Latest Metal Hammer News
Brann Dailor's synth proggers Arcadea return with zany new video for Fuzzy Planet
Synth prog trio Arcadea, featuring Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor, will release secind album, The Exodus Of Gravity, in August
Oh Lord, yeah: Black Sabbath have teamed up with the Big Issue, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer for the Back To The Beginning official programme
The official programme Back To The Beginning is a unique collaboration between Black Sabbath, the Big Issue, and Metal Hammer and Classic Rock
Watch Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk stream a one-take vocal performance of recent song Hedonist
The track is taken from Jinjer’s latest studio album Duél
Wes Borland cosplayed as James Hetfield during Limp Bizkit’s last concert with Metallica
Limp Bizkit’s run of North American shows supporting Metallica wrapped up last week
Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward has two new solo albums on the way
The seminal drummer says he doesn’t “give an ‘F’” as he records his first solo efforts in 10 years
Turnstile announce UK/Europe tour dates with The Garden and High Vis
Hardcore’s good time boys will trek across Europe in October and November
Deftones appear to be teasing the release of new music next week
The nu metal-era stars put up a graphic at their London concert on Sunday, hinting towards something going down on July 10
Latest Metal Hammer Features
The ‘popularity’ of an AI-generated rock band was inevitable – and it paints a depressing picture about music success in the streaming age
A seemingly non-existent band have more than half a million Spotify ‘listeners’, but the numbers they’re piling up are just as shallow and meaningless as the computer-generated music they spit out
The 40 best Black Sabbath songs ever
From genre-defining early cuts to underrated gems, these are the Black Sabbath songs you need in your life
Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom
Tobias Forge, aka Papa V Perpetua, talks dark matters and working towards a "newer, better, bigger" Ghost
Everything you need to know about Back To The Beginning, Black Sabbath’s reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert
From who’s playing to how to stream it, we answer all your questions about this summer’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza
How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash metal
The band that helped create thrash pretty much killed it
How Kreator made Pleasure To Kill, the vicious 80s classic that put German thrash on the map
Kreator’s second album, Pleasure To Kill, proved that America didn’t have the monopoly on thrash
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
The Prodigy unleash chaos at Worthy Farm with the heaviest, most intense set of Glastonbury 2025
“I think we did Mr Flint proud”
An awestruck Glastonbury discovers that Charli XCX was bang on the money when she predicted the onset of Turnstile Summer
No offence Jarvis, but THIS is hardcore
Iron Maiden return to London’s East End for a gloriously flamboyant 50th birthday party
Iron Maiden come back to their birthplace and – armed with a new drummer, a stacked setlist and some extravagant visuals – show 75,000 people just how much they’ve grown
"The Melbourne crew have Glasto by the baps and balls." Aussie punks Amyl and the Sniffers just ripped Glastonbury a new one
"The crowd in front of the Other Stage is a bubbling sea of pits, dancing, headbanging and fist-pumping"
Native James just brought grime metal to Glastonbury - and Glasto lapped it up
The UK’s premier proprietor of grime metal makes a big impact on the Greenpeace stage
Heaven Shall Burn are one of metal's most criminally overlooked bands. Heimat is the perfect gateway album to fix that
German metalcore veterans Heaven Shall Burn deserve to be far bigger outside of their homeland. Is this the album that will make that happen?
