Metal Hammer Features

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

Louder photographer Kevin Nixon on 10 things to remember to get the best black and white shots. Number 1? Don't shoot in black and white...

Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett talk us through Metallica’s classic second album Ride The Lightning, track by track

We need your help to compile the all-time best tracks from our favourite German industrial metallers!

Few things in life are as satisfying as a perfectly executed breakdown in a metal song. And here are the 10 best

Putting metalcore heroes Killswitch Engage’s albums in order of greatness

Metallica frontman James Hetfield takes us on a journey back to his school days, retraces the band's tentative steps and explains why his anger is an energy

Delving inside the head of Baroness frontman John Baizley

Everything you need to know about Rammstein's self-titled album in exhaustive detail

From death metal to dub rock, this is AC/DC’s iconic Back in Black album as you’ve never heard it before

Black and white photography can lend drama and timelessness to your music photography. In the fifth round of our hunt to find the best new rock photographer of 2020, we want to see your B&W shots…

Satyricon frontman Satyr answers your burning questions on wine tasting, Christian black metal and the joys of Nickelback

Rammstein's Deutschland single and its accompanying video is jaw-dropping in its size and scale – but what exactly is it all about? We got an Oxford University professor to explain it all

Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen chooses the 10 albums that shaped him, from Pantera to The Snowman soundtrack

Keeping track of livestreams, empty hall gigs, good deeds and innovation as musicians come to terms with a new landscape

The story behind Sepultura’s Chaos AD – the album that turned four Brazilian metalheads into global stars