Latest Metal Hammer News
Watch Linkin Park thrill fans at UEFA Champions League final in Munich
Linkin Park were the star attraction of the 2025 Champions League final pre-match show – but not everyone was impressed
"I wish you nothing but a very sore arm!" Iron Maiden manager on fans who ignored plea not to use mobile phones
Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour got off to a brilliant start in Budapest – even if some "selfish" fans broke no-phone rule
System Of A Down's Shavo Odadjian on the Serj Tankian lyrics that confused him the most
Even System Of A Down's own bassist has raised his eyebrows at some of Serj's unusual lyrics
Kirk Hammett picks the Metallica album where he got his playing "spot on"
Iconic Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett thinks he nailed his playing on this album in particular
Babymetal's Moametal reveals the touching message she'd give her younger self
Having started when she was just 11 years old, Moametal has already had an amazing career
Sleep Token are "the least metal thing I've ever heard" says TV host Richard Osman
"There's a very, very strong sense of Spinal Tap"
Babymetal are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer as they prepare to unleash star-studded new album Metal Forth
Japan’s biggest metal band and their special guests take us inside the exciting new album, only in the new issue of Metal Hammer
Latest Metal Hammer Features
Brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in June 2025
From heavygaze hard-hitters Love Is Noise and Blasphemer-sporting black metallers Ruim to Calgary goths Poltergeist and nu-gen punk Bex, these are the bands you need to hear in June 2025
"We found the sweet spot in the middle of our Venn diagram of Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins." How Thornhill are bringing 90s cool to a new generation
The hottest band in Deftones-core, Australia's Thornhill have found the perfect balance on their third record, Bodies
The story behind Coheed And Cambria's The Suffering
Good Apollo Vol. One... might've reinvented Coheed And Cambria as prog metal stars, but The Suffering was pure power pop bliss
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: May 30
From Lord Of The Lost and Babymetal to Avatar, Hanabie and Halestorm, these are the best new metal songs this week
How Alice In Chains came back from the brink
After the death of Layne Staley, it took Alice In Chains seven years to return with a new frontman and album. This is their story
Svalbard's Serena Cherry answers your questions
Which Pokémon would her bands be? How did she learn guitar? Why doesn't she play more power metal? These are the questions you asked Svalbard's Serena Cherry
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
"An Iron Maiden gig quite unlike any other we've seen." The first night of Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour packs big surprises, lashings of nostalgia and a state-of-the-art new show
From beloved rarities getting dusted off to some truly impressive new visuals, Maiden kicked off their new world tour in style
The Painful Truth is Skunk Anansie's most vital and inventive album in years
Where many bands coast on past glories thirty years in, Skunk Anansie have served up something special
British metalcore is getting its moment in the sun
Bury Tomorrow's Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience reaffirms Bury Tomorrow as modern metalcore heavyweights
If you're after some catchy as hell nu metal brimming with angst, you need the new Tetrarch album in your life
Atlanta nu metal revivalists Tetrarch stick to the fundamentals
Sleep Token's new album Even In Arcadia is ambitious, intense and painfully honest
Sleep Token's fourth album takes a stark look at Vessel's fame while dabbling in the kind of genre-mashing that will delight some fans and shock others
Propagandhi are as confused about the state of things as everyone else on vital new album At Peace
Canada’s punk/metal iconoclasts aren’t sure what to do about the chaos across the globe, but their eighth album is poignant and poetic all the same
