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Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: July 17 2026
Mastodon team up with Josh Homme, Bury Tomorrow go industrial and In This Moment make the world's most oppressive club anthem on this week's best new metal song roundup
How the Ramones made the debut album that only sold 6000 copies but changed the world
Few bands shook the UK music scene like NYC punks the Ramones did in 1976. Fewer still can claim they actually built one. Welcome to a revolution
Armored Saint have always struggled to fit in – but they're still willing to try something different
Inspired by Motown and R&B as much as by UFO, Queen and Judas Priest, Armored Saint have been ploughing a singular furrow for more than four decades
The story of One Way Or Another, the stalker-inspired song that broke Blondie in the US
One Way Or Another provided the blueprint that turned Blondie into million-sellers and cemented Debbie Harry’s status as one of rock’s foremost badasses
The fast rise, sudden fall and messy afterlife of hair metal heroes Ratt
Ratt were kings of the 80s hair metal scene, only for it all to go very wrong
That time My Chemical Romance's "weird ventriloquists’ music" freaked out one of Britain's favourite bands
Not everyone understood My Chemical Romance when they gatecrashed the mainstream
“When I ask the audience to sing my songs I might as well go home”: How Ian Anderson refined Jethro Tull shows
He took a long hard look at his production values when The Broadsword And The Beast was first released in 1982
Nine Little Feat albums to listen to and one to avoid
Despite musical excellence and fans in high places, Little Feat were a classic case of commercial underachievers
