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May 31
- When Slipknot used to set themselves on fire all the time, because Slipknot
- Shinedown's Brent Smith: "Rock'n'roll was the Devil in my household"
- This past weekend, Mystic Festival proved once again that it's Poland's most essential heavy metal event
- Bad Religion's Brian Baker: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- Brian May on Eddie Van Halen, flying to Pluto, and why he'd like to be a Lord
- Listen to John Bonham's incredible isolated drum part on Led Zeppelin's Fool In The Rain
May 30
- 10 unheralded masterpieces from the early career of Kate Bush
- Amon Amarth tease "darker and more brutal" new album
- Watching Linkin Park sing along to Outkast's Hey Ya! is the wholesome video that'll get you through Monday
- Oi! Think you know the Sex Pistols better that this Mastermind contestant? Prove it
- That bust-up between Slipknot and Limp Bizkit was one of the greatest feuds of the early 00s
- Tracks of the Week: the eight new songs you need to hear right now
May 29
- Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
May 28
- Rob Halford: “Metallica were very beautiful guys, just like we all are in metal”
- "I was out of my gourd": David Bowie duetting (and flirting) with Cher might be the most 70s thing you'll ever see
- How two extreme metal legends helped bring the year’s wildest TV crime show to the screen
May 27
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “This is a brutalising relationship”: the secrets of Rammstein’s Zeit revealed
- Vote for the best metal album of the year so far
- Saluting Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher, the unsung hero who held Depeche Mode together
May 26
- 10 metal bassists who can kill it way better than any guitar shredder
- 5 new bands you need to hear this month
- "Let's swap pants!" - What happened when Led Zeppelin met Elvis
- Why I ❤️ John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, by Eels frontman E
- Ginger Wildheart: music is the only time I feel like me
May 25
- The 10 best metal samples in hip-hop
- Cassyette: the nu gen breakout star lighting a fire under alt-metal
- Joe Elliott has big plans for Def Leppard in the next three years but he's not letting on
May 24
- “Public Enemy was a bad-ass thing”: these are the 11 albums that changed SOAD bassist Shavo Odadjian‘s life
- Every Manic Street Preachers album ranked from worst to best
- Ozzy Osbourne as an 80s TV preacher is still the greatest heavy metal horror movie cameo ever
- David Draiman: the new Disturbed album is “90 per cent heavy as f**k”
- Vikings, runes and goat horns: when Bill Bailey met Wardruna
- Watch Korn play Blind with Slipknot’s Paul Gray on bass
- Bruce Dickinson: I think of our fans like layers of plywood, and we keep building
- Nazareth, Guns N' Roses, Girls Aloud, and the song that made the record company flip
- How lyrics scribbled on tea-stained paper gave Elton John everything he needed
- 10 absolute classics from 10 albums people love to hate
May 23
- “I’m happy to be a metalhead”: when Mark Tremonti met Kreator’s Mille Petrozza
- “One person’s head exploded next to me”: inside the weird world of Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman
- Radiohead's OK Computer: The last rock album that truly mattered
- How we test and rate products at Louder
- Steven Wilson: I never planned for Porcupine Tree to be over for so long
- Tracks of the Week: new music from ZZ Top, Journey and more
May 22
- Headspace: the making of a modern prog supergroup
May 21
- Ten great King Crimson songs from the 90s
- The Colour And The Shape at 25: how Foo Fighters' second album took Dave Grohl out of Kurt Cobain's shadow
May 20
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "There are no boundaries": introducing nu gen, the futuristic alternative movement reinventing rock
- “They are always adventurous and challenging. And like Yes and Genesis, they still have great songs at the heart of it.” It's Radiohead's proggiest moments
- Christina Booth: "I'm no rock star. I'm just a woman who can sing a bit"
- How Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tears resurrected metal’s greatest icon
- Ozzy Osbourne: I don’t plan on going anywhere, but my time’s going to come
- Justin Hawkins is thinking about buying a castle for The Darkness to live in
May 19
- Apocalypse and orgasm: The crazy story of Aphrodite’s Child 666, Vangelis's cult masterpiece
- Killswitch Engage: “Nu metal? I dislike anything where the guitar player only uses one string”
- Feeder's Polythene at 25: How 'The British Smashing Pumpkins' made Metal Hammer's album of 1997
- That time a pre-fame Dave Grohl nearly joined GWAR
- Have you spotted the hidden Marillion easter egg in new Gary Oldman spy thriller Slow Horses?
- Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez: 10 Albums That Changed My Life
- How Pythagorean theory, ancient Egyptology and a topless dancer inspired the cover of Hawkwind's greatest album
- What happened when the boys from Black Country Communion got together again
May 18
- Lynyrd Skynyrd and the anti-firearm protest song that's as relevant now as it ever was
- The improbable story of the Journey classic that keeps coming back to life
- Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust in the style of Chris Cornell is brilliant and uncanny
- Watch Metallica troll the MTV Awards with their cover of So What?
- Every Rollins Band album ranked from worst to best
- The 20 best classic rock albums to own on vinyl
- Louder Than Love: Metal Hammer remembers Chris Cornell
- The King Crimson albums you should definitely own
- Geddy Lee on beer, Rush 2.0, and his friendship with Alex Lifeson
May 17
- 10 new bands featuring the kids of famous rock stars
- Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “My problem with Christianity is the ‘holier than thou’ bullsh*t”
- Every Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtrack ranked from worst to best
- "To whatever extent somebody was wounded, I am very sorry": That time Pat Boone went metal and the Christian community got really mad
- Michael 'Danny' Francis, bodyguard to the stars: my stories of Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Bon Jovi and more
May 16
- Chris Cornell: the 15 songs you need to know
- Judgment Night OST: the story of the greatest rap-rock soundtrack album of the 90s
- Every Fall Out Boy album ranked from worst to best
- The epic inside story of Dio’s Holy Diver album: “We smoked some pot and said, ‘F**k, man, this sounds f**king good!’”
- Tracks of the Week: new music from His Lordship, The Sheepdogs and more
May 15
- Watch a pre-fame Rage Against The Machine lay waste to a tiny California record store
May 14
- These are all the bands Rammstein were in before Rammstein
- “I thought they were taking the piss”: Ozzy Osbourne on his first meeting with Metallica
May 13
- The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- “I was verbally assassinated by Sharon Osbourne”: the trials of Jacoby Shaddix
- Judas Priest’s Ian Hill: “KK Downing will be at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame”
- Creativity and the art of bass liberation. How Stanley Clarke made Up...
May 12
- Robb Flynn on Trevor Strnad: “We couldn’t have asked for a better ambassador for metal”
- Rammstein played an exclusive rehearsal show for their fan club and here’s what happened
- Watch Faith No More's Mike Patton refuse to lip-sync on Top Of The Pops in 1990
- The 10 most metal Eurovision bands ever
- “I ran off and projectile vomited”: an interview with deathcore band Bodysnatcher about insanely hot food
- Wish you were there: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and a night of unexpected magic
- Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen: I’m not as pretty as Lemmy or Sting
- Van Halen: how the wheels came off and the bad feeling that fuelled 1984
- Drug busts, guns, car crashes, fights, fires… these are Keith Richards' greatest scrapes
May 11
- Echobrain: how one band almost killed Metallica
- Every The Jesus Lizard album ranked from worst to best
- Meet the viral YouTuber who’s inventing a new death metal genre
- How Iron Maiden’s Fear Of The Dark marked the end of an era
- Gene Simmons: when Kiss play their last song I’ll be crying like a baby
- Watch Gregg Allman play two classics as Cher vogues years before Madonna
- Every Scorpions album ranked from worst to best
May 10
- Will Smith on Ozzfest: "it's the least African American event outside of that broom and big-ass hockey puck thing at the Olympics"
- Watch David Bowie react as his 1970 Space Oddity award performance is sabotaged by an orchestra
- Every Depeche Mode album ranked from worst to best
- Best speakers for home use 2026: Overhaul your system with our pick of hi-fi speakers for all budgets
- 10 songs that prove Tool’s Danny Carey is a drum god
- Cage Fight: “We have a T-shirt with Boris Johnson getting punched in the face”
- Jimmy Page on gatekeeping Led Zep, playing the Olympics, and the tribes of Morocco
- The jazz rock albums you should definitely own
May 9
- Best phono preamps 2026: Upgrade your vinyl music system with a phono stage
- Watch Slipknot bring the carnage in their first ever UK TV appearance
- Praise Satan! King Diamond has never heard of Post Malone
- Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz: “We are racing against the clock of our own extinction”
- Tracks of the Week: new music and videos from Slash, Halestorm and more
May 8
- The making of Kayak's farewell album Out Of This World
- 10 bands who prove you don’t need a guitar to be heavy
May 7
- 2022’s best metal albums so far
- “Their abilities were not as developed as their ambition”: an interview with the producer behind Metallica’s 80s classics
May 6
- From Type O Negative covers to HIM: how Ville Valo became king of the goths
- 10 non-rock artists who could totally play Download Festival
May 5
- Halestorm’s track by track guide to new album Back From The Dead
- Kirk Hammett’s 10 greatest Metallica guitar solos
- “It ripped my face off”: when Robb Flynn met Meshuggah
- How George Harrison made the album that banished The Beatles
- “I’m at peace with myself and Black Sabbath”: the world according to Bill Ward
- Every Rammstein album ranked from worst to best
- Alice Cooper on Johnny Depp, taking the show to Broadway, and why he won't retire
- How the Red Hot Chili Peppers rediscovered their hot streak
May 4
- Every R.E.M. album ranked from worst to best
- The night nu metal bowed down before Metallica
- Tribal Chiefs, Peaky Blinders and castle clashes: 6 things we learned when WWE took over London
- How AC/DC really learned to rock and made the three albums that changed everything
- What happened when Ann Wilson met Lzzy Hale
- Watch Deep Purple play a solemn Beatles cover during their first ever TV performance
May 3
- 10 things we learned from our candid conversation with Halestorm in this month's Metal Hammer
- “I wake up and think, ‘F**k yeah, I get to be Gene Simmons another day’”: the world according to Gene Simmons
- Spit Out The Bone is one of the greatest Metallica songs of the last 20 years, and here’s proof
- Why you should definitely own Time’s Up by Living Colour
- Motorhead and the song that helped changed the face of British television
- How Randy Bachman lifted ideas from everywhere for the song that pays the bills
May 2
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Dorothy, The Cold Stares and more
May 1
- The 12 most metal comedians ever
- "We spent about three years on The Garden, and we had this one wrapped up in about 18 months." The making of Unitopia's Artificial
- New vinyl releases 2023: Here’s what’s coming out in rock, metal, prog and more
- The best audiophile headphones for Hi-Fi listening 2026: Wired, Bluetooth, noise cancelling and more