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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.

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German 'Big Four' thrash festival poster

"Finally the big four will clash and thrash together!" The 'Big Four' of German thrash metal - Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard - announce first ever show together

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Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard, the 'Big Four' of German thrash metal, are set to share a stage for the first time in 2024

Metallica

Every Metallica album closer ranked from worst to best

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The closing songs from every Metallica album, ranked in order of greatness

Corey Taylor

Corey Taylor: "I could write an entire album in a day"

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Slipknot and Stone Sour legend Corey Taylor has no issues with productivity as he prepares for his next solo album

Avenged Sevenfold on the cover of the new issue of Metal Hammer

Avenged Sevenfold found angry reactions to the band's new material hilarious: "we were just laughing"

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Avenged Sevenfold aren't a band afraid to cause a stir, even if it's in their own fanbase

Montage of 2000s albums

Vote for the best metal album of the 2000s

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Iowa? Hybrid Theory? A Matter Of Life And Death? Fallen? We want to know the best metal album of the 2000s – and we’re asking you

Groove metal albums

A beginner’s guide to groove metal in 5 albums

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Neck braces at the ready – these are five cranium-crunching, vertebrae-snapping groove metal classics

Vessel of Sleep Token

Sleep Token announce massive Wembley gig

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Sleep Token have announced a gig at London’s OVO Arena Wembley in December 2023 – their biggest headlining show to date

Trent Reznor and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Trent Reznor is doing the music for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie

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Director Jeff Rowe reveals “musical heroes” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will score the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Rammstein in a wind tunnel

Rammstein respond to fan’s allegations that she was drugged at a pre-show party attended by Till Lindemann

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“With regard to the allegations circulating on the internet… we can rule out the possibility that what is being claimed took place in our environment,” say Rammstein

Ghost and Tina Turner

Ghost’s Tobias Forge pays tribute to Tina Turner: “I always thought she was a fantastic artist”

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge salutes Tina Turner a week after releasing a cover of the iconic singer’s 80s hit We Don’t Need Another Hero

Avenged Sevenfold with an inset of late drummer The Rev

M Shadows says The Rev would have loved Avenged Sevenfold’s wild new album: “He’d be stoked”

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M Shadows reveals late drummer Jimmy ‘The Rev’ Sullivan’s influence on Avenged Sevenfold’s experimental Life Is But A Dream… album

Symphonic metal singers Sharon den Adel, Simone Simons and Floor Jansen

A beginner’s guide to symphonic metal in 5 albums

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Few genres do grandiosity like symphonic metal – and here’s where to start with it

James Hetfield

Metallica’s James Hetfield visits wounded Ukrainian soldiers in hospital: “You made my day”

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James Hetfield proves what a hero he is once again after a chance meeting with Ukrainian soldiers Roman Denysiuk and Igor Voinyi

An AI generated imaged of Type Of Negative’s Peter Steele

This official AI-generated Type O Negative video is as creepy and weird as you imagine

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Skulls, dead rock stars and a zombie Jesus Christ – Type O Negative return from the grave with the AI video for Halloween In Heaven.

Type O Negative, Lacuna Coil and Paradise Lost

A beginner’s guide to goth metal in 5 albums

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The beating black heart of goth metal summed up in five essential albums

Corey Taylor and Sleep Token

Corey Taylor heaps praise on Sleep Token, say they remind him of “early Slipknot”

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“It’s stuff like this that gives me hope for the future,” says Corey Taylor of 2023’s buzz band Sleep Token

Marduk

Black metal band Marduk kick out bassist after onstage Nazi salute

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Bassist Joel Lindholm ‘vacates’ Marduk after he was filmed performing a Nazi salute onstage at a show in London

Metallica’s James Hetfield and Lord Mayor of Portsmouth Tom Coles

A British city now has a new mayor who loves Metallica and speaks Klingon: watch his very metal inauguration

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Watch a British politician be inaugurated as Lord Mayor while listening to Metallica… and speaking Klingon

Tenacious D on the cover of Metal Hammer

Get your exclusive Tenacious D x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an art card signed by Jack Black and Kyle Gass

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Tenacious D fans won’t want to miss this limited edition Metal Hammer bundle featuring an exclusive art print hand-signed by Jack Black and Kyle Gass – only 300 copies are available

The artwork from Tool’s Lateralus, Queensyche’s Operation MIndcrime and Mastodon’s Crack The Skye

A beginner’s guide to prog metal in 5 essential albums

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Brain-melting music meets head-scratching concepts – step into the epic world of prog metal with these five must-hear albums

Metallica’s James Hetfield singing onstage

Metallica are still hating on Ride The Lightning deep cut Escape even after all these years

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TikTokker: “Is Metallica’s Escape better than I remember it?” Metallica: “No!”

Five Finger Death Punch

Five Finger Death Punch pull out of Download

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Ivan Moody’s recent hernia surgery means Five Finger Death Punch have cancelled all shows until June 12 – including their appearance at the Download Festival

A collage of Metallica album sleeves

Vote for the best Metallica album

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Master Of Puppets? The Black Album? 72 Seasons? Here’s your chance to say once and for all what’s the greatest Metallica album

System of A Down, Korn and Deftones live at the Sick New World Festival

Here are Korn, Deftones and System Of A Down’s Sick New World setlists to prove that nu metal is alive and kicking in 2023

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Jonathan Davis even busted out his old school purple tracksuit at the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas this weekend

A death metal band playing the launch of the new Zelda game in Texas

Watch a death metal band start a circle pit outside a GameStop store while people queue for the new Zelda game

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If you were queuing at midnight at a Game Stop in Texas to buy the new Zelda, you could have witnessed death metallers Severance entertaining a bunch of young gamers