Tom Dare

Hate Crew Deathroll was a major breakthrough. It'd confirm Children Of Bodom as one of the most important metal bands of their generation

How Machine Head made a Master Of Puppets for the 21st century

Black metal? Power metal? Classical? Late Children Of Bodom mastermind Alexi Laiho slammed together sounds no one else would have dreamed of

Children Of Bodom’s fourth album Hate Crew Deathroll was their breakthrough. In 2015, Alexi Laiho sat down with Hammer to look back on the making of a modern metal classic

Digging deep into Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia’s record collection

Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen chooses the 10 albums that shaped him, from Pantera to The Snowman soundtrack

In the wake of the Orlando shootings, metal fans need to stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT community

Rotting Christ may be making a bid for the world’s most epic metal band, but for mainman Sakis Tolis, the only riches he’s after lie within

This is what you can expect from the new Anthrax album For All Kings

It's taken three different vocalists, but Nightwish have finally become the band they always promised they'd be...

Every month we ask metal heavyweights about the records that changed their life.