Rich Hobson

Ozzy Osbourne, Lacuna Coil and Lordi lead this week's best new metal songs

Spiritbox, Arch Enemy and Rivers Of Nihil are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

How Scars On Broadway helped Daron Malakian dust himself off after System Of A Down's breakup

How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine ushered in metal's next generation

Conquer Divide/Avoid/Defences/Faetooth

Epica, Jinjer and Bloodywood are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

The year 2000 gave us massive releases from Deftones, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, but these 10 albums flew under the radar

Rating the storied career of one of modern metal's most important bands as they head out on tour to celebrate 20 years of Ascendancy

Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage and Electric Callboy lead a stacked week of brilliant new metal singles. Plus, vote for your favourite!

"It's not a movie, it's a cultural movement." The story behind Ice Nine Kills' ultra-gory Terrifier 3 tie-in A Work Of Art

Architects, Alien Weaponry and Whitechapel are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

From the post-hardcore squall of Hidden Mothers to Lutharo's invigorating mix of power metal and melodeath, to one-woman black metaller Hulder and Saudi Arabian tech-prog-metallers Ana.n7n, these are the bands you need to hear in January 2025

Brant Bjork sharies his stories of desert rock, generator parties and why he never wanted Kyuss to be Metallica

Ghost, Judas Priest, Babymetal, Gojira, Knocked Loose... 2024 was a massive year for metal songs. But which song did you vote as the very best?

Shavo Odadjian hadn't released an album in almost 20 years, but a chance encounter at a party gave birth to his heaviest project yet

Ice-T reflects on the rage behind Cop Killer, the best rap and metal albums and dream collabs as he answers your questions

From Judas Priest to Opeth, Poppy to Bring Me The Horizon, these are the metal albums you said defined metal in 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

Mikael Åkerfeldt and guitarist Fredrik Åkesson regret that people focus so much on one element of their sound, when there’s so much more to The Last Will And Testament

Inside the biggest (and most over the top) power metal tour of 2024

From the cosmic death exploration of Blood Incantation to the welcome return of Nails and Job For A Cowboy, these are the 10 albums that defined death metal in 2024

Two of metal's best Matts answer questions from their biggest fans (and no, we still don't know who the next Metallica is)

Frank Skinner on the "inspirational" Judas Priest, playing in a cult Birmingham band and the heavy metal sitcom that never was

Although System Of A Down haven't released a new album in almost 20 years, that hasn't stopped frontman Serj Tankian from remaining a prolific force