Linkin Park's first greatest hits album is a disappointing missed opportunity
A minimal amount of effort leaves Papercuts severely lacking to anyone but the most casual of Linkin Park fans
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Accept have found a new career peak with Humanoid
Accept have put together an absolute banger with their brilliant new album, Humanoid
Chelsea Wolfe live at Roadburn Festival 2024 review
Chelsea Wolfe brings her latest album She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She to life with a stunning main stage set at Roadburn Festival 2024
Clipping. prove alt hip hop can be just as thrilling and terrifying as any metal gig at Roadburn Festival 2024
Clipping. show why hip hop's more extreme edges should be more embraced by the alternative scene
Backxwash live review Roadburn Festival 2024
A surprise last-minute addition to Roadburn Festival 2024, trap metal star Backxwash shows just how far she's come from her Sabbath-sampling roots
Orange Goblin live in Wellington, New Zealand review:
Orange Goblin level Wellington's Valhalla during their first ever New Zealand tour
Unpeople – Unpeople review: UK metal’s most promising debut of 2024
Mixing layers of noise with ferocious grooves and pop-punk melodies, Unpeople are bringing something brand new to modern metal
Melvins Tarantula Heart Metal Hammer Album Review: "Their best since the 90s"
Grunge forerunners and sludge metal pioneers Melvins are pushing the envelope again with their new - and 27th! - album Tarantula Heart
Seeyouspacecowboy – Coup De Grâce review: metalcore up-and-comers spread their wings and shed their demons
With album three, San Diego’s up-and-comers haven’t just jumped from introspective lyrics to apocalyptic fantasy – they’ve escaped their metalcore constraints along the way
Dvne's third album, Voidkind might be the best candidate for post-metal album of the decade
Denis Villeneuve might have brought Frank Herbert's Dune to the big screen, but Scotland's Dvne are making cinematic sonic odysseys that truly bring the world of Arrakis to life
My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding album review: Metal Hammer
Doom metal legends My Dying Bride are still as gloriously miserable as ever on their fourteenth studio album, A Mortal Binding
Big|Brave A Chaos Of Flowers album review: Metal Hammer
Ten years on from their debut album, Canada's Big|Brave are moving far beyond their folk-doom roots with new album A Chaos Of Flowers
Bruce Dickinson's first solo show in 20 years was a triumph
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Imminence 'The Black' review: "The quartet’s darkest, most varied and heaviest album by some margin."
Imminence have spread their wings to deliver the goods on album number five
"Her expression seems to say, if you even try to take this child from me, I will kill you": Family Values is a beautiful, tender and moving document of the love shared by Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and their most precious creation
Guzman, aka husband-and-wife photographers Constance Hansen and Russell Peacock, share intimate never-before-published portraits of Kurt, Courtney and baby Frances Bean
“The sonic aggro and infectious licks are there in spades”: For better and worse, Slash strips rock to its basest elements at Wembley Arena
Slash, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators bring two hours of rock ’n’ roll sleaze to London, but little in the way of arena-sized spectacle
"Half Living Things is a record that satisfies that mosh-hungry hardcore itch." Alpha Wolf mix rampaging heaviness with injections of vulnerability on album number three
This is textbook Alpha Wolf, and we are here for it
"The work of a band on the form of their career": Fresh from supporting Bad Omens and Northlane, unsung metalcore heroes Erra step up to the big leagues with new album Cure
Six albums in and Alabama's Erra are pushing their progressive metalcore sound to greater heights than ever before on new album Cure
“This is the sonic recreation of the end of the world”: Pendulum's 'go hard or go home' approach ensures that they remain an essential live act
Despite releasing their last full-length album 14 years ago, Pendulum play a spectacular set bridging the past and the future at London’s O2 Arena
"No wonder this beautifully bleak record is so heavy": Faraoese doom merchants Hamferd prove the worst things do happen at sea with monolithic new concept album Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
Based on real-life tragedy on the Faroe Islands, Hamfrerd;s new album Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk is one of the most stunningly crushing doom metal albums you're likely to hear in 2024
