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Why Dan Tompkins had to leave Tesseract – and what brought him back for Polaris
2015 album saw the djent pioneers continue their move away from frenzied metal to thought-provoking prog, meaning the singer had to embrace a new way of creative thinking
"Smell this! It smells like my childhood!" Bombsites, buttocks and the Beatles: Two encounters with Ozzy Osbourne
Interviewing the Prince Of Darkness was not like interviewing other members of the rock royalty
“Love is like a mental disease that everybody wants to catch”: How Opeth made Sorceress
Mikael Åkerfeldt on his violent games, hotel balcony prank, soaking a label exec in vodka, and being left to make music his own way
The Beatles-inspired 90s song that finally gave these thrash heavyweights the mainstream hit that had eluded them
Just like the Pied Piper…
The best metal debut album from every year of the 1990s
The classic debut albums that shaped metal’s golden decade
This 1993 action movie was a bomb. But it produced one of the most revolutionary soundtracks of the decade
Movie Soundtracks Box office bomb, killer soundtrack
"I always thought power metal is cheesy. We are not cheesy, **** that."
How Helloween's Pumpkins United has reinvented power metal's first breakout stars
The game-changing late 80s single that put an obscure band from San Francisco on the map and helped ignite the alt rock explosion
New singer, new sound, the start of a whole new era
Every Propagandhi album ranked from worst to best
Propagandhi have been putting out top-notch punk/metal for four decades
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: September 26 2025
Judas Priest, Kreator and Soulfly are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes on nearly-severed fingers, dodging potted plants and nu metal
Godfather of goth metal, Paradise Lost's Nick Holmes shars his wisdom
"I really did spells, like peeing on a churchyard." The 10 records that changed Nikoline Spjelkavik's life
Witch Club Satan's vocalist/guitarist shares the 10 records that changed her life
The brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in September 2025
From Gates To Hell's Kentucky fried death metal, to the shimmering industrial metal of The Defect, riffy stoner rock'n'roll of King Kraken, crossover thrashers Inhuman Nature and nu gaze champions Split Chain, these are the metal bands you need to hear in September 2025
Chino Moreno on the nu metal revival, conspiracy theories and whatever the hell Baddiecore is
Deftones might be nu metal elder statesman, but they've never been more popular - or influential
Farewell to Ozzy Osbourne: Metal's first - and greatest - icon
How heavy metal's original madman became a global icon
An awkward encounter with a grumpy, nicotine-craving Ozzy Osbourne
After Black Sabbath's triumphant reunion shows in 1997, a nervous young writer was granted an audience with the Prince of Darkness and his cohorts
Every Paradise Lost album ranked from worst to best
From debut album Lost Paradise to the brand-new Ascension, we revisit and re-order the back-catalogue of one of metal’s most despondent bands
