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Neurosis return with stunning new album and an underground metal legend as their new frontman
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Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz’s new band Blue Medusa release debut single Checkmate
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Dee Snider opens up about health issues that made him step away from Twisted Sister
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Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview
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Latest Metal Hammer News

Neurosis return with stunning new album and an underground metal legend as their new frontman
By Paul Brannigan published
"This was now or never"

Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz’s new band Blue Medusa release debut single Checkmate
By Matt Mills published
The death metal vocalist makes a fresh start and teases that the heavy new song is also one of the “lightest” things her new band have been working on

Dee Snider opens up about health issues that made him step away from Twisted Sister
By Matt Mills published
A planned reunion tour was scrapped after the singer walked away due to health concerns, though the band are now coming back with Sebastian Bach on vocals

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview
By Matt Mills published
The singer/multi-instrumentalist says he’s had 430 therapy sessions in the past 70 weeks and suggests that fathering a child with a woman outside of his marriage in 2024 is part of the reason why

AC/DC's Stevie Young hospitalised in Argentina
By Fraser Lewry published
The news comes ahead of three scheduled shows at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s memoir In My Darkest Hour, looking back on his cancer battle, to come out in September
By Matt Mills published
The book will detail the thrash singer/guitarist’s life after being diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma at the back of his tongue in 2019

Lzzy Hale looks back on the disasters Halestorm endured to make their first album
By Metal Hammer published
The Pennsylvania hard rockers also survived a producer stepping down and their A&R guy being fired by their label
Latest Metal Hammer Features

How Lacuna Coil put Italian metal on the map
By Ian Winwood published
After 2002's Comalies, Lacuna Coil had officially put Italian metal on the map

Metal Hammer's Tracks Of The Week: March 20 2026
By Rich Hobson published
Alissa White-Gluz shares her new band, Neurosis make a shock comeback and Ice Nine Kills turn into Steel Panther: these are Metal Hammer's tracks of the week

Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park and why he might stop growling again
By Matt Mills published
We caught up with the progressive metal mastermind and made him begrudgingly talk about his band’s magnum opus

The story of Limp Bizkit's Nookie - and why it's a more poignant song than you might think
By Stephen Hill published
What seemed like a throwaway lyric tacked onto a catchy Bizkit banger actually had some profound meaning for Fred Durst

Paleface Swiss are challenging masculinity in metal
By Merlin Alderslade published
Inspired by Slipknot, Paleface Swiss have rapidly evolved into one of extreme metal's most boundary pushing bands

When one viral song turned Jinjer into Ukraine's biggest ever metal band
By Emily Swingle published
After fleeing war and needing a hit to keep their career going, Jinjer struck gold with a simple live video that set the internet alight
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Latest Metal Hammer Reviews

Powerwolf conquer Wembley Arena: Review
By Rich Hobson published
Powerwolf might have enough pyro to level a city, but they've got singalongs to unite the masses

Lamb Of God's new album Into Oblivion is their best in well over a decade
By Stephen Hill published
Lamb Of God's new album is their best since Resolution - at the very least

Foo Fighters return to their punk roots in Manchester
By Rich Hobson published
Dave Grohl winds back the clocks with a very sweaty, very intimate show in Manchester

Deftones get hot and heavy at first UK show of 2026
By Rich Hobson published
TikTok, baddiecore and the nu metal renaissance: Deftones are finally getting their dues

Beers, belly flops and the Bahamas: what it's like on the 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise
By Rich Hobson published
Anthrax, Paradise Lost, Eluveitie and more packed out this year's 70000 Tons Of Metal

This is the end, but Megadeth are leaving us with an absolute killer of a final album
By Dom Lawson published
Megadeth will be missed, but what a final record to leave us with





