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Brann Dailor's synth proggers Arcadea return with zany new video for Fuzzy Planet
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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
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Watch Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk stream a one-take vocal performance of recent song Hedonist
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Wes Borland cosplayed as James Hetfield during Limp Bizkit’s last concert with Metallica
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Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward has two new solo albums on the way
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Latest Metal Hammer News

Brann Dailor's synth proggers Arcadea return with zany new video for Fuzzy Planet
By Jerry Ewing published
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
By Scott Rowley last updated
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
By Metal Hammer published
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
By Matt Mills published
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
By Matt Mills published
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
By Matt Mills published
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
By Matt Mills published
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 40 best Black Sabbath songs ever
By Paul Brannigan published
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
By Johnny Sharp published
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
By Matt Mills published
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
By Joel McIver published
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
By Joel McIver published
Kreator’s second album, Pleasure To Kill, proved that America didn’t have the monopoly on thrash

"We refused to believe we didn't have something special." From triumph to tragedy and triumph again, how Linkin Park became the first true metal breakout of the 21st century
By Dannii Leivers published
Linkin Park are among the most successful and influential bands the entire nu metal movement ever produced
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Latest Metal Hammer Reviews

The Prodigy unleash chaos at Worthy Farm with the heaviest, most intense set of Glastonbury 2025
By Liz Scarlett published
“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
By Stephen Hill published
No offence Jarvis, but THIS is hardcore

Iron Maiden return to London’s East End for a gloriously flamboyant 50th birthday party
By Matt Mills published
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
By Merlin Alderslade published
"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
By Merlin Alderslade published
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
By Adam Brennan published
German metalcore veterans Heaven Shall Burn deserve to be far bigger outside of their homeland. Is this the album that will make that happen?