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Why Detroit rappers Insane Clown Posse blew off superfan Slash after getting him to play on their break-through album
"Our record label said, He's yesterday's news, you guys are something new"
The rise, fall and demise of HIM - Finland's goth metal princes
From Sabbath-obssessed teens to celebrities in their own right, Ville Valo reflect on 30 years of HIM
How Max Cavalera became a global metal icon
From losing his father at an early age to transforming metal with Sepultura and Soulfly, Max Cavalera looks back on a life on the front lines of metal
The chaotic but colourful story of nu metal and its world domination
Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since
“The guitar tone ripped my face off!” When Machine Head's Robb Flynn met Meshuggah
Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn is a Meshuggah mega-fan – so we asked him to interview metal’s most complex band
The inside story of Black Sabbath’s stoned masterpiece Master Of Reality
How Black Sabbath pushed metal to ever heavier levels on their immortal third album
How Powerslave cemented Iron Maiden as the biggest metal band on the planet in 1984
Is fencing better than karate? Was the world about to end? How many frozen daiquiries can you have and still pull off an epic solo? Maiden were answering all the important questions when they made Powerslave
The explosive story behind System Of A Down’s Toxicity album
System Of A Down’s second album Toxicity gave nu metal’s most political band a platform to be heard . But some people wanted to shut them up – permanently
“They had become genuine rock stars, with all the excess and trappings that go with it”: Why Korn’s most divisive album is way better than everybody thinks
The campaign to rehabilitate Korn’s divisive fourth album Issues album starts here
How Slayer went from thrash provocateurs to metal’s unlikeliest elder statesmen
Some bands mellow with age – but not thrash icons Slayer
The 25 best goth metal albums
From HIM to Evanescence, Type O Negative to Misfits, these are the greatest albums released in the goth metal pantheon
How Mastodon overcame moments of self-doubt and rebuilt themselves on The Hunter
In 2011, Mastodon wrote an album that would fly in the face of everything we thought we knew about them. but they had to fight hard to make it happen...
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: June 5 2026
Pussy Riot, Evanescence, DevilDriver and more feature in this week's best new metal song round-up
What it was like following Iron Maiden from their first gig
One of Steve Harris's old workmates recalls following the band in their earliest years
The story of Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes, the game-changing album that revitalised 90s metal
Machine Head’s Robb Flynn looks back on the making of his band’s classic debut
“Metal needs a good f**king kick up the ass”: the story of Metallica’s Load
New haircuts, new sound, new Metallica: was Load the sound of metal’s biggest band trolling the world?
How Tomas Lindberg pioneered a whole new school of death metal
From dabbling in occultism to pioneering a whole new school of death metal, Tomas Lindberg was a figure unlike any other
