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Skindred - You Got This: Limited Pink Orange Marble Vinyl LP + Signed Artcard – Louder

The story behind Kittie's Brackish - and the meaning of the song | Louder

Ball lightning, a freak house fire and the occult: how one classic 80s anthem officially crowned the queen of heavy metal

"The only reason you look in the rearview mirror is to see how cool you look going forward." This is what happened when Metallica's Lars Ulrich interviewed one of his heroes, Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris | Louder

Elon Musk inspired the bad guy on the new album by synthwave maestro Carpenter Brut | Louder

Nine Inch Nails: the story behind Starsuckers Inc and the meaning of the song | Louder

Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris on 50 years of heavy metal - and what comes next | Louder

System Of A Down: the story behind Sugar | Louder

Human Waste Project: the story of the forgotten nu metal band | Louder

Bruce Dickinson's unreleased rock opera may be the greatest untold story of them all | Louder

Danko Jones interview: Leo Rising and a wild night with Lemmy | Louder

Jack Black, angry nuns and Duolingo: the strange story of metal's weirdest new stars, Calva Louise | Louder

That time Metallica launched a worldwide search to find a new vocalist via an ad in a British music magazine | Louder

How Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen

I’m a metal musician who tours the world, and this is why I refuse to let my local venue die | Louder

What the science behind mosh pits can tell us about human behaviour | Louder

A study suggested that men who play guitar in extreme metal bands mainly do it to impress other men | Louder

Nineteen years ago, Machine Head released their sixth album. Today it sounds like a Master Of Puppets for the 21st century

"I said, 'I think we should write the best song in the world.' Jack Black said, ‘You can’t do that!'" How Dave Grohl, Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk and Maynard James Keenan helped Tenacious D bring the greatest tribute song ever to the world | Louder

Slipknot: the story behind the Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. album | Louder

Sleep Token's manager has been speaking about the band's extraordinary success in 2025, and what it means for rock and metal as a whole moving forwards | Louder

Iron Maiden's Man On The Edge: The Story Behind The Song | Louder

Deftones' White Pony: the story behind the album | Louder

Slipknot member Alessandro ‘V-Man’ Venturella pays tribute to Mastodon guitarist and his dear friend, Brent Hinds |

Farewell to British heavy metal heroes Orange Goblin | Louder

Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner killed in Los Angeles | Louder

Cradle Of Filth's Her Ghost In The Fog: the story and meaning of the song | Louder

Cannibal Corpse's Hammer Smashed Face: the story behind the song | Louder

See our top 50 albums of 2025 | Louder

From Ozzy Osbourne and Sleep Token to Stranger Things and Alien: Earth needle drops: the metal songs that defined 2025 | Louder

"You’re playing for 5 or 6,000 men and women who all have M16s on their shoulders. And they’re trying to pit, and it’s pretty crazy" How Avenged Sevenfold and Call Of Duty forged one of music and gaming's greatest relationships | Louder

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The story behind Skindred's Nobody and the meaning behind the song | Louder

Metallica: the story behind Creeping Death | Louder

Lamb Of God: the story behind Laid To Rest | Louder

Wolfgang Van Halen shares his life lessons | Louder

"It’s strange when you’re playing in front of 30 people, lip-syncing. Especially when you’re hanging upside down with a piece of meat behind you." How Nine Inch Nails' anthem of self-loathing and sleaze got twisted into the ultimate horny metal track | Lo

Murderdolls’ Dead In Hollywood: the story behind the song | Louder

Metallica: the story behind The Unforgiven | Louder

Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train: the story behind the song | Louder

See why Will Ramos has been described as the best metal vocalist of his generation with this outstanding one-take of Lorna Shore's emotional metal anthem, Glenwood | Louder

The story behind System Of A Down's Chop Suey - and the meaning of the song | Louder

The Osbournes: Expecting the unexpected with Ozzy and Sharon | Louder

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Metallica - Until It Sleeps: the story behind the song | Louder

How Justin Hawkins became metal's least likely influencer | Louder

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Linkin Park - Numb: the story behind the song | Louder

Ex-American Head Charge singer Cameron Heacock is currently homeless and living on the streets - and fans are desperate to help him | Louder

The story of Underside, Nepal's biggest metal band

Metallica: the story behind Master Of Puppets and what the song is about | Louder

An interview with metal's busiest man, Matt Heafy | Louder

The Osbourne family speak out against musicians lying about their final interactions with Ozzy - and "nutters" pretending to speak to him from beyond the grave | Louder

Dogma allegations: here's everything we know about the implosion of the heavy metal nun band | Louder

Billy Corgan's interview with Wendy Dio is epic - and emotional | Louder

"I haven't seen an outpouring like that since Princess Diana died." Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne share their emotional response to the world mourning their husband and dad, Ozzy | Louder

Who are Castle Rat? Getting to the fantasy metal band everyone's talking about | Louder

Anthrax and Public Enemy: the story of Bring The Noise | Louder

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Avenged Sevenfold: the story behind A Little Piece Of Heaven | Louder

Type O Negativr's Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All): the story behind the song | Louder

A female-fronted band is finally headlining Download Festival. It's about damn time | Louder

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Within Temptation: the story of Angels and the meaning behind the song | Louder

"I dug the record 'cause it was incorporating hip hop into rock. I was like, 'This is cool!'" How one rap legend joined the unlikeliest tour ever to help bring hip hop to the nu metal generation | Louder

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That time Ozzy mooned the audience because he didn't think they were rocking hard enough

Dave Mustaine explains why Megadeth reimagined Metallica’s Ride The Lightning for their final album | Louder

In The End by Linkin Park: the story behind the song | Louder

Disturbed need a “nice, long break” as controversial European tour comes to a close | Louder

Godflesh: the story of the metal band worshipped by Metallica, Faith No More and Korn | Louder

This is what it’s like to audition for Metallica – and not get the job | Louder

Ghost’s Tobias Forge on the Ozzy Osbourne-inspired anthem that turned his band from occult sensations into bona fide stars

Issue #406 (Malevolence): Magazine + Exclusive Crossbody Bag – Louder

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Cypress Hill’s Insane In The Brain: the story behind the song | Louder

The story behind Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff, from MTV to Woodstock 99 chaos | Louder

"He just couldn’t do it. He had asthma, then he got a throat infection. The whole thing was downhill for him." The bizarre story of how two beloved extreme metal bands suddenly swapped singers...only to swap them straight back again | Louder

Slayer: the story behind Angel Of Death | Louder

Watch Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall drop out of a helicopter onto the Sydney Opera House, because he’s cooler than you in every way | Louder

"I get a message from my sister: 'Hey, I’m getting chased down the street by the riot patrol. They have the K9 unit.'" From getting the police called on their rabid crowds to becoming Australia's best live band, the incredible rise of Parkway Drive | Loud

The story of Iron Maiden: 50 years of heavy metal history | Louder

Disturbed’s David Draiman is beefing with John Cusack, after the Hollywood star called the singer “psychotic” for signing an IDF bomb | Louder

Slaughter To Prevail guitarist denies that the band have Nazi beliefs, but admits the controversy around them is their “own fault” | Louder

System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Evanescence and more to play insanely stacked Sick New World 2026 events in Las Vegas and Texas | Louder

Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows defends making video message for freed Israeli hostages | Louder

Deftones’ Around The Fur: the story behind the album | Louder

Ministry at Nottingham Rock City: the story of a chaotic night in the midlands | Louder

Watch Fred Durst pay tribute to Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers | Louder

Limp Bizkit bass player Sam Rivers dead at 48 | Louder

Ozzy Osbourne's Mama I'm Coming Home - the story behind the song | Louder

Mawiza: the story of the Slipknot-endorsed band fighting for Indigenous rights | Louder

Korn: the story behind Freak On A Leash | Louder

Disturbed say they want their music to “heal people” after their singer signed a bomb and caused their Belgium gig to be cancelled | Louder

"Lady Gaga passes this bottle of Jameson to me, and I just tip the whole bottle over my face. That was a formative moment." Wargasm's Milkie Way makes us a playlist and takes us inside her world of Sabbath, Gaga, Bowie and more | Louder

Watch unmasked Ghost frontman Tobias Forge perform with Swedish star Lars Winnerbäck | Louder

Ex-Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins killed in prison attack | Louder

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It's time to talk about Iron Maiden's "worst" album | Louder

"We got on with Slipknot like a house on fire. We were like their naughty little brothers!" The underground metal band helped by Charli XCX's future manager that invaded the UK charts and almost became a household name | Louder

I've been a metal guitarist for almost two decades and not enough people talk about these incredible guitar-shredding albums | Louder

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Issue #405 (Iron Maiden): Magazine + Exclusive Iron Maiden T-Shirt – Louder

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What is the song at the end of episode 6 of season 2 of Peacemaker? Why James Gunn turned to Dynazty for that shocking twist | Louder

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Issue #406 (Creeper): Magazine + Sanguivore II - Mistress of Death LP – Louder

Slayer’s Disciple: the story behind the song | Louder

"To Carry The Weight might be one of the most gutwrenching songs that I’ve ever written." Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach on buried projects, ska records and how he once met the cast of Friends | Louder

“We didn’t want to be some huge rock’n’roll band. We wanted to make music for the people”: the inside story of Kyuss’ Blues For The Red Sun, the classic album that changed the course of stoner rock | Louder

“I’d play Bodies five times a night if people really wanted it that bad!" How a misunderstood mosh anthem and patronage by Sharon Osbourne made Drowning Pool nu metal's new superstars - before tragedy snatched it all away | Louder

The Four Horsemen vs Mechanix – how Metallica and Megadeth released two warring versions of the same song

"They came to my house, we jammed together in my studio, they even played with my dog." How System Of A Down's Serj Tankian almost signed a young Muse to his own label - but was "screwed over" | Louder

At The Gates: the story behind the Slaughter Of The Soul album | Louder

"I started going to rituals when I was 13. My mother made me robes and I had my own staff." Midsommar metal is officially a thing: say hello to Forlorn | Louder

The story of That’s The Spirit, the album that sent Bring Me The Horizon into a different realm | Louder

Prika Amaral: 10 songs that changed my life | Louder

Cannibal Corpse: the story of the Vile album | Louder

Prika Amaral: 10 songs that changed my life | Louder

Sanguivore II - Mistress of Death: Purple Vinyl LP + Signed Art Card – Louder

Issue #404 (Helloween): Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt – Louder

"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth | Louder

Black Label Society interview: the story of the Sonic Brew abum | Louder

Def Leppard: the story behind Hysteria | Louder

Ghost’s Mary On A Cross: the meaning of the song | Louder

Lzzy Hale's wild tales of Dio, Alice Cooper, Skid Row and more | Louder

"I felt embarrassed - I haven’t been that angry in a long time." From dinner at Bradley Cooper's to an unplugged mic, the story of Metallica's chaotic Grammys performance with Lady Gaga | Louder

How Daron Malakian went from nu metal misfit to international metal star with System Of A Down and Scars On Broadway | Louder

How Trent Reznor pulled back from the abyss to make Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero

“I’m a good actor. I’m the Jack Nicholson of rock’n’roll! I can do the one expression and people still believe it”: how Ville Valo became one of rock’s last great stars

A metal fan’s guide to Rush

Watch Daron Malakian join stunned System Of A Down tribute band for cover of Cigaro in Chicago

Issue #404 (Nova Twins): Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt

Cradle Of Filth guitarist fired following vicious statement days after keyboardist wife’s departure

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“All of a sudden we’re satanic and controversial. People wanna buy our records and burn them? Go ahead!” Why heavy metal fell in love with the Devil

“I was so lucky and blessed to be a part of a very small group that got to call him ‘Dad’”: Jack Osbourne posts emotional tribute to late father Ozzy on social media

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The 50 best Ozzy Osbourne songs of all time

"Ozzy had a chimney brush over his shoulder, a shoe on a dog leash and no shoes on his bare feet." Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler recalls his very first meeting with Ozzy Osbourne, and the start of "the most incredible journey of our lives"

Ozzy Osbourne 1948 - 2025

Watch Ghost bewitch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with a performance of Lachryma

Woodstock ’99 was supposed to be nu metal’s crowning moment. Instead, it was an epic clusterf**k

"I’ve been whipped, stabbed and had to have surgery. Most recently, I got licked on the tongue by Alice Cooper's snake." Nita Strauss shares the battle scars that shaped her into a modern guitar hero

How stoner-doom kings Electric Wizard made the classic Dopethrone album

"Me and Ozzy were a team. I never thought, 'What about me?'" We chat to Sharon Osbourne about growing up in the music industry, her "confrontational" father, feuding with Iron Maiden and Billy Corgan and a whole load more

"I got taken in by a group of older witches."How Bambie Thug went from ballet and Catholic school to witchcraft, Eurovision and touring with Babymetal

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“We knew Chris Barnes had to go. We phoned him on the road and said, ‘Dude, you’re out.’ It was as simple as that”: How Cannibal Corpse made 90s death metal classic Vile and ended up in the US charts

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Disturbed’s David Draiman responds to being booed at Black Sabbath’s farewell gig

"It's not until Ozzy's actually there, thanking fans and getting tearful, that it sinks in." Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning: our ultimate review of their triumphant final show

Every Slipknot album ranked from worst to best

Everything you need to know about Back To The Beginning, Black Sabbath’s reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert

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Metal Hammer writers name the albums they’d listen to during a zombie apocalypse

The Top 10 best metal covers of 80s pop songs

13 rock and metal musicians hating on their own songs

10 metal bands who ‘went soft’ – and were better off for it

Metal Hammer x RADAR Festival Cat Pyjamas

Why your favourite British metal bands are breaking up

Watch latest masked metal sensations President play their first ever show at Download this past weekend

Korn have finally headlined Download - and it was an absolute triumph

“When are we going to stop with this Pink Floyd stuff and start playing some metal?”: The story of the most ambitious song in death metal history

You can watch Spiritbox's entire, pro shot, rain-soaked Rock Am Ring 2025 set right now

Issue #401 (Volbeat): Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt

The pretentious gatekeeping around Sleep Token points to a toxic heavy music culture - as a metal guitarist of over 25 years, I've seen this movie before

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"It's the least metal thing I've ever heard. You could put this in your hand luggage and it'd go through the scanners." TV presenter Richard Osman of Pointless and House of Games fame has discovered Sleep Token, and he's more than a little confused

Iron Maiden have played a surprise-stuffed first show of their 50th Anniversary tour - watch videos

Watch Ghost's Tobias Forge sing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as Brian May and Roger Taylor look on

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Alt Blk Era: the cover story

"We need pets – they make us live longer." Korn's Jonathan Davis teams up with fashion designer Ashton Michael to raise money for a dog shelter with his pet brand Freak On A Leash

Listen to the most surprising single of 2025, Robbie Williams' "adrenaline-filled and balls-to-the-wall" collaboration with Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and 'The Voice Of Rock' Glenn Hughes

Skunk Anansie: Exclusive 'The Painful Truth' LP + Signed Art Card

Matt Tuck explains why the Poisoned Ascendancy tour is ending and Matt Heafy urges everyone to calm down

The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)

Photo gallery: we threw a big party for Metal Hammer's 400th issue

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New Sleep Token covers - two to collect!

How Beast In Black, Diablo IV and Berserk have created 2025's ultimate metal-gaming-manga team-up

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Watch Korn’s Jonathan Davis sit in a ‘haunted’ chair that apparently makes him hallucinate and feel like he’s high

"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant." Tobias Forge's Satanic Swedes have made the biggest, most joyous and sweetest album of their career

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Watch Ghost's new video Satanized and meet new frontman Papa V Perpetua as the band officially announce brand new album Skeletá

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Slayer announce two monster UK shows with Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon and more

"People are baffled if I say I love Taylor Swift." Modern metalcore icon Chris Motionless on being a Swiftie, ice hockey and why Motionless In White are taking their time on a new album

Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Evanescence and more announced for Louder Than Life 2025

An unreleased solo album by Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge seems to have leaked on Youtube

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Papa Roach put on a nostalgic classic in London’s most historic arena

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“We jumped offstage and took our masks off and started swinging at people at the end of one song”: The wild story of Slipknot vs Mushroomhead, the masked band feud that lit up nu metal

Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine promised “the metal tour of 2025” – and The Poisoned Ascendancy may well have delivered

Watch the cringe-inducing moment an interviewer mistakes Spiritbox singer Courtney LaPlante for Poppy on the Grammys red carpet

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Wardruna - Birna: Vinyl 2LP + Exclusive Signed Art Card

Employed To Serve's new video includes a singing Will Ramos

Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson finishes 13th in fencing tournament, watch him compete

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The Halo Effect have crafted the first great melodic death metal album of 2025 with March Of The Unheard

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Vended might have big links to heavy metal royalty, but that doesn't mean they're getting an easy ride

Heavier Trip director Juuso Laatio on making 2024's most metal movie

We went backstage with Powerwolf, Hammerfall and Wind Rose on the power metal tour of the year - and it was even more ludicrous than we'd imagined

"They are honouring Chester's memory but also creating their own legacy." How Linkin Park pulled off the biggest comeback of 2024

Slipknot put on 2024's biggest heavy metal nostalgia party in Manchester

Oli Sykes says Bring Me The Horizon are considering going on hiatus: "We need time to recharge our batteries and have that time away"

"I've always existed between two cultures." Meet Lowen, 2024's breakout prog metal sensation inspired by System Of A Down and Akercocke

"Today will be my final gig with Iron Maiden." Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain retires from live shows after 42 years

Slipknot, Ghost, Nightwish, Gojira and more star in Metal Hammer's blockbuster end of year issue

Sleep Token show London why they've become metal's biggest success story in over two decades

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Watch Knocked Loose and Poppy destroy Jimmy Kimmel Live! with the heaviest talk show performance in history

Every Metallica album ranked from worst to best

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Poppy has gone and made a full-on arena metal album, and it absolutely bangs

Welcome To Rockville announces headliners Shinedown, Green Day, Linkin Park and Korn, plus more than 150 others, for 2025

Linkin Park announce enormous 2025 world tour, including a date at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium

"Linkin Park have crafted a genuinely great album worthy of their canon." From Zero is a resounding success that fans of every era of Linkin Park will find something to enjoy in

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“Let’s jam, let’s have a good time for the fans, for us, for ourselves.” Andreas Kisser invites Max and Iggor Cavalera to play final Sepultura show

Rejoice! Deftones and Weezer announce huge London outdoor show

The Battle Of Los Angeles at 25: how Rage Against The Machine just about kept it together to create one final masterpiece before imploding

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Tribulation's sixth album is the perfect goth rock digestif to wrap up spooky season

Ghost announce six-month 2025 world tour with UK, Europe, America dates

Mastodon join stacked Bloodstock 2025 lineup

Babymetal announce European tour including biggest UK show ever - with Poppy and Bambie Thug in support

Former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno dead at 66

Limp Bizkit announce 2025 UK tour

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The greatest Ozzy Osbourne songs as picked by members of Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Halestorm and more

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Iron Maiden bring the Future Past tour to Aftershock - and it's spectacular

Judas Priest bring heavy metal heaven to Aftershock with a set that's all killer, no filler

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Slipknot eviscerate Aftershock with one of the heaviest festival headline sets in history

Korn's classic debut album at 30: the weirdness, the trauma and the birth of nu metal

Halestorm's riotous Aftershock set is a present for all

Slayer just showed Aftershock festival why they're still the undisputed kings of thrash metal with a devastating headline set for the ages

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Sabaton throw down the gauntlet as the world's biggest power metal band with The Tour To End All Tours movie

Arch Enemy, In Flames and Soilwork bring melodeath magic to the Hammersmith Apollo

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How Amy Lee reconnected with herself on Evanescence’s self-titled third album

Heriot live up to their potential as Britain's best new metal band on Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell

Linkin Park's London O2 show is a celebration of one of 21st century metal's most impactful and important bands

Slayer have just played their first set in five years - see their reunion setlist and watch fiery video footage here

A tribute to Michelle Kerr, the ass-kicking, passionate PR legend who helped shape modern metal as we know it

Iron Maiden announce 50th anniversary world tour for 2025, confirm biggest ever UK headline show

Max Cavalera picks the five songs that define his career

Clown admits Slipknot aren’t as “close” now as they were 25 years ago

Slipknot 25th anniversary issue

The 14 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

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Will Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley front a reunited Linkin Park? The internet is starting to think so…

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Wacken Festival confirms first bands for 2025 lineup

Marilyn Manson is back. His return highlights how little the music industry cares about protecting women

How Scowl became the most exciting new band in hardcore

Powerwolf Wake Up The Wicked review

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Scene Queen's debut album is a naughty, fearless, genre-splicing knockout

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Ghost's first concert movie Rite Here Rite Now is an instant classic

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Iron Maiden weren’t part of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, says ex-singer: “We felt like we were on our own”

Meet Witch Club Satan, the Necrobutcher-approved feminist trio pushing the boundaries of metal's most extreme subgenre

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Watch Lemmy prove how he was an anti-gatekeeping king while sharing his opinion on Motörhead copycats

“Dystopian in mood, it’s a reflection of the angst and anti-authoritarian attitude I had to conformity.” Listen to Serj Tankian's 'new' single A.F. Day, originally written for System Of A Down

“I’m climbing out of the ashes of Slayer”: Kerry King’s exclusive track by track guide to his new album From Hell I Rise

Watch Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Phil Collins serenade the Queen with Black Sabbath’s Paranoid in 2002

“The lights would go out and 15 kids would beat the crap out of me”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson opens up on traumatic boarding school days

"The most aggressive thing Kerry King has produced since God Hates Us All": Kerry King's solo debut From Hell I Rise sees the thrash legend at his tooth-gnashing, head-banging best

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“Slipknot is so lucky to have you”: Members of Slayer, Megadeth, Rage Against The Machine and more react to Eloy Casagrande joining The Nine

Ghost announce first-ever concert film Rite Here Rite Now for global cinema release

Linkin Park considering 2025 reunion tour with female singer, according to new report

Slipknot have officially named Eloy Casagrande as their new drummer

“If you wanna be disgusting, do it outside!” Bruce Dickinson blasts fan for allegedly using pepper spray during Brazil concert

Watch Slipknot break out new masks, classic songs and their brand new drummer at last night's super-intimate, 300-capacity show in Pioneertown, California

Watch Greg Puciato take on Trve Or False

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

"I think he'd like to see a wall of death": Watch side-stage footage of Sleep Token teaming up with a masked Oli Sykes during Bring Me The Horizon's Brisbane show

Slipknot are teasing something special with a mysterious billboard and website

Letlive are reuniting for a “proper” farewell tour in 2025

"What is this band about? I’m not sure. I like that it’s a mystery to me.” Meet five excellent young bands inspired by Tool

“Without him, there would be no Metallica.” See James Hetfield's new Motörhead tattoo with Lemmy’s ashes in it

One of Linkin Park’s heaviest songs is now available to stream for the first time ever

"Dev Patel was like 'this is Indian, but metal as ****'" Bloodywood just soundtracked 2024's most epic fight scene in new action thriller, Monkey Man

"The gap between pop and metal is getting smaller." From trauma-powered Taiwanese black metal to “nu gothika”, here are some of the best new metal bands you need to hear right now

"You cannot underestimate the impact of seeing a woman blaze a trail right before your eyes." Why Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow means so much to me – and to women in the metal scene

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

“As soon as we get past the arguments, we can get **** done!” Tool are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer

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Raven Records: introducing London's new heavy metal record store, coffee joint and alcohol-free bar

The 20 greatest Korn songs ever - as voted by you

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“Bloodstock has always been a special place for Motörhead and for Lemmy.” Lemmy Kilmister’s ashes to be displayed annually at Bloodstock festival

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

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How Scene Queen became the unlikely heroine metal needs right now

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Listen to Kerry King's ferocious debut solo single, Idle Hands

How an earnest, sober young man in a grubby white t-shirt called Andrew W.K. convinced a post-9/11 world to embrace positivity with a song called Party Hard

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“We were all saying, ‘We’re gonna make this something they can never follow up.’” How Linkin Park and Jay-Z united for the ultimate metal and hip hop crossover, Collision Course

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Metallica take potshots at St Anger in new announcement

The tragic story of Snot, the best lost band in nu metal history

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Mudvayne's Chad Gray slams new bands for all sounding "the same"

10 heavy metal solo careers that fell completely flat

How Myrkur is balancing loss, motherhood and humanity

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