The story of AC/DC’s Back In Black, the 50 million-selling album that emerged from tragedy
How AC/DC recovered from the death of iconic singer Bon Scott to make the biggest rock album ever
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Dream Theater were drained after The Astonishing, but wrote Distance Over Time in three weeks
The prog metal giants’ sleek, super-powerful 14th album was a conscious move away from its complex, opinion-splitting predecessor
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: February 21 2025
Machine Head, Disturbed and Black Label Society are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
50 metal albums you need to hear in 2025
From Ghost to Babymetal, Halestorm to Sleep Token, these are the metal albums you should keep an eye out for in 2025
Why is buying gig tickets such a terrible experience?
From the agony of trying to get Black Sabbath tickets to the ongoing Oasis reunion ticketing fiasco, buying tickets to big shows has got worse than ever - here's how to try and navigate the madness
Mark Tremonti on the political climate, being a guitar hero and Frank Sinatra
Take care of business. Quit your comfort zone. Don’t listen to rock journalists. And never forget you could still be washing cars. Life advice from The Book Of Tremonti
Why metal is obsessed with vampires
From Slayer singing about Dracula to Cradle Of Filth and Creeper taking style notes from Interview With The Vampire and Near Dark, this is how heavy metal has intersected with vampires in popular culture
Goth is the coolest it’s been in decades – and these 9 rising metal bands prove it
From Crippling Alcoholism to Kælan Mikla, these goth metal up-and-comers show it’s hip to be sad
Swallow The Sun had to escape from Juha Raivio’s hell. The solution was new album Shining
Finnish prog-doomers’ ninth record contains elements of Queen, Marillion, Metallica’s Black Album and pop production – but most of their mesmerising melancholy remains
The rebellious making of Bon Scott: AC/DC frontman, sun-worshipper and night-crawler
45 years on from the death of AC/DC singer Bon Scott, we look back at the greatest rock’n’roll frontman of them all
And So I Watch You From Afar were brave enough to debut their new album in full at a festival
Irish band broke the limits of their own ambition when they performed every track of their seventh record at ArcTanGent
Everything you need to know about the Black Sabbath reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert
Why are Black Sabbath coming back? Who else is on the bill? Can I still get tickets? We answer all your questions about this summer’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza
Nine albums by Tom Morello you should listen to... and one you should ignore
Tom Morello is best known as the guitarist with RATM, but there’s much more of his playing to marvel at than that - and these are his best albums
The wild story of Slipknot vs Mushroomhead, the masked band feud that lit up nu metal
Fight! Fight! Fight!
The rollercoaster story of Wolfsbane, the British metal band who should have been superstars
Long before Blaze Bayley joined Iron Maiden, he was a member of British metal lunatics Wolfsbane
Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: February 14 2025
Billy Morrison feat. Ozzy Osbourne, Lacuna Coil and Lordi are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!
“Death happens to everyone and if it hasn’t happened yet it’s going to happen. So what better way to deal with it?”: How Mastodon found light in darkness with The Hunter
With 2011’s The Hunter, Mastodon ditched the concepts and came up with something different
What Linkin Park spent their money on after Hybrid Theory sold 14 million copies will surprise you
Rather than supercars and million-dollar mansions, nu metal’s newest stars put their cash towards much less rock’n’roll items
J.B. Christofferon shares the secret of Grand Magus's stability
With a stable line-up since the beginning, Sweden's Grand Magus have been staunch defenders of the faith for over 25 years
