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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.
Latest articles by Metal Hammer

Corey Taylor expands the Corey Taylor Empire by buying iconic horror mag Famous Monsters
By Metal Hammer published
It’s Corey Taylor’s world, we just live in it

Ivan Moody says he’s ‘retiring from heavy metal’ after one more Five Finger Death Punch album
By Metal Hammer published
“I am going to make one more Five Finger Death Punch album and then I am retiring from heavy metal,” says Ivan Moody

Mark Morton reveals the new Lamb Of God album was influenced by hip hop
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“There’s a prevalent hip hop influence in what we do,” says Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton of this month’s Metal Hammer cover stars

Watch an amazing time-lapse video of Hellraiser’s Jamie Clayton become the new Pinhead
By Metal Hammer published
Jamie Clayton’s reimagining of Pinhead in the Hellraiser reboot has won praise from original ‘Hell Priest’ Doug Bradley

Audioslave’s Like A Stone hits one billion views on YouTube
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Rage Against The Machine/Soundgarden supergroup Audioslave’s epic early 00s song Like A Stone joins the Billion YouTube Views Club 20 years after it was released

Watch Bruce Dickinson drag a stage invader offstage during an Iron Maiden show without missing a beat
By Metal Hammer published
In a battle between Bruce Dickinson and a stage invader, there’s only going to be one winner

Lamb Of God rise up in the new issue of Metal Hammer
By Metal Hammer published
Lamb Of God go deep into the making of new album Omens in the new Metal Hammer. Plus: Metallica, Amy Lee, The Hu, Hellraiser and a tribute to Mitch Lucker

This Metallica x Stranger Things light show has just ruined Halloween decorations for everyone everywhere
By Metal Hammer published
Sometimes, a carved pumpkin and fake cobwebs just won't do

Christ on a mic: meet the band who baptise their fans with blood
By Metal Hammer published
Here's all you need to know about the premier Reptilian Christ Violence band, Cancer Christ

Horror icon John Carpenter reveals his favourite Metallica song, says he doesn’t care about Ozzy Osbourne
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Halloween director John Carpenter is repping metal again

Every Gojira album ranked from worst to best
By Metal Hammer last updated
Ranking every Gojira album from worst to best is a tough job – but we’ve done it

Gojira are teasing brand new song Our Time Is Now
By Metal Hammer published
French metal icons Gojira drop a 30-second snippet of new song Our Time Is Now from NHL 23 soundtrack

Corey Taylor says he exchanged "strained but civil" text messages with Joey Jordison before the drummer's death
By Metal Hammer last updated
Slipknot frontman has regrets that they never "talked to him as a group"

Watch Rammstein guitarist Richard Kruspe play Du Hast to fans on a street in Mexico City
By Metal Hammer published
Here's the Sehnsucht classic as you've never heard it before

Listen to Cage Fight’s brutal collab with the late Trevor Strnad on new single Eating Me Alive
By Metal Hammer published
Anglo-French ragers Cage Fight mark Mental Health Week with new single Eating Me Alive, featuring one of Black Dahlia Murder frontman Trevor Strnad’s final appearances

This AI-generated death metal video featuring a demonic Homer Simpson is total nightmare fuel
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Homer Simpson gets a freakish makeover in hellish AI video for Cannibal Corpse’s death metal classic Hammer Smashed Face

Yes, Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson are still talking smack about each other
By Metal Hammer published
Dave Mustaine denies David Ellefson was a “founding member” of Megadeth, while Ellefson responds: “If you don’t have my back, fuck it”

This footage of a pre-fame Layne Staley sticking it to the PMRC in 1985 is a piece of grunge history
By Metal Hammer published
Watch a glammed-up, pre-Alice In Chains Layne Staley being interviewed on Seattle TV station KOMO News in the mid-80s

A fan threw a dead rat onstage during a Full of Hell gig and we have questions
By Metal Hammer last updated
It appears that rats in Chicago are the size of small dogs

Every Slipknot album ranked from worst to best
By Metal Hammer published
From their forgotten mid-90s debut to new album The End, So Far, this is Slipknot’s discography ranked in order of greatness

Grab some popcorn, because Ronnie Radke has beef with Sebastian Bach and Eddie Trunk over the use of laptops on stage
By Metal Hammer published
Falling In Reverse's tact-averse frontman is probably still tweeting about it now

Doom band Messa involved in serious head-on tour van crash
By Metal Hammer published
“The van is destroyed and some of us will have to undergo surgery,” say Italian doom band Messa as they launch a GoFundMe campaign for support

Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer has gone AWOL from the US authorities
By Metal Hammer published
US authorities are unsuccessfully trying to track down Jon Schaffer to deliver court documents relating to the Capitol Riots
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