“I survived a monster”: Marilyn Manson accuser Ashley Morgan Smithline details graphic abuse claims
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London brewery offers £250,000 worth of beer to support struggling independent venues and artists
Signature Brew, a London-based brewery, aim to safeguard the UK’s live music scene with a new beer-based scheme
Salem announce an intimate tour in support of smaller UK venues
Salem, the horror-punk band featuring Creeper’s Will Gould, have announced a 19 date tour across the UK
Welcome To The Black Parade is voted the greatest My Chemical Romance song of all time
It’s official! My Chemical Romance’s 2006 hit Welcome To The Black Parade is voted their best song by fans
UK festivals at risk of cancellation as government talks hit ‘brick wall’ says AIF
Over a quarter of UK festivals over 5,000 capacity have been cancelled due to lack of insurance
Lindemann's crazed Live In Moscow film comes to cinemas for one night only
Lindemann's "last great party before lockdown" Live In Moscow is coming to select cinemas - watch trailer now
Megadeth and Lamb Of God's Metal Tour of the Year is back on
New dates have been announced for Megadeth and Lamb Of God's Metal Tour of the Year, with Trivium and In Flames still on board
‘The Black Sabbath dream became nightmarish at times,’ says Geezer Butler
In the new issue of Metal Hammer, Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler reflects on the darkness surrounding the band circa Master Of Reality
Former Cannibal Corpse guitarist sentenced for 2018 assault and burglary
Ex-Cannibal Corpse guitarist Pat O’Brien receives jail time, probation and fine for bizarre incidents in Florida in 2018
Watch Scott Ian, Dan Lilker, Henry Rollins and more discuss the birth of Anthrax
Anthrax launch 40th anniversary celebrations with first episode of star-studded documentary on their band
Watch Brian Johnson join Foo Fighters onstage for cover of AC/DC's Back In Black
AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson joins Dave Grohl and Co. onstage at Vax Live: the Concert to Reunite the World in Inglewood, California in front of an actual live audience
This Broadway version of Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff will either make you weep or blow your mind
A high-kicking cover of Break Stuff is the sound of millions of Limp Bizkit fans being trolled
This Christian group is trying to shut down a “Satanic” college radio station in New Jersey
New Jersey college station WSOU is at the centre of a ‘Satanic Panic’ led by Catholic organisation accusing it of “breeding an evil subculture”
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These nu metal looks are giving us pure 2001 energy and we're here for it
Nu metal is officially cool again, which can mean only one thing: baggy jorts are back. Here, 16 products that are the next best thing to a time machine back to Camden Market in 2001
Why I ❤️ Faith No More’s The Real Thing, by Korn’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch
Korn and Love And Death guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch salutes Faith No More’s alt-metal masterpiece The Real Thing
Flames, fetishes and pickled babies: the twisted story of Rammstein‘s Mutter
How Rammstein’s third album, Mutter, took them from cult band to global metal superpower
The secret inspiration behind Gojira’s Fortitude album artwork
Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier reveals how a 19th century painting inspired the enigmatic cover of new album Fortitude
Girlschool: the story of metal’s original riot girls
Lemmy loved them – and so did George Michael. This is how Girlschool kicked down the doors of metal’s boy’s club
This medieval cover of Iron Maiden’s Hallowed Be Thy Name is what the lute was invented for
YouTube ‘bardcore’ king Algai The Bard brings his hurdy gurdy game to Maiden’s 1982 classic Hallowed Be Thy Name
SOAD’s Serj Tankian: “John Dolmayan said, ‘What the f**k are you doing? Are you trying to get us killed?’”
From growing up in Beirut to starting riots and dealing with death threats, this is System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian’s epic life story
Meet the chef giving vegan cookery the black metal treatment
Hail Seitan! YouTube sensation Brian Manowitz is proving that vegan food and black metal are a match made in hell
“The bar has just been raised again”: Randy Blythe reviews Gojira’s Fortitude
Lamb Of God singer Randy Blythe was one of Gojira’s earliest champions. We asked him to deliver his verdict on their new album Fortitude
Skarlett Riot won’t let the pandemic stop them
Meet the small town heroes that won’t let a worldwide pandemic stop their charge into heavy metal
Exclusive: watch Tetrarch’s electrifying acoustic cover of Mudvayne’s Forget To Remember
Rising nu metal stars Tetrarch deliver acoustic versions of Mudvayne’s Forget To Remember and their own You Never Listen – exclusively for Metal Hammer
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Gojira’s Fortitude is metal for the masses – and all the better for it
Album review: Gojira have delivered 2021’s most important metal album with Fortitude
Cannibal Corpse’s Violence Unimagined: death metal legends gouge out a new classic
They may have been around since the dawn of time, but Cannibal Corpse’s new album Violence Unimagined is perilously addictive
Sex, death, isolation and art-rock weirdness? Årabrot’s Norwegian Gothic has them covered
Noise rock surrealists Årabrot are still orbiting a planet of their own on new album Norwegian Gothic
Blaze Bayley’s War Within Me: British metal’s great survivor brings the thunder
Ex-Iron Maiden frontman Blaze Bayley hits new heights of power on new album War Within Me
Lamb Of God’s Live In Richmond, VA is the sound of a band raging in the face of the pandemic
Lamb Of God capture their onstage glory on COVID-busting live-in-lockdown album
La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio’s Trivial Visions: cosmic space rock from interstellar travellers
Italian psych-heads La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio travel way beyond the final frontier on new album Trivial Visions
Evanescence’s The Bitter Truth: an emotive and empowered rock album for our times
Amy Lee releases her most empowered, emotional, politically charged album yet with Evanescence’s The Bitter Truth
Pupil Slicer’s Mirrors: grind meets mathcore on one of 2021’s most exciting debut albums
Grind meets mathcore meets doom on Pupil Slicer’s savage debut album Mirrors
White Void’s Anti’s is a whirlwind ride around metal, occult rock and psychedelia
Norwegian oddballs White Void find new ways to get psyched on debut album Anti
Death metal maniacs Baest take a swim in the grim on new album Necro Sapiens
Looking for brutish, no-nonsense death metal riffery? Baest’s new album Necro Sapiens has got you covered
The Hyena Kill’s A Disconnect: razor-sharp riffs meet enigmatic atmospherics
If Tool jammed with Helmet, it would sound like the second album from UK’s hypno-metallers The Hyena Kill
