Listen to The Prodigy’s banging update of electro-punk classic Breathe feat. RZA
Listen to The Prodigy and Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA smash their 25th anniversary (ish) update of club classic Breathe
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Listen to The Prodigy’s banging update of electro-punk classic Breathe feat. RZA
Listen to The Prodigy and Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA smash their 25th anniversary (ish) update of club classic Breathe
Unto Others are here to give you your 90s-style goth metal fix
When Will Gods Work Be Done is the atmospheric new single from the band formerly known as Idle Hands
Listen to Kelly’s Meat Emporium, the first cut from new Carcass album Torn Arteries
Carcass will release their seventh studio album Torn Arteries in September. Here’s a first taste, Kelly’s Meat Emporium
Dave Mustaine erases all David Ellefson’s bass lines from the new Megadeth album
Dave Mustaine is recruiting a ‘stellar bass player’ to re-record all David Ellefson’s contributions to the next Megadeth album
Hellfest announce 350 bands over six stages for mammoth 2022 event
Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Scorpions, Avenged Sevenfold, Faith No More and Deftones to headline France's Hellfest 2022
Mastodon announce special live stream from an aquarium!
Prog metallers Mastodon will perform acoustic for the very first time from the Georgia Aquarium in July
Skindred’s Benji Webbe gets hyped for Download Pilot on the new Metal Hammer Podcast
The UK’s biggest metal festival is back – and we’re talking about it on the new Metal Hammer Podcast
Listen to Jinjer’s head-spinning new single Vortex
Watch the video for Vortex – the first single from Jinjer’s upcoming new album Wallflowers
Queensryche announce remastered reissues of Operation: Mindcrime and Empire
US prog metal legends Queensryche will issue remastered definitive box sets of Operation: Mindcrime and Empire on June 25
Lingua Ignota’s new single Pennsylvania Furnace is the most haunting thing you’ll hear today
Lingua Ignota releases stunning new single Pennsylvania Furnace ahead of upcoming album Sinner Get Ready
Watch The Wildhearts' video for poignant new single Remember These Days
Premiere: Remember These Days is the first single from The Wildhearts' upcoming album 21st Century Love Songs
Creeper share theatrical, haunting new video for latest single Midnight
Goth-punks Creeper release the video for Midnight, taken from the upcoming American Noir EP
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Synthwave is dead: how Perturbator embraced the dark side
Synthwave is out, electro-goth is in for James ‘Perturbator’ Kent
Evile: the return of the kings of British thrash
Reunited, reconfigured, reborn – this is how Brit speedmasters Evile learned to thrash again
“Just headbang and yell at people”: the world according to Cannibal Corpse’s Corpsegrinder Fisher
What life on death metal’s frontlines has taught Cannibal Corpse singer George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher
Inside the Metal Galaxy: why Babymetal have the most devoted fans on the planet
There are fans and then there are Babymetal fans – and these are some of their most hardcore devotees
Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt: My Life In 10 Songs
From Opeth and Storm Corrosion to Bloodbath, Mikael Åkerfeldt reveals the stories behind 10 classic songs
Prepare yourselves: Epica are about to unleash the most bombastic livestream event of the year
Marking their return to live music after a gruelling year, Epica’s Coen Janssen explains how the symphonic metallers will make Omega Alive their most enormous, show-stopping performance to date
The gospel according to Myles Kennedy
Always be yourself. Heaven is “right now, this moment”. Hard work takes you to another realm. We all crave the truth. These are just some of the things that shape Myles Kennedy's world view
Classic Album Sundays: the healing power of giving yourself over to music and great hi-fi
We all love to put on a favourite album, switch off the lights and just totally tune in. So does Colleen Murphy, and with her Classic Album Sundays she’s taken the experience further
Max Cavalera: “Go Ahead And Die saved my sanity”
Go Ahead And Die sees Max Cavalera teaming up with his son Igor Amadeus to serve up some politically-charged “caveman metal”
While She Sleeps’ Loz Taylor: “As you get older you realise you’re not going to live forever”
You ask the questions. While She Sleeps singer Loz Taylor answers them
Gojira’s Mario Duplantier: 10 drummers who changed my life
From Lars Ulrich to Pete Sandoval, these are greatest drummers in the metal according to Gojira’s percussive kingpin Mario Duplantier
Black Sabbath’s Master Of Reality: the inside story of 70s metal’s stoned masterpiece
How Black Sabbath pushed metal to ever heavier levels on their immortal third album, Master Of Reality
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Helloween’s Helloween: power metal kings expand and conquer on new album
Helloween’s past meets their present on dazzling self-titled ‘reunion’ album
Kiss kick off their archive live series with a die-hard fan's delight
Out now: short-lived Kiss line-up captured live in Japan on Off The Soundboard: Tokyo 2001
Atreyu’s Baptize: a post-metalcore adrenaline rush that wears off quickly
Metalcore pioneers Atreyu gain star power but lose their spark on new album Baptize
Rise Against’s Nowhere Generation: agit-punk warriors hit another energy spike
Nine albums in and Rise Against’s spirit hasn’t dented an inch if Nowhere Generation is anything to go by
Dordeduh’s Har: epoch-mashing brilliance from Romania’s polymetal masters
Dordeduh’s transcendent second album Har contains worlds within worlds
Capra’s In Transmission serves up metallic punk exhilaration with attitude to spare
US metallic punks Capra unleash a fiery opening salvo with debut album In Transmission
Tetrarch’s Unstable is the nu metal album 2021 needs
The debut album from rising Atlanta stars Tetrarch updates the best bits of nu metal – and leaves the dodgy rapping behind
Gojira’s Fortitude is metal for the masses – and all the better for it
Album review: Gojira have delivered 2021’s most important metal album with Fortitude
Evile’s Hell Unleashed: rebooted Brit thrashers blast away the cobwebs
Album review: modern thrash flagbearers Evile pick up where they left off on first new album in eight years, Hell Unleashed
Bongzilla fire up a stoner doom epic with new album Weedsconsin. Warning - may contain drugs
Album review: America’s most stoned Bongzilla fire up the cosmic bong once more on new album Weedsconsin
Bodom After Midnight’s Paint The Sky With Blood EP is the farewell Alexi Laiho deserves
Album review: Bodom After Midnight’s posthumous Paint The Sky With Blood is an bittersweet end to Alexi Laiho’s all-too-brief career
