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Pre-order your exclusive Metal Hammer x Creeper bundle, featuring a magazine cover unavailable in shops and new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death on purple vinyl
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Paramount Plus to stream feature-length documentary about Ozzy Osbourne’s final years next month
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Mike Patton returns to action with new project AVTT/PTTN with folk rock stars the Avett Brothers
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Sleep Token kicked off their sold-out US tour and performed two never-before-played songs last night
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Latest Metal Hammer News

Pre-order your exclusive Metal Hammer x Creeper bundle, featuring a magazine cover unavailable in shops and new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death on purple vinyl
By Metal Hammer published
Get your claws on a bundle you won’t find anywhere else, before Creeper’s new album drops on October 31

Paramount Plus to stream feature-length documentary about Ozzy Osbourne’s final years next month
By Matt Mills published
Ozzy: No Escape From Now will be streaming from October 7

Mike Patton returns to action with new project AVTT/PTTN with folk rock stars the Avett Brothers
By Fraser Lewry published
Listen to AVTT/PTTN's debut single Eternal Love now

Sleep Token kicked off their sold-out US tour and performed two never-before-played songs last night
By Matt Mills published
The masked metal superstars put on a 15-song show at Gas South Arena in Duluth, Georgia

System Of A Down add second UK date to European tour with Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath
By Matt Mills published
The alt-metal band will play a second show at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on July 15

The world of metal pays tribute to At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg
By Fraser Lewry published
Tributes to Tomas Lindberg have come from Opeth, Napalm Death, Cradle Of Filth, Avatar, Exodus and many more

Watch Terrifier baddie Art The Clown ‘kill’ WWE wrestler Rhea Ripley during an Ice Nine Kills concert last weekend
By Matt Mills published
Ripley and Art made special appearances during Ice Nine Kills’ Silver Scream Con in Massachusetts on Saturday
Latest Metal Hammer Features

Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach answers your questions
By Stephen Hill published
Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach faces down Metal Hammer readers' questions

Satanic rituals, burlesque and cowbell - what it was like at Ghost Con 2025
By Merlin Alderslade published
We got to go to Ghost Con III and had a hell of a time

The story of At The Gates' Slaughter Of The Soul - the album that revolutionised death metal
By Malcolm Dome published
30 years ago, At The Gates would release an album that'd change metal forever and make melodeath one of the most influential metal movements of the 90s

How Arch Enemy wrote a revolutionary anthem for the masses with Nemesis
By Emily Swingle published
The Swedish melodeath masters didn't expect such a huge response to this modern metal classic

"I started going to rituals when I was 13. ” 'Midsommar metal' is officially a thing
By Liz Scarlett published
Forlorn mix folk horror with metalcore and might be the most interesting new band you hear about this month

All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
By Metal Hammer published
Metal, deathcore, goth, punk and a creepy dude with a balloon – these are the essential albums coming out between now and the end of the year
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Latest Metal Hammer Reviews

I Prevail Violent Nature review: the metalcore heavyweights' fourth album is a little hit and miss, but the hits go hard
By Nik Young published
They might be divisive, but Violent Nature proves I Prevail are still swinging for the fences on album 4

"It’s bat***, bug****, bull****. If you really dislike the band, it’s utter dog****." Between The Buried And Me finally bite off more than they can chew with The Blue Nowhere
By Alec Chillingworth published
They might be prog metal geniuses, but Between The Buried And Me are also still fallible

Deathcore's biggest band just made an extreme metal album fit for arenas
By Matt Mills published
Lorna Shore continue to raise the bar for deathcore and extreme metal in the mainstream

"There’s still plenty of Slipknot-style pummelling, but Tallah are spreading their wings."
By Paul Travers published
Tallah's third album sees them branch out from their more obvious nu metal inclinations

Witch Club Satan proved they're the best thing in black metal right now
By Rich Hobson published
Norwegian black metal trio Witch Club Satan made a thrilling, theatrical and utterly terrifying UK debut at Birmingham's Supersonic Festival

I just watched Metallica play in front of a few hundred people
By Lina Khatib published
Intimate, fun and occasionally feral, I feel like I just witnessed something truly special