Jinjer have announced a post-lockdown mini-tour next month
Jinjer will become the first major metal band to play multiple live shows with four European gigs in September 2020
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Jinjer have announced a post-lockdown mini-tour next month
Jinjer will become the first major metal band to play multiple live shows with four European gigs in September 2020
Sólstafir stream brand 11-minute new song Akkeri
Icelandic post rockerss Sólstafir release first new music from upcoming album Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love
Buy a beer and help grassroots music venues across the UK
Music Venue Trust and Fightback Brewing Company join forces for the #SaveOurVenues campaign - a portion of proceeds from sales will help grassroots music venues in the UK
We're having a mid-season sale and you can now get five issues of our mags for a fiver
You can now pick up a print subscription covering five issues of Classic Rock, Metal Hammer or Prog for the new low price of £5
Guns N’ Roses move UK and European tour dates into 2021
After Guns N’ Roses were forced to push their summer North American tour into 2021, the band confirm they’re doing the same for their UK and European dates
Gojira launch apocalyptic Another World video
French metal titans Gojira release standalone single Another World and ask: Is humanity doomed?
Lamb Of God’s Memento Mori coffee is guaranteed to stir up your mornings
Lamb Of God team up with Nightflyer Roastworks for new product: “Coffee has been a constant for us, both on and off the road,” the band say
Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta has a plan to fix Metallica’s Lulu
Hatebreed frontman offers $50,000 charity donation if Metallica let him and other metal stars re-record vocals for much-maligned Lulu album
Gojira light up social media with Another Place To Be teaser
Gojira upload looped video across social media suggesting there’s an announcement imminent
Corey Taylor: I've got enough material for three or four solo albums
Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor talks about the material on his debut solo album CMFT – and reveals he’s already planning its follow-up
Trivium are buying an aircraft hangar to turn into their HQ
Trivium’s Matt Heafy reveals the band will turn the space into their own HQ where they’ll be able to rehearse, record, livestream and even hold live shows
Devin Townsend is writing a “weird” new album called Lightwork
Devin Townsend reveals he’s found himself “unexpectedly” writing a new album and reports it’s "a weird, alien sounding, effervescent, sunny load of oddness"
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Iron Maiden’s Powerslave: the story behind the most epic metal album of the 80s
Iron Maiden were on their way to becoming megastars, but with 1984’s blockbusting Powerslave all bets were off
You might not rate St Anger, but it single-handedly salvaged Metallica's career
It was very nearly all over for the biggest band on the planet at the turn of the millennium – but with St Anger, Metallica's fortunes were about to change. Here's the story, from rehab-to-rebirth
Download 2021 festival tickets, lineup rumours, announcements and more
Everything you need to know about Download festival 2021, including buying tickets and lineup announcements
Metallica: we sacrificed Jason to save ourselves
In 2001 Metallica were on the cusp of extinction – until the departure of bassist Jason Newsted brought them back from from the brink
The 12 best videos from Rammstein's depraved cinematic universe
Rammstein's 12 best videos. You probably shouldn't watch these at work – unless you work somewhere really weird
Jerry Cantrell says James Hetfield is the greatest frontman in metal and we're not about to disagree
Alice In Chains' riff lord Jerry Cantrell tells us why Metallica frontman James Hetfield is the true godfather of metal
10 essential proto-black metal albums
Diving back to the birth of black metal and the records that have stood the test of time.
Periphery’s Spencer Sotelo: “You aren’t going to make money being in a metal band”
Periphery frontman Spencer Sotelo on losing out at the Grammys, getting high outdoors and the financial insecurities of metal
The Top 10 best albums of 1993
Metal was in flux in 1993. But these 10 albums proved it still had plenty of life in it
The pandemic hasn’t stopped Dee Snider, but age might
“I’ll do it as long as I can. But come on, man. How much time is left?” says the former Twisted Sister man
The Top 10 best albums of 1997
1997 was the year metal truly threw its doors open to everyone, and here are 10 killer albums that prove it
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Primal Fear’s Metal Commando: the power metal Jedi Masters return
Power metal warhorses Primal Fear show their class on lucky thirteenth album Metal Commando
Metalcore heroes Misery Signals go back to the future on new album Ultraviolet
Misery Signals’ first album with their original line-up in 16 years is a huge leap sideways
Aleah’s posthumous new album is a spectral reminder of a great lost talent
Magical melancholy from late Tears Of Eternity singer Aleah Starbridge
Destruction’s Born To Thrash: German titans live and feral
Euro thrash warhorses Destruction show no sign of slowing on new live album Born To Thrash
Ensiferum’s Thalassic is the sound of a band still gallantly riding on the wings of folk metal
Finnish folk metallers Ensiferum put fresh wind in their sails with new album Thalassic
Bell Witch And Aerial Ruin’s Stygian Bough Volume 1: where funereal doom and gothic folk collide
Funereal Seattleites Bell Witch renew a fertile partnership with old friend Aerial Ruins on new album Stygian Bough: Volume 1
A.A. Williams’ Forever Blue: bleakness and beauty in one stunning debut album
Death gospel visionary A.A. Williams shows metal bands don’t have the monopoly on misery with debut album Forever Blue
Emmure crank the menace up to maximum on new album Hindsight
New album Hindsight is unpredictably ferocious even for Emmure
156/Silence’s prove hardcore is 2020’s most exciting noise with new album Irrational Pull
Pittsburgh’s 156/Silence are following in the stellar footsteps of Code Orange on new album Irrational Pull
Cro-Mags’ In The Beginning: offstage drama out, raging NYHC in
Hardcore legend Harley Flanagan parks the legal drama and focuses on the music on first new Cro-Mags album in 20 years
Umbra Vitae’s Shadow Of Life: Converge’s Jacob Bannon leads all-star death drive
Jacob Bannon’s underground metal collective Umbra Vitae serve up a bombardment of ideas on new album Shadow Of Life