"You can hear everything from Metallica to Nick Cave and Tom Waits."
Vice Grip was a literal leap of faith for Parkway Drive when the band flung themselves out of a plane to get the iconic music video
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"The second we got the offer for Jimmy Kimmel I said, 'I'm gonna pig squeal on national television!'"
Bryan Garris discusses one of the most viral moments in metal last year
I’m a Ghost fanatic, and these great songs by similar-sounding artists will stop me going mad during the wait for their new album
Hooked on Tobias Forge’s satanic hymns? These anthems will keep you (and me) going until Skeletá drops next month.
The best Black Sabbath songs that don’t feature Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio
Ozzy and Dio may be Sabbath’s best-known singers, but these bangers with less-famous voices deserve their share of the love
“Think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!” Ivar Bjørnson’s gateway from metal to prog
Norwegian multi-instrumentalist explains what the genres have in common, buying a synth just to learn one Pink Floyd song, and discovering musical airplane engines via his wife
How High On Fire’s Matt Pike pulled back from the edge of darkness to make De Vermis Mysteriis
The story of High On Fire’s bonkers stoner doom landmark De Vermis Mysteriis
How Disturbed defied the odds to become nu metal superstars with The Sickness
Disturbed hit it out the park first time with debut album The Sickness
Corey Taylor and Robb Flynn’s wild tour stories of bust-ups, injuries and urine-soaked tobacco
When Slipknot’s Corey Taylor met Machine Head’s Robb Flynn
The best new metal bands you need to hear in March 2025
From Danish prog metallers Danefae to Texan metalcore mob Cantervice, Zurich's "deathcore Slipknot" Paleface Swiss and UK alt metallers Vower, these are the bands you need to hear in March 2025
How Judas Priest reunited with Rob Halford to regain the metal throne with Angel Of Retribution
In late 2004, Classic Rock joined the reunited Judas Priest on the road in Spain
The twisted story of Alice Cooper’s shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare
How Alice Cooper made shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare – with help from a horror icon
Metal Hammer's Tracks Of The Week: February 28 2025
Bad Omens teaming up with Corey Taylor, Employed To Serve and Deafheaven are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
We're going to miss Ithaca dearly, and this interview with Djamila Azzouz shows why
Ithaca might be about to head off into the sunset, but not before we get one last brilliantly chaotic interview with singer Djamila Azzouz
"People are baffled if I say I love Taylor Swift"
Motionless In White might be a band with a unique aesthetic, but Chris Motionless has no time for needlessly keeping up appearances
“Forget Satan – bring on the biologist”: Nightwish’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Endless Forms Most Beautiful started with a handwritten letter and resulted in an extraordinary, inspiring concept album – plus the professor’s first-ever prog performance at Wembley Arena
The story of how Metallica got themselves an orchestra – and the album that followed
With Metallica’s S&M reaching the grand old age of 25, we look back at how, and why, the world’s leading metal band teamed up with – shock, horror – the San Francisco Symphony
The chaotic story of Black Sabbath, the band who did more than anyone to invent heavy metal
No Black Sabbath, no heavy metal as we know it
How Halestorm went from teenage rockers to globe-conquering metal stars
Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale has been addicted to rock’n’roll since she was a kid
The chaotic story of Nihilist, Unleashed, Entombed and the bloody birth of Swedish death metal
Death metal began in the US - but the early 1990s Swedish scene gave it a run for its money
