Latest Metal Hammer News
Bruce Dickinson gives the US national anthem the air-raid siren treatment again
The Iron Maiden frontman has sung the Star Spangled Banner at another sporting event
"I had a slight fender bender": Gene Simmons recovering at home after Malibu car crash
The Kiss legend hit a parked vehicle and was transported to hospital
Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson isn’t fully convinced the band are retiring
Ex-bassist David Ellefson hopes the thrashers’ upcoming farewell shows aren’t “just an attempt to boost ticket sales”
The house that Slipknot trashed in their most infamous music video is going to auction
Bidding on a $300,000 West Des Moines property that the masked agitators tore up in 2004 will begin next week
Preorder Megadeth’s final album on limited copper/emerald vinyl, plus an art card signed by the band only available through Metal Hammer
Only 250 are in stock, so order fast!
Watch: we asked a bunch of fans at Parkway Drive's Wembley show to name the best ever metalcore band
And no, not everybody picked Parkway Drive, OK?!
Country star Hardy loves Sleep Token, urges the haters to look past genre tags
Musically and aesthetically, the Mississippi musician thinks Sleep Token are “really, really cool”
Latest Metal Hammer Features
The underground metal band that invaded the UK charts and almost became a household name
For just a moment, it looked like the UK might have had an answer to Slipknot from the most unlikely of places
Here's every metal album that's ever gone to number one in the UK
From Iron Maiden to Sleep Token, here's every single time metal topped the album charts in the UK
Why Rush are secretly the coolest band on the planet
They eschewed prog cliches, inspired all of your favourite rock bands and made songs that still sound ground-breaking – for 50 years, Rush have been badass
Over a decade since their debut, Falling Leaves are back with a new album all fans of death-doom simply need to hear
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It's been a long time coming, but The Silence That Binds Us was absolutely worth waiting for
11 things we learned from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir, Last Rites
From an unfinished solo album to drinking with André The Giant, these are the most surprising things we read in Ozzy’s posthumous book
I've been a metal guitarist for almost two decades and not enough people talk about these incredible guitar-shredding albums
These are the five albums that more fans of fretboard-shredding metal need to know about
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
Looking for the best thrash metal album of 2025? Testament have your back with Para Bellum
40 years in, Testament are still doing it louder and better than most bands that arrived in their wake
We're not sure we can do justice to just how epic Parkway Drive's Wembley show was
Surely a Download Festival headline set is on the cards after this?!
Ozzy: No Escape From Now is an imperfect but essential look at Ozzy Osbourne’s final years
Though it’s sometimes slapdash, Paramount Plus’s two-hour documentary offers impressive insight into the Prince Of Darkness’ late-life struggles
Can Vimic's Open Your Omens live up to Joey Jordison's legacy?
Almost a decade since Vimic first released music, their debut album Open Your Omen is finally here
If you're going to dive into one metal album this week, you should probably make it this one
Orbit Culture return with yet more evidence of why they're one of the best bands in the current European metal scene
Thrice – Horizons/West review: timeless elegance from one-time post-hardcore wonderkids
The California four-piece offer another platter of soulful rock’n’roll that bucks trends and plucks heartstrings
