Every Avenged Sevenfold album ranked from worst to best By Stephen Hill From Sounding The Seventh Trumpet to The Stage, here are Avenged Sevenfold’s seven albums ranked from worst to best
This Sabbath-loving rapper is set to rule 2020 By Stephen Hill Canadian hip hop disrupter Backxwash is where Marilyn Manson and Black Sabbath meet Tyler The Creator
10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great By Fraser Lewry, Dom Lawson, Malcolm Dome, Jon Hotten, Sleazegrinder, Stephen Hill, Rob Hughes, Dave Ling, Alec Chillingworth Everybody's got to start somewhere, and some of our very best bands started slowly. Here's 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great
Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon: 10 albums that changed my life By Stephen Hill Sevendust frontman Lajon Witherspoon reveals the soundtrack to his life
Duff McKagan: “Who would play me in a movie? Brad Pitt” By Stephen Hill Up close and personal with Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan. Just don’t call him a “legend”
The Story Behind The Song: Lamb Of God’s Laid To Rest By Stephen Hill Randy Blythe and Mark Morton look back on Laid To Rest – the song that put Lamb Of God the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal on the map
Mushroomhead’s A Wonderful Life album: Slipknot still have nothing to worry about By Stephen Hill Nu metal also-rans Mushroomhead’s eighth album A Wonderful life is dated and downright clumsy
Discharge: the groundbreaking punks who changed metal forever By Stephen Hill Metallica, Sepultura, Napalm Death – they all owe a huge debt to 80s punks Discharge and their game-changing album Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
156/Silence’s prove hardcore is 2020’s most exciting noise with new album Irrational Pull By Stephen Hill Pittsburgh’s 156/Silence are following in the stellar footsteps of Code Orange on new album Irrational Pull
Geezer Butler: “I’m getting up there in terms of age. I have to take it one day at a time.” By Stephen Hill Metal icon Geezer Butler talks bad acid trips, vegan sausages and life after Black Sabbath
Every Korn album ranked from worst to best By Stephen Hill From Korn’s landmark debut to 2019’s The Nothing, this is the nu metal pioneers’ back catalogue arranged in order of greatness
The 20 best Download Festival sets ever By Stephen Hill We asked you to vote for the greatest Download performance since the festival’s inception in 2003. The results are in
Dear System Of A Down: we’re bored of the bickering. Either make an album or split up By Stephen Hill It’s 15 years since System Of A Down put out a new album. For one Metal Hammer writer, it’s time for them to shit or get off the pot
Every Gojira album ranked from worst to best By Stephen Hill Ranking every Gojira album from worst to best is a tough job – but we’ve done it
Podcast: Bleed From Within on fifth album Fracture, their self-imposed hiatus, Pantera and pandemics By Stephen Hill Bleed From Within's Scott Kennedy and Ali Richardson talk to Stephen Hill in our exclusive podcast
Podcast: Havok's David Sanchez on their new album, inspirations and the future for the band By Stephen Hill Havok's David Sanchez talks to Stephen Hill in our exclusive podcast
The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant bands By Dom Lawson, Paul Elliott, Dave Everley, Stephen Hill Step into a world of WTF, as we round up the biggest turkeys from metal’s greatest bands
We put together the ultimate Holy Diver covers album By Stephen Hill Corey Taylor, Killswitch Engage, Halestorm and more cover Dio’s 1983 masterpiece Holy Diver
Alive Or Just Breathing: how Killswitch Engage saved metal from itself By Stephen Hill With Alive Or Just Breathing and The End Of Heartache, Killswitch Engage buried nu metal and sparked the metalcore revolution
The Story Behind The Song: Strapping Young Lad’s Love? By Stephen Hill How Devin Townsend ripped off an obscure 80s prog song and gave Strapping Young Lad an unlikely breakthrough single
Nu-thrashers Shrapnel mix it up with the old masters on Palace For The Insane By Stephen Hill British thrashers Shrapnel pick up the pace on new album Palace For The Insane
Every Killswitch Engage album ranked from worst to best By Stephen Hill Putting metalcore heroes Killswitch Engage’s albums in order of greatness
We put together the ultimate AC/DC Back In Black covers album By Stephen Hill From death metal to dub rock, this is AC/DC’s iconic Back in Black album as you’ve never heard it before
Every System Of A Down album ranked from worst to best By Stephen Hill Every System Of A Down record and key solo projects ranked in order of greatness
We put together the ultimate Black Sabbath Paranoid covers album By Stephen Hill Black Sabbath’s 1970 masterpiece Paranoid covered by the bands it inspired
