Latest Reviews on Metal Hammer
"Future festival headliners without a doubt."
Babymetal celebrated 15 years with a massive metal celebration in front of 20,000 fans at London's O2 Arena.
"An Iron Maiden gig quite unlike any other we've seen." The first night of Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour packs big surprises, lashings of nostalgia and a state-of-the-art new show
From beloved rarities getting dusted off to some truly impressive new visuals, Maiden kicked off their new world tour in style
The Painful Truth is Skunk Anansie's most vital and inventive album in years
Where many bands coast on past glories thirty years in, Skunk Anansie have served up something special
British metalcore is getting its moment in the sun
Bury Tomorrow's Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience reaffirms Bury Tomorrow as modern metalcore heavyweights
If you're after some catchy as hell nu metal brimming with angst, you need the new Tetrarch album in your life
Atlanta nu metal revivalists Tetrarch stick to the fundamentals
Sleep Token's new album Even In Arcadia is ambitious, intense and painfully honest
Sleep Token's fourth album takes a stark look at Vessel's fame while dabbling in the kind of genre-mashing that will delight some fans and shock others
Propagandhi are as confused about the state of things as everyone else on vital new album At Peace
Canada’s punk/metal iconoclasts aren’t sure what to do about the chaos across the globe, but their eighth album is poignant and poetic all the same
Machine Head's Unatoned has so many crushing riffs that it should come with a health and safety certificate. This is a band back in peak condition
Machine Head's epic bounce back continues with the brilliant Unatoned
I've never seen a catwalk open up in the middle of a moshpit before - but then I've never seen a band quite like Alt Blk Era
Alt Blk Era had a packed-out Camden Underworld moshing and raving its ass off last night - and you can't help but feel this is just the start
Employed To Serve have made an album of the year contender with Fallen Star
Employed To Serve have dished up their best album yet - and a certified metal album of the year contender
Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection
Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones
Heilung are the most captivating live act in the world
At London’s Brixton Academy, the ‘Amplified History’ trio expand into a dozen-strong society of vocalists, dancers and musicians, and the results are spellbinding
"Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant."
Ghost aren't sweating their metal cred with the massive songs of Skeleta
"Is this the ultimate Epica record?"
Simone Simons et al show they can do grandiose metal with their eyes closed on Aspiral
Messa mix jazz, doom, goth and so much more on The Spin
Italian doom metallers Messa are probably the coolest band you'll hear this week
Alien Weaponry Te Rā album review
New Zealand's Alien Weaponry step up to the big leagues on stunning third album
Bleed From Within's new album Zenith doesn't just raise their own bar, but dares everyone else in the modern metal scene to match it
Bleed From Within's seventh studio album confirms their status as one of the UK's most vital and consistent metal bands
