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Phil Campbell interview: My life in Motörhead
By Dave Ling published
In 2010, Classic Rock interviewed late Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell about his brilliant quarter century in one of rock'n'roll's greatest bands

How a punk legend helped resurrect the career of an American icon in less than half an hour
By Simon Young published
Glenn Danzig wrote Thirteen for Johnny Cash's 1994 album American Recordings

The story of Mystifier, the blasphemous Brazilian black metal band who made Sepultura look like Bon Jovi
By Jonathan Selzer published
Mystifier proved that Norway didn’t have the monopoly on blasphemous black metal in the early 1990s

The turbulent story of Anvil, the band who claim to have brought heavy metal to North America
By Dom Lawson published
Anvil should have been huge, but fate had other plans

How a bleak anti-war song and a massive u-turn helped push Metallica to superstar level
By Paul Elliott published
Metallica got their mainstream breakthrough after breaking their ‘no videos’ rule

The Bronx once turned down a pile of money to wear chicken masks for a fast food advert
By Simon Young published
The Bronx kept their punk rock cred intact, while the Coq Roq commercial caught the eye of Slipknot's legal team

The album that Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale wants played at her funeral – and the pop record that became a drunken karaoke favourite
By Catherine Morris published
The albums that changed Lzzy Hale’s life

How rock’s most volatile band wrote the song that invented the 1990s – and then imploded
By Dave Everley published
The greatest song ever to feature vocals from the singer’s pet dog

Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: March 13 2026
By Rich Hobson published
Sabaton, Devin Townsend and Corrosion Of Conformity are among the best new metal songs this week

A wild and weird weekend in Las Vegas with metal's most colourful band
By Joe Daly published
They might've started out as a melodeath band, but these days Avatar are supporting Iron Maiden and Metallica and more colourful than ever

The ultimate Motorhead playlist (as picked by Metallica, Judas Priest and more)
By Rich Hobson published
We asked some of metal's biggest names to share which Motorhead songs mean most to them

How this thrash singer became the new frontman of Children Of Bodom
By Matt Mills published
Samy Elbanna of Finnish speedsters Lost Society talks about fronting his country’s biggest extreme metal band for two glorious nights last month

How Machine Head bounced back from firings, studio disasters and, erm, constipation
By Stephen Hill published
When Machine Head needed a good follow-up to their classic debut album, boy did they deliver - but not without facing some challenges

How Bad Brains reinvented punk and influenced Slayer, Guns N’ Roses and Dave Grohl
By Rich Hobson published
Bad Brains are one of the most influential US punk bands in history

How Nile drew on desperation and Egyptian mythology to make the album that redefined death metal for the 21st century
By Chris Chantler published
The story of Nile’s monstrous Black Seeds Of Vengeance

The outrageous movie which captured the debauched 80s scene that “made Caligula look tame”
By Phillip Wilding published
Who can forget WASP’s guitarist in a swimming pool with a bottle of vodka and his mom?

The story behind Miss Murder by AFI
By Simon Young published
AFI's 2006 single Miss Murder was even a Top 5 hit in Venezuela
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