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Metal Hammer presents the ultimate Ghost fan pack: the story of every album and every era, including an exclusive patch and artcards
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
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?
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
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
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
Will our favourite bands please stop retiring?!
Bruce Dickinson reveals the Pau Di’Anno song that convinced him to join Iron Maiden
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
All it took was one of the 2000’s most successful video games
Debate: who are the big four of death metal?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
The bimbocore provocateur will hit the road from September 4
Watch: we asked people at Reading Festival to finish these iconic metal lyrics and it didn’t go well
“Exit light, enter plight”, apparently
Watch: Bruce Dickinson talks leaving Iron Maiden in the 90s, making Balls To Picasso and THAT reggae moment
We sat down with Iron Maiden’s frontman to talk about life around the release of his second solo album, which was recently remixed and reissued
Get the latest issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive glow-in-the-dark Nova Twins t-shirt, celebrating the release of new album Parasites & Butterflies
Available exclusively via the Louder webstore
Watch: we asked people at Reading 2025 what the most metal thing they’ve ever done at a festival was
From hellacious moshpits to getting piercings in a tent, artists and attendees at Reading festival tell us some of their most metal tales
Kelly Osbourne fires back at WWE and Becky Lynch following controversial Ozzy Osbourne promo line in Birmingham
Ozzy Osbourne's daughter was not impressed by the mention of her father during a controversial Becky Lynch promo on last night's Raw
