Latest Metal Hammer News
Dutch prog metallers Textures announce Genotype, their first new album for a decade
Textures will release their new album, Genotype, on January 23 and will tour Europe and the UK in early 2026
Metallica gave Wolfgang Van Halen a ‘Perfect Attendance Award’ for playing every venue on their 2023 and 2024 tours
Wolfgang’s band Mammoth supported Metallica on every leg of their M72 world tour for two years
This is what it’s like when your song goes viral a decade after release, according to Sabaton
2016 single The Last Stand has racked up some impressive numbers through social media, despite not being the album’s biggest hit when it came out
Henry Rollins has teamed up with another punk icon for his first new release in over 20 years
21 years since his last solo album, Henry Rollins has returned to the Washington D.C. studio where it all began
Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister once rammed a cheeseburger into a $2,000,000 mixing desk because he lost an argument
“Can we get a repair man? Lemmy from Motörhead’s just trashed our desk with a cheeseburger.”
Pre-order new Skindred album You Got This on marble orange vinyl, exclusively through Metal Hammer
Get a version of the ragga-metal outfit’s upcoming album that you won’t find on shop shelves
Former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven files lawsuit against the band
Alan Niven, who managed Guns N' Roses from 1986 to 1991, says the band are blocking the publication of his memoir
Latest Metal Hammer Features
The unreleased Korn album we’ve been waiting 20 years to hear
It features on one of metal’s great lost albums
Spinal Tap’s improbable return is the comeback no one expected – and even fewer requested
Three men, one vision, several lawsuits
Megadeth were broke, homeless and way behind Metallica. But this song would change everything for them
How Megadeth wrote a landmark thrash metal classic in the midst of personal and financial chaos
The story behind Corrosion Of Conformity's Vote With A Bullet
A broken femur caused a massive perspective shift for former hardcore/thrashers Corrosion Of Conformity
The story of every song Dave Mustaine co-wrote for Metallica – and what Megadeth did with those riffs
From The Four Horsemen to The Call Of Ktulu, this is everything you need to know about the six (maybe seven) Metallica songs with Dave Mustaine’s name on them
Nine albums by W.A.S.P you should hear, and one to avoid
W.A.S.P's infamy as leading shock metallers of the 1980s belies a back catalogue full of serious classic rock-influenced songwriting
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
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
40 years in, Max Cavalera is still finding ways to freshen up his formula
You might not be surprised to find that the new Soulfly album bangs
