![Seven Hours After Violet/Oceans of Slumber/Dampf/Gore./Turmion Katilot](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Epv6nCssyseVsHQPiCPZSZ-320-80.jpg)
Metal Hammer's Tracks Of The Week: August 23 2024
Chat Pile, Oceans Of Slumber and Unto Others are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
Chat Pile, Oceans Of Slumber and Unto Others are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
From NWOBHM-revivalists Tailgunner to existential post-metallers Kollapse, Austrian folk-tinged black metal heroes Perchta and UK hopefuls Defects, these are the new metal bands you need to hear in August 2024
Nu gen queen Cassyette talks us through the songs and bands that soundtracked her life so far - from Bring Me To Life to Bring Me The Horizon
Pelagic Festival runs from August 24-25 at Maastricht's Muziekgieterij
From Ridley Scott's original masterpiece to newest offering Alien: Romulus, we rate the entire franchise so far
Amp-humpin’, high-octane instrumentalists! Is it music made by guitarists for guitarists? Not always!
Begun by Dio when he was fronting Black Sabbath, it transformed his career and became one of the classic metal tracks of the 80s
With A-list album production and a Bruce Dickinson tour behind them, Black Smoke Trigger aren't settling for anything
From headliners Meshuggah to left-field picks like Glassing, Arctangent’s 10th birthday was another extravaganza of forward-thinking talent
Going from hardcore punks to stoner rock is a big leap, but Fu Manchu made it – with a little help from Melvins
Guitarist explains his love for Thom Yorke’s band and (almost) everything they’ve ever done
Trivium broke big with 2005’s Ascendancy – but a year later, The Crusade saw the backlash hit
Three More Days of Peace & Music? Not quite
How late Death frontman Chuck Schuldiner helped lay down the blueprint for death metal – then tore it up
An epic interview with WASP singer Blackie Lawless about controversy, codpieces and Christianity
The rollercoaster story behind Bullet For My Valentine’s classic 2005 debut album The Poison
The story of Cannibal Corpse’s Vile – the album that introduced Corpsegrinder to the wider world
Heriot, Fever 333 and Leprous are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
Alan Niven, the former manager, co-songwriter and producer of Great White on the Jack Russell he knew