Latest Features on Metal Hammer
I Prevail might be rising stars of metalcore, but they're already kings at Magic: The Gathering
Mastodon’s third album turns 20 on September 12. It saw them go from underground favourites to metal’s brain-frying new heroes
With Slipknot surprise-releasing new single Arsenal this week, we rate the metal legends' fearsome back catalogue so far
Hardcore went through some fascinating evolutions in the 90s. Here are five albums which shaped the genre's future
A salute to the timeless bad-ass outlaw vibes of QOTSA's Rated R
With a Best Of album in the shops and a documentary on the big screen, Rob Halford looks back over four decades of Judas Priest
From game-changing debut Kill ’Em All to the emotionally-charged 72 Seasons, this is every studio album by the US mega-stars in reverse-order of quality
A photo of Rivers Cuomo's high school prog metal band caused much amusement when shown on a US talk show last month, but the band were no joke
Daniel Tompkins and Paul Ortiz’s Prince Of Failure has become a way of dealing with anxiety, impostor syndrome and career-threatening change
Albums, t-shirts, tattoos, books and games: the Not Man has been everywhere
Mortiis shares his thoughts on masks, masked bands like Sleep Token and Ghost, and creating his own dark universe
Iowa remains the heaviest album to ever top the charts in the UK. Producer Ross Robinson shares stories from the making of the groundbreaking album
Along with Sabbath and Zeppelin, Deep Purple helped craft the primordial goop that spawned metal
Evanescence, Blue Medusa and Fear Factory are among this week's best new metal songs
Linkin Park, Body Count and Oranssi Pazuzu made camping in the blistering heat worth it
The Clerks star on the occult metal classic that helps him fly, the album he speeds to and the record he wants played his funeral
Before Emperor, before Immortal, and before the first Mayhem album, there was Von – the punk-loving tearaways who went “as far as human music can go”
