Could this hard-hitting movie about a troubled drummer be heavy metal’s first cinematic tearjerker?
New film Sound Of Metal looks set to tug heartstrings as well as setting heads banging
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Could this hard-hitting movie about a troubled drummer be heavy metal’s first cinematic tearjerker?
New film Sound Of Metal looks set to tug heartstrings as well as setting heads banging
Skunk Anansie reschedule European tour, add new London show
Skunk Anansie add homecoming Brixton Academy show to rescheduled 2021 European tour
Join Rammstein as they take a trip back in time to 1995
Rammstein will release a limited edition of their debut album Herzeleid in December in celebration of its 25th anniversary
Smith & Myers confirm second new album, break out Billie Eilish cover
Shinedown men Smith & Myers' will release Vol 2 hot on the heals of Vol 1 in October, and there's two new singles
Former Trivium guitarist and bassist Brent Young has died
Brent Young played on Trivium's debut album Ember To Inferno, and more recently with Blacknova
Get our exclusive, limited edition Motörhead bundle - before they're gone
Our Motörhead Motörbundle features an exclusive Three Amigos poster, a Warpig window sticker, two beer mats and two bumper stickers... and there's only 350 in existence!
Joe Satriani has been fighting against the idea that he’s a shredder for his entire career
Joe Satriani has been telling everyone he’s not a shredder for years, but no-one is listening
Dream Theater announce new live album and share video for Pale Blue Dot
Distant Memories – Live In London tipped for autumn 2020 release
"There are no rules": Gojira's Joe Duplantier hints at what the band's new album might sound like
The Gojira frontman reveals that his guitar playing is becoming "less scary" and some of the unlikely places he looks to for inspiration
Corey Taylor consoled ‘bawling’ pop stars Daphne and Celeste after infamous Reading festival abuse
Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor urged under-attack pop stars Daphne & Celeste to “hold your head high” after Reading 2000
Be the first to hear music from the brand new Enslaved album with Prog and Metal Hammer
Norwegian prog metallers Enslaved will premiere new tracks from album Utgard in conjunction with Prog, Metal Hammer and Louder
Warning: you might never sleep again after watching Mr. Bungle’s disturbing new video
Mr. Bungle release Eracist as the second single from The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo
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8 things we want from the new AC/DC album
It looks like AC/DC are teasing a new album – and from choice cameos to giant platypuses, here's the things we want from it
The Top 10 best horror video games
Max Portnoy of nu-core stars Tallah chooses the greatest horror games ever to hit the screen
Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan: “I used to eat acid like M&Ms”
NYHC icon Harley Flanagan steps away from the frontline to talk drugs, violence and making peace with former bandmates
Dan Terminus just dropped the synthwave album of 2020
Synthwave wizard Dan Terminus’ Last Call For All Passengers is the perfect soundtrack to a party at the end of the world
Holy Moses revolutionised the 80s thrash scene. Why don't more people know about them?
Amid the boys club of 80s thrash, Holy Moses frontwoman Sabine Classen stood out. It’s time to give her band the credit they deserve
HIM'S Dark Light: how America fell in love with the new kings of goth
Rabid dogs, lost souls and the ghost of Jimi Hendrix – how HIM made the album that turned them into transatlantic superstars
We spoke to the metal-loving Satanic High Priestess running for Sheriff in New Hampshire
Metalhead sheriff-in-waiting Aria DiMezzo is proof the world would be a better place if more elected officials were Satanists
Shredders: a buyer's guide to the best fret-meltin’ albums
Amp-humpin’, high-octane instrumentalists! Is it music made by guitarists for guitarists? Not always!
The planet is f**ked and Avatar are seriously pissed about it
Think Avatar are just about loud costumes and OTT gimmicks? Wrong. And now it’s time to get serious
The saviours of extreme metal are here, and they will spin your head off your shoulders
Pennsylvania’s Fawn Limbs are pushing tech metal forward with their next-level noise
Best headphones for vinyl 2020: 8 killer pairs to bring the best out of your wax
Whatever your budget, these are the headphones to buy if you're a vinyl nut
Kiss: how their long-awaited reunion turned into a catastrophe
For Kiss, the 90s was a roller-coaster decade that took them from the lows of a shelved ‘grunge’ album to a money-spinning reunion to a cataclysmic fall-out. Roll up and step into the Psycho Circus
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Uada’s Djinn album: kvlt-baiting black metal polished to a technicolour gleam
Boundary-pushing Portland black metallers Uada provoke the faithful’s ire on new album Djinn
The Ocean’s Phanerozoic II: the conclusion to an epic journey four billion years in the making
Prog metal doesn’t get any more ambitious than the final part of The Ocean’s history of the Earth
Ayreon’s Transitus album: where gothic horror, prog metal and Doctor Who come together
Ayreon’s epic Transitus is the missing link between prog metal and Andrew Lloyd Webber – with added Doctor Who
Kataklysm’s Unconquered: massive hooks and seismic power courtesy of death metal warhorses
Time and a global pandemic cannot wither Canadian veterans Kataklysm on their 14th album Unconquered
Mastodon’s Medium Rarities is a celebration of one of metal’s most deranged and brilliant bands
Prog-metal, unhinged fuzz punk and left-field covers collide on Mastodon’s sprawling new compilation Medium Rarities
Finntroll’s Vredesvävd: folk-metal icons serve up mischief and malevolence on epic comeback album
O.G. folk metal fiends Finntroll make their long-awaited return with Vredesvävd. To the forest!
Deftones have made a record for every kind of Deftones fan with Ohms
Alt-metal adventurers Deftones take a journey through their own past with new album Ohms
Napalm Death’s Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism: grind kings return triumphant
Underground icons Napalm Death rise and grind for the 16th time on new album Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
Zakk Sabbath’s Vertigo: Zakk Wylde recreates Sabbath’s debut album. But why?
Zakk Wylde goes full fanboy on fun but pointless rerun of Black Sabbath’s debut album
Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos: The God Of F*ck gives his demons free rein
Marilyn Manson has released his new album We Are Chaos – and here's our verdict
Israeli death/doom crew Tomorrow’s Rain call in metal all-stars on cathartic new album Hollow
Members of Paradise Lost, Moonspell and My Dying Bride help bring Tomorrow’s Rain’s bleak vision to life on new album Hollow
