A beginner's guide to folk metal in five essential albums
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Watch Sophie Lloyd's dazzling shred version of Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven
Look at those fingers fly!
Governor of Nevada wants AC/DC for Super Bowl LVIII halftime show
Could AC/DC bring some much-needed rock to the Super Bowl in 2024? They have a political heavyweight in their corner.
Alice Cooper dropped by cosmetics company over trans comments
Alice Cooper's comments about trans people have resulted in Vampyre Cosmetics pulling out of collaboration
"When it came out, I was a raging alcoholic prick...I wasn't paying attention to the songs": Corey Taylor on why he now loves Metallica's St. Anger
Slipknot's Corey Taylor explains how he went from hating Metallica's St. Anger to being a fan
Get your exclusive Skindred x Metal Hammer bundle – featuring a signed art print and a special Smile patch
Skindred fans won’t want to miss this limited edition Metal Hammer bundle featuring an exclusive art print hand-signed by the band and a Smile album patch – only 200 copies are available
Watch Dave Grohl, Chad Smith and Taylor Hawkins' son Shane cover Led Zeppelin, Queen, AC/DC and Van Halen classics in a pizza joint
Chevy Metal rocked a Californian pizza restaurant earlier this week with a few famous friends, including Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith
Disturbed's David Draiman would "love" to collaborate with Taylor Swift: "She's a brilliant woman and one of the great songwriters of our time"
Disturbed frontman David Draiman is a total Swiftie, and would "collaborate with Taylor if she ever wanted to, on any given day"
Are Guns N' Roses and Aerosmith making new albums? Alice Cooper seems to think so
Alice Cooper may have accidentally let slip that Guns N' Roses and Aerosmith have new albums in the works
Myrkur returns with new album Spine in October
Danish folk/prog/metal artist Myrkur will release her fourth studio album Spine on Ocrober 20
John Carpenter announces Anthology II (Movie Themes 1976-1988) will be released in October
Horror maestro John Carpenter reworks classic pieces from his greatest movies with son Cody Carpenter and Godson Daniel Davies
Kid Rock spotted drinking Bud Light at gig in Nashville – just months after ridiculous anti-trans beer-shooting stunt
It's almost like Kid Rock was virtue signalling rather than making any kind of real point
Corey Taylor thinks one of Slipknot's best-loved anthems is their most over-rated song, and says the fact that he still sings it "tells you how much of a psycho I am"
Corey Taylor believes that the single which Metal Hammer readers voted Slipknot's greatest ever song is the most over-rated song in their catalogue
Following a somewhat chaotic release, you can now watch the video for new Guns N' Roses single Perhaps
First it was leaked, then it was released to radio, now it's available to everyone
"Sometimes you take a gamble and luck’s on your side": Listen to raw demos from Green Day's 30th anniversary reissue of their 20 million-selling masterpiece Dookie
Green Day share demos of the pop-punk classics which propelled their third album Dookie to 20 million global sales
"I promise you this, as long as you are here, I will always be here for you": Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor break down in tears during an emotional speech to fans
At a recent event to celebrate the release of his new solo album CMF2, Corey Taylor gets emotional during a touching, heartfelt speech about mental health
"Maybe they just don’t care": System Of A Down's Serj Tankian calls out Imagine Dragons for ignoring his pleas to cancel a scheduled show in Azerbaijan, which he claims will help "whitewash" brutal human rights abuses in the country
System of a Down's Serj Tankian attacks pop-rock superstars Imagine Dragons over what he perceives as their "disregard" for a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Azerbaijan
"The next day I started putting signs up in guitar places." Corey Taylor reveals the band that inspired him to pursue a career in music - and how it came during his darkest moment
He's become a metal icon with Slipknot and Stone Sour - but it was a random encounter involving some alt metal heroes that set him on the path to greatness
Tobias Forge wrote Ghost's first song "almost as a joke"
They've become one of the biggest heavy metal successes of recent years - and it all started due to a bit of fun spontaneity from Tobias
"We can talk about bubblegum, but I can also talk about things that matter.” Within Temptation return to the cover of Metal Hammer for a world exclusive interview
We go to the Netherlands for an exclusive interview with the band - plus Corey Taylor, HIM, Ghost, Skindred, K.K.'s Priest and much more!
