Latest Metal Hammer News
Watch Die Spitz's new video Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry For The Delay)
You'll be hearing a lot about Die Spitz in 2025: start listening now
Jack Osbourne posts emotional tribute to late father Ozzy on social media
Ozzy’s youngest child has taken to Instagram to pay tribute to his father, who died aged 76 last month
Metallica announce one of their most intimate shows ever, playing to just 250 people later this month – and you can win a ticket
The biggest band in metal will play their smallest gig in decades on August 28
Creeper's new single Blood Magick (It's A Ritual) has been conjured up from 1987, and it's a blast
Creeper preview new album Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death with a conjuring from 1987
Watch Linkin Park thrill 90,000 fans at London's iconic Wembley Stadium
Watch the 21st century's biggest metal band on peak form at huge UK show back in June
See Davey Havok turn into goth rock Frank Zappa in new AFI video
The newly mustachioed frontman and his band will put out their next album Silver Bleeds The Black Sun in October
Michael Schenker releases first song with new singer Erik Grönwall
Don’t Sell Your Soul is the title track of a new Michael Schenker Group album
Latest Metal Hammer Features
How heavy metal fell in love with the Devil
For as long as it’s existed, heavy metal has been obsessed with the Devil. We investigate why.
Lemmy Kilmister reviewed Ozzy Osbourne’s first solo album in 2011 – this is what he said
One late metal legend looks back on the masterwork that launched the solo career of another late metal legend
Debate: what is the greatest metal riff of all time?
Creeping Death? Raining Blood? The Trooper? Blind? Which metal riff towers above the rest?
What it was like at Wacken Open Air 2025
Thousands of fans, hundreds of bands and tonnes of mud: but Wacken is still the best metal festival around
The story of the Black Sabbath gig that changed history
At a gig just outside Birmingham on August 1, 1969, music changed forever
Halestorm’s exclusive track by track guide to their new album Everest
Halestorm guitarist Joe Hottinger breaks down the band’s upcoming album Everest
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
What happens when a Eurovision band turns to the dark side? Lord Of The Lost’s new album almost answers that question
The first entry in a planned trilogy, Opvs Noir, Vol. 1 sees Lord Of The Lost shed their vibrant look while retaining their goth/glam bluster
Halestorm reach a career peak with new album Everest
Halestorm are still Halestorm on album number six, but the hard rockers have more ideas in their back pockets than ever before
Headlining a major European festival for the very first time, Papa Roach's loud, proud and unbowed Wacken performance is an utter triumph
Papa Roach deliver a career-defining headline set at Germany's legendary Wacken Open Air festival
Babymetal's new album Metal Forth reaffirms their status as one of metal's most unique and exciting bands
Babymetal team up with a bunch of metal pals to make another bold stride forwards
Priest's biggest UK headline gig is a victorious celebration
Judas Priest's biggest ever UK headline gig comes tinged with sadness, but also victorious celebrations
This is what it would sound like if The Cure were a death metal band – and it’s brilliantly bonkers
Hesitating Lights, the second album by Swedish noise-makers Floating, pairs post-punk riffs with extreme metal aggression to amazing, disorienting effect
