Latest Metal Hammer News
Faith No More's Roddy Bottum on hair metal
Queer icon Roddy Bottom of Faith No More recalls the "ugly" side of hair metal
Ghost’s Tobias Forge says it was a relief when he lost his anonymity: “I can’t eclipse what Ghost is. I’m not interesting enough.”
Forge was revealed to be the man behind the band when he was sued by four former members in 2017
Maynard James Keenan thinks people have relegated Puscifer to the “third side-project category”
The singer believes the band have been “marginalised” due to the greater commercial success of his other two projects, Tool and A Perfect Circle
Dave Mustaine looks back on Metallica's wild, violent early days
Metallica's early years were a wild ride
Twisted Sister cancel 50th anniversary reunion tour as Dee Snider quits
The future of Twisted Sister will be decided in the coming weeks
A lounge cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was “the creepiest thing” Ozzy Osbourne ever heard
Pop-rockers The Cardigans put a chilled-out spin on the Black Sabbath song in 1994, and singer Nina Persson says the Prince Of Darkness was freaked out by it
Sleep Theory, President, Castle Rat and Paleface Swiss star on four special new Metal Hammer covers
The New Heavy 2026 has arrived, and it's starring four of the most exciting young bands in metal today
Latest Metal Hammer Features
The incredible story of the man who invented death metal – and cheated death in real life
How Possessed’s Jeff Becerra changed metal forever
“Lars played me the whole song down the phone. He said, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘Are you kidding?!’”: The inside story of the greatest Metallica album Metallica didn’t write
Hardcore ragers, occult metal classics, Southern rock anthems
The drunken onstage outburst that nearly sparked a riot – and inspired a thrash metal classic
The night one of metal’s most notorious loudmouths got a little too loudmouthed
The cult album that Evanescence singer Amy Lee wishes she had made – and the one that broke her heart
Weird angels, fallen guitar heroes and singing fruit – this is the soundtrack to Amy Lee’s life
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: February 6 2026
Mayhem, Sleep Theory and Green Carnation are among the best new metal songs this week
How Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter became Iron Maiden’s only UK number-one single
Despite a BBC ban, winning a “Worst Original Song” award and being pulled from the band’s setlist, Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter remains one of Iron Maiden’s biggest tunes
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
This is the end, but Megadeth are leaving us with an absolute killer of a final album
Megadeth will be missed, but what a final record to leave us with
Health dance in the face of despair on new album Conflict DLC
The lyrics on the L.A. trio’s sixth album observe the ugliness of 2025, while the music urges you to wiggle your worries away
Ice Nine Kills' A Work Of Art is metal's most shocking show: Review
Even if they don't carry on (Silver) Screaming, Ice Nine Kills prove they're ready for the big leagues with the brilliantly bonkers A Work Of Art tour
Sabaton's Legendary tour lives up to its name: Review
Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour
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
