Latest Metal Hammer News
Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg debunks everything you thought you knew about Vikings
Viking metal hero Johan Hegg of Amon Amarth busts the biggest myths about Vikings
Sick Of It All singer Lou Koller dead at 59
NYHC linchpin Lou Koller was originally diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2024
Ministry announce Goodbye Europe farewell tour
"It doesn't matter if you're left or right, we're all dead unless we all unite"
Watch Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson perform a Mott The Hoople classic at surprise appearance with Billie Joe Armstrong's covers band
Watch Bruce Dickinson onstage with The Coverups at San Diego Comic-Con
Sleep Token's Take Me Back To Eden has gone platinum
The band's 2023 breakthrough marks their first Platinum Certified record, but also confirms their status as one of the biggest and most successful metal bands of this century
Avenged Sevenfold surprise release bold, futuristic new EP Statica
If you only know Avenged Sevenfold via Hail To The King, prepare to have your mind blown by what they sound like in 2026
Clown from Slipknot surprise launches new side project O' Day Monster
Check out the video for Un Life, the debut single from M. Shawn Crahan's new musical venture O' Day Monster
Latest Metal Hammer Features
Here's 10 Mogwai songs every metal fan should listen to right now
'Two parts serenity and one part death metal', one promo sticker said – and they had a point
How Angel Witch wrote one of the great overlooked metal anthems of the early 80s
Angel Witch’s Angel Witch was one of the great anthems of the NWOBHM era – so why didn’t it turn them into stars?
The Iron Maiden album that was “locked in a vault” for two years
Iron Maiden finished their epic Senjutsu album in 2019 – but the pandemic meant it wouldn’t be released for two more years
The story behind Metallica's apocalyptic thrash masterpiece, Blackened
“Dude, that riff’s good enough to open our album."
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: July 24 2026
Amon Amarth, Hatebreed and Imminence are among the bands with killer new metal songs out this week
Mystery project Ysbrydnos is putting Wales on the black metal map
The faceless solo artist says his music is “a rallying cry for Welsh culture” – but don’t call him a flag-shagger
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
Mongol champions The Hu take after their hard rock heroes on long-awaited new album Hun
The folk metal horde have been endorsed by Metallica and Iron Maiden – and their third album bears those icons’ influence
Motionless In White finally find their identity on Decades
More than 20 years since starting, Chris Cerulli and co. escape the shadow of their influences and revel in dark humour
System Of A Down's UK return was electric, euphoric and one of the best stadium shows in recent memory
"Are System Of A Down back?!" one fan on our row remarked. Yes, yes they absolutely are
Bring Me The Horizon's crushing Count Your Blessings show is a reminder of how ferocious they can be
Bring Me The Horizon roll back the years with their heaviest show in well over a decade
Iron Maiden's first ever festival is a triumph and a true celebration of one of heavy metal's most storied bands
Metallica are on the form of their lives at London Stadium
Metallica return to London Stadium to show exactly how they became metal's biggest band
