Metal Hammer Reviews

Lacuna Coil's new album Black Anima elevates a band already on career-defining form

Babymetal's new album Metal Galaxy deftly proves that the band's whole existence is one massive curveball

Six years in the making, Monzer Darwish's debut documentary Syrian Metal Is War gives a voice to the voiceless

Sunset Strip revivalists Steel Panther bring more swears than songs with fifth album Heavy Metal Rules

North Carolina’s horror maestro, Wednesday 13, draws more iron from his blood in new album Necrophaze

Jonathan Davis exorcises his most ferocious demons yet in Korn's new album The Nothing

Dutch black metallers Asagraum weave potent new magick from the old school with new album Dawn of Infinite Fire

The Politically charged thrash originals Sacred Reich break a near-quarter-century silence wand prove thrash metal is still alive and well

Album review: Masked Iowan metallers Slipknot still refuse to conform on We Are Not Your Kind

Highway To Hell: the album that took AC/DC to international superstardom, and an entry point for new fans since its release

Recorded in one room and crackling with energy, AC/DC's fourth album Let There Be Rock was a statement of furious intent

Sweden’s power metal battalion get serious about going over the top

Black metal overlord Abbath broadens his own snowy horizons in new album Outstrider

The amplified historians deliver another psychedelic sermon

The legendary duo seamlessly blend their genre-defining strain of blackened metal with their expert knowledge of heavy music in the relentlessly riffy Old Star

The black metal icon takes a turn for the unexpected with the new album from Gaahls Wyrd

The dynamic duo's new project, described as "ambient psych doom metal", release their debut record Celestial Mechanics

Brit death metal firebrands delve deeper into the dark on second album

Brazil’s subterranean terror squad return in malevolent splendour with Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia