
Trent Reznor is curating a new festival celebrating the world's finest film soundtrack composers
The Future Ruins festival will see some of the film world's most acclaimed soundtrack composers performing scores live
The Future Ruins festival will see some of the film world's most acclaimed soundtrack composers performing scores live
Lord Buffalo: "We are devastated to cancel this tour, but we are focusing all of our energy and resources on Yamal’s safety and freedom"
Trivium claim their tourmates have scrapped plans to bring their co-headline shows to South America and Australia, and Bullet For My Valentine refuse to comment
The Danish heavy metal overlord says he’s hard at work on his first album since 2007, and that it will be the first entry in a trilogy
See Josh Homme's Queens of the Stone Age as you've never seen them before, performing in the world-famous Catacombs of Paris
“We need to just kind of, like, maybe sweep all that shit under a rug and start fresh”
Talking to Metal Hammer, Cradle Of Filth’s singer reveals that he used to exchange letters with the controversial founder of Mayhem
Lemmy immortalised with 2.25m bronze-cast statue in Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England
The 'Metallica Quake' was measured by the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory during Enter Sandman
From trading Ministry songs for drugs to accidentally spiking Tool and inspiring Nine Inch Nails, Billy Corgan has conducted possibly the greatest Al Jourgensen interview ever
Quicksand's Walter Schreifels has covered two songs from Pink Floyd's Animals album
Judas Priest are one of the only veteran metal bands to not be playing Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell concert this summer. Rob Halford explains why.
Italian gothic metallers Lacuna Coil are showing no signs of slowing down
How Mastodon crawled from the Atlanta underground metal scene to become one of the most important bands of the 21st century
There’s big, and then there’s Dream Theater’s 2016 prog metal blow-out The Astonishing
The Scorpions proved that Britain and the US didn’t have the monopoly on hard rock and heavy metal
Armored Saint were one of the greatest 80s metal bands never to hit the big time
There was more to thrash metal than speed
Incubus may have risen at the same time as nu metal, but they wanted nothing to do with it
Parkway Drive, Attack Attack! and Battle Beast are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
This month saw the launch of Metal Hammer's 400th issue - so we released our own beer and threw a party to celebrate
From discovering metal through Akercocke and System Of A Down to vibing with Iranian pop and Japanese prog, these are the albums that shaped Lowen vocalist Nina Saeidi
King played guitar for Megadeth’s first five shows in 1984 – but the partnership was never going to last
British metalcore is getting its moment in the sun
Tetrarch's The Ugly Side Of Me is the no-nonsense, earwormy slab of millennial metal you've been looking for
Canada’s punk/metal iconoclasts aren’t sure what to do about the chaos across the globe, but their eighth album is poignant and poetic all the same
Alt Blk Era had a packed-out Camden Underworld moshing and raving its ass off last night - and you can't help but feel this is just the start
Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones
At London’s Brixton Academy, the ‘Amplified History’ trio expand into a dozen-strong society of vocalists, dancers and musicians, and the results are spellbinding
Chris Connelly-fronted alt.rockers Sevendials get their groove on with A Crash Course In Catastrophe
Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta
Epica give Nightwish a run for their money in symphonic metal brilliance
Newcastle's finest Pigs x 7 deliver a masterclass in stoner/doom/psych riffathons on the release day for their new album Death Hilarious
Italian doom metallers Messa chuck out the recipe book on album four, The Spin