Bruce Dickinson promises Iron Maiden’s 2025 tour will have a “setlist for the ages”
Bruce Dickinson wants us to expect big things from Iron Maiden’s Run For Your Lives tour this year
Metal Hammer
Latest Metal Hammer News
View more
Watch legendary former Police drummer Stewart Copeland create new beats for a nu metal anthem
This is what happens when one of rock's greatest drummers hears a nu metal standard for the first time
Former Iron Maiden man Tony Moore announces UK tour dates
One-time Iron Maiden and Cutting Crew keyboard player Tony Moore will tour his recent Awake album in January
Why Robert Trujillo hasn’t written much Metallica music
The bassist has co-written only a handful of Metallica tracks since joining the metal titans in 2003
Slayer’s Kerry King names metal’s most overlooked guitarist
The Slayer man makes the claim while listing his five favourite players of all time
Prog metal heroes Nevermore tease reunion with cryptic social media vignette
The American band’s ranks have included Jeff Loomis (ex-Arch Enemy), Chris Broderick (In Flames/ex-Megadeth), Pat O’Brien (ex-Cannibal Corpse) and late singer Warrel Dane
"Rock and roll is all about being defiant." Do rappers belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Absolutely, says Offspring guitarist Noodles
The Offspring's Noodles says Rock Hall should be inclusive – but he doesn't think his band will ever be inducted
"You can get clean and live a life beyond anything you’ve ever dreamed of." Lamb of God's Mark Morton shares inspiring message as he celebrates 6 years clean
Lamb of God guitarist is loving life without booze or drugs – and he wants everyone to know recovery is possible
Scott Ian reveals which song got Anthrax banned from MTV
Didn’t see much of Anthrax on MTV during the mid-1980s? Their founding guitarist explains why
Myles Kennedy talks new Slash and the Conspirators album
Hot off releasing blues album Orgy Of The Damned this year, Slash is diving back into his work with Alter Bridge man Myles Kennedy
Megadeth are working on their next studio album
Sounds like Dave Mustaine’s thrash icons won’t take another six years to release their next album…
"I cut grass all day long." What Joey Belladonna did when he was fired by Anthrax
After being let go by Anthrax in 1992, Joey Belladonna made a living working at a horse barn
"It felt like someone took a 300-pound man off my shoulders." John Corabi on being fired by Motley Crue
John Corabi says being let go by Motley Crue was a bummer – but it also came with huge relief
MORE FROM METAL HAMMER
Latest Metal Hammer Features
View more
Inside the rebirth of Fever 333
Forced to rebuild from scratch, Jason Aalon Butler is finding ways to harness the storm - and find his peace - on Fever 333's Darker White
"It’s actually Sid Wilson’s favourite Slipknot song." Inside nu metal's greatest deep cuts
From a Slipknot buried treasure to the long-overlooked Korn rarity, these are the overlooked classics in the nu metal canon
How Eddie Van Halen became a superstar and the real story of Van Halen's biggest-selling album
Welcome to 1984: it was the album that would see Van Halen straddle the planet like a rock colossus, but it would also mark the end of the original line-up
Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024
How Papa Roach survived the rise and demise of nu metal to endure for over 25 years
From touring with Korn and meeting pop stars to barely selling 200 tickets and almost getting dropped from their label, Papa Roach endured to prove themselves the ultimate rock survivors
Tony Iommi on the rivalry between Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin – and their lost jam session
Did the world miss out on a Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin supergroup?
Ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler on the chaos and carnage of Appetite For Destruction
The inside track on Appetite For Destruction from one of the men who played on it
How Porcupine Tree reinvented progressive rock for the 21st century metal generation
Porcupine Tree’s 2010 album The Incident capped their rise from cult psychedelicists to prog metal giants
The story of Cannibal Corpse’s Gallery Of Suicide, the album that helped keep 90s death metal alive
Cannibal Corpse kept the deathly flag flying during the nu metal era
The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split
How Sepultura made their most important album – and how it tore them apart
Metal Hammer writers name their top albums of 2024
Want to know what our writers and staffers have been spinning in 2024? Here’s the breakdown of every Metal Hammer contributors’ album of the year lists
Latest Metal Hammer Reviews
View more
While She Sleeps reiterate their place among the metalcore elite with dazzling London show
While She Sleeps’ second of two nights at O2 Forum Kentish Town may not have the scale of their Ally Pally concert last year, but what’s lacking in size is made up for in killer songs and blinding lights
Therapy?'s dark, twisted misfit anthems sound as fabulously fierce as ever on their Troublegum 30 anniversary tour
Therapy? roll back the decades in joyous communal celebration of their best-loved album, 1994's Troublegum
Sylosis and Fit For An Autopsy lead four hours of moshpit mayhem in London
Supported by Darkest Hour and Heriot, the co-headliners host a night of wall-to-wall adrenaline at Electric Brixton
“The most psychedelic trip you’ll ever have sober”: Baroness, Graveyard and Pallbearer conquer adversity to give London a heavy metal high
Overcoming technical troubles and an initially thin crowd, the three bands offer unique approaches to mind-expanding music
The Last Will And Testament is Opeth at their most groundbreakingly brilliant
Opeth go Miss Marple via Edgar Allen Poe on the prog-death-jazz metal odyssey that is The Last Will And Testament
Armed with 40 years of anthems and some stellar support acts, Sepultura’s final UK show is an unmitigated triumph
Celebrating their seminal classics and modern material alike, Sepultura bow out in impeccable form at London’s Hammersmith Apollo
"One last time let's sing together!" Pop punk heavyweights Sum 41 bid London a fond farewell with an electric show at Wembley Arena
Sum 41's farewell tour touches down for their biggest UK show ever
"Two decades after shedding their punk and black metal shackles, Sólstafir still have new ideas to explore." Iceland's coolest metal band explore their own legacy on eighth album Hin Helga Kvöl
Every shade of Sólstafir gets a look in on album number eight
Rising Herts crew Defences are evolving in all the right ways on album number three
Defences haven't quite perfected their formula yet, but if you love yourself a good slice of modern metalcore, you're gonna wanna hear this
"It's always Halloween around here." Forget Wembley; a sold out Halloween show in Manchester proves Creeper are still Britain's best cult band
Wembley might have had pyro and dancers, but a roaring crowd in Manchester proves Creeper don't need big production to put on a massive show
Prog metallers Vola evolve in (mostly) the right ways on fourth album Friend Of A Phantom
Vola continue to move their sound forward on album number four
