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All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
From Deftones and Halestorm to Babymetal and Slaughter To Prevail, these are the essential metal albums coming out this year
Metal Hammer’s tracks of the week: July 11, 2025
Soothe your post-Back To The Beginning blues with new tracks from Babymetal, Deftones, Halestorm and more, and vote for your favourite
Bring Me The Horizon have just surprise-released a new album
The Lo-files project contains 23 lo-fi reinterpretations of the UK metal band’s biggest songs
The man who almost sang for Metallica has no regrets: “I could have ruined metal”
Armored Saint vocalist John Bush says it wasn’t his “destiny” to front the biggest metal band of all time
One of metal’s greatest cult bands have returned after 30 years – but what are the chances of a new album?
Max Cavalera: “If it was all up to me, I’d love to do it”
Ghost’s Tobias Forge originally planned to sing a Black Sabbath deep cut at the Back To The Beginning gig
Papa V Perpetua sang Ozzy solo classic Bark At The Moon – but it could have been very different.
Members of Slipknot, Lamb Of God and Anthrax set to join the Osbournes at Comic-Con Midlands this weekend
Slipknot’s Sid Wilson, Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe and Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Frank Bello will do meet-and-greets and sign autographs in Birmingham on July 12 and 13
Metal Hammer Italy launches first issue with Iron Maiden on the cover
Celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with the inaugural issue of Metal Hammer Italy – also featuring Ghost, Sleep Token, Machine Head and more
Win a Night Demon Curse Of The Damned ultimate box set
We've teamed up with cult heavy metallers Night Demon for an exclusive competition
Watch Spiritbox bust out one of their heaviest songs as they make American TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Canadian quartet played Soft Spine and probably rattled a few US television sets in the process
Disturbed’s David Draiman responds to being booed onstage at Black Sabbath’s farewell gig
David Draiman address the reaction to his appearance at the Back To The Beginning gig
This is what really happened at the end of Black Sabbath’s farewell show
No final bow? This is the ending you didn’t see on the Back To The Beginning livestream
Ozzy Osbourne’s ex-bassist remembers the infamous bat-biting incident
Rudy Sarzo recalls the Prince Of Darkness being taken to hospital after biting the head off a bat onstage in 1982
Celebrate Black Sabbath going Back To The Beginning by grabbing this exclusive Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt
Get ready for the biggest metal gig of all time by ordering this Blizzard Of Ozz tee that you won’t find anywhere else
Watch Judas Priest pay tribute to Black Sabbath with thunderous War Pigs cover
Judas Priest won’t be at Back To The Beginning this weekend, but that hasn’t stopped them from tipping their hats to heavy metal’s godfathers
Watch Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk stream a one-take vocal performance of recent song Hedonist
The track is taken from Jinjer’s latest studio album Duél
Marilyn Manson UK show cancelled following protests
Local MP and pressure groups force the cancellation of Marilyn Manson’s show in Brighton, England in October
Robert Trujillo reveals the inspiration behind the ‘Crab Walk’ – and it involves Ozzy Osbourne
We’ve got Ozzy to thank for Robert Trujillo’s signature onstage move
Metal Hammer writers name the albums they’d listen to during a zombie apocalypse
As 28 Years Later lurches its way towards box office success, we suggest the rock and metal albums that would best soundtrack a zombie killing spree
Poppy explains the meaning behind from me to u, her collab with Babymetal
Poppy discusses one of the biggest metal team-ups of 2025 so far
Ex-Lamb Of God drummer Chris Adler is “estranged” from brother Willie following 2019 exit
Chris admits that he hasn’t spoken to his guitarist brother since his Lamb Of God dismissal, which he claims happened via email
These are the UK cities that will host Black Sabbath: The Ballet in autumn and winter 2025
The Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production, dedicated to the godfathers of heavy metal, will hit the road from September to November
Metal Hammer has teamed with rock festival Radar to design the cat pyjamas your wardrobe is incomplete without
Get your paws on a neon set of kitty PJs via the Louder webstore – and do it quickly, because we only have 50!
