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Don't panic, but it looks like zombie metal is a thing (luckily, Dominum are really good at it)
By Merlin Alderslade published
Ever asked the question 'What if someone did Powerwolf but with zombies?' No? Well, Dominum have answered it anyway! And they're great!

"Lady Gaga passes this bottle of Jameson to me." Milkie Way makes us a playlist
By Rich Hobson published
What links Black Sabbath, Tina Turner, The Cramps, Lady Gaga and David Bowie? The excellent music taste of one Milkie Way

How Max Cavalera overcame death and the loss of his band to make Soulfly’s signature anthem
By Stephen Hill published
Max Cavalera reveals how heartache led to one of Soulfly’s greatest anthems

Metal Hammer's Tracks Of The Week: October 10 2025
By Rich Hobson published
Rob Zombie, Black Label Society and Ice Nine Kills are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

With one music video, Rage Against The Machine almost brought the financial heart of America to its knees
By Stephen Hill published
Sleep Now In The Fire helped Rage Against The Machine survive the nu metal takeover – then its music video nearly got them arrested

How Gojira made one of modern metal’s most conscious, powerful anthems
By Matt Mills published
Gojira played their early shows in a region battling for independence, and they siphoned that political spirit into their defining song

It's time to talk about Iron Maiden's "worst" album
By Rich Hobson published
There's no clear consensus on the "worst" Iron Maiden album - but this one definitely isn't it, OK?

An armed robbery, a returning drummer and a new label brought this prog band back from near oblivion
By Amit Sharma published
They hadn’t released an album in five years before turning things round with a heavily conceptual double release – and their struggles became part of their science-fiction saga

The underground metal band that invaded the UK charts and almost became a household name
By Stephen Hill published
For just a moment, it looked like the UK might have had an answer to Slipknot from the most unlikely of places

Why Rush are secretly the coolest band on the planet
By Matt Mills published
They eschewed prog cliches, inspired all of your favourite rock bands and made songs that still sound ground-breaking – for 50 years, Rush have been badass

Over a decade since their debut, Falling Leaves are back with a new album all fans of death-doom simply need to hear
By Metal Hammer published
Sponsor Content Created With Falling Leaves
It's been a long time coming, but The Silence That Binds Us was absolutely worth waiting for

11 things we learned from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir, Last Rites
By Matt Mills published
From an unfinished solo album to drinking with André The Giant, these are the most surprising things we read in Ozzy’s posthumous book

I've been a metal guitarist for almost two decades and not enough people talk about these incredible guitar-shredding albums
By Serena Cherry published
These are the five albums that more fans of fretboard-shredding metal need to know about

How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics
By Dave Ling published
It was written on a $25 guitar and became one of the biggest hits of 1994

I'm an Iron Maiden fanatic and decided to rank every single one of their live albums from worst to best
By Dom Lawson published
Updated Iron Maiden are the undisputed heavy metal daddies of live albums. Here's every one they've released so far, in reverse order of excellence

I saw Black Sabbath play three days after their debut album was released - and tickets cost 30 pence
By Kris Needs published
When bluesman Freddie King pulled out of a show in early 1970, a young band from Birmingham stepped in

Debate: who are the greatest metalcore band of all time?
By Metal Hammer published
Killswitch Engage? Converge? Architects? Tell us who’s the best of the blegh-st
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