Download festival announces more than 90 bands for 2025, including headliners Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn
Weezer, Bullet For My Valentine, Spiritbox and dozens more have also been confirmed for the Donington extravaganza, taking place in June
Emo overlords MCR reveal plans for 2025 stadium tour, with video teaser referencing "a great Dictator" and "THE CONCRETE AGE”
Michael Jackson metal? It almost happened, according to Thriller guitarist Steve Lukather
Michael Wilton will release his very first solo album Whip Vol. 1 in December
Meet Snake Skin, your new least favourite fictional 80s band
Commenting on streaming revenues, Alice In Chains mainman says "It's a bad business model"
CKY frontman accused of punching Alien Ant Farm singer – resulting in swift removal from UK and Ireland tour
Thrash legends, metalcore heavyweights and rising hardcore ragers are included in next year's Grammy nominations!
When nu metal survivors Papa Roach exploded in popularity through Last Resort, they found themselves rubbing shoulders with music A-listers
Next year, Papa Roach will celebrate 25 years of their classic breakthrough album Infest. To celebrate, they're on the front cover of Metal Hammer!
In a newly-resurfaced 2007 interview, the My Chemical Romance frontman aired his ill-feelings towards nu metal, and said that he thought certain bands within the genre encouraged sexism, homophobia and "other forms of ignorance"
Bassist III and guitarist IV were disposed by illness, but Sleep Token performed in Zurich on Monday anyway
We dive deep into the discography and lore behind masked metal entities Sleep Token
Everything you need to know about Download festival 2025, including buying tickets and lineup announcements
Celeste feat. Celeste? When we asked the metal band to name the soul singer’s best song, they opened the door for a team-up
In 2016, all five members of Korn looked back on the ups, downs and madness of their rollercoaster career
Soundgarden’s 2012 comeback album King Animal was their first in 16 years – and it found the grunge pioneers finally comfortable with their legacy
How Aleister Crowley, aka The Great Beast, influenced generations of metal bands
Trashing hotel rooms with Ozzy, teaching Mark Wahlberg how to rock and almost joining Guns N’ Roses – Black Label Society guitar berserker Zakk Wylde has done all of it and more
Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations should have turned them into NWOBHM-era superstars, but instead it inspired Lars Ulrich to start his own band
Malevolence, Korpiklaani and Burning Witches are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
From The Gloom In The Corner's cinematic metalcore to Sgáile's mountain-inspired doom, industrial goth of Black Satellite and brutal Belgian post-metallers Divided, these are the brilliant new bands you need to hear in November 2024
As The Metal Gods gear up to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary, we revisit and re-order every track on their evolutionary opus
Sum 41's farewell tour touches down for their biggest UK show ever
Every shade of Sólstafir gets a look in on album number eight
Defences haven't quite perfected their formula yet, but if you love yourself a good slice of modern metalcore, you're gonna wanna hear this
Wembley might have had pyro and dancers, but a roaring crowd in Manchester proves Creeper don't need big production to put on a massive show
Vola continue to move their sound forward on album number four
Brothers Of Metal harness everything from 80s glam to gothic rock on their fun as hell third album
Lacuna Coil might've started out in goth metal but three decades on its only a small part of their magnificent sonic offering as they return to the UK for a headline tour
After breaking into the US top 50 with 2022's Oh What The Future Holds, Fit For An Autopsy are still pushing boundaries of deathcore
Devin Townsend's latest studio album is more of a greatest hits than the return to straight-up heaviness he suggested
Gaerea's third studio album is another very good, if sometimes over-egged, slab of epic black metal
At her debut solo concert, shredder extraordinaire Sophie Lloyd largely eschews the hard rock covers that made her famous