Latest Features on Metal Hammer
The story of Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith’s forgotten 2010s side project
In 2012, Adrian Smith stepped away from Iron Maiden to indulge in something edgier
How an iconic comic book character inspired Anthrax to write a thrash metal classic
The story behind a comics-inspired thrash anthem
How Bring Me The Horizon made their mark from the start with Count Your Blessings
Bring Me The Horizon were dealing with the haters from the start
How Machine Head’s The Blackening became their own Master Of Puppets
The Blackening remains Machine Head’s masterpiece
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: April 4 2025
Babymetal, Sleep Token and Machine Head lead the best new metal songs this week.
I asked a death metal supergroup to name the most brutal death metal albums of all time
Lik guitarist (and Katatonia bassist) Niklas Sandin picks the five most gut-churning, face-scrunching and ball-kicking albums to ever crawl out of death metal
How Dave and Paula Lombardo traded thrash for sultry alternative in Venamoris
Venamoris' second album To Cross Or To Burn explores the darker side of the human psyche
Every Bleed From Within album ranked from worst to best
From deathcore debut Humanity to anthemic new album Zenith, we rank the back-catalogue of Scottish metal’s favourite sons
These 9 metal bands paved the way for Sleep Token
Get to know the pioneers who walked so Sleep Token could run
Every member of Ghost's Clergy
From Papa Emeritus I to IV to Papa V Perpetua, Papa Nihil, Sister Imperator and beyond, here's everything you need to know about Ghost's colourful cast of characters
The best new metal bands you need to hear in April 2025
Meet Knocked Loose spin-off spinkickers Church Tongue, Siberian black metallers Grima, Texan metalcore mob Catch Your Breath and Melbourne deathcore brutes Mélancolia
"I had Nails, Oathbreaker, Power Trip, Billie Eilish and Labrinth on my writing playlist.”
We have a quick catch up with the frontwoman of one of UK metal's most exciting bands
The classic Megadeth song that was originally supposed to feature Lisa Marie Presley
This Megadeth anthem could have sounded very different
The epic story of Meshuggah’s rise from thrash metal wannabes to tech metal giants
How Meshuggah inspired a generation of tech metal bands
How Bloodywood became Indian metal's breakout stars
Bloodywood weren't India's first metal band, but they've become the country's loudest champions
How Heaven & Hell resurrected Black Sabbath’s other classic line-up with The Devil You Know
Heaven & Hell’s The Devil You Know was a Dio-era Sabbath record under any other name
Metallica's Kirk Hammett shares what Motorhead mean to him
It's no secret the members of Metallica love Motorhead. But Kirk Hammett shares just what the rock'n'roll legends mean to him
