Latest Metal Hammer News
Mötley Crüe announce mammoth Carnival Of Sins tour with Tesla and Extreme
If you missed all the big top action on the original Carnival Of Sins tour, now's your chance to put that right
Guns N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy, Turnstile, Rise Against and more than 150 other rock and metal bands have just been announced for Welcome To Rockville festival 2026
Florida’s largest rock, metal and punk festival will return to Daytona Beach in May
Ex-American Head Charge singer Cameron Heacock has been found living on the streets
Cameron Heacock, whose band American Head Charge toured with Slipknot and Rammstein and worked with Rick Rubin, says he has been homeless for years
"Prepare yourselves for a night of epic music!" Voivod announce UK tour dates in June 2026
Canadian prog metal legends Voivod will tour the UK with Midnight and Cryptosis in June
Jack Osbourne discusses “shock” of his father Ozzy’s death during latest episode of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
“We knew he was sick for a while, but we didn’t think it’d be that quick,” the TV personality admits during a conversation with soap opera actress and fellow contestant Lisa Riley
Wolfgang Van Halen details his spiritual struggle following the death of his father Eddie
The Mammoth singer/multi-instrumentalist says that losing his father left a “black hole” that made him question his spirituality
Nu metal kids, rejoice! Full videos of classic Deftones and Linkin Park festival sets have just been released online
Dutch festival Pinkpop has released pro-shot footage of Deftones’ 2006 show and Linkin Park’s 2012 headline set
Latest Metal Hammer Features
The End is only The Beginning: The Kiss Kruise in Las Vegas kicks off a new chapter in Kisstory
72 hours in Sin City: What we learned at Kiss Kruise: Land-Locked In Vegas
The song that helped Linkin Park kiss goodbye to the nu metal era
Few bands have two separate versions of one song celebrated equally as classics, but Linkin Park did that
Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta names the essential hardcore bands everyone needs to hear
If you need someone to guide you through the world of hardcore, you won’t find a bigger aficionado than the frontman of Hatebreed
Deadly earthquakes, addiction and revolution: the story of Nepal's biggest metal band
Nepal's Underside have had to overcome all manner of trauma and chaos to keep pushing their message and their music to the world
From drug hell to Stranger Things - the story behind Metallica's Master Of Puppets
Metallica's most celebrated song helped define a generation of thrash metal and found new meaning decades later with a certain TV show
"I came in like, ‘Doc, I know you like Rush. I’m in a metal band, we’re flying out in a week to go do one of our biggest shows in a long time. Any way you can help me out?’" An interview with metal's busiest man, Matt Heafy
Trivium frontman, streamer, dad, jiu-jitsu black belt... Matt Heafy is a man of many talents
Clutch's Neil Fallon: 10 songs that changed my life
Clutch's firebrand preacher explains how blues, funk and hip hop all set him on the path to music
"I showed up with Tibetan Singing Bowls, some percussion instruments and champagne, and asked them permission to do some experiments." The strange story behind Deftones and Maynard James Keenan's incredible collab, Passenger
One of the best metal collaborations of the 2000s featured two unique creative forces joining forces
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
Two years on from their farewell show in New York, Kiss return to the stage in Las Vegas
Kiss are back, and Classic Rock were there to witness it
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
