Metal Hammer Podcast: Help! Fashion police!
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Metal Hammer Podcast: Help! Fashion police!
Is wearing a band tee of a band you don't know a minor indiscretion or a class A felony?
Pre-Black Friday deal: Buy an Amazon Echo and get 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited free
Amazon are throwing in four free months of Music Unlimited when you buy an Amazon Echo right now, so why wait for Black Friday?
Abbath plays disastrous two-song set, cancels remainder of South American tour
Black metal legend Abbath ends show early and cancels the rest of South American tour, citing ‘health issues’
Architects release haunting acoustic version of A Wasted Hymn
Architects have released a video to accompany their acoustic version of A Wasted Hymn - original track featured on their latest album Holy Hell
Slipknot announce inaugural Knotfest At Sea
Slipknot will set sail from Barcelona in August next year for four days of music and more - check out the first trailer
Tool reveal Australian and New Zealand tour dates
Tool will head to Australia and New Zealand for the first time in six years on their 2020 tour in support of Fear Inoculum
Motley Crue’s Kickstart My Heart rocks new SpongeBob SquarePants movie
Motley Crue’s classic track Kickstart My Heart features in the new SpongeBob film - check out the trailer
Watch Nightwish perform Slaying The Dreamer live
Nightwish release video of their performance of Slaying The Dreamer - taken from Decades: Live In Buenos Aires
Nirvana’s lawsuit against Marc Jacobs given the green light
Case centres around the ‘smiley face’ logo fashion designer used in his Bootleg Redux Grunge collection
Kelly Osbourne: There’s an offer on the table for The Osbournes to return
Ozzy’s daughter Kelly says the family are constantly being offered the chance to reboot reality show The Osbournes - as Marilyn Manson is confirmed for US tour
Behemoth’s Nergal: I like stirring s*** up - that’s my nature
Behemoth leader Adam ‘Nergal’ Darski addresses recent “black metal against Antifa” t-shirt controversy - and admits lying about being kicked out of a gym earlier this year
Kiss forced to cancel entire Australian tour, add new dates in Europe and South Africa
Kiss cancel all eight shows in Australia as Paul Stanley needs “complete vocal rest and medication” after throat infection and flu... but there's better news elsewhere
Latest Metal Hammer Features
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70s metal: a guide to the albums that started it all
As the 70s dawned, the folk with the electric guitars realised that rock could be harder, dirty, louder and faster than before – here's a guide to the albums that shaped heavy metal as we know it
Korn's Issues: Why the nu-metal OG's fourth album shouldn't be overlooked
On November 16, 1999 Korn dropped their fourth studio album. Twenty years on from its release we look back at Issues – an album that highlighted the nu-metal outsiders' struggle with the reality of commercial success
Top 10 Sci-fi movies as chosen by Cybernetic Witch Cult
The psychedelic space rockers Cybernetic Witch Cult pick the ten essential sci-fi flicks you absolutely must check out
Tool: The birth of the band
When Tool formed and descended onto an unsuspecting Hollywood, alternative music was about to be dragged into a whole new world of dizzying possibilities
Hammer's 13: This week's best new music in metal
Updated Our fortnightly round-up of the very best new tracks in heavy rock
The story of Skid Row: Glam metal's last hurrah
As glam metal lumbered towards its demise, a band from New Jersey injected the scene with one final dose of venom
Behind the scenes on the Megacruise: how to keep seafaring metalheads happy
Larry Morand runs rock's biggest cruises. Here he explains how it all works: the bands, the fans, and the role played by former Israeli Special Forces operatives
Monsters Of Rock US 1988: The Making Of Metallica
The story of Monsters Of Rock 1988, or how Metallica came to claim the throne of modern metal
The first winner of the Affinity Photo New Rock Photographer 2020 is...
This amazing shot of a crowd-surfing Damian Wilson takes first prize in the first round of our photography competition. Plus: Round 2 is launched!
Top 10 up-and-coming UK extreme metal bands
Premiere British brutes Viscera (ex-Sylosis, Heart of A Coward, Martyr Defiled) discuss their favourite emerging death metal influenced acts
Ahead of Black Friday save 48% on these wireless bluetooth earphones
Black Friday might not be here quite yet, but the bargains have already begun - and there are some amazing deals right now on wireless earphones
Best wireless headphones 2019: top Bluetooth headphones and true wireless earbuds
Enjoy superb sound, no strings attached with our pick of the best wireless headphones for blasting out everything from AC/DC to Led Zeppelin
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
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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
