Metallica announce the launch of their own podcast with eight episodes based on The Black Album
Metallica are to launch The Metallica Podcast, featuring eight episodes that take a deep-dive into the making of The Black Album
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Metallica announce the launch of their own podcast with eight episodes based on The Black Album
Metallica are to launch The Metallica Podcast, featuring eight episodes that take a deep-dive into the making of The Black Album
Mayhem celebrate the joy of satanic ritual sacrifice in Black Glass Communion video
Watch the stylishly sinister video for Black Glass Communion created by film-maker Zev Deans (Ghost/St. Vincent)
Watch ‘the most brutal mosh pit ever‘ cause chaos in a church
YouTuber Andre Antunes thinks he’s uncovered ‘the most brutal mosh pit ever’… and he wants in on the action
Crowdfunder launched for mural of The Prodigy's Keith Flint in aid of mental health services
A crowdfunder to raise funds for a mural of the late Prodigy frontman Keith Flint has been launched
Images from Chris Cornell’s final photoshoot to be sold as NFTs
American photographer Randall Slavin is selling images from the last shoot Chris Cornell ever sat for
Gene Simmons to exhibit his Jackson Pollack-inspired paintings in Las Vegas
"I have had no professional training; I just like to draw and paint" says Kiss man Gene Simmons ahead of his gallery exhibition
Underøath announce new album Voyeurist, share choir-enhanced Hallelujah
Florida metalcore crew Underøath preview album number nine, Voyeurist, with dramatic new single Hallelujah
TesseracT release live performance video of Tourniquet
UK prog metallers TesseracT will release "aural and visual live cinematic experience" Portals in August
Limp Bizkit pay tribute to Slipknot's Joey Jordison at Iowa gig
Limp Bizkit and their fans pay tribute to the late former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison
Listen to Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder cover AC/DC’s Highway To Hell
RATM guitarist Tom Morello announces new solo album The Atlas Underground Fire and shares cover of AC/DC's Highway To Hell featuring Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder
Black Sabbath to release super deluxe edition of Technical Ecstasy in October
Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy reissue will feature more than 90 minutes of unreleased outtakes, alternative mixes and live tracks
Deafheaven share video for In Blur, single three from new album Infinite Granite
Deafheaven offer third preview of their upcoming fifth album Infinite Granite, with new single In Blur
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Ginger Wildheart: my life in 10 songs
The Wildhearts frontman and man of many musical projects Ginger Wildheart talks us through his 10 songs that mean the most to him
A needlessly deep dive into Blink-182’s cameo appearance in American Pie
What happened when pop-punks Blink-182 appeared in 1999 teen comedy American Pie
David Draiman: 8 songs that changed my life
Disturbed frontman David Draiman takes a deep dive into his record collection to reveal the songs that fuelled his rock star dreams
“How serious can we be about religion if we have a song called Resurrection By Erection?”: inside the world of Powerwolf
Naked confessions, demonic beasts, power f***ing metal. We get to grips with German power metallers Powerwolf and their eighth album Call Of The Wild
“Girls bit cow hearts and slapped me in the face”: the story behind Slipknot’s second album Iowa
It was the record that confirmed Slipknot as metal’s biggest band in a generation. It also almost ended them for good. Twenty years on, Corey Taylor, Clown and more tell us the definitive story of Iowa
No More Tears: how Ozzy Osbourne left a decade of mayhem behind and healed
Come the end of the 80s, Ozzy was in tatters, but by 1991 he was back, sober and fit again
"Sabbath was a ghost ship when I joined”: Read an extract from Ronnie James Dio’s brutally honest memoir
In an excerpt taken from his posthumous autobiography, here Ronnie James Dio shares his take on how 1981 album Mob Rules came to be
10 music video cameos by people who went on to become super famous
We can't all start at the top, and once upon a time music videos were fertile ground for training up soon-to-be-A-listers – as these 10 cameos prove
The A-Z Guide to Joey Jordison
An alphabetical guide to the late legendary drummer and Slipknot founder Joey Jordison
Gojira: six things you need to know
French metallers Gojira on their spooky house, the influence of Mike Oldfield, and inspiring people to change the world
Remembering Joey Jordison's best lost project
On an archive episode of the Metal Hammer Magazine Show, Joey Jordison discussed one of his many passion projects, Scar The Martyr, as well as life in Slipknot after the passing of Paul Gray
The ultimate Joey Jordison playlist
Drumming legend and Slipknot founder Joey Jordison passed away on July 26, 2021. We pay tribute to him with this ultimate playlist of classic tracks written by or featuring Joey Jordison
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Lingua Ignota's Sinner Get Ready: haunting, intricate and wonderfully complex
The underground’s most electrifying artist Lingua Ignota unleashes a folk horror masterwork with Sinner Get Ready
Swallow The Sun's 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair – Live In Helsinki: encapsulating melancholy and might
Finland’s revered miserablists Swallow The Sun hold a majestic commemoration with 20 Years Of Gloom, Beauty And Despair – Live In Helsinki
King Woman's Celestial Blues: from understated elegance to skull-rattling thunderclap
San Francisco’s atmospheric doom voyagers King Woman extend their singular vision with second album Celestial Blues
Dee Snider's Leave A Scar: fist-pumping fun set to a soundtrack of heavy metal thunder
Dee Snider's fifth solo album Leave A Scar is a healthy dose of PMA from the PMRC-bashing metal legend
Powerwolf's Call Of The Wild: Germany’s high-powered lycanthropes claw their way to world domination
Powerwolf's eighth album Call Of The Wild is chock-full of epic trademark tales and long-toothed fiends
Metal heavy hitters collide with DC Comics universe on DC Dark Nights: Death Metal
Mastodon, Chelsea Wolfe, Chino Moreno and more clash on DC Comics’ multiverse-restructuring soundtrack
Times Of Grace's Songs Of Loss And Separation: Jesse Leach and Adam Dutkiewicz switch into a different gear
Times Of Grace justify their return after a decade with new second album Songs Of Loss And Separation
At The Gates' The Nightmare Of Being: the melodic death pioneers get weird
Sweden's At The Gates carve out new sonic territory on their seventh album
Amenra's De Doorn: huge, stately and emotionally devastating
Belgium’s post-metal missionaries take a new route to salvation
Helloween’s Helloween: power metal kings expand and conquer on new album
Helloween’s past meets their present on dazzling self-titled ‘reunion’ album
Kiss kick off their archive live series with a die-hard fan's delight
Out now: short-lived Kiss line-up captured live in Japan on Off The Soundboard: Tokyo 2001
