Latest Features on Metal Hammer
Neil Fallon on Clutch, corporations and Christmas
"There’s a lot of joy that we don’t see at home": Clutch begin another run of UK Christmas shows next week
How Avenged Sevenfold and Call Of Duty forged one of music and gaming's greatest relationships
From processing grief and playing for the troops to soundtracking a zombie apocalypse, A7X and Call of Duty have a long history
From Sleep Token breaking records to Xenomorphs rocking out to Tool, these are the 11 metal songs that defined 2025
Whether topping charts or going viral, metal made a big impact in 2025 - here's the proof
How Judas Priest bounced back with their best song in a decade: Painkiller
Heavy metal doesn't come much better than this absolute classic
The story of the Ronnie James Dio classic assembled from other bands' spare parts
Rainbow In The Dark a highlight of Holy Diver, an album Ronnie James Dio said was “one of the proudest things I’ve ever done”
How Metallica broke the thrash metal mould with biblical barnstormer Creeping Death
Pinching a riff from Kirk Hammett’s former band and inspired by a Charlton Heston film, Metallica reached a new level with their 1984 single
How Skindred mixed reggae and metal to produce a classic 2000s rock banger
How Skindred hit on the ragga-metal classic that would save frontman Benji Webbe’s career
How Laid To Rest – against all odds – gave Lamb Of God an actual career
The opening track of 2004’s Ashes Of The Wake helped lift the band from heavy metal underdogs to generation-defining superstars
"We were stupid kids with this really weird music we were stubborn about." How Faith No More helped pave the way for the 90s rock revolution with the chaotic We Care A Lot
Faith No More's Bill Gould looks back on the making of We Care A Lot, his band's thrillingly unhinged debut album, now celebrating its 40th birthday
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: December 5 2025
Guns N' Roses, Poppy and Alter Bridge are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
How Cave In briefly became alt-metal’s next big thing with their single Anchor
In 2003, Cave In embraced mainstream attention and wrote Anchor. Unfortunately, their stint in the big time would be short-lived.
From Sleep Token to Ghost, metal is full of gimmicks right now. Is it helping or hindering the culture?
Are all these gimmicky bands a good thing for the genre, or has it all gone a bit too far?
How Coheed And Cambria turned a tumultuous break-up into landmark prog metal song Welcome Home
Thanks to its venomous lyrics and hard, screeching riff, Welcome Home became a Platinum-selling breakthrough moment
How A Certain Shade Of Green turned Incubus into poster boys for a scene they hated
With one song, they suddenly found themselves at the front of a music scene they truly hated
Wolfgang Van Halen has a thing or two to say about living up to expectations
From recording with Van Halen to touring with Metallica, Wolfgang Van Halen has worked hard at standing on his own two feet
The Story Behind Nine Inch Nails Closer
As Tommy Lee of Motley Crue once put it, Closer is "the ultimate **** song" - but it certainly wasn't written that way
Devin Townsend discusses his prog world (while he’s hiding from his dogs)
Stick-collecting Canadian who preferred Motorhead to Marillion says Captain Beefheart didn’t know he was nuts, the Interstellar soundtrack floored him, and the Wildhearts are prog
UK 'brat punk' Delilah Bon talks dragons, bunking and her really weird Sims habits
Brat Summer never ends when you're a brat punk
"It’s going to be brutal, absolutely brutal. I want people to feel the beauty hidden within that brutality." They look incredible, sound like hell and have an unlikely crossover with Shōgun: is the world ready for Japan's Deviloof?
Mixing extreme metal, Visual Kei and a lot of attitude, Deviloof might just be your new favourite band
