Latest Metal Hammer News
Bruce Dickinson opens up on what it was like joining Iron Maiden just as they were blowing up
Bruce Dickinson joined Maiden at a crucial point in their career. We all know what happened next
Korn return with Reward The Scars, in collaboration with new Diablo IV expansion Lord Of Hatred
It’s the first new music from the nu metal superstars since 2022 album Requiem
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson recalls writing classic albums in empty Jersey hotel
The singer looks back on writing Piece Of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere In Time in a hotel on the Channel Islands
The niece of late Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr has become a WWE wrestler
Lizzy Rain joins the likes of Rhea Ripley and Seth Rollins in bringing heavy metal to wrestling fans’ screens
Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg reveals he first jammed with the band just 24 hours before they announced the departure of Joey Jordison
Weinberg played with Slipknot from 2014 to 2023, and admits he has "no regrets" about his time in the band as he lines up new projects
Songs by melodic death metal pioneers In Flames, At The Gates and Dark Tranquillity to be performed by Gothenburg orchestra
Two symphonic celebrations of the Gothenburg Sound will be held in Sweden on December 4 and 5, in tribute to late At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg
Latest Metal Hammer Features
The story of Andrew W.K. and the strangest TV performance in music history
In 2002 Andrew W.K. was interviewed on New Zealand TV series Space. It did not go according to plan
"We didn’t talk to each other for three months." Haunted houses, fallouts and a drunken singer: inside Slipknot's experimental masterpiece, Vol. 3
After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...
How Dave Grohl's drumming shaped the sound of Nine Inch Nails' album With Teeth
Trent Reznor wanted his drummer to play like Dave Grohl on their 2005 album, so he got the Foo Fighter frontman stop by the studio instead
“His manager was angry. He cancelled the whole project”: Arjen Lucassen’s lost Bruce Dickinson album
Dutch composer’s collaborators include James LaBrie, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Floor Jansen and others. He did one song with Dickinson too – but it could have been so much more
A guide to every Poppy album so far
From debut Poppy.Computer to this year's Empty Hands, here's what you need to know about the discography of one of modern metal's most unique creatives
"It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed
Ever heard Maynard James Keenan singing a Paul McCartney song? Now is your chance
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
Foo Fighters go back-to-basics with punky new album: Review
Dave Grohl and co. go back-to-basics to kick out the jams
Skindred have made the perfect summer metal album
Headlining Wembley Arena, selling out shows and climbing the charts: the future has never looked brighter for Skindred
At The Gates produce one final triumph: review
Tomas Lindberg recorded his vocals for The Ghost Of A Future Dead the day before surgery, but still captures the magic that made melodeath a global movement
Nine Inch Nails get a Clubland-style remix: Review
Nine Inch Nails and recent tourmate Boys Noize have teamed up for a killer remix album to commemorate their Coachella sets
Mysterious Viking war trance duo Eihwar bring a party like no other to London
Eihwar bring the bangers to the UK capital
Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show
Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German luminaries reach a new level of pageantry
