Venom's Tom Hardy and Andy Serkis are put to the test when they are tasked with figuring out whether bands such as Venom Prison, Lasher and Mania are death metal bands or symbiotes in a new quiz
Exclusive Joey Jordison’s former Murderdolls bandmate Wednesday 13 recalls how Metallica blew the late Slipknot’s drummer’s mind at Donington
The Lamb Of God / Mercyful Fate-headlined 2022 Bloodstock bill just got a whole lot stronger with Jinjer among new adds
Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner has been admitted to hospital with "major medical heart condition issues"
Asking Alexandria share homecoming tour dates plus European shows for new album See What’s On The Inside
Australian cyclist Pete Stokes recreates iconic Nirvana album art with his Strava GPS app
Tool have announced they'll return to the UK and Europe in 2022 – for the first time since the release of 2019 album Fear Inoculum
Metallica returned to the big stage at this weekend's Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky - watch pro-shot videos for For Whom The Bell Tolls and No Leaf Clover
Guns N' Roses' Antipodean tour, originally set for November this year, has been shifted to 2022
Two people arrested after seemingly deliberately crashing car into Birmingham, Alabama venue during P.O.D. show
Marilyn Manson accuser Jane Doe refiles sexual assault lawsuit after it was initially rejected on the grounds of the statute of limitations
The new Metal Hammer Podcast sponsored by KILLSTAR is a massive review round-up!
Destroyer was where it all came together for Kiss. With Bob Ezrin pulling the production strings, the band transformed themselves from rehearsal-room hopefuls into multi-platinum gods
We lined up Dee Snider's fans to ask 'Do you envisage that a day when you will, in fact, relent and take it?' and a host of other searching questions
Nirvana‘s landmark grunge album Nevermind turns 30 this week – and here it is as you've never heard it before
The obscure but brilliant bands fusing Chinese culture with post-black metal and blackgaze
Nirvana's classic second album Nevermind might have inspired a generation - but that doesn't stop us messing with it
Motorhead never sounded better than when playing to sweaty, fanatical audiences... and these are their best live albums
Rap metal artist Dana Dentata's startling album, pantychrist, chronicles a difficult yet revelatory awakening after suffering years of trauma and abuse
Judas Priest are still very much around after 50-plus years, through ups and downs. We spoke to all the current members about life in one of the greatest metal bands of them all
Filth is Eternal: caustic hardcore from the band formerly known as F***ed and Bound
From Coven's Satanic rites to the drug-fugged doom of Electric Wizard, here are Green Lung’s top ten favourite occult rock albums
Romania's transcendental black metallers Dordeduh come to terms with the death of their former Negură Bunget bandmate
Sepultura frontman Derrick Green offers his life lessons on veganism, the art of persuasion and the necessity of pre-bed talk
Carcass' Torn Arties marks another bold and bloody comeback for the death metal legends
Employed To Serve pivot from metalcore to groove and even death metal on ambitious new album Conquering
Metallica's The Black Album reissue goes from landmark to landmass in mammoth collection of over 24 hours' studio outtakes and a 53-track covers record
Belgium's death/grind gorehounds Aborted go all in on the grandiosity on Maniacult
Former Nightwish frontwoman Anette Olzon harks back to her heavier side on Strong
Michigan's bloody-nosed rocker Andrew W.K. seeks transcendence on God Is Partying
Rap/metal provocateur Dana Dentata takes on her demons for second album, pantychrist
Ginger's The Wildhearts find optimism amongst the fury on 21st Century Love Songs
Metal’s most travelled champions Iron Maiden reach new states of grandeur with Senjutsu
Baltimore genre-hoppers Turnstile get ready to rhumba with Glow On
Progressive voyagers Leprous find light and liberation at the end of a dark tunnel
