Latest Metal Hammer News
Zakk Wylde opens up on the emotional new tribute song he wrote about Ozzy Osbourne
The Black Label Society frontman and longtime Ozzy guitarist penned the tribute in the weeks following Ozzy's death
The guy who just climbed that skyscraper live on Netflix listened to a lot of Tool on the way up
Alex Honnold made a playlist of his favourite rock songs for his free solo climb up the 11th-tallest building on Earth last weekend
Ghost’s Tobias Forge likens performing in his old masks to “running 100 metres in flip-flops”
The singer also says that Ghost’s shows have more in common with Lady Gaga concerts than “many other rock bands”
Alice Cooper announces Alice's Attic tour
Alice Cooper adds more shows to an already bulging schedule
Ex-Velvet Revolver member claims they could have been as big as Guns N' Roses
This band of rock icons were a big deal in the 2000s - but could they have been even bigger?
“I’ve got fame, I’ve got adulation, but I was still in the mental prison."
"It started to get very gruesome for me, it was a total train wreck"
Former Scorpions / Michael Schenker bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71
"Though the strings have gone silent, his soul remains in every note he played and in every life he touched"
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The story of the post-hardcore takeover that didn’t quite happen
As nu metal’s commercial power began to wane, major labels desperately signed a bunch of bands with hardcore backgrounds, from My Chemical Romance to Cave In. A lot of them didn’t work out.
From Ben Stiller to WWE: the story behind Limp Bizkit's classic Chocolate Starfish album
For just a moment, this was the record that officially made metal the biggest genre in the world
Steven Adler lived more dangerously than anyone in Guns N' Roses - before it all came crashing down
Of all those involved with Guns N' Roses, drummer Steven Adler was the one who most lived up to their Most Dangerous Band In The World reputation
The cult US hardcore band who smashed boundaries to make one of the 21st century’s most influential albums
Converge’s 2001 classic Jane Doe is one of the greatest albums of the last 30 years
Reliving Metallica's Napster lawsuit - and Lars' extremely awkward comedy sketch video
This was certainly a time of change in the music industry
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
This is the end, but Megadeth are leaving us with an absolute killer of a final album
Megadeth will be missed, but what a final record to leave us with
Health dance in the face of despair on new album Conflict DLC
The lyrics on the L.A. trio’s sixth album observe the ugliness of 2025, while the music urges you to wiggle your worries away
Ice Nine Kills' A Work Of Art is metal's most shocking show: Review
Even if they don't carry on (Silver) Screaming, Ice Nine Kills prove they're ready for the big leagues with the brilliantly bonkers A Work Of Art tour
Sabaton's Legendary tour lives up to its name: Review
Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour
British-Iranian metal mystics Lowen prove themselves as the next big thing with spellbinding London show
Playing their biggest headline concert while backed up by dancers and a cellist, the rising prog metal band meld Persian folk and themes with full-throttle riffage
Harpy's debut EP is the horniest release of 2025 and it's not even close
Alt singer-songwriter Harpy tells us exactly what she wants via throbbing dark electro and writhing industrial metal. Subtle, this ain't
