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A camel, a wedding, the streets of India and seven million views: how Bloodywood broke big
Bloodywood went from the underground to being India's biggest ever metal band
Coroner invented a genre. Decades on, they know how to write less complicated songs but they won't
Back with a new album after 14 years, and on a different musical tack to their thrash metal of the 80s and 90s
Seven classic metal albums you forgot came out in 2016
From some French metal titans reaching a new peak to incredible bands we wish were still making records, here are some albums that blew our tiny minds ten years ago
Reliving the absolute insanity of Daphne & Celeste at Reading Festival 2000
In 2000, one of the strangest festival bookings in history unsurprisingly ended in chaos
How Unholy Confessions made Avenged Sevenfold - and why they don't dig it that much
How Avenged Sevenfold embraced heavy metal and wrote the song that took them to the next level
Why the man behind the Ozzy Osbourne Birmingham Airport petition is refusing to give up
Other musical cities celebrate their musical heritage - so why not the birthplace of heavy metal?
How Dream Theater’s Jordan Rudess nearly played on Pink Floyd’s The Wall
Keyboard maestro admits he gave a “very poor” performance during 1979 session, and Bob Ezrin was right to kick him out
“I was 100 per cent sure I was going to die”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg faced his teenage demons on solo debut 16
Abandoning attempts to dial down his own drama, he delivered a moving and multifaceted collection of collaborations in 2023. He immediately wanted to do it again
The violence and defiance behind the 2000s metal anthem that accidentally inspired an Olympic gold medal
HammerFall helped keep traditional metal alive during the early 2000s
The controversial dance band who lit a fire under the 90s metal scene
How The Prodigy’s The Fat Of The Land bought aggro to dance music and rave culture to metal
“Dream Theater have been completely unchallenged until now”: How Sons Of Apollo flew before they fell
Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian had big ambitions when they teamed up with Guns N’ Roses, Mr Big and Journey alumni
Kurt Cobain was supposed to produce these underground metal icons’ major label album – but they still made a classic without him
The song that bridges the gap between Nirvana and Lamb Of God
How Bruce Dickinson gambled everything on his second solo album – and ended up leaving Iron Maiden because of it
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson never intended to quit – but Balls To Picasso changed his mind
The best metal albums of 2025 (as voted by Metal Hammer readers)
From Ghost to Sleep Token, Babymetal to Spiritbox, these are the albums you said defined metal in 2025
Awards and no-shows: inside the depressing night Metallica split with Jason Newsted
By the time Jason took to the stage with Metallica near the end of 2000, it was so clearly already over
How a "feral" Ozzy Osbourne crowd, an onstage meltdown, and nudity on live TV sparked a police manhunt in South America
"I don't think I'd have enjoyed a stay in a South American prison"
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: January 16 2026
Big names, rising stars and underground favourites go head-to-head in Metal Hammer's tracks of the week
