Guitarist Bernie Tormé dead at 66
Former Gillan, Atomic Rooster and Ozzy Osbourne guitarist has passed away after battle with illness
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Guitarist Bernie Tormé dead at 66
Former Gillan, Atomic Rooster and Ozzy Osbourne guitarist has passed away after battle with illness
Marilyn Manson has nearly finished his new album
Marilyn Manson declares on Instagram that he's on the cusp of finishing a new album
MySpace lose millions of songs during data migration project
The pioneering social media site has admitted that songs uploaded between 2003 and 2015 cannot be recovered
Percussionist Chris Fehn has left Slipknot
Slipknot announce that percussionist Chris Fehn has left the band via a statement on their website
Metal Hammer Podcast: Stop Cancelling Shows
Watain's Singaporean Satanic panic, Megadeth get graphic, and devilish doo-wop
Here are the 11 biggest news stories of the week
It’s been another busy week in the world of rock, metal and prog – here are some of the biggest news stories
Motley Crue unleash sleazy take on Madonna's Like A Virgin
Motley Crue release their take on Madonna classic Like A Virgin, the second single to be released from The Dirt soundtrack
Hellyeah release new single 333, featuring Vinnie Paul's final recordings
Hellyeah launch video for their new single 333, taken from upcoming new album
Tesseract’s Daniel Tompkins announces Castles - his debut solo album
Tesseract frontman Daniel Tompkins will release Castles later this year - check out video for Saved featuring Acle Kahney
Baroness return with video for epic new single Borderlines
After revealing the artwork for their upcoming album Gold & Grey earlier this week, Baroness launch video for their new single Borderlines
Watch Randy Blythe join his Lamb Of God bandmate Mark Morton on guitarist's solo tour
As Mark Morton’s solo tour gets under way, his Lamb Of God bandmate Randy Blythe joins him onstage for Truth Is Dead
Metallica have begun “jamming” new ideas together while out on the road
Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo says the band have been working on new ideas while they’ve been out on their WorldWired tour
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The Top 10 most underrated Judas Priest songs
The British band have written some of the great heavy metal anthems. But these are the connoisseur’s choices
Opeth’s Blackwater Park: inside a 21st century prog-metal masterpiece
The album that turned a bunch of gnarly Swedes into flag-bearers for prog-metal in the new millennium
The Story Behind The Song: Death To All But Metal by Steel Panther
Michael Starr and Satchel on the track that made Steel Panther superstars
We got Melvins’ Buzz Osbourne to pick the 9 greatest Melvins albums
The Melvins records you really need to hear – straight from the horse’s mouth
Enter the deliriously dread-inducing realm of 11Paranoias
Premiere Doom-laden psychonauts 11Paranoias stream their impending new album, Asterismal, in full
Overkill’s Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth: My Life Story
Thrash metal icon. Party monster. Cancer survivor. Overkill frontman Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth has done it all and lived to tell the tale
How to buy the very best of Manowar
Heavy metal doesn’t come more gloriously over-the-top than the self-proclaimed kings and defenders of ‘True Metal’ – here we round-up the albums essential to any record collection
Type O Negative’s Peter Steele: ‘I’m an old man having his last fucking tantrum.’
In March 2007, Metal Hammer talked to Peter Steele about Type O Negative’s new album Dead Again. No one knew it would be his swansong
Why there’s way more to Anthrax’s Fistful Of Metal than just a terrible sleeve
A year after Metallica’s Kill ’Em, Anthrax joined the thrash metal party with Fistful Of Metal – and took their first steps towards immortality
How British metal almost ruled the 90s
British metal should have reigned supreme in the 90s, but nu metal stole its crown. We track down the era’s forgotten bands and the survivors who live on today
Rob Halford: ‘There was only one Pantera.’
Judas Priest’s singer pays tribute to the Texan metal legends
How to buy the very best of Megadeth
Megadeth's career now spans over 30 years and 15 studio albums. Here, we pick out the albums essential to any collection
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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
Children Of Bodom’s blackened Hexed album is the sound of a band back on track
Finland’s melodeath favourites Children Of Bodom regain their bearings on new album Hexed
LoG guitarist Mark Morton’s Anesthetic album is an all-star show of force and soul
Randy Blythe, Alissa White-Gluz and the late Chester Bennington elevate Lamb Of God man’s debut solo album
While She Sleeps’ provocative new album So What? is the sound of genres being mashed
Sheffield’s ever-evolving punk metallers jump off the deep end
King 810 – Suicide King album review
Divisive gangster metallers King 810 are still hitting the highs and lows
Swallow The Sun – When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light album review
Magnificent bleakness and inconsolable loss from Finnish death-doom veterans
Review: Puppy’s debut album The Goat is where Weezer meets Ghost
Rising alt-rockers embrace all shades of metal on their first album
Album review: Lovebites’ Clockwork Immortality is the sound of power metal’s future
Japan’s new power metal queens scale the heights on their second album
Papa Roach – Who Do You Trust? album review
The nu metal survivors cast their sonic net wide on album number 10
Mayhem: Grand Declaration Of War (2018) album review
Black metal pioneers Mayhem bring their most contentious album back from the cold
