Beast mode: how Beast In Black, Diablo IV and Berserk have created 2025's ultimate metal-gaming-manga team-up
As the universes of Diablo and Berserk cross over, Blizzard have partnered with Beast In Black to reveal brand new song Enter The Behelit
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Watch the Nirvana gig which made Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and DinosaurJr's J. Mascis realise that Kurt Cobain's band were going to change alternative rock forever
Watch a four-piece Nirvana play one of the most important gigs of their career in July 1989
"In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons
We head Stateside to speak to the man behind the mask as Russian deathcore crew Slaughter To Prevail prepare to unleash their new album
Ghost's Tobias Forge reached burnout in 2024. This is how Skeletá brought him back to life
After the weight of 15 years of carrying Ghost got too much, Tobias Forge needed something special to get his mojo back. He tells us how it happened
These are the 12 new metal songs you need to check out this week
Linkin Park, Sleep Token, Ghost, Sabaton and more have spoiled us with excellent songs this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.
I sing anti-fascist songs in a thrash band – why aren’t more metal musicians angry about the state of the world?
Hardcore and thrash still pride themselves on being politically conscious: we should all follow these ballsy bands’ examples
If other Nordic folk bands overtake Wardruna, Einar Selvik doesn’t mind
Inspired by a bear, a moose and a wolf, new album Birna is extending the band’s “beautiful broken family” as they tell modern tales through ancient instruments
Katatonia ended a phase of doubt and gave shape to their Dead End King on City Burials
Jonas Renske didn’t stop writing when the dark Swedish troupe went on hiatus – which made it all the shorter
How Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell inspired the youth of America to start drinking vomit
Things got freaky on Lollapalooza 1992 thanks to The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and their rock star friends
Four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden
Even Iron Maiden like to throw a few curveballs into their back catalogue
How hip hop changed metal forever
Anthrax, Rage Against The Machine and Korn all owe a debt to hip hop
How Mike Portnoy reinvented himself after the trauma of leaving two massive bands
In 2011, while trying to find homes for his enormous collection of Dream Theater drumkits, Mike Portnoy was planning a new direction with Flying Colors, Adrenaline Mob, PSMS and Transatlantic
How Korn changed up their sound and left the copycats behind with Follow The Leader
Korn’s 1998 album Follow The Leader was the sound of the nu metal pioneers pulling away from the competition
The feral story of Discharge’s Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing, the punk album that changed metal
How D-beat pioneers Discharge took punk and metal to extreme new realms
The strange story of Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine: Biomech, the album which launched his solo career
How Devin Townsend made his 1997 solo debut album Ocean Machine
Why Linkin Park have produced a new football-inspired remix of one of their biggest hits, and why they believe America has a shot at winning the next World Cup
Ahead of their upcoming appearance at the Champions League final in Munich, Linkin Park talk football (or 'soccer', if you really must)
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: 18 April 2025
Rivers Of Nihil, Vader and The Devil Wears Prada are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
The epic story of Monsters Of Rock, the greatest heavy metal festival of them all
The triumphs, the bottlings, the rucks, the rain – long-running festival Monsters Of Rock changed hard rock and heavy metal forever
Doom high priests Electric Wizard are the perfect band to soundtrack the end of the world
Electric Wizard’s 2014 album Time To Die was a masterclass in apocalyptic doom necromancy
