Latest Metal Hammer News
Sophie Lloyd picks out her five favourite guitar solos of all time
Guitar hero and YouTube sensation Sophie Lloyd picks out the solos that changed her life - featuring Guns N' Roses, Pink Floyd, Avenged Sevenfold and more
Ozzy Osbourne’s ex-bassist remembers the infamous bat-biting incident
Rudy Sarzo recalls the Prince Of Darkness being taken to hospital after biting the head off a bat onstage in 1982
Why is everyone talking about Bob Vylan? Glastonbury festival's biggest controversy explained
London punk-grime duo Bob Vylan are the subjects of a criminal investigation following their set at Glastonbury. This is the story behind the biggest talking point of this year's festival
Celebrate Black Sabbath going Back To The Beginning by grabbing this exclusive Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt
Get ready for the biggest metal gig of all time by ordering this Blizzard Of Ozz tee that you won’t find anywhere else
Watch Judas Priest pay tribute to Black Sabbath with thunderous War Pigs cover
Judas Priest won’t be at Back To The Beginning this weekend, but that hasn’t stopped them from tipping their hats to heavy metal’s godfathers
Tom Morello looks back on the first time he heard Black Sabbath
The Rage Against The Machine guitarist was petrified when he first heard Black Sabbath as a kid – now he’s the musical director for the band’s almighty finale
Ozzy Osbourne launches range of beauty products
The Ozzy Osbourne x Jolie Beauty drop will land next week
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
Latest Metal Hammer Features
Jinjer, Blood Incantation and Rivers Of Nihil on the rapid evolution of progressive metal
Members of Jinjer, Blood Incantation and Rivers Of Nihil explain the current rapid evolution of a genre that broke out 40 years ago
"Korn got ripped off a lot." Shavo on System Of A Down, nu metal, deathcore and more
Shavo Odadjian is back in the metal world after 20 years with Seven Hours After Violet - but how will he fare against reader questions?
Brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in July 2025
From the Bring Me The Horizon and Architects approved Amira Elfeky to Nordic folk metal songstress Sylvaine, nu metalcore stars Uncured and industrial metaller Harpy, these are the metal bands you need to hear in July 2025
"He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell
As Soundgarden broke out of the Seattle scene, Chris Cornell stood apart from his peers: a rock god among grunge’s iconoclasts
How Ghost Of Perdition became the defining Opeth anthem
Opeth might've ditched the concept record idea for Ghost Reveries, but Ghost Of Perdition still tells a story
The 10 greatest metal bands from Birmingham
10 brilliant metal bands that show Birmingham really is the home of metal
The final Black Sabbath interview: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill look back
Soon there will be no more comebacks, no more tours, and no more ‘final’ shows: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill look back at their incredible career
The ‘popularity’ of an AI-generated rock band was inevitable – and it highlights a depressing fact about success in the music 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
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?
