Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman previews new album Tokyo Jukebox 3 with single The Perfect World
Former Megadeth man Marty Friedman reworks 2016 single The Perfect World for new solo album Tokyo Jukebox 3
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Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman previews new album Tokyo Jukebox 3 with single The Perfect World
Former Megadeth man Marty Friedman reworks 2016 single The Perfect World for new solo album Tokyo Jukebox 3
Eruption played on three stylophones is a mind-boggling tribute to Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen's Eruption on three stylophones? It's real
John Petrucci launches signature beard products range
The Dream Theater guitarist teams up with Captain Fawcett to offer moustache wax, beard balm and more
Listen to the first song Deafheaven ever wrote, from new live album 10 Years Gone
Deafheaven’s debut song Daedalus features on the San Francisco band’s forthcoming live album 10 Years Gone
‘Make America Great’ is bullsh*t, says Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell
Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell looks back over his storied career in new Metal Hammer magazine interview
Biffy Clyro and Royal Blood vocalists guest on new Architects album, For Those That Wish To Exist
Brighton metallers Architects reveal details of their ninth studio album, For Those That Wish To Exist
Miley Cyrus is making a Metallica covers album. Yes, you read that correctly
Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get crazier, Miley Cyrus announces she’s working on a Metallica covers album
Korn, Mastodon, Anthrax, Run DMC and Refused have teamed up for an epic Faith No More cover
The Kings Of Quarantine’s all-star cover of FNM’s We Care A Lot will raise money for Roadie Relief charity to support crew members
Between The Buried And Me's Colors set for double vinyl reissue
North Carolina prog metallers Between The Buried And Me's groundbreaking 2007 album Colors gets double vinyl reissue
Hit The Lights! This Metallica-themed Halloween lights ‘spooktacular’ is metal as f**k
Metallica’s James Hetfield as an angry pumpkin? Hell yes! Finally, 2020 delivers some joy
Architects return with surprise single Animals
Animals is the first new single from Architects since 2018’s Holy Hell album
Metal was too white until nu metal came along, says Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda
Exclusive Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda recalls how nu metal changed the rock landscape in exclusive Metal Hammer interview
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“I love that I’m pissing in the face of elitists”: Corey Taylor has something to get off his chest
After a turbulent few years, Corey Taylor his put his troubles behind him. Now he’s back in the ring with his first solo album and coming out swinging
10 bands who wouldn’t exist without Korn
10 artists who show the huge influence Korn have had on metal and beyond
Metal album covers recreated with Batman characters is the best thing you’ll see today
You want the Joker as Eddie The Head or Two-Face as Metallica’s Lady Justice? You got it…
15 things you didn’t know about Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine
Shaved eyebrows, record label rucks and inspiring Fight Club - here are are 15 things you didn’t know about Nine Inch Nails’ debut album Pretty Hate Machine
Power Trip’s Riley Gale: the modern metal hero who was one of us
Power Trip frontman Riley Gale’s death at the age 34 shocked the metal scene. We look back at the life and times of a genuine one-off
Leaking albums used to hurt bands. Now it can kill them off completely
Misery Signals guitarist Ryan Morgan knows what it’s like to have his music leaked – and he says that now more than ever, it’s time for people to realise the damage it really does
The Top 20 best metal albums of 2003
Iron Maiden, Metallica, Lamb Of God and the return of goth – these are the 20 albums that soundtracked 2003
Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “The way I was going I was gonna kill myself, dying from drinking”
From The Archives From the Metal Hammer archives, this classic 1996 interview finds Korn singer Jonathan Davis ready to embrace stardom – if he can only keep his demons in check
10 essential symphonic black metal albums
Unleash the orchestras of Satan! These are the 10 symphonic metal albums you need to hear
Every Sepultura album ranked from worst to best
The hits, the misses, the buried treasures – this is Sepultura’s mighty back catalogue arranged in order of greatness
Slipknot songs on the hurdy gurdy are almost as good as Slipknot songs on the guitar
Slipknot’s Psychosocial, The Devil In I and Unsainted get the hurdy gurdy treatment you didn’t know they needed
Tommy Lee interview: rock'n'roll has become too safe, and that's kinda sad
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee on his new solo album, meeting Prince, loving electronic music, and rock becoming too safe
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Greg Puciato’s Child Soldier: Creator Of God: head-melting genius from ex-Dillinger Escape Plan singer
Never mind the leaks – ex-Dillinger Escape Plan man Greg Puciato’s brilliant debut solo album sets him up as the next Mike Patton
Bloodbather’s Silence: short, sharp shock treatment from genre-mashing ragers
Florida’s Bloodbather serve up furious riffs and atonal guitar squeals on terse Silence EP
Crippled Black Phoenix’s Ellengaest: scabrous diatribes and emotional devastation on majestic new album
Post-rock mavericks Crippled Black Phoenix rise above turmoil the help of all-star guests on new album Ellengaest
Anaal Nathrakh’s Endarkenment: filthy nihilism out, unexpected optimism in
Blackened grind doomsayers Anaal Nathrakh clean up their act on new album Endarkenment – but it can’t dispel the whiff of formula
Touché Amoré’s Lament: post-hardcore lifers spead their wings with help from Ross Robinson
Impassioned post-hardcore crew Touché Amoré expand their scope on soaring new album Lament
Six Feet Under are still drinking blood, still getting high on new album Nightmares Of The Decomposed
Death metal warhorses Six Feet Under serve up endearingly sloppy slab of stoner-death brutality with new album Nightmares Of The Decomposed
Enslaved’s Utgard: more fearless expeditions from prog-metal’s Viking visionaries
Prog-metal kings Enslaved soar as high as ever on 14th album Utgard
Corey Taylor’s CMFT is music to ride motorbikes into swimming pools to
Corey Taylor brings the party on exhilarating debut solo album CMFT
Uada’s Djinn album: kvlt-baiting black metal polished to a technicolour gleam
Boundary-pushing Portland black metallers Uada provoke the faithful’s ire on new album Djinn
The Ocean’s Phanerozoic II: the conclusion to an epic journey four billion years in the making
Prog metal doesn’t get any more ambitious than the final part of The Ocean’s history of the Earth
Ayreon’s Transitus album: where gothic horror, prog metal and Doctor Who come together
Ayreon’s epic Transitus is the missing link between prog metal and Andrew Lloyd Webber – with added Doctor Who
