Latest Metal Hammer News
“Playing in space would be a fitting climax!” Megadeth are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer
As the thrash legends release their final album, we find out why they’re calling it quits
Halsey, Iron Maiden, Gorillaz, Limp Bizkit and Bring Me The Horizon to play Rock For People 2026 – day splits announced
The five-day festival will take place at Park 360 in northern Czech Republic from June 10 to 14
Watch Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee react to fans’ stories about the heavy metal trailblazers
Mikkey Dee remembers life with Lemmy Kilmister while watching tributes from Motörhead super-fans
Steve Harris reveals the song he wants to bring back to Iron Maiden’s setlist
The second European leg of the band’s 50th-anniversary tour kicks off in the spring
What the science behind mosh pits can tell us about human behaviour
Ever wondered about the physics of mosh pits and circle pits? We have answers for you
A study suggested that men who play guitar in extreme metal bands do it to impress other men
Time to smash those preconceptions about playing guitar to show off to girls, lads
Haken part ways with Charlie Griffiths and Conner Green
UK prog rockers Haken have announced that guitarist Charlie Griffiths and bassist Conner Green have left the band
Latest Metal Hammer Features
Radio stations wanted to cut Eddie Van Halen's solo from their biggest hit
Iron Maiden legend Nicko McBrain has hosted an epic interview with Alex Van Halen
"I remember us saying, ‘Well, if the band doesn’t make it, we’ll join the Marines.’" The story of the song that gave thrash metal its name
Metallica, Exodus and Slayer might've been defining thrash on the West coast, but it was in New York the genre finally got its name
Danko Jones on meeting AC/DC, playing with Marty Friedman and a wild night out in London
You know what to expect with a new Danko Jones album, but 2025's Leo Rising met with positive responses across the board and things are looking good
Bruce Dickinson's unreleased rock opera may be the greatest untold story of them all
Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is a man of many talents, but his rock opera about the philandering violinist Paganini has yet to see the light of day
That time Metallica launched a worldwide search to find a new vocalist via an ad in a British music magazine
If you were reading Kerrang! in December 1983, you could have had a shot at fronting Metallica
"At school I did a presentation about Black Sabbath! I knew I wanted to move to the UK." Jack Black, angry nuns and Duolingo: the strange story of metal's weirdest new stars, Calva Louise
Mixing metalcore, EDM and Latin dance music, Calva Louise's influences are as diverse as its members' backgrounds growing up in Venezuela, France and New Zealand
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
Health dance in the face of despair on new album Conflict DLC
The lyrics on the L.A. trio’s sixth album observe the ugliness of 2025, while the music urges you to wiggle your worries away
Ice Nine Kills' A Work Of Art is metal's most shocking show: Review
Even if they don't carry on (Silver) Screaming, Ice Nine Kills prove they're ready for the big leagues with the brilliantly bonkers A Work Of Art tour
Sabaton's Legendary tour lives up to its name: Review
Thanks, but no tanks: history-loving Swedes Sabaton reinvent their stage show for the Legendary tour
British-Iranian metal mystics Lowen prove themselves as the next big thing with spellbinding London show
Playing their biggest headline concert while backed up by dancers and a cellist, the rising prog metal band meld Persian folk and themes with full-throttle riffage
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
