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"It's about trying to find a place, your place, how you fit in." Peter Gabriel shares dark, brooding new single A Hard Lesson
By Jerry Ewing published
Peter Gabriel is releasing a new single every full moon at midnight in the build-up to new studio album o\i.

How stoner-doom kings Electric Wizard made the classic Dopethrone album
By Malcolm Dome published
Electric Wizard frontman Jus Osborn on the making of the weed enthusiasts’ classic third album Dopethrone

I was Peter Gabriel’s stunt double for Sledgehammer
By Jo Kendall published
Working on the award-winning 1986 music video incorrectly convinced the future comic book creative that he’d have a career with Aardman Animations

Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: May 29 2026
By Rich Hobson published
Tom Morello teams up with Serj Tankian, A Perfect Circle release their first single in 8 years and we dive into Chinese deathcore in this week's best new metal song round-up

Great new proggy sounds from Green Carnation, The Ocean, A Perfect Circle and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
By Jerry Ewing published
Cool new prog you need to hear from Candacraig, Eyre Llew, Sans Froid, Koyo Bloom and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

Evile's Ol Drake has set up a Gofundme to help his family deal with mounting debt
By Merlin Alderslade published
Evile's Ol Drake has helped keep true metal alive in the UK scene over the past two decades, and now he could do with some help

"I remember us saying, ‘Well, if the band doesn’t make it, we’ll join the Marines.’" The story of the song that gave thrash metal its name
By Dave Everley published
Metallica, Exodus and Slayer might've been defining thrash on the West coast, but it was in New York the genre finally got its name

Evanescence are on the cover of the latest issue of Metal Hammer with two exclusive gifts
By Eleanor Goodman published
Evanescence fans, you're gonna wanna get all over this one
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