Latest articles by Rich Hobson
Amon Amarth, Hatebreed and Imminence are among the bands with killer new metal songs out this week
The band's 2023 breakthrough marks their first Platinum Certified record, but also confirms their status as one of the biggest and most successful metal bands of this century
Re-acquaint yourself with the Atlanta behemoth’s back-catalogue before Marrow Deep comes out in August
Mastodon team up with Josh Homme, Bury Tomorrow go industrial and In This Moment make the world's most oppressive club anthem on this week's best new metal song roundup
Frozen Soul are one of the most exciting bands in death metal right now - and it turns out MCR's Gerard Way agrees!
Alissa White-Gluz is finally bringing one of her long term ambitions to life
Former Nightwish singer and solo star Tarja picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the music that terrifies her
Alt singer-songwriter A. A. Williams makes us a playlist and tells us the story behind it
Metallica return to London Stadium to show exactly how they became metal's biggest band
The grunge icons’ best songs, chosen by 22 of today‘s biggest musicians
Peasant metal, Native American folk by way of black metal and gorgeously symponic power metal all appear in this week's best new metal songs.
They've played Eurovision, supported Iron Maiden and topped the charts: Lord Of The Lost aren't dialing back their ambitions
Acid Bath's first ever UK gig comes almost 30 years since the band split - and weeks before they play stadiums with System Of A Down
Vindicta put out a clapback at their Dogma past, Motionless In White go gothic metalcore and Sleep "return" (of a sort) in this week's best new metal song round-up
The 80s weren’t dead and the 90s hadn’t really begun. This is the story of how seven weeks of summer in 1991 belonged to rock (and not just grunge)
Decessus - the Chilean death metallers whose vocalist was crowned Miss World Chile - make their UK debut at Download 2026
Sunshine, riffs and bops: Babymetal finally shake off their Download curse in style
Could Halestorm headline Download one day? This set certainly suggests they could pull it off
Poland's biggest metal festival hosted everyone from Megadeth and Black Label Society to Ice Nine Kills, Blood Incantation, Cavalera and more
For over two decades, Download has been the premiere rock and metal festival in the UK. These are its finest moments
Thrash, black metal, grindcore - none of it would exist without UK82
It's not quite the whole bloody affair, but INK show they're ready to jump up to bigger slots at Mystic
I Don't Wanna Be Me is one of Type Of Negative's hallmark songs, but the story of its conception was, typically, surrounded by controversy, mayhem and a dose of black humour
