Latest articles by Will Marshall
Gore.: The metalcore hopefuls featuring a NASA engineer
Initially formed from a place of defeat, Gore. have become a breakout success for singer Haley Roughton
Bleed From Within's new album Zenith doesn't just raise their own bar, but dares everyone else in the modern metal scene to match it
Bleed From Within's seventh studio album confirms their status as one of the UK's most vital and consistent metal bands
The brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in January 2025
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
4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in December 2024
From Italian power metallers Alterium to French psych metal from Slift, Brighton's prog metal mavericks El Moono and death metal horror fanatics Fulci, these are the bands you need to hear in December 2024
4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in October 2024
From Finnish supergroup Crownshift to crossover brutes Drain, doomgazers Iress and nu metal revivalists Profiler, these are the bands you need to hear in October 2024
Four brilliant new bands you need to hear in September 2024
From Folterkammer's femme-dom black metal to Belushi Speed Ball's 'pizza thrash', Dermabrasion's occulty goth rock and the bizarre alt. metal of Battlesnake, these are the bands you need to hear in September 2024
4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month
From sword'n'sorcery loving power metallers All For Metal to Will Putney's all-star metalcore mob END, these are the bands you need to hear in June 2024
The songs that changed my life, by Dying Wish's Emma Boster
Emma Boster, vocalist of kickass metalcore crew Dying Wish, breaks down her life's mixtape
"The gap between pop and metal is getting smaller." From trauma-powered Taiwanese black metal to “nu gothika”, here are some of the best new metal bands you need to hear right now
The metal scene is more exciting and diverse than ever, and here's the proof
"Hybrid Theory made me realise metal wasn't this weird, ostracised subgenre": Of Mice & Men's Aaron Pauley picks the 10 records that changed his life
From Slipknot and Linkin Park to Converge, Norma Jean and Mansions, these are the records that shaped Of Mice & Men frontman Aaron Pauley
“They don’t know how to make a bad album!” Metal Hammer writers battle it out over which Ghost album is best
Every Ghost album is a fan-favourite, but which one is the ultimate in their devilish discography? We got the five biggest fans in Team Hammer to fight it out.
The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2024
From returning icons to underground heroes and metal's next generation, these are the albums you should be excited about this year
“We’ve got lots of leftover material from Repentless – we wrote so much stuff!” The story of the lost final Slayer album
After Repentless, Slayer guitarist Kerry King promised the thrashers had enough music left over to make a 13th album. It never materialised.
The 10 greatest compilation albums in heavy metal history
From greatest hits to rarity-stacked soundtracks, these are the best compilations in the history of heaviness
10 times metal musicians covered their own songs in other bands
Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Dickinson and Jason Newsted have all recreated metal classics with all-new lineups around them
10 drummers who could replace Jay Weinberg in Slipknot
From Adrian Erlandsson to Gene Hoglan, these drumming dynamos all have the skills needed to join The Nine
10 amazing UK metal bands that couldn’t break America
Despite their undeniable talent, the likes of Carcass, Godflesh and Sikth never got enough praise in the States
10 amazing metal albums that were too ahead of their time
From Black Sabbath’s debut album to Cynic’s Focus, these metal masterpieces were either lambasted or ignored when they first came out
Everything you need to know about Sleep Token
Masked enigmas Sleep Token are the fastest-rising band in modern metal. If you’re just jumping onto the bandwagon, here’s your essential breakdown of their lore, members and musical history.
10 hard rock and heavy metal farewell tours that weren’t actually farewells
Kiss, Judas Priest and Mötley Crüe have all made their goodbyes, only to continue touring and recording anyway
Essex deathcore, Mumbai post-metal and an underground noise supergroup: these are the best new metal bands you need in your life this month
Looking for something new and heavy to listen to? We've got you covered
10 heavy metal replacement singers even better than the original
Common wisdom says that replacing a singer is a dangerous idea, but Bruce Dickinson, Corey Taylor and Rob Halford pushed their bands to new heights
10 legendary hard rock and heavy metal bands who’ve never had a lineup change
Rage Against The Machine, Alter Bridge and Enter Shikari have made it to the top without any change in members along the way
