Latest Metal Hammer News
WWE's Drew McIntyre reveals what's on his workout mix - and the role music plays in his life
Listening to heavy music and lifting heavy stuff apparently go hand in hand. Who knew?!
Inkcarceration Festival announces 2026 line-up - including Bad Omens first festival headline
The three-day festival will return to Ohio State Reformatory from July 17 - 19
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on losing his friends and peers
Megadeth frontman admits that metal is going through "a changing of the guard"
Lamb Of God rage back with ferocious new track Into Oblivion
Lamb of God's first album in four years will be released in March
Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive Megadeth cover and a copy of the band’s self-titled final album
Megadeth’s self-titled swansong drops on January 23, and you can get it on vinyl in a bundle with the latest issue of Metal Hammer
Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk takes aim at the term “female-fronted band”
The progressive metal singer is sick and tired of being pitted against other women in the scene
Carpenter Brut’s new album has a bad guy inspired by Elon Musk
The French artist says he sold his Tesla after the world’s richest man became part of Donald Trump’s cabinet last year
Latest Metal Hammer Features
“I was 100 per cent sure I was going to die”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg faced his teenage demons on solo debut 16
Abandoning attempts to dial down his own drama, he delivered a moving and multifaceted collection of collaborations in 2023. He immediately wanted to do it again
The violence and defiance behind the 2000s metal anthem that accidentally inspired an Olympic gold medal
HammerFall helped keep traditional metal alive during the early 2000s
The controversial dance band who lit a fire under the 90s metal scene
How The Prodigy’s The Fat Of The Land bought aggro to dance music and rave culture to metal
“Dream Theater have been completely unchallenged until now”: How Sons Of Apollo flew before they fell
Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian had big ambitions when they teamed up with Guns N’ Roses, Mr Big and Journey alumni
Kurt Cobain was supposed to produce these underground metal icons’ major label album – but they still made a classic without him
The song that bridges the gap between Nirvana and Lamb Of God
How Bruce Dickinson gambled everything on his second solo album – and ended up leaving Iron Maiden because of it
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson never intended to quit – but Balls To Picasso changed his mind
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
This is the end, but Megadeth are leaving us with an absolute killer of a final album
Megadeth will be missed, but what a final record to leave us with
Health dance in the face of despair on new album Conflict DLC
The lyrics on the L.A. trio’s sixth album observe the ugliness of 2025, while the music urges you to wiggle your worries away
Ice Nine Kills' A Work Of Art is metal's most shocking show: Review
Even if they don't carry on (Silver) Screaming, Ice Nine Kills prove they're ready for the big leagues with the brilliantly bonkers A Work Of Art tour
Sabaton's Legendary tour lives up to its name: Review
Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour
British-Iranian metal mystics Lowen prove themselves as the next big thing with spellbinding London show
Playing their biggest headline concert while backed up by dancers and a cellist, the rising prog metal band meld Persian folk and themes with full-throttle riffage
Harpy's debut EP is the horniest release of 2025 and it's not even close
Alt singer-songwriter Harpy tells us exactly what she wants via throbbing dark electro and writhing industrial metal. Subtle, this ain't
