Latest Metal Hammer News
Halestorm's Lzzy Hale opens up on the "empowering" song that helped launch their career
I Get Off didn't pull its punches on its subject matter - even if the song had to "devolve" to get there
Slipknot-endorsed Mapuche metal champions Mawiza have recorded a live session in Gojira’s studio
Hailing from Santiago, Chile, the four-piece are flying the flag for South America’s Indigenous Mapuche people
Metallica fans banned for life after "incredibly stupid" speaker tower stunt at show in Australia
Ever thought about climbing on part of the stage or sound setup at a gig? Two Metallica fans can tell you why you really shouldn't
Behaviour of one former Megadeth member means there will be no reunions on upcoming farewell tour
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine rules out bringing former members back as guests on farewell tour
Swallow The Sun's best-selling official biography to be translated into English
Finnish prog-doomers’ Swallow The Sun's self-titled 2024 biography will be available in two special editions
Sleep Token have released the official colouring book you never knew you needed
The masked metal band have teamed up with Rock N’ Roll Colouring, who’ve previously made colouring books for Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Cannibal Corpse and others
Avenged Sevenfold have just released a brand new song and it's packing riffs, autotune and all kinds of weirdness - listen to Magic now
Avenged have just dropped their first new song in two years!
Latest Metal Hammer Features
"We were stupid kids with this really weird music we were stubborn about." How Faith No More helped pave the way for the 90s rock revolution with the chaotic We Care A Lot
Faith No More's Bill Gould looks back on the making of We Care A Lot, his band's thrillingly unhinged debut album, now celebrating its 40th birthday
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: December 5 2025
Guns N' Roses, Poppy and Alter Bridge are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
How Cave In briefly became alt-metal’s next big thing with their single Anchor
In 2003, Cave In embraced mainstream attention and wrote Anchor. Unfortunately, their stint in the big time would be short-lived.
From Sleep Token to Ghost, metal is full of gimmicks right now. Is it helping or hindering the culture?
Are all these gimmicky bands a good thing for the genre, or has it all gone a bit too far?
How Coheed And Cambria turned a tumultuous break-up into landmark prog metal song Welcome Home
Thanks to its venomous lyrics and hard, screeching riff, Welcome Home became a Platinum-selling breakthrough moment
How A Certain Shade Of Green turned Incubus into poster boys for a scene they hated
With one song, they suddenly found themselves at the front of a music scene they truly hated
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
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
Aerosmith and Yungblud's One More Time EP is a surprising but welcome triumph
Rock's past and present meet in the middle and make a certain kind of magic in hopes of securing its future
Two years on from their farewell show in New York, Kiss return to the stage in Las Vegas
Kiss are back, and Classic Rock were there to witness it
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
