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Metal Hammer's albums of the year: 2025
From chart-toppers Ghost and Sleep Token to rising stars Lorna Shore and Spiritbox, 2025 has been a massive year for metal
James Hetfield has dropped a spoken word version of one the most famous Christmas stories of all time
“While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads-ah!”
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Masked metal sensations President have written four songs for their debut album, with a lot more on the way
The anonymous breakout stars aren’t wasting any time in following up this year’s EP, King Of Terrors
“Wherever there is an end, there is also a beginning”: Arch Enemy split with singer Alissa White-Gluz
White-Gluz leaves Arch Enemy and announces a solo album
Six years in the making, you can get a taste of In Virtue's long-awaited new album Age of Legends with epic new single Karma Loop, featuring Charlotte Wessels - watch the exclusive video premiere here
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Get Poppy’s new album Empty Hands on exclusive bone, violet and baby blue vinyl, exclusively through Metal Hammer
The nu gen icon’s next release drops on January 23 via SUmerian
Dave Mustaine on why Megadeth's final show might still be "three to five years" away
Megadeth fans, don't panic! You'll likely still have plenty of time to catch Dave and the boys on their final run
How Blood And Thunder turned Mastodon from sludge metal underdogs to generational heavyweights
Making a snarling concept piece about Moby-Dick doesn’t sound like a move for mainstream appeal, but that’s exactly what Mastodon found with the lead single of 2004 masterstroke Leviathan
The unreleased Korn album we’ve been waiting 20 years to hear
It features on one of metal’s great lost albums
Pre-order new Skindred album You Got This on marble orange vinyl, exclusively through Metal Hammer
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"Speaking to your own child about that is very personal, vulnerable and emotional." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian reveals why he covered a Chris De Burgh classic - and teamed up with an EDM legend
Serj Tankian made some surprising musical choices for his new solo album
Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West and her friends dressed up as Babymetal for Halloween – and they absolutely smashed it
It looks like the Kardashians are keeping up with one of heavy metal’s most successful bands
Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti on the visionary extreme metal band who changed his life
You may not hear Tremonti favourites Celtic Frost in Creed and Alter Bridge’s music but they’re there
Ghost’s Tobias Forge on the anthem that turned his band from cult sensations into bona fide stars
Square Hammer opened Ghost’s 2016’s Popestar EP and cracked US radio for the Swedish occultists
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Metalcore’s premiere pit-starters are on the cover of this exclusive edition of Metal Hammer’s latest issue, which comes with a bag unavailable in shops
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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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”
The first time Ozzy Osbourne met Ronnie James Dio it nearly ended in bloodshed
The rivalry between the two ex-Black Sabbath singers nearly spilled over into chaos
Just before he died, Ozzy Osbourne revealed the song that made him cry during the Back To The Beginning gig
All the emotion came out during Ozzy’s solo set at Back To The Beginning
Debate: who are the greatest metalcore band of all time?
Killswitch Engage? Converge? Architects? Tell us who’s the best of the blegh-st
