Watch the trailer for Music When The Lights Go Out, a new documentary saluting London rock bar The Crobar
A documentary remembering The Crobar will air on January 27, as fundraiser to re-open the bar passes £40,000 mark
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View moreWatch the trailer for Music When The Lights Go Out, a new documentary saluting London rock bar The Crobar
A documentary remembering The Crobar will air on January 27, as fundraiser to re-open the bar passes £40,000 mark
Metal, extremism and ‘cancel culture’: join the World Metal Congress debate on the ugly side of metal which we cannot ignore
Metal Hammer’s Eleanor Goodman and Gama Bomb’s Philly Byrne join the WMC debate on Metal vs. Extremism tonight
Dave Grohl wishes Lemmy was alive to hear the new Foo Fighters album
Watch Dave Grohl’s homage to Lemmy on the Foo Fighters album, as he recalls a day at Lemmy’s ‘f**king disgusting’ LA home
That James Hetfield meets Huey Lewis mashup you wanted is finally here
Metallica's James Hetfield and Huey Lewis And The News collide with almost miraculous results on Hip To Be The Sandman
Tool’s tiniest fan: Toddler dances to Fear Inoculum’s Invincible in adorable video
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Watch the trailer for forthcoming Serj Tankian film Truth To Power
New film examines System Of A Down singer Serj Tankian’s activism and his band’s platform for exposing injustice
Rage Against The Machine address ‘the fiction known as whiteness’ in hard-hitting online history lesson
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Watch Donald Trump scream Metallica’s Damage Inc, a fitting end to four years of chaos, destruction and fake news
As he enters the final days of his Presidency, Donald Trump channels all his rage into a vicious Metallica cover. Unless it’s - gasp! - fake news?
Metal Hammer releases exclusive The Hu, Heilung, Twin Temple and Alien Weaponry gift bundles!
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Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer faces six criminal charges related to January 6 Trump rally violence
Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer surrenders to the FBI, is charged with engaging in ‘an act of physical violence in a Capitol building’
Wardruna release new video for Skugge
Norwegian folk-proggers Wardruna will release new album Kvitravn in January
Julien Baker’s haunting cover of Fell On Black Days will introduce Soundgarden to a new generation
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Phil Campbell: the family that plays together stays together
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While many bands are struggling to stay afloat, Trivium have found a way through the Covid crisis – by conquering the internet
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Metal and hip-hop have plenty in common, and when they collide the results are often exceptional. Here, an essential guide to the best hip-hop and metal crossovers since the year 2000
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Where to start with… Cult Of Luna
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Cadaver win the Most Pointless Comeback Of 2020 award with new album Edder & Bile
Veteran Swedish death machines Cadaver return with their first album in 14 years. They shouldn’t have bothered
Deafheaven’s 10 Years Gone: post black-metal delirium live in lockdown
Modern metal visionaries Deafheaven don't let a pandemic get in the way of anniversary celebrations on new album 10 Years Gone
Rob Halford's autobiography Confess is the heavy metal book of 2020
Rob Halford's book Confess is packed with salacious revelations from the Midlands metal god
Jimmy Page's new book The Anthology is a must for hardcore fans
The sonic sorcerer opens the Led Zeppelin archive to reveal how the magic was made in his new book
pg.lost find light in the darkness on cinematic new album Oscillate
Scandinavian post-rockers pg.lost wring exponential grace from the gloom on stellar new album Oscillate
Voivod Lost Machine – Live: to infinity and beyond
Prog-metal voyagers Voivod head into deep space on new album Lost Machine – Live
Sodom’s Genesis XIX: thrash veterans strip away the fuss – and the thrills
Euro-thrash mainstays Sodom go back to their roots on new album Genesis XIX with mixed results
Tombs’ Under Sullen Skies: black metal majesty meets New York City grit
NYC’s esoteric black metallers Tombs refine their book of spells on new album Under Sullen Skies
Insidious Disease’s After Death: extreme metal A-listers’ deathly old school salvo
Napalm Death/Dimmu Borgir spin-off Insidious Disease head underground on new album After Death
Jinjer’s Alive In Melbourne is a sh*t-kicking reminder of how great gigs used to be
Tech-metal marauders Jinjer are captured full pre-COVID flight on Alive In Melbourne
Iron Maiden make epic even bigger on Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast live album
Heavy metal’s indefatigable warhorses Iron Maiden cement their legacy on new live album Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast
