Latest Metal Hammer News
Pelagic Records have announced the first wave of bands for the 2026 edition of Pelagic Fest
Pelagic Fest will be taking over Maastricht next August for another weekend of wonders
Country music superstar horrifies shocked fans with "demon ritual" at Las Vegas show
"Looks like y'all sold your souls"
"He knew. He was ready" Sharon Osbourne has revealed the final words that her husband Ozzy said to her before he passed away
Sharon has been speaking about the final moments that she had with Ozzy, and what he said to her the morning of July 22
"A diverse, daring and deeply emotional lineup!" Soen and The Ocean announced as headliners for next year's Be Prog! My Friend
Be Prog! My Friend takes place on September 27 and 28 and will also feature The Dear Hunter, Einar Solberg, Green Carnation, Agent Fresco, Rendezvous Point and more...
Sleep Token’s Caramel has been named the best song of 2025 by The New York Times
Sweet news for the world-beating pop-metal outfit
Robb Flynn wants Machine Head’s retirement to be like Stranger Things’ final season
The Oakland thrashers aren’t bowing out yet, but when they do, their frontman wants it to put a bold exclamation point on their career
Halestorm found out that they were Grammy-nominated halfway through playing a show
The hard rockers took home the Grammy Award For Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance with their single Love Bites (So Do I) in 2013
Latest Metal Hammer Features
How Avenged Sevenfold and Call Of Duty forged one of music and gaming's greatest relationships
From processing grief and playing for the troops to soundtracking a zombie apocalypse, A7X and Call of Duty have a long history
From Sleep Token breaking records to Xenomorphs rocking out to Tool, these are the 11 metal songs that defined 2025
Whether topping charts or going viral, metal made a big impact in 2025 - here's the proof
How Judas Priest bounced back with their best song in a decade: Painkiller
Heavy metal doesn't come much better than this absolute classic
The story of the Ronnie James Dio classic assembled from other bands' spare parts
Rainbow In The Dark a highlight of Holy Diver, an album Ronnie James Dio said was “one of the proudest things I’ve ever done”
How Metallica broke the thrash metal mould with biblical barnstormer Creeping Death
Pinching a riff from Kirk Hammett’s former band and inspired by a Charlton Heston film, Metallica reached a new level with their 1984 single
How Skindred mixed reggae and metal to produce a classic 2000s rock banger
How Skindred hit on the ragga-metal classic that would save frontman Benji Webbe’s career
How Laid To Rest – against all odds – gave Lamb Of God an actual career
The opening track of 2004’s Ashes Of The Wake helped lift the band from heavy metal underdogs to generation-defining superstars
"We were stupid kids with this really weird music we were stubborn about." How Faith No More helped pave the way for the 90s rock revolution with the chaotic We Care A Lot
Faith No More's Bill Gould looks back on the making of We Care A Lot, his band's thrillingly unhinged debut album, now celebrating its 40th birthday
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
Sabaton's Legendary tour lives up to its name: Review
Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour
British-Iranian metal mystics Lowen prove themselves as the next big thing with spellbinding London show
Playing their biggest headline concert while backed up by dancers and a cellist, the rising prog metal band meld Persian folk and themes with full-throttle riffage
Harpy's debut EP is the horniest release of 2025 and it's not even close
Alt singer-songwriter Harpy tells us exactly what she wants via throbbing dark electro and writhing industrial metal. Subtle, this ain't
Aerosmith and Yungblud's One More Time EP is a surprising but welcome triumph
Rock's past and present meet in the middle and make a certain kind of magic in hopes of securing its future
Two years on from their farewell show in New York, Kiss return to the stage in Las Vegas
Kiss are back, and Classic Rock were there to witness it
Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025
Roping in hardcore, mathcore, doom, black metal, industrial, post-rock...Pupil Slicer do it all in style on new album Fleshwork
