Metal Hammer Features

UK metallers The Five Hundred share their new album Bleed Red in full, plus give us a track-by-track guide to each song

Dimmu Borgir have spent two decades winding up black metal elitists. But has Eonian, their first album in eight years, seen them return to their extreme roots? Um, not quite. Shagrath and Silenoz explain all...

Car Bomb's guitarist picks his favourite Gojira songs of all time

Alien Weaponry are three teenagers of Māori decent whose recent single Rū Ana Te Whenua is making a big noise in New Zealand. Here's their story...

Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory picks his all-time favourite Five Finger Death Punch songs for all you knuckleheads!

The best songs from everyone's favourite occultist party band Ghost

12 years after Tool’s last album, anticipation for the new album is reaching fever pitch. To help speed things up, here are a few things we want – no, demand! – from it

Premiere Ireland's black ambient anthropologists The Bogs Of Aughiska burrow into the earth with a new track, Poll an Eidhneáin

Sinsaenum mainman Frédéric Leclercq gives the lowdown on new album Repulsion For Humanity

Boilermakers, Mouth Breathers and Monkey Tricks: the best songs from The Jesus Lizard

Nightwish brought their Decades tour to Bloodstock festival, and they had a few fiery tricks up their sleeve

All the heavy metal action from Bloodstock festival 2018 - including reviews, photos and setlists

Woodstock 94 was supposed to be about another weekend of peace and love. For Green Day's Mike Dirnt, it ended with a trip to the dentist...

Killswitch Engage's former vocalist Howard Jones appeared onstage in London to perform The End Of Heartache

Gojira closed the second night of Bloodstock festival and cemented themselves as one of the best metal bands in the world

Judas Priest closed the first night of Bloodstock festival and proved that heavy metal will never die

Premiere Witness a witch's comeuppance with the cinematic lyric video for Vreid's Black Rites In The Black Nights

The internet thinks AC/DC are recording an album. Here's nine men (and one woman) they could hire to fill Cliff Williams' shoes

Behemoth are back to their blaspheming ways again, and they should be praised for doing so