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Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes and Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante to team up on new, original song If The Sun Burns Out Tonight
By Matt Mills Published
The track will drop in the autumn and serve as the theme music of Riot Games’ Valorant Champions Tour

The stories behind every song on Metallica’s Black Album
By Joe Daly Published
35 years ago, Metallica cemented themselves as the biggest metal band on Earth. This is your track-by-track guide to their landmark moment.

“It could be more amazing than U2’s triumph in Las Vegas. I think you could even blow that out the water”: Can Youth persuade David Gilmour to stage a live show with The Orb?
By Julian Marszalek Published
Producer discusses his reboot of 2010 collaboration Metallic Spheres as Metallic Spheres In Colour

Poor Man’s Moody Blues: The story of a prog rock diss track
By Malcolm Dome Published
Les Holroyd is proud of BJH’s band’s first era – except for the time they rose to the bait of being compared to a rival band, and then he had to face one of its members

Bulgarian media stir up “Satanic black metal” fears as murder suspects wear heavy metal t-shirts in court
By Matt Mills Published
Four teenagers accused of murdering a 37-year-old man in Plovdiv sported Powerwolf, Mayhem, Pantera and Sepultura merch at their hearing last week

Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: July 31 2026
By Rich Hobson Last updated
Tony Iommi makes a long awaited return, Electric Callboy channel their inner boyband and Sheri Moon Zombie strikes out as a solo artist in this week's best new metal songs round up

How Trivium defied the gatekeepers and split the critics with The Crusade
By Alexander Milas Published
Trivium broke big with 2005’s Ascendancy – but a year later, The Crusade saw the backlash hit

The story of All Right Now, the anthem that broke Free in America – then broke up the band
By Classic Rock Magazine Published
All Right Now was an instant classic, but it also created instant problems for Free
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