Latest Metal Hammer News
Watch Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee react to fans’ stories about the heavy metal trailblazers
Mikkey Dee remembers life with Lemmy Kilmister while watching tributes from Motörhead super-fans
Steve Harris reveals the song he wants to bring back to Iron Maiden’s setlist
The second European leg of the band’s 50th-anniversary tour kicks off in the spring
What the science behind mosh pits can tell us about human behaviour
Ever wondered about the physics of mosh pits and circle pits? We have answers for you
A study suggested that men who play guitar in extreme metal bands do it to impress other men
Time to smash those preconceptions about playing guitar to show off to girls, lads
Haken part ways with Charlie Griffiths and Conner Green
UK prog rockers Haken have announced that guitarist Charlie Griffiths and bassist Conner Green have left the band
System Of A Down's Daron Malakian on being asked to fill in for injured James Hetfield on Metallica's 2000 Summer Sanitarium tour
System Of A Down had yet to make their breakthrough – but guitarist Malakian was thrust onto the stage with metal royalty
Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith recalls his unsuccessful 1991 audition for one of the biggest bands in the world
"It sounded good. And they're a great bunch of guys. But it didn't work out"
Latest Metal Hammer Features
How Metallica wrote the power ballad that saved Miley Cyrus - and that Elton John adored
James Hetfield wasn't sure about letting his Metallica bandmates hear Nothing Else Matters. Thank goodness he did
"I looked around and nobody was happy. And I was thinking: 'This is going to be rough'": What happened when Bruce Dickinson made the decision that changed his life
Becoming a band’s new singer is never easy. But when Bruce Dickinson saw Iron Maiden play, he knew he was the singer they needed
From the Crimean War to the Stranger Things finale, the story of Iron Maiden’s The Trooper
It didn’t live up to prior singles’ chart success, it was banned when it came out, and it’s got the band booed onstage. But, The Trooper is a song that Iron Maiden have never left behind.
Every Halestorm album ranked from worst to best
We rate the back catalogue of one of modern rock's very best bands
With Sober, Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen
Sober, the seminal single from 1993’s Undertow, made Maynard James Keenan and co. a quick success story, but not everybody was a fan
Ben Ward looks back on three decades in the Orange Goblin trenches
In late 2025, British heavy metal stalwarts Orange Goblin played their last ever shows, calling it a day after 30 years. Frontman Ben Ward explains why, and reflects on three decades of creating metal thunder
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
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
Aerosmith and Yungblud's One More Time EP is a surprising but welcome triumph
Rock's past and present meet in the middle and make a certain kind of magic in hopes of securing its future
