Latest articles by Paul Travers
Dream Theater’s Parasomnia largely lives up to the hype
It’s back to the future as Mike Portnoy returns to the prog metal giants – bringing a little of their old magic with him
“An airier touch on a record of extraordinary scope”: Wardruna’s Birna
Dark Nordic folk collective’s sixth album takes the listener into hibernation and on to the new spring
Cradle Of Filth announce new album The Screaming Of The Valkyries – but that Ed Sheeran track isn’t any nearer
Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, Dani Filth reveals the name of Cradle Of Filth’s next studio album and when it’s due out. He also says that their long-anticipated Ed Sheeran team-up won’t be on it.
"It’s actually Sid Wilson’s favourite Slipknot song." Inside nu metal's greatest deep cuts
From a Slipknot buried treasure to the long-overlooked Korn rarity, these are the overlooked classics in the nu metal canon
Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024
Epica say they're embracing "dark fantasy" themes on their next album
Symphonic metal heroes Epica offer a peek behind the curtain of their upcoming ninth album
"Alice Cooper said our version of Poison was better than his!" Powerwolf's Falk Maria Schlegel shares his wisdom on Iron Maiden, make-up and meeting his heroes
The werewolf-obsessed keyboardist of Powerwolf also has secret ambitions to be a truck driver
The 20 songs that defined Slayer's career (and the stories behind them)
The ultimate guide to thrash metal titans Slayer - as told through their greatest songs
Mushroomhead survived nu metal and feuded with Slipknot, but they've endured as the ultimate cult metal band
Mushroomhead laid the groundwork as metal's ultimate masked maniacs in the mid-90s
Michael Schenker's track-by-track guide to new album My Years With UFO
Michael Schenker's My Years With UFO features contributions from Axl Rose, Slash, Roger Glover, Joey Tempest and many more
Leprous ditch the excess baggage on Melodies Of Atonement
Einar Solberg isn’t sure their eighth album is prog, although there’s plenty of evidence to argue otherwise
Melodeath pioneers Dark Tranquillity remain remarkably consistent on Endtime Signals - Album review
One of the pioneers of Gothenburg's legendary melodeath sound, Dark Tranquillity continue to provide remarkable consistency on their thirteenth album
"Let’s hope this supergroup is one that sticks around for a while." Current and former members of Anthrax, Machine Head, Exodus, Shadows Fall and more unite for ripping first Category 7 album
Category 7 put on a hell of a first showing for their debut album
“A highly consistent and often underrated catalogue”: Every Kittie album ranked from worst to best
Off the back of their looooooong-anticipated comeback, revisit the Kittie back-catalogue in reverse-order of brilliance
The 100 Songs That Changed Metal
From founding fathers like Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Judas Priest to metal's modern leaders such as Ghost, Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the songs that have defined a genre
“There’s a feel redolent of broadening horizons”: Devin Townsend’s Terria vinyl reissue
2001 release, inspired by his home nation, put the Canadian back on track after his previous misstep
How Cradle Of Filth opened the gates of black metal to the mainstream with Nymphetamine
With help from Leaves Eyes vocalist Liv Kristine and some spiritual interference from Type O Negative, Cradle Of Filth traded black metal for goth on 2004's Nymphetamine
Kittie have completed one of modern metal's great comebacks with Fire
Twenty five years on from nu metal breakthrough Spit, Fire proves that Kittie are a vital modern metal band with plenty left to say
Apocalyptica have done another stirring album of orchestral Metallica covers - and even St Anger sounds epic
Almost thirty years on from their first Metallica covers record, Apocalyptica have come full circle
Kati Rán’s Sála is a folk masterpiece years in the making
Dutch artist presents a folk masterpiece years in the making with help from Kristian ‘Gaahl’ Espedal, Mitch Harris and others
Sebastian Bach on his many celebrity feuds, mended bridges and a potential Skid Row reunion
Sebastian Bach pulls no punches answering your questions on everything from celebrity feuds to Skid Row regrets and hopes for the future
Peter Tagtgren dusts off electro-metal side project Pain for rave-inducing new album I Am
Hypocrisy frontman Peter Tägtgren takes a break from singing about aliens and conspiracies to indulge electro-goth dancefloor fillers with side project Pain
Listen to the Slayer cover of Born To Be Wild that Slayer really don’t like
In 2002, thrash metal deities Slayer covered a Steppenwolf classic. Then Kerry King disowned it and Jeff Hanneman got bullied by his mates.
