Latest Metal Hammer News
Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg reveals he found out Joey Jordison was leaving the band just 24 hours after his first jam with them
Weinberg played with Slipknot from 2014 to 2023, and admits he has "no regrets" about his time in the band as he lines up new projects
Songs by melodic death metal pioneers In Flames, At The Gates and Dark Tranquillity to be performed by Gothenburg orchestra
Two symphonic celebrations of the Gothenburg Sound will be held in Sweden on December 4 and 5, in tribute to late At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg
Ex-Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley opens up about quitting alcohol
The vocalist, who was a member of The Beast from 1994 to 1999, has been sober since June 2019
Slayer to play two special US shows celebrating 40 years of Reign In Blood this autumn
Cannibal Corpse, the Cavaleras and Crowbar are among the support acts for the gigs in Minnesota and California
At The Gates drummer couldn’t listen to new album until “recently”, due to late singer Tomas Lindberg’s cancer battle
Adrian Erlandsson admits he hasn’t yet read the lyrics of the Gothenburg innovators’ upcoming record, The Ghost Of A Future Dead
Watch CM Punk walk out to an AFI song and pay tribute to Harm’s Way’s Bo Lueders at WrestleMania
The Straight Edge Superstar battled Roman Reigns at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on Sunday
Fred Durst wants to set up an alternative to Coachella for musicians who aren't invited to Coachella
Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst wants to start his own "gathering"
Latest Metal Hammer Features
“His manager was angry. He cancelled the whole project”: Arjen Lucassen’s lost Bruce Dickinson album
Dutch composer’s collaborators include James LaBrie, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Floor Jansen and others. He did one song with Dickinson too – but it could have been so much more
A guide to every Poppy album so far
From debut Poppy.Computer to this year's Empty Hands, here's what you need to know about the discography of one of modern metal's most unique creatives
"It was like a little vacation." The Tool and Failure side project which dissolved before most people knew it had ever existed
Ever heard Maynard James Keenan singing a Paul McCartney song? Now is your chance
Opeth gave their label two albums for the price of one, and it nearly cost them their career
Beset by overwork, listless colleagues and a family tragedy, Mikael Åkerfeldt felt like splitting the Swedish group apart as they worked through 2002’s Deliverance to get to 2003’s Damnation
The true story of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin's lost jam
Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi on the legendary Black Zeppelin jam – the greatest session you’ve never heard
How Oathbreaker made one of the 21st century's best metal albums - and then disappeared
Oathbreaker seemed destined for greatness after the release of the superb Rheia. Then the band went on a near-ten-year hiatus. But why?
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
At The Gates produce one final triumph: review
Tomas Lindberg recorded his vocals for The Ghost Of A Future Dead the day before surgery, but still captures the magic that made melodeath a global movement
Nine Inch Nails get a Clubland-style remix: Review
Nine Inch Nails and recent tourmate Boys Noize have teamed up for a killer remix album to commemorate their Coachella sets
Mysterious Viking war trance duo Eihwar bring a party like no other to London
Eihwar bring the bangers to the UK capital
Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show
Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German luminaries reach a new level of pageantry
Powerwolf conquer Wembley Arena: Review
Powerwolf might have enough pyro to level a city, but they've got singalongs to unite the masses
Lamb Of God's new album Into Oblivion is their best in well over a decade
Lamb Of God's new album is their best since Resolution - at the very least
