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Articles by: Metal Hammer

Machine Head playing live at the Bloodstock festival in 2022

Machine Head just played a secret set at this year’s Bloodstock festival

By Metal Hammer last updated 13 August 22

A three-piece Machine Head surprised the UK’s Bloodstock festival with a secret mid-afternoon set in a packed tent

Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee and a poster for the movie The Retaliators

Tommy Lee has put his todger away long enough to appear in new movie The Retaliators

By Metal Hammer last updated 13 August 22

Members of Motley Crue, Ice Nine Kills and Asking Alexandria team up for 21 Bullets, the theme to new horror/thriller The Retaliators

Alice In Chains have just dropped a deathcore-style T-shirt and we want it

By Metal Hammer published 12 August 22

Grunge icons Alice In Chains get their deathcore on with an unexpected spiky logo T-shirt

5 essential new metal albums to hear this week

By Metal Hammer published 12 August 22

Arch Enemy, Hollywood Undead, Norma Jean and more – these are the killer new metal albums that have dropped this week

Megadeth’s killer new song Soldier On! is the soundtrack to the world marching into the mouth of hell

By Metal Hammer last updated 20 September 22

Megadeth drop the latest new track from upcoming album The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!

Slipknot prducer Ross Robinson and Slipknot’s Joey Jordison and Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan in 1999

Ross Robinson did not like Slipknot the first time he heard them

By Metal Hammer last updated 21 September 22

Ross Robinson says he was reluctant to work with Slipknot after being unimpressed by their first demo

Vote for the greatest prog metal band of all time

By Metal Hammer published 6 August 22

Dream Theater? Mastodon? Porcupine Tree? Here’s your chance to vote for the greatest prog metal band of them all

The Top 20 best albums of 1994

By Metal Hammer last updated 6 August 22

Korn, Nine Inch Nails, Machine Head, Emperor: this is the ultimate soundtrack to 1994

This cover of Master Of Puppets in the style of Rammstein is the stuff of Eddie Munson’s nightmares

By Metal Hammer last updated 20 September 22

If Rammstein covered Metallica’s Master Of Puppets, this is what it would sound like

That Metallica/Stranger Things T-shirt we’ve been crying out for is finally here

By Metal Hammer last updated 20 September 22

Metallica drop branded Hellfire Club merch following Stranger Things success: “Eddie, this one's for you”

How the hell did we miss Toyah and Robert Fripp covering Slipknot’s Psychosocial in their kitchen?

By Metal Hammer published 2 August 22

King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and wife Toyah bust out a homemade Corey Taylor for ramshackle Slipknot cover

This crowd-surfing, power metal-loving security guard is the greatest thing you’ll see today

By Metal Hammer published 2 August 22

This video of a security guard joyously crowd-surfing to ‘dwarven metal’ band Wind Rose will improve your day a thousand per cent

Watch Lamb Of God rope in a bunch of murderous stage magicians for new video Omens

By Metal Hammer last updated 28 July 22

Lamb Of God have dropped their brand new single, the title track of upcoming album Omens

The Top 20 best metal albums of 1993

By Metal Hammer published 27 July 22

Grunge ruled the airwaves in 1993, but metal wasn't about to lie down and die, as these 20 brilliant releases show

At The Gates part company with guitarist Jonas Stålhammar days after alleged inappropriate sexual behaviour accusations

By Metal Hammer published 27 July 22

At The Gates guitarist Jonas Stålhammar leaves band days after fan alleges he “coerced” them into “online sexual relationship”

Watch the weird and unsettling video for Ghost’s epic new single Spillways

By Metal Hammer published 27 July 22

Dancing human mannequins, tears of blood and a ton of dry ice? It can only be the video for Ghost’s new single Spillways

Ivan Moody hated Five Finger Death Punch’s controversial ‘anti-mask‘ video for Living The Dream

By Metal Hammer published 26 July 22

“It won’t ever be done with my name on it again,” says FFDP’s Ivan Moody of the band’s notorious 2020 video for Living The Dream

This is what Kate Bush’s Running Up The Hill would sound like as a Metallica song… with Matt Heafy on guitar

By Metal Hammer published 25 July 22

YouTuber Anthony Vincent and Trivium’s Matt Heafy team up to deliver the last the word on Stranger Things with the ultimate Kate Bush/Metallica mash-up

Rob Halford says Judas Priest “were dancing with death” in the early 80s

By Metal Hammer published 25 July 22

“How we got through, I don’t know,” says Rob Halford of the near-fatal sessions for 1982’s Screaming For Vengeance album

Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello

Watch Tom Morello get accidentally taken out by a security guard at a Rage Against The Machine gig

By Metal Hammer published 25 July 22

“What just happened?” says RATM guitarist Tom Morello after being knocked into the pit mid-show by a security guard chasing a stage invader

Ross Robinson: “If people want to call me ‘The Godfather Of Nu Metal’, good”

By Metal Hammer published 23 July 22

“I didn’t wanna be lumped in with the silliness that happened afterwards,” says Korn/Slipknot producer Ross Robinson of the nu metal scene

That time Slash accidentally f**king swore on a Saturday morning kids TV show

By Metal Hammer last updated 23 July 22

An edition of British kids’ TV show CD:UK was instantly livened up when Slash dropped the f-bomb live on air

Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk: “I hope no other country experiences the same as Ukraine”

By Metal Hammer published 22 July 22

Jinjer singer Tatiana Shmayluk admits that she is ‘losing her faith in music’ due to war in her home country of Ukraine

Watch the video for Megadeth’s blazing new Black Ops-inspired Ice-T collaboration Night Stalkers

By Metal Hammer last updated 20 September 22

Dave Mustaine and Ice-T join forces on Night Stalkers, the latest single from upcoming Megadeth album The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!

Anthrax’s Scott Ian: Stormtroopers Of Death would be ‘cancelled’ today

By Metal Hammer published 21 July 22

“If we tried to put that out today, certain sections of people would cancel it,” says Scott Ian of his controversial 80s side-project S.O.D

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