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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
Black metal band Marduk kick out bassist after onstage Nazi salute
Bassist Joel Lindholm ‘vacates’ Marduk after he was filmed performing a Nazi salute onstage at a show in London
A British city now has a new mayor who loves Metallica and speaks Klingon: watch his very metal inauguration
Watch a British politician be inaugurated as Lord Mayor while listening to Metallica… and speaking Klingon
Get your exclusive Tenacious D x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring an art card signed by Jack Black and Kyle Gass
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
A beginner’s guide to prog metal in 5 essential albums
Brain-melting music meets head-scratching concepts – step into the epic world of prog metal with these five must-hear albums
Metallica are still hating on Ride The Lightning deep cut Escape even after all these years
TikTokker: “Is Metallica’s Escape better than I remember it?” Metallica: “No!”
Five Finger Death Punch pull out of Download
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
Vote for the best Metallica album
Master Of Puppets? The Black Album? 72 Seasons? Here’s your chance to say once and for all what’s the greatest Metallica album
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
Jonathan Davis even busted out his old school purple tracksuit at the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas this weekend
Watch a death metal band start a circle pit outside a GameStop store while people queue for the new Zelda game
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
Watch: A fan let off an almighty fart during a Sleep Token gig and totally killed the vibe
You have to time these things better, buddy
