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Founded in 1983, Metal Hammer is the global home of all things heavy. We have breaking news, exclusive interviews with the biggest bands and names in metal, rock, hardcore, grunge and beyond, expert reviews of the lastest releases and unrivalled insider access to metal's most exciting new scenes and movements. No matter what you're into – be it heavy metal, punk, hardcore, grunge, alternative, goth, industrial, djent or the stuff so bizarre it defies classification – you'll find it all here, backed by the best writers in our game.
Latest articles by Metal Hammer

Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West and her friends dressed up as Babymetal for Halloween – and they absolutely smashed it
By Metal Hammer published
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
By Metal Hammer published
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
By Metal Hammer published
Square Hammer opened Ghost’s 2016’s Popestar EP and cracked US radio for the Swedish occultists

Calling all moshers! Get the new Metal Hammer with an exclusive Malevolence cover and cross-body bag
By Metal Hammer published
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
By Metal Hammer published
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It's been a long time coming, but The Silence That Binds Us was absolutely worth waiting for

Preorder Megadeth’s final album on limited copper/emerald vinyl, plus an art card signed by the band only available through Metal Hammer
By Metal Hammer published
Only 250 are in stock, so order fast!

Country star Hardy loves Sleep Token, urges the haters to look past genre tags
By Metal Hammer published
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
By Metal Hammer published
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
By Metal Hammer published
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?
By Metal Hammer published
Killswitch Engage? Converge? Architects? Tell us who’s the best of the blegh-st

The best metal debut album from every year of the 1990s
By Metal Hammer published
The classic debut albums that shaped metal’s golden decade

Avenged Sevenfold have postponed their 2025 South American tour at the last minute due to M Shadows’ vocal injury
By Metal Hammer published
The shows will be rescheduled for January

Ghost delivered a blockbuster concert movie with Rite Here Rite Now. They’re going in a totally different direction with the follow up
By Metal Hammer published
Ghost will be hitting the screen again

Calling all Ghost fans! Get your hands on an exclusive array of bookazine bundles with a glow-in-the-dark t-shirt and puff print sweatshirt
By Metal Hammer published
Head to the Louder webstore and you can get Metal Hammer’s complete history of Ghost with a t-shirt and a sweatshirt you won’t find anywhere else

Metal Hammer presents the ultimate Ghost fan pack: the story of every album and every era, including an exclusive patch and artcards
By Metal Hammer published
Ghost fans! Get your hands on this essential bundle about the complete history of the band

Metal Hammer has teamed with Parkway Drive for an exclusive t-shirt and magazine package
By Metal Hammer published
Get your hands on this bundle before the Aussie metalcore crew hit the UK next month

Debate: who are the greatest black metal band of all time?
By Metal Hammer published
From Mayhem to Emperor, black metal is full of fearless innovators, and we want you to tell us which band reign supreme

Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an I Prevail cover and t-shirt you won’t find in the shops
By Metal Hammer published
The US metalcore giants talk all about new album Violent Nature inside our latest issue

Joey Jordison’s sisters reveal how they helped one of the late Slipknot drummer’s unreleased albums see the light of day
By Metal Hammer published
The debut album by Joey Jordison’s post-Slipknot band Vimic will finally be released in October, four years after his death

This iconic black metal band have announced they’re splitting up – but not before one final album
By Metal Hammer published
Will our favourite bands please stop retiring?!

Bruce Dickinson reveals the Pau Di’Anno song that convinced him to join Iron Maiden
By Metal Hammer published
The song that changed the course of Iron Maiden

How a cult power metal band and an insanely successful video game brought shred guitar heroics to a new generation
By Metal Hammer published
All it took was one of the 2000’s most successful video games

Debate: who are the big four of death metal?
By Metal Hammer published
From Florida and Sweden to world domination, death metal has spawned countless incredible bands – but which ones are on your Mount Rushmore?

Pre-order your exclusive Metal Hammer x Creeper bundle, featuring a magazine cover unavailable in shops and new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death on purple vinyl
By Metal Hammer published
Get your claws on a bundle you won’t find anywhere else, before Creeper’s new album drops on October 31
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