Jason Momoa reveals how he got the job compering Black Sabbath’s final show
The Minecraft Movie actor still has no idea what he’s going to do onstage, though
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Richie Kotzen says he almost joined Nine Inch Nails but his glam metal past got in the way
Trent Reznor reportedly told Richie Kotzen he was the man for the Nine Inch Nails job before backtracking
Slayer announce only North American headline show of 2025, with Knocked Loose and a host of thrash metal legends supporting
Slayer are coming to a venue near you, but only if that venue is Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania
Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor perform a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club at a horror convention in Florida
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor played through an acoustic set of mostly covers during his appearance at this weekend's Spookala horror convention event in Florida, and performed tracks by pop superstar Chappell Roan, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails and more
Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora
The frontman’s only solo album leaked in February after going unheard for 17 years
Watch video for new Babymetal track 'from me to u' featuring Poppy
Track is taken from Babymetal's upcoming fifth album Metal Forth
"There will be no event called 'Fyre 2' in Playa del Carmen." Grand plans to revive disastrous event come as a surprise to the resort city supposed to be hosting it
Fyre Festival was an unrivalled disaster and subject of two documentaries – now part 2 looks to be off to a less than ideal start
Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner reveals he suffered a stroke and it's affected his playing
Faulkner says he suffered the stroke as he recovered from the aortic aneurysm he experienced at Louder Than Life in 2021, and it's left him permanently damaged
Napalm Death, Thurston Moore, Wayne Kramer, and members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rammstein and more to appear on Ramones tribute albums
Underground heroes pay tribute to Da Bruddahs, NYC's much-missed punk rock pioneers
Metallica’s Master Of Puppets has been streamed one billion times on Spotify
Master Of Puppets gets added to Spotify’s elite Billions Club, joining fellow Metallica hits Nothing Else Matters and Enter Sandman
Ghost’s Tobias Forge explains the struggles of being a masked, anonymous metal musician
Before a 2017 lawsuit revealed that Tobias Forge was Ghost’s Papa Emeritus, the frontman went to great pains to keep his identity secret
Ghost fans! Get this world-exclusive bundle featuring Skeletá on vinyl, Metal Hammer’s new issue with a cover you can’t buy anywhere else, and more
Celebrate the release of Ghost’s Skeletá with this stacked Metal Hammer package – available only through our webstore!
"This is the best day of my life!" Watch Kelly Clarkson cover Foo Fighters, then help Jack Black make a dream come true in the most joyous and pure TV segment of the week
Watch Jack Black melt hearts on the latest edition of The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sleep Token drop another new single Caramel – listen here
Vessel and co. will release their new album Even In Arcadia next month
This is the Metallica song that makes Kirk Hammett cry – and it’s really not the one you’d expect
Turns out it’s not Fade To Black, One or Mama Said that gets Metallica’s guitarist misty-eyed…
Tobias Forge says most Ghost songs aren’t about the Devil
Despite having written such songs as Satanized and Devil Church, Tobias Forge insists his band aren’t actually obsessed with Old Scratch
This WWE icon once invited a fake Sammy Hagar backstage and watched him snort so much cocaine his nose bled
“There’s people trying to get in the locker room, but we’re like ‘Go, go, go!’ and he’s snorting this big line of cocaine”
Machine Head toured America six days after 9/11
Robb Flynn looks back on Machine Head playing across the US less than a week after the September 11 terrorist attacks
Tobias Sammet on the democracy of Avantasia, the late Tony Clarkin, and whispering Bruce Dickinson
With some big names in the studio and on the tour bus, Here Be Dragons continues Avantasia's all-star journey
