Articles by: Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer Podcast: Killer tours and underrated bands

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El and Al discuss the latest and greatest metal tour announcements and offer up some of our favourite exceptionally underrated bands

Metal Hammer Podcast: Tool, Tool and more Tool

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We are pretty excited about our current cover stars Tool finally dropping their brand new album!

Metal Hammer Podcast: Midgardsblot, Metallica and more

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Alice reports back on Midgardsblot, where viking culture meets extreme metal. While Merl checked out Metallica in Prague!

Tool: We received death threats over album delay

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Tool reveal that frontman Maynard James Keenan received death threats from fans over delays in releasing upcoming album Fear Inoculum

After 13 years, they’re finally breaking their silence. Tool are on the new cover of Metal Hammer – out now!

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Also starring: a Tool mini mag, a Killswitch Engage art print, and a thrash sticker set... plus Faith No More, Killswitch Engage, Volbeat, Halestorm and much more

Metal Hammer Podcast: The Big Bloodstock Review

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Merl, El and Al discuss Cradle of Filth, Slipknot, Babymetal and of course BLOODSTOCK 2019!

Metal Hammer Podcast: The Ultimate Bloodstock 2019 Preview!

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Radar festival, Slipknot, Korn, Tool, Mercyful Fate and oh yeah, BLOODSTOCK!

‘Pornogrind’ band Menstrual Munchies distance themselves from Dayton shooter

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Connor Betts who opened fire killing nine people over the weekend was in Menstrual Munchies who sang about extreme violence against women

Metal Hammer Podcast: The Unholy Trinity

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The podcast is back to three hosts! We discuss Bloodywood, Tool and... more Tool

Metal Hammer Podcast: Alice's black metal adventure

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Plus, new Slipknot and are Steel Panther problematic in the age of #metoo?

28 times the Mercury Prize got it wrong

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A look back at all the mistakes the Mercury Prize made in not nominating a metal album for 27 straight years

Slipknot dominate the cover of the new issue of Metal Hammer nine times over!

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The new issue of Metal Hammer features nine exclusive Slipknot covers, a tribute CD and an exclusive art print – on sale now!

Can you guess the song from these emojis?

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It's World Emoji Day! Here are ten songs with the words replaced by grinning faces. Can you name them all?

Metal Hammer Podcast: What the hell is Norwegian Reggaeton?

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We also review Rammstein in Milton Keynes

Win day tickets to Bloodstock 2019!

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We've got six pairs of tickets for Sabaton, Parkway Drive or Scorpions at Bloodstock up for grabs

30 Essential thrash metal bands that aren't the big four

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There's a lot more to thrash than Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer

Metal Hammer Podcast: Glasto, Gojira and Babymetal

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How did metal go down at Glastonbury? Plus ICE CREAM

Metal Hammer Podcast: El @ Metallica, Alice in Hell

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We talk Metallica at Twickenham, the ten year anniversary of Copenhell and Birmingham's Home of Metal exhibits

What happened when Metallica played Twickenham

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Sound problems, stadium hate, eyebrow-sizzling pyro and a metal masterclass

The new Metal Hammer comes with a free tank and it's ridiculous

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The new issue of Metal Hammer is a Sabaton spectacular, featuring an exclusive cover interview, a free sticker pack and a free collectable Sabaton tank!