Latest Metal Hammer News
Slayer’s Kerry King prefers Metallica over Megadeth because “Metallica has a singer”
“Sorry, Dave!”
Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses and Linkin Park to headline Download 2026: over 90 bands confirmed for next year's lineup
Next year's Download lineup has officially been revealed and it's packing rock icons, nu metal legends and a lot more
AC/DC announce 2026 tour with 21 new dates confirmed
AC/DC will hit up North and South America next year, with over 20 dates confirmed
Two Metallica fans have been arrested after climbing over part of the band's set at a show in Perth, Australia on Saturday
Savatage announce European headline shows and festival dates for 2026
Prog metal legends Savatage reformed earlier this year after a nearly two-decade hiatus
"Speaking to your own child about that is very personal, vulnerable and emotional." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian reveals why he covered a Chris De Burgh classic - and teamed up with an EDM legend
Serj Tankian made some surprising musical choices for his new solo album
Campaign launched to posthumously award Ace Frehley honorary astronaut status
NASA, are you listening?
Latest Metal Hammer Features
Founding Motörhead drummer Lucas Fox looks back on the band's earliest days
Lucas Fox looked after Lemmy when he was fired by Hawkwind - they bonded over Monty Python, speed and Special Brew
"Let's get a tattoo!" Memories of a Hollywood night out with Ozzy Osbourne
In 1987, Ozzy Osbourne released the Randy Rhoads-era live album Tribute, and one UK writer travelled to Los Angeles to brave the promotional chaos
How Angels made Within Temptation one of Europe's biggest metal bands
Within Temptation had a breakthrough hit with Angels - even if they never planned it
In 2009 this notorious workaholic was trying to do less. His career suggests it didn’t go that way
After over two decades making music, his main band had recently achieved global recognition and he’d just launched his debut solo album. Did he ever really slow down?
The story of the landmark Alice In Chains album that paved the way for Nirvana’s Nevermind
A year before Nirvana broke out with Nevermind, Alice In Chains Seattle’s grunge scene on the map
The best new metal bands you need to hear in November 2025
Deathcore newcomers Face Yourself, NWOBHM revivalists Seven Sisters, bone-faced black metallers Abduction and videogame inspired alt metallers Luna Kills, these are the new metal bands you need to hear in November 2025
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025
Roping in hardcore, mathcore, doom, black metal, industrial, post-rock...Pupil Slicer do it all in style on new album Fleshwork
Avatar’s Don’t Go In The Forest is the album for people who like their massive 80s-inspired tunes with a side order of creepiness
Avatar finally go for the commercial jugular on Don’t Go In The Forest
Creeper are dead and loving it on brilliantly bloody new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death
Creeper are in full fangbanging mode on their excellent fourth album
Nine Treasures might be the next band to blaze a path out of Mongolia
You might not have heard of Nine Treasures, but this is a great time to educate yourself
Psychonaut’s World Maker is a devastating space-metal odyssey everyone needs to hear
Psychonaut are far from superstars in the metal scene, but World Maker deserves to change that
40 years in, Max Cavalera is still finding ways to freshen up his formula
You might not be surprised to find that the new Soulfly album bangs
