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“He came up and said, ‘Hey Herman, how’s it going?’ That was a shocker!”: the encounter with a guitar legend that left Dragonforce’s Herman Li speechless
It takes a lot for Herman Li to be starstruck, but one iconic guitar hero managed it
“It was all a bit Jethro Tull-y and witchy-woo”: the iconic Bruce Dickinson solo song that began life as an idea for an ‘acoustic’ Iron Maiden album that was never made
How a rejected Iron Maiden song written in the mid-80s became a Bruce Dickinson classic almost 10 years later
Win two Weekend VIP Passes, roundtrip airfare and hotel accommodation for the DWP festival of your choice - Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple, Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life or Aftershock 2024!
Louder, Metal Hammer and DWP are teaming up to offer one lucky US fan and a pal the chance to go to one of this year's biggest festivals!
“It’ll be something you haven’t heard in 20 or 30 years – it’s the perfect way to go out”: Al Jourgensen is reuniting with a legendary ex-bandmate for Ministry’s final album
Former Ministry bassist Paul Barker is returning to the fold for the band’s last-ever album, according to Al Jourgensen
Vote for the best Slayer song ever
Angel Of Death? Seasons In The Abyss ? Disciple? Have your say…
Order your limited edition Bad Omens, Hanabie, Lorna Shore or Scene Queen bundle
To celebrate our New Heavy 2024 issue, we’re launching exclusive bundles with all four bands – each featuring a variant cover and gift!
Metal Hammer writers' top metal albums of 2023
Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself. What albums would you have picked?
"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
Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and Tankard, the 'Big Four' of German thrash metal, are set to share a stage for the first time in 2024
Every Metallica album closer ranked from worst to best
The closing songs from every Metallica album, ranked in order of greatness
Corey Taylor: "I could write an entire album in a day"
Slipknot and Stone Sour legend Corey Taylor has no issues with productivity as he prepares for his next solo album
Avenged Sevenfold found angry reactions to the band's new material hilarious: "we were just laughing"
Avenged Sevenfold aren't a band afraid to cause a stir, even if it's in their own fanbase
Vote for the best metal album of the 2000s
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
A beginner’s guide to groove metal in 5 albums
Neck braces at the ready – these are five cranium-crunching, vertebrae-snapping groove metal classics
Sleep Token announce massive Wembley gig
Sleep Token have announced a gig at London’s OVO Arena Wembley in December 2023 – their biggest headlining show to date
Trent Reznor is doing the music for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie
Director Jeff Rowe reveals “musical heroes” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will score the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Rammstein respond to fan’s allegations that she was drugged at a pre-show party attended by Till Lindemann
“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’s Tobias Forge pays tribute to Tina Turner: “I always thought she was a fantastic artist”
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
M Shadows says The Rev would have loved Avenged Sevenfold’s wild new album: “He’d be stoked”
M Shadows reveals late drummer Jimmy ‘The Rev’ Sullivan’s influence on Avenged Sevenfold’s experimental Life Is But A Dream… album
A beginner’s guide to symphonic metal in 5 albums
Few genres do grandiosity like symphonic metal – and here’s where to start with it
Metallica’s James Hetfield visits wounded Ukrainian soldiers in hospital: “You made my day”
James Hetfield proves what a hero he is once again after a chance meeting with Ukrainian soldiers Roman Denysiuk and Igor Voinyi
This official AI-generated Type O Negative video is as creepy and weird as you imagine
Skulls, dead rock stars and a zombie Jesus Christ – Type O Negative return from the grave with the AI video for Halloween In Heaven.
A beginner’s guide to goth metal in 5 albums
The beating black heart of goth metal summed up in five essential albums
Corey Taylor heaps praise on Sleep Token, say they remind him of “early Slipknot”
“It’s stuff like this that gives me hope for the future,” says Corey Taylor of 2023’s buzz band Sleep Token
