Latest Metal Hammer News
At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg dies aged 52 following cancer battle
The frontman, known for his existential lyrics and characteristic scream, revealed last month that he was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma in December 2023
Soen announce new studio album, Reliance, will be released in January
Swedish prog metallers Soen share the powerfully emotive Primal, the first new music from their upcoming album Reliance
Kiss’s Gene Simmons claims he learned humility from Ozzy Osbourne
Simmons calls the late Black Sabbath singer’s attitude “a good lesson for idiots like me who sometimes, guilty as charged, get full of themselves”
Bloodstock festival adds Saxon as first-ever Thursday main-stage headliner; 26 other bands also confirmed
The UK heavy metal stalwarts will return to the top of the bill at the Derbyshire weekender, 25 years after they headlined the first-ever Bloodstock
Watch members of Iron Maiden and Tool jam a Jeff Beck song at a wedding last week
Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith and partially-retired drummer Nicko McBrain performed with Tool bassist Justin Chancellor at Smith’s daughter’s wedding on Friday
Judas Priest recorded a cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs featuring Ozzy Osbourne – and they’re going to release it soon
“The green button’s almost ready to go,” says frontman Rob Halford
Massive Attack team up with Sepultura’s Max and Iggor Cavalera for special South American show
The trip-hop trailblazers will perform Sepultura's classic Chaos A.D. with the pair to shine a light on the plight of the indigenous people of Brazil
Latest Metal Hammer Features
The story of At The Gates' Slaughter Of The Soul - the album that revolutionised death metal
30 years ago, At The Gates would release an album that'd change metal forever and make melodeath one of the most influential metal movements of the 90s
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The Swedish melodeath masters didn't expect such a huge response to this modern metal classic
"I started going to rituals when I was 13. ” 'Midsommar metal' is officially a thing
Forlorn mix folk horror with metalcore and might be the most interesting new band you hear about this month
All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
Metal, deathcore, goth, punk and a creepy dude with a balloon – these are the essential albums coming out between now and the end of the year
10 terrible early 00s movies with killer nu metal soundtracks
Looking for rare System Of A Down and Limp Bizkit songs? Early 00s Hollywood had ’em
The prophetic Slayer song that marked the end of one of thrash metal’s greatest songwriting partnerships
Released on 9/11, this Slayer classic could not have been more timely
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
"It’s bat***, bug****, bull****. If you really dislike the band, it’s utter dog****." Between The Buried And Me finally bite off more than they can chew with The Blue Nowhere
They might be prog metal geniuses, but Between The Buried And Me are also still fallible
Deathcore's biggest band just made an extreme metal album fit for arenas
Lorna Shore continue to raise the bar for deathcore and extreme metal in the mainstream
"There’s still plenty of Slipknot-style pummelling, but Tallah are spreading their wings."
Tallah's third album sees them branch out from their more obvious nu metal inclinations
Witch Club Satan proved they're the best thing in black metal right now
Norwegian black metal trio Witch Club Satan made a thrilling, theatrical and utterly terrifying UK debut at Birmingham's Supersonic Festival
I just watched Metallica play in front of a few hundred people
Intimate, fun and occasionally feral, I feel like I just witnessed something truly special
Nova Twins reckon with the cost of fame on vibrant new album Parasites & Butterflies
Tom Morello and Elton John approved alt stars Nova Twins make a triumphant return with album three
