Metallica’s Kirk Hammett hits out at Motorhead and Thin Lizzy’s Rock Hall snub
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett says he thinks the reason Motorhead and Thin Lizzy weren’t inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame could be “a generational thing”
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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett hits out at Motorhead and Thin Lizzy’s Rock Hall snub
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett says he thinks the reason Motorhead and Thin Lizzy weren’t inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame could be “a generational thing”
Slash on new Guns N’ Roses album: There’s material, there’s recording and there’s s*** going on
Slash speaks about the highly anticipated new album from Guns N’ Roses - but admits “we’re not really sure what we’re doing with it right now”
Faith No More add new UK date to raise money for Australian wildfire relief efforts
Faith No More add second date in Manchester, UK - with all proceeds going towards Australian wildfire relief funds
Parkway Drive share German version of The Void titled Die Leere
Die Leere (The Void) is one of three German tracks that'll be on the soundtrack to Parkway Drive documentary Viva The Underdogs - out in March
Ozzy thanks fans for messages of support following his Parkinson’s diagnosis
Ozzy Osbourne sends message to his fans after news of his Parkinson’s diagnosis was revealed earlier this week
Metal Hammer Podcast: Winston McCall
From climate crisis to sandwiches – we put your questions to Parkway Drive frontman Winston McCall
Wednesday 13 team up with Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia for new single Monster
As Wednesday 13 prepare to head out on tour, they release lyric video for new single Monster featuring Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia
Watch Alter Bridge in video for new single Godspeed
Alter Bridge share lyric video for their track Godspeed - taken from their latest studio album Walk The Sky
Tool add further dates to their 2020 tour
Tool add extra dates to their tour in support of latest album Fear Inoculum - tickets go on sale later this week
In This Moment detail new album Mother - watch video for The In-Between
In This Moment confirm their new studio album will launch in March as they share video for the lead single The In-Between
Slipknot, Halestorm, Alter Bridge, Anthrax and more confirmed for Rocklahoma 2020
Rocklahoma is back for 2020 - and the US festival is wheeling out the big guns for what will be an unforgettable weekend
Ozzy's received an "outpouring of love” since revealing Parkinson’s diagnosis
Ozzy’s wife and manager says “people have been amazing” since news of the vocalist’s Parkinson’s disease was revealed this week
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Within Temptation's Sharon den Adel and Evanescence's Amy Lee: In conversation with metal's leading ladies
Sharon den Adel and Amy Lee are two of 21st-century metal’s most iconic figureheads. As Within Temptation and Evanescence prepare to join forces, we brought their leaders together for a world-first interview about their careers
10 Reasons why 70,000 Tons Of Metal is the ultimate metalhead vacation
If you think 70k tons is just the metalhead version of the 18-30 club, think again – it might just turn out to be your dream holiday
Avant black/doom psychonauts Lychgate unveil a mind-melting new track
Exclusive Listen to Progeny Of The Singularity from Lychgate's forthcoming EP, Also Sprach Futura
Volbeat's Michael Poulsen: "Perfection is a terrible word made up by a terrible human being"
He’s Volbeat’s enigmatic frontman. But Michael Poulsen’s also a devoted father, relentless workaholic and a man starting to face up to his own, inescapable mortality
Faith No More: your essential guide to every album
Faith No More are one of the most influential rock bands of the past four decades – here we retrace the albums that came from this most dysfunctional success story
Slipknot: Mounting injuries, member dramas and toxic fanbases
They are Slipknot. But what does that really mean in 2019? We're granted a tense but entertaining audience with metal’s most chaotic band
Top 10 greatest At The Gates songs as chosen by Deserted Fear
German Death Metallers Deserted Fear count down their all time favourite tunes from the trail-blazing Swedes
Green Day's Warning at 20: reappraising an overlooked folk-punk classic
20 years on, we revisit Green Day's Warning and discover there's more to the overlooked gem than you might realise
The weird and wonderful wisdom of Jaz Coleman
Killing Joke vocalist Jaz Coleman joins us to talk classical music, the survival of mankind and why he's banned from politics
Guns N' Roses: your essential guide to every album
A thorough guide to Guns N' Roses' albums, from the godlike to the shambolic
"Whose f**king idea was this?" Inside Metallica's S&M2 spectacular
From Metallica's S&M's origins in ’99 to its triumphant rebirth, we go inside the story of the metal titans’ most ambitious project
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Black metal legends Mayhem channel De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas with new record Daemon
Oslo’s second-wave black metal forefathers, Mayhem, are still defining the state of the art
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
