
Architects land first UK number 1 album with For Those That Wish To Exist
Architects have nailed their first ever UK number 1 album
Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix faces down the haters in the new issue of Metal Hammer, on sale now
SOAD bassist Shavo Odadjian teams up with Phil Demmel and friends to cover Stone Temple Pilots’ Dead & Bloated
Step inside an old school games arcade as James Kent returns with Death Of The Soul from new album Lustful Sacraments
Hear Better Without You, the latest single to be lifted from the new Evanescence album, The Bitter Truth
Ex-Children Of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho died of “alcohol-induced degeneration of the liver and pancreas connective tissue” according to former wife
Simone Simons spills the beans on Epica’s new album Omega on the brand new Metal Hammer podcast
Peter Steele meets Prince: yes, the internet’s mash-up master Denis Pauna is at it again
You can barely hear Jason Newsted’s bass on Metallica’s …And Justice For All, but one online hero has remedied that
The new issue of Metal Hammer is an epic rundown of the 100 greatest songs of the 21st century so far – and System Of Down’s Chop Suey! came out on top
Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds recalls a lifetime of devoted worship in the church of AC/DC
Metallica mark Master Of Puppets turning 35 with a crushing TV performance of album opener Battery
British metal legend Paul ‘Hammy’ Halmshaw, founder of Peaceville Records, is terminally ill and needs our help
How Avenged Sevenfold embraced heavy metal and wrote the song that took them to the next level
You might think black metal and pop music are polar opposites, but White Void frontman Lars Nedland says otherwise
How German heavy metallers Accept took I'm A Rebel – a long-lost early AC/DC track written by Malcolm and Angus’s brother Alex – and made it their own
Slayer recorded more than 130 songs during their lifetime. We want you to tell us which one you think is best
“When I’m in my room thrashing about on my drum kit, Duality is one of the tracks I like to play,” says Rick Astley of his metalcrush on Slipknot
Meet the German punk-metal sensations who've already dented the charts and are intent on confounding your expectations
Glenn Danzig’s horror movies are bad. Really bad. And that’s what makes them so brilliant
In 1987, the ‘real’ GN’R bottled the mayhem of the Sunset Strip on their classic debut album Appetite For Destruction. Ousted drummer Steven Adler tells all
Serj Tankian on his return to rock with his new EP, his brilliant new documentary and his relationship with System Of A Down
Brit metal malcontents Conjurer check in from the studio as they work on “vile and disgusting” second album
The world according to Korn and Love And Death guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch
From playing bass with The Vegas Kings, a rockabilly outfit formed in 1957, to his time with Rainbow, Black Sabbath, solo and beyond, Ronnie James Dio had a career like no other
If Tool jammed with Helmet, it would sound like the second album from UK’s hypno-metallers The Hyena Kill
Scottish rockers Mason Hill finally release their assured debut album. Fans of Alter Bridge and Shinedown apply here
Modern metal heroes Architects continue their upward swing with new album For Those That Wish To Exist
Surf rock, twisted pop, unhinged doo wop – it’s business as usual in the demented world of Melvins
Can you have too much of a good thing? Not if you’re Epica, you can’t
Gothic metal standard bearers Moonspell turn up the progressive dial on new album Hermitage
Shock rock OG Alice Cooper pays tribute to his hometown on new album Detroit Stories
More is more for post-black metal visionaries Harakiri For The Sky on 85-minute new album Mære
Australian future-brutes The Amenta return after eight-year absence with pulverising new albm Revelator
Experimental metallers Senyawa mix the sublimely strange with the deliberately comic on new album Alkisah
Symphonic metallers Sirenia dust off their Fairlights on new album Riddles, Ruins & Revelations