Conan O’Brien sang for an extreme metal band last night
He welcomed Slipknot, Lamb Of God and more onto The Tonight Show – now, Conan O’Brien has followed in their footsteps and played with a metal band
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Hear New Delhi metal sensations Bloodywood team with Babymetal on new single Bekhauf
The biggest metal bands in India and Japan have joined forces to make an absolute anthem
Wardruna explore the relationship between man and bear in typically striking video for new single Birna
Norse folk shamen Wardruna will release new album Birna in January
Doom veterans My Dying Bride end hiatus, announce first show of 2025 – with a different singer
My Dying Bride are back! There’s just one enormous caveat…
Machine Head’s next album seems to be right around the corner…
The groove metal behemoths previously teased a new album for April, and now they’ve offered a glimpse inside the studio
Metalcore champions Shadows Fall return with first new song in 12 years, In The Grey
The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal beloveds were twice Grammy-nominated before going on hiatus in 2012
Bring Me The Horizon, Enter Shikari, Amyl & The Sniffers, High Vis, Travis Scott and more for Reading/Leeds 2025
Travis Scott, Enter Shikari, Amyl & The Sniffers, Chappell Roan, Hozier, among other main attractions for the twin town festival, to be held on August 21-24, 2025
New Killswitch Engage album is “angry, dark and aggressive” because that’s “what the world needs right now”, says Jesse Leach
“I think a lot of us can relate to frustration, anger, betrayal, all those things, and that’s kind of what I highlighted lyrically with this album”
Hear folk metal heroes Eluveitie’s first new single in two years, Premonition
The song will be on the Swiss outfit’s next album, expected in 2025, and they’ll probably play it on their impending European tour with Arch Enemy, too
Metal Hammer name Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere the best metal album of 2024, top 50 revealed
Blood Incantation’s progressive death metal opus tops the Metal Hammer 2024 album of the year list. See the other 49 entries here.
On the evidence of new single Platinum, Penelope Trappes' forthcoming record A Requiem could be one of the albums of 2025
“All of the elements of my album are in this video. Mourning of the growing distance between family, homeland, mortality awareness, and the inevitability of death”
Slipknot, Ghost, Nightwish, Gojira and more star in Metal Hammer's blockbuster end of year issue
The new issue of Metal Hammer is our biggest of the year and it's on sale now!
Former Rainbow singer Graham Bonnet has just told the most disappointing Ozzy Osbourne story ever
Rock, and indeed, roll
Soundgarden's surviving members are reuniting for a show in Seattle
Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron will reunite onstage at a benefit for Seattle Children’s Hospital
Avenged Sevenfold announce European summer tour for 2025
The hard rock/heavy metal titans will play arenas and festivals across the continent in June
A revitalised Trent Reznor is ready to to be “back in the driver’s seat” again with a new Nine Inch Nails project
Nine Inch Nails might be back with us sooner than we had imagined
Hear Arch Enemy put the “melodic” into “melodic death metal” on new single Blood Dynasty
The stomping track is taken from the Arch Enemy album of the same name, out next year
Vote for the best metal song of 2024
From Judas Priest to Poppy, Spiritbox, Ghost and beyond, 2024 has offered some great new metal tunes. But now we need your help deciding the best of the best
Watch Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst drink hot dog-flavoured water
The beverage was served with a side of legitimately chocolate starfish, because how could it not be?
