Latest Metal Hammer News
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
Halestorm describe what it was like backstage at Ozzy Osbourne’s retirement show Back To The Beginning
Pennsylvania’s hard rockers were one of the dozens of iconic heavy bands who played at Ozzy’s swansong in July
Svalbard, one of British metal’s best underground bands, have just released their final song
The four-piece’s farewell UK tour kicks off on Wednesday
Dave Mustaine wants Megadeth's final show to be in space
Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine has lofty ambitions for the band's final ever show. Like, seriously lofty
AC/DC bring earthquake-level noise to first Australian show in 10 years
Residents of Melbourne who live miles away from venue were shook all night long by AC/DC's seismic return
Watch unmasked Kiss pay emotional tribute to late Ace Frehley at Las Vegas show
Kiss Kruise: Land-locked in Vegas launches with heartfelt tribute to guitarist Ace Frehley who died last month
Limp Bizkit show in Estonia cancelled after Fred Durst's previous support of Vladimir Putin resurfaces online
Fred Durst had plenty to say about Russia and Putin in the past – and it appears to have come back to bite Limp Bizkit
"Lemmy goes and sees his doctor, and the doctor is like, ‘Holy ****! If you’d waited another week, you’d have died!'" How Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister shrugged off his health issues for years
Some of Lemmy's closest allies share warm stories of the typically bullish way Lemmy would deal with any health problems
Latest Metal Hammer Features
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
