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Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: May 2 2025
Death Angel, Primus and Loathe lead this week's best new metal songs, plus new music from Shadows Fall, Turnstile, Chthonic and more.
"I’d tell Randy Rhoads how great he is and how much I love him."
Zakk Wylde on shredders, best movies and his favourite Ozzy Osbourne moment
The best new metal bands you need to hear in May 2025
Meet "denture-core" maniacs Melted Bodies, marine biology-inspired post-black metallers Dawn Of Ouroboros, Lady Gaga-inspired industrial metallers Tayne and melodic hardcore heroes Bloom
The five most metal Sleep Token songs
The detractors say, “Sleep Token aren’t metal” – these songs reply, “Yeah, right!”
Inside the chaos and carnage of Acid Bath - the great lost Louisiana sludge metal band
Tragedy might have cut Acid Bath's career short in the 90s, but now they're back and bigger than ever
"In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons
We head Stateside to speak to the man behind the mask as Russian deathcore crew Slaughter To Prevail prepare to unleash their new album
Ghost's Tobias Forge reached burnout in 2024. This is how Skeletá brought him back to life
After the weight of 15 years of carrying Ghost got too much, Tobias Forge needed something special to get his mojo back. He tells us how it happened
These are the 12 new metal songs you need to check out this week
Linkin Park, Sleep Token, Ghost, Sabaton and more have spoiled us with excellent songs this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.
I sing anti-fascist songs in a thrash band – why aren’t more metal musicians angry about the state of the world?
Hardcore and thrash still pride themselves on being politically conscious: we should all follow these ballsy bands’ examples
Four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden
Even Iron Maiden like to throw a few curveballs into their back catalogue
How hip hop changed metal forever
Anthrax, Rage Against The Machine and Korn all owe a debt to hip hop
How Korn changed up their sound and left the copycats behind with Follow The Leader
Korn’s 1998 album Follow The Leader was the sound of the nu metal pioneers pulling away from the competition
The feral story of Discharge’s Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing, the punk album that changed metal
How D-beat pioneers Discharge took punk and metal to extreme new realms
The strange story of Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine: Biomech, the album which launched his solo career
How Devin Townsend made his 1997 solo debut album Ocean Machine
Why Linkin Park have produced a new football-inspired remix of one of their biggest hits, and why they believe America has a shot at winning the next World Cup
Ahead of their upcoming appearance at the Champions League final in Munich, Linkin Park talk football (or 'soccer', if you really must)
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: 18 April 2025
Cryptopsy, Rivers of Nihil and The Devil Wears Prada lead this week's best new metal songs
Doom high priests Electric Wizard are the perfect band to soundtrack the end of the world
Electric Wizard’s 2014 album Time To Die was a masterclass in apocalyptic doom necromancy
