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Ghost’s Tobias Forge breaks down every track on new album Skeletá
By Merlin Alderslade published
Get to know Ghost’s new album before it drops on April 25

Here are the famously ‘terrible’ metal albums we can’t get enough of
By Matt Mills published
From Metallica and Lou Reed’s Lulu to Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying, the Metal Hammer team band together to defend their favourite clangers

The twisted story of Morbid Angel and the birth of death metal
By Chris Chantler published
How a bunch of kids from Florida took metal into extreme new realms

The story of Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith’s forgotten 2010s side project
By Merlin Alderslade published
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
By Dom Lawson published
The story behind a comics-inspired thrash anthem

How Bring Me The Horizon made their mark from the start with Count Your Blessings
By Katie Parsons published
Bring Me The Horizon were dealing with the haters from the start

How Machine Head’s The Blackening became their own Master Of Puppets
By Dom Lawson published
The Blackening remains Machine Head’s masterpiece

Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: April 4 2025
By Rich Hobson published
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
By Matt Mills published
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
By Alex Deller published
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
By Matt Mills published
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
By Matt Mills published
Get to know the pioneers who walked so Sleep Token could run

Every member of Ghost's Clergy
By Merlin Alderslade last updated
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
By Rich Hobson published
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.”
By Matt Mills published
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
By Metal Hammer published
This Megadeth anthem could have sounded very different

The epic story of Meshuggah’s rise from thrash metal wannabes to tech metal giants
By Malcolm Dome published
How Meshuggah inspired a generation of tech metal bands
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