Latest Metal Hammer News
WWE's Drew McIntyre reveals what's on his workout mix - and the role music plays in his life
Listening to heavy music and lifting heavy stuff apparently go hand in hand. Who knew?!
Inkcarceration Festival announces 2026 line-up - including Bad Omens first festival headline
The three-day festival will return to Ohio State Reformatory from July 17 - 19
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on losing his friends and peers
Megadeth frontman admits that metal is going through "a changing of the guard"
Lamb Of God rage back with ferocious new track Into Oblivion
Lamb of God's first album in four years will be released in March
Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive Megadeth cover and a copy of the band’s self-titled final album
Megadeth’s self-titled swansong drops on January 23, and you can get it on vinyl in a bundle with the latest issue of Metal Hammer
Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk takes aim at the term “female-fronted band”
The progressive metal singer is sick and tired of being pitted against other women in the scene
Carpenter Brut’s new album has a bad guy inspired by Elon Musk
The French artist says he sold his Tesla after the world’s richest man became part of Donald Trump’s cabinet last year
Latest Metal Hammer Features
Seven classic metal albums you forgot came out in 2016
From some French metal titans reaching a new peak to incredible bands we wish were still making records, here are some albums that blew our tiny minds ten years ago
Reliving the absolute insanity of Daphne & Celeste at Reading Festival 2000
In 2000, one of the strangest festival bookings in history unsurprisingly ended in chaos
How Unholy Confessions made Avenged Sevenfold - and why they don't dig it that much
How Avenged Sevenfold embraced heavy metal and wrote the song that took them to the next level
Why the man behind the Ozzy Osbourne Birmingham Airport petition is refusing to give up
Other musical cities celebrate their musical heritage - so why not the birthplace of heavy metal?
How Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess nearly played on Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Keyboard maestro admits he gave a “very poor” performance during 1979 session, and Bob Ezrin was right to kick him out
“I was 100 per cent sure I was going to die”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg faced his teenage demons on solo debut 16
Abandoning attempts to dial down his own drama, he delivered a moving and multifaceted collection of collaborations in 2023. He immediately wanted to do it again
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
This is the end, but Megadeth are leaving us with an absolute killer of a final album
Megadeth will be missed, but what a final record to leave us with
Health dance in the face of despair on new album Conflict DLC
The lyrics on the L.A. trio’s sixth album observe the ugliness of 2025, while the music urges you to wiggle your worries away
Ice Nine Kills' A Work Of Art is metal's most shocking show: Review
Even if they don't carry on (Silver) Screaming, Ice Nine Kills prove they're ready for the big leagues with the brilliantly bonkers A Work Of Art tour
Sabaton's Legendary tour lives up to its name: Review
Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour
British-Iranian metal mystics Lowen prove themselves as the next big thing with spellbinding London show
Playing their biggest headline concert while backed up by dancers and a cellist, the rising prog metal band meld Persian folk and themes with full-throttle riffage
Harpy's debut EP is the horniest release of 2025 and it's not even close
Alt singer-songwriter Harpy tells us exactly what she wants via throbbing dark electro and writhing industrial metal. Subtle, this ain't
