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Metal Hammer's Tracks Of The Week: July 18 2025
Nine Inch Nails, Amon Amarth and In This Moment are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
How a thrash classic from Metallica's Kill 'Em All album got linked to a brutal murder in Texas in the 1980s
"We woke up with a call from our manager who said there's some s**t going on." Lars Ulrich
“Hardcore innovators, soulful rockers and, frankly, the best band in the world you’re not listening to”: Every Thrice album ranked from worst to best
From scrappy debut Identity Crisis to refined latest album Horizons/East, we rank the back-catalogue of one of the most underrated bands on the planet right now
How The Summoning turned Sleep Token into metal’s most surprising breakout band
Sleep Token seemed to be too weird for mainstream success – then The Summoning turned them into overnight sensations
The epic story of the stolen song that could be the next Stranger Things hit
Deep Purple's Child In Time has a long and complicated history – and now a whole new audience are hearing it for the first time
Dani Winter-Bates: 10 records that changed my life
From Slipknot and Through The Eyes Of The Dead to AFI and Tracy Chapman, these records made Bury Tomorrow vocalist Dani Winter-Bates who he is
10 bands that will fill the Black Sabbath-shaped hole in your life
Black Sabbath may be no more, but there are still plenty of bands they’ve inspired out there
Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on Ginger Baker, David Bowie and the aggression of Rick Rubin
The gospel according to Chris Goss
The day a metal superstar was almost decapitated on live TV by one of Britain's most popular singers
Remember that time a metal legend was almost decapitated on British TV?
All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
From Deftones and Halestorm to Babymetal and Slaughter To Prevail, these are the essential metal albums coming out this year
This is what it’s like to be jailed by a repressive regime for playing in a metal band
Confess frontman Nikan Khosravi was imprisoned by the Iranian authorities for being a metal fan
Metal Hammer’s tracks of the week: July 11, 2025
Soothe your post-Back To The Beginning blues with new tracks from Babymetal, Deftones, Halestorm and more, and vote for your favourite
“The album sounds incredible. A masterpiece, even though I say so myself!”: Black Sabbath are over – this is what the four members are doing next
Black Sabbath may be over, but are Ozzy and co actually hanging up their boots?
The metal band who made history by playing one of England’s biggest cathedrals despite accusations of ‘blasphemy’
Symphonic metal band Plague Of Angels became the first metal band to play the 800-year old York Minster
One of metal’s greatest cult bands have returned after 30 years – but what are the chances of a new album?
Max Cavalera: “If it was all up to me, I’d love to do it”
30 rock and metal songs that defined the 1980s
From AC/DC and Iron Maiden to Guns N’ Roses and Faith No More, this is the soundtrack to a decade
"He said, ‘If you play it backwards, Satan will haunt you!"
Volbeat's Michael Poulsen talks us through his journey to metal stardom
A personal insight into the chaotic, beautiful mind of Ozzy Osbourne
20 years of audiences with his royal highness, the Prince of Darkness
"David Bowie saw something in Trent Reznor." What it was really like on Nine Inch Nails' infamous Self Destruct tour in the 90s
Panic attacks, substance abuse, wrecked hotel rooms and backstage visits by David Bowie and Lou Reed: photographer Jonathan Ranch had a front seat to it all when he followed NIN on tour
