Metal Hammer Features

In This Moment’s Maria Brink answers your questions on fantasy collaborations and just what’s the correct number of costume changes

Corey Taylor, Killswitch Engage, Halestorm and more cover Dio’s 1983 masterpiece Holy Diver

With Alive Or Just Breathing and The End Of Heartache, Killswitch Engage buried nu metal and sparked the metalcore revolution

Betraying The Martyrs’ frontman Aaron Matts talks tour van fires and drug-induced near death experiences

Derange vocalist Cat Pereira joins us to talk us through the Bring Me The Horizon songs you need in your life

Louise Lemón talks us through the Kyuss tracks you need to hear

Metallica albums form one of the most essential back catalogues in metal history – here, we go through them in order of greatness

A look at the rise of goth metal, which saw some early goths elbowed into the margins or disappearing completely, their thunder stolen by the arrival of goth-leaning bands from the metal world

As punk’s light faded, something new began to stir in the darkness. And after goth’s early days as a look/fashion/scene rather than a music genre came some of the greatest music of the 80s

From Western Heroes to goth’s occult poster boys, Fields Of The Nephilim have blazed a flour-covered trail through the metaphysical planes over the years. Here are their best songs

Kentish hardcore mob Harrowed want you to use your brain before forcibly removing it from your skull

From Metallica covering Killing Joke to Deftones tackling The Cure, here are metal’s 10 greatest versions of goth classics

How Devin Townsend ripped off an obscure 80s prog song and gave Strapping Young Lad an unlikely breakthrough single

Bon Scott was right when he said it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock’n’roll. Classic Rock goes back to ’76, when AC/DC were on the first rung of stardom’s ladder

The Alice Cooper Band's outrageous behaviour prompted a statement in Parliament while their songs thrilled a generation

Exclusive Redraw your emotional maps to Inverted Enlightment, taken from Aleah's posthumous double album

We join Emperor frontman Ihsahn at home in Norway to find out why he’s finally reconnected with black metal

The 10 best Megadeth songs that feature the late, great Nick Menza

UPDATED Slipknot are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet - and that means there’s a load of merch out there. To help you choose what to get hold of, we’ve picked out some of our favourites