print sweatshirt
By Metal Hammer published
Head to the Louder webstore and you can get Metal Hammer’s complete history of Ghost with a t-shirt and a sweatshirt you won’t find anywhere else

Metal Hammer presents the ultimate Ghost fan pack: the story of every album and every era, including an exclusive patch and artcards
By Metal Hammer published
Ghost fans! Get your hands on this essential bundle about the complete history of the band

Metal Hammer has teamed with Parkway Drive for an exclusive t-shirt and magazine package
By Metal Hammer published
Get your hands on this bundle before the Aussie metalcore crew hit the UK next month

Debate: who are the greatest black metal band of all time?
By Metal Hammer published
From Mayhem to Emperor, black metal is full of fearless innovators, and we want you to tell us which band reign supreme

Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an I Prevail cover and t-shirt you won’t find in the shops
By Metal Hammer published
The US metalcore giants talk all about new album Violent Nature inside our latest issue

Joey Jordison’s sisters reveal how they helped one of the late Slipknot drummer’s unreleased albums see the light of day
By Metal Hammer published
The debut album by Joey Jordison’s post-Slipknot band Vimic will finally be released in October, four years after his death

This iconic black metal band have announced they’re splitting up – but not before one final album
By Metal Hammer published
Will our favourite bands please stop retiring?!

Bruce Dickinson reveals the Pau Di’Anno song that convinced him to join Iron Maiden
By Metal Hammer published
The song that changed the course of Iron Maiden

How a cult power metal band and an insanely successful video game brought shred guitar heroics to a new generation
By Metal Hammer published
All it took was one of the 2000’s most successful video games

Debate: who are the big four of death metal?
By Metal Hammer published
From Florida and Sweden to world domination, death metal has spawned countless incredible bands – but which ones are on your Mount Rushmore?

Pre-order your exclusive Metal Hammer x Creeper bundle, featuring a magazine cover unavailable in shops and new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death on purple vinyl
By Metal Hammer published
Get your claws on a bundle you won’t find anywhere else, before Creeper’s new album drops on October 31

All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
By Metal Hammer published
Metal, deathcore, goth, punk and a creepy dude with a balloon – these are the essential albums coming out between now and the end of the year

10 terrible early 00s movies with killer nu metal soundtracks
By Metal Hammer published
Looking for rare System Of A Down and Limp Bizkit songs? Early 00s Hollywood had ’em

The prophetic Slayer song that marked the end of one of thrash metal’s greatest songwriting partnerships
By Metal Hammer published
Released on 9/11, this Slayer classic could not have been more timely

Sharon Osbourne thanks fans for their “overwhelming support” following Ozzy’s death
By Metal Hammer published
Sharon Osbourne salutes the “otherworldly amount of love” in the wake of Ozzy‘s death

Debate: who are the greatest thrash metal band of all time?
By Metal Hammer published
Whether it’s Metallica, Slayer or any other gaggle of speed freaks, we want to know your pick for the best of the thrash metal bunch

"Please don't put it on the internet!" Did Limp Bizkit just tease a new song in the funnest way ever?
By Metal Hammer published
Limp Bizkit enlist LA-based drummer Kristina Rybalchenko to tease unreleased track

Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with a Helloween cover and t-shirt you won’t find in the shops
By Metal Hammer published
Celebrate the release of the power metal overlords’ new album Giants & Monsters with this exclusive Metal Hammer bundle

Scene Queen drops new single Platform Shoes one day before start of European tour
By Metal Hammer published
The bimbocore provocateur will hit the road from September 4
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