Latest Metal Hammer News
Watch extremely rare video of Black Sabbath performing with former Fleetwood Mac singer Dave Walker
Ozzy stepped away from Sabbath in late ’77, only to rejoin the following year. This recording of War Pigs and Junior’s Eyes is the only video of the band playing with their temporary replacement.
Lemmy's nearest and dearest on how the Motörhead man faced death "like a champ"
You might not be surprised to find that Lemmy faced his own mortality with the kind of no-nonsense attitude that defined his life
Watch Will Ramos nail a one-take of Lorna Shore's emotional metal anthem, Glenwood
Is someone cutting onions?
Primus have announced their first European show in almost a decade
A truly legendary band are going to be joined by a modern titan and one of the best heavy bands of this century in Bristol next Summer
Megadeth announce 2026 Canadian tour with Anthrax and Exodus
Megadeth's farewell plans now include a 12-date tour of Canada with fellow thrash metal titans
Watch The Darkness treat commuters at London St Pancras station to a surprise live performance
Justin and Dan Hawkins of The Darkness performed Christmas songs and some of their hits at London train station
Claudio Sanchez details the “heartbreak” that inspired Coheed And Cambria’s classic song, Welcome Home
From a traumatic break-up, Coheed’s frontman gained the inspiration to write a Platinum-selling breakthrough single
Latest Metal Hammer Features
How Korn broke the charts with a smutty song, a controversial look and a truly deranged video
Anyone who grew up with nu metal has a very different idea of what the letters A, D, I, D, A and S mean
The crazy forgotten project featuring a host of rap and metal superstars
This could have been incredible, but it was an absolute flop
The story behind Ozzy's Crazy Train (and why it gave him mixed emotions decades later)
After being dumped from Black Sabbath in 1979, Ozzy Osbourne needed a big comeback. And boy did he find it
Meet Margarita Witch Cult, the big-riffing Brummies keeping Black Sabbath’s traditions alive
Built on a Sabbath template with lashings of Motörhead and Alice Cooper, Margarita Witch Cult also admit to being influenced by Desmond Child
The story of the 15-year-old boy who flew to Rio to meet Ozzy Osbourne
Stephen Rea's 40-year friendship with the Osbourne family began at Rock In Rio in 1985 - and he tells the story in a new book
The Norwegians who abandoned black metal and re-enacted the psychedelic rock era
They were always known for genre-hopping. But their exploration the Age of Aquarius’ disintegration via obscure tracks from the era was something else again
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
Harpy's debut EP is the horniest release of 2025 and it's not even close
Alt singer-songwriter Harpy tells us exactly what she wants via throbbing dark electro and writhing industrial metal. Subtle, this ain't
Aerosmith and Yungblud's One More Time EP is a surprising but welcome triumph
Rock's past and present meet in the middle and make a certain kind of magic in hopes of securing its future
Two years on from their farewell show in New York, Kiss return to the stage in Las Vegas
Kiss are back, and Classic Rock were there to witness it
Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025
Roping in hardcore, mathcore, doom, black metal, industrial, post-rock...Pupil Slicer do it all in style on new album Fleshwork
Avatar’s Don’t Go In The Forest is the album for people who like their massive 80s-inspired tunes with a side order of creepiness
Avatar finally go for the commercial jugular on Don’t Go In The Forest
Creeper are dead and loving it on brilliantly bloody new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death
Creeper are in full fangbanging mode on their excellent fourth album
