Metallica unveil new additions to their Nixon watch collection
Metallica add three more designs to their Nixon watch range - bringing the number of thrash timepieces to 11
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Metallica unveil new additions to their Nixon watch collection
Metallica add three more designs to their Nixon watch range - bringing the number of thrash timepieces to 11
Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx: Steel Panther’s Michael Starr can go f*** himself
The Motley Crue bassist hits out at “wanna be” band Steel Panther after Michael Starr makes a joke about Vince Neil
Rob Halford: It’ll be hard for Judas Priest to top Firepower
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford says the band have “vaults” full of riffs that could be used on their next studio album
Listen to pounding new Lindemann track Ich weiß es nicht
Rammstein's Till Lindemann and Hypocrisy and Pain's Peter Tagtgren launch new single Ich weiß es nicht along with a remix by Ministry
Watch Marilyn Manson face the grave in video for God’s Gonna Cut You Down
Marilyn Manson shares black and white promo for his take on American folk song God’s Gonna Cut You Down
Mortiis returns with new album Spirit Of Rebellion
Dungeon synth godfather Mortiis will return with the new album Spirit Of Rebellion in early 2020
Iron Maiden reveal the final part of their Studio Collection Remastered series
The fourth and final set will feature Dance Of Death, A Matter Of Life And Death, The Final Frontier and The Book Of Souls
Wilderun share lyric video for sprawling new single The Tyranny Of Imagination
Boston outfit share promo for their epic track The Tyranny Of Imagination - taken from upcoming album Veil Of Imagination
Slipknot bassist V-Man: My role was to fill a great man’s shoes and do him justice
Alessandro Venturella recalls his Slipknot audition following the death of Paul Gray and says: “My approach isn’t the same as Paul’s. I can’t be him and never will be"
Motorhead ex Mikkey Dee reacts to Rock Hall snub
The former Motorhead drummer says it’s “pure wrong” that both he and guitarist Phil Campbell weren’t named in the band’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame lineup
Lemmy, Slash, Kiss & Ozzy star in The Rainbow documentary
Film focusing on the history of the famous Rainbow Bar & Grill will be released later this year
Here's the setlist from Tool's first show since the release of Fear Inoculum
Tool have played their first show since the release of new album Fear Inoculum, and here's what they had in the setlist
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Vote for the best rock album of the decade
The 2010s are fast approaching their end, so now we're asking you to help us name the finest albums of the last 10 years
Master of reality: A tribute to Tommy Udo
Former Metal Hammer staffer, Classic Rock and Prog writer and scourge of PRs everywhere, Tommy Udo died on 10 October, 2019. Here we pay tribute to a funny, fearsome and much-loved colleague
Tool: meet the mad daddies of neo-prog
With the release of Tool's 10,000 Days album in 2006, we went down the pub with the band lazily dubbed "the heavy metal Radiohead"
Exclusive: Norwegian pagan folk/metal visionaries Gåte return with a stunning new track
Exclusive Listen to Gåte's epic new single Huldra right here!
Rob Halford: why I love Away In A Manger, and other Christmas songs
Metal God Rob Halford has released a new Christmas album, Celestial, and it might be just the thing the world needs
The 12 best black metal songs, chosen by Primordial's A.A. Nemtheanga
Primordial vocalist A.A. Nemtheanga picks 12 black metal classics
Top 10 Entombed tracks as chosen by Baest
Denmark’s death metal powerhouse Baest pick their favourite tracks from tour mates the mighty Entombed A.D.
Combat Rock: how Kris Barras gave up cage fighting to become a rock star
No longer a cage fighter, Kris Barras comes armed with a new album and a ton of life experience, slinging out riffs instead of throwing punches
Hellfire and black metal: The story of 1349
An exclusive excerpt from Black Metal: Into The Abyss on Norwegian black metallers 1349
Motorhead 1979: the inside story of Overkill and Bomber
It was the year Black Sabbath fired Ozzy, AC/DC were on a Highway To Hell and Judas Priest were Unleashed In The East. Oh, and some band called Motorhead gave us Overkill and Bomber
The Story Behind The Song: Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots
Interstate Love Song started out as a bossa nova tune, had a country riff added, and ended up as a hit single on Stone Temple Pilots' multimillion-selling Purple album
Babymetal's Metal Galaxy: the ultimate track-by-track guide
Babymetal have released their new album Metal Galaxy, and here they talk you through everything you need to know about it
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Babymetal - Metal Galaxy: Japan’s Fox God emissaries chart a new sonic course
Babymetal's new album Metal Galaxy deftly proves that the band's whole existence is one massive curveball
Have Steel Panther taken the joke too far?
Sunset Strip revivalists Steel Panther bring more swears than songs with fifth album Heavy Metal Rules
Korn's The Nothing recaptures the genuine darkness of their earlier works
Jonathan Davis exorcises his most ferocious demons yet in Korn's new album The Nothing
Asagraum's Dawn Of Infinite Fire is an instant black metal classic
Dutch black metallers Asagraum weave potent new magick from the old school with new album Dawn of Infinite Fire
Why Sacred Reich's Awakening was worth waiting twenty three years for
The Politically charged thrash originals Sacred Reich break a near-quarter-century silence wand prove thrash metal is still alive and well
AC/DC: Highway To Hell album review
Highway To Hell: the album that took AC/DC to international superstardom, and an entry point for new fans since its release
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock album review
Recorded in one room and crackling with energy, AC/DC's fourth album Let There Be Rock was a statement of furious intent
Heilung's Furtha is an album of unstoppable primal power
The amplified historians deliver another psychedelic sermon
Napalm Death's Shane Embury and Absolute Power's Russ Russell project Tronos release star-studded new album
The dynamic duo's new project, described as "ambient psych doom metal", release their debut record Celestial Mechanics
Venom Prison’s demonic Samsara album is a twisted modern death metal classic
Brit death metal firebrands delve deeper into the dark on second album
Mystifier’s first album in 18 years is cult Brazilian metal at its best
Brazil’s subterranean terror squad return in malevolent splendour with Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia
