Magazine

It took eight sweet, long years for Metallica to come back with new album Hardwired... To Self-Destruct. Here's what took them so long...

To celebrate Hammer turning thirty, Iron Maiden's Steve Harris joins us to look back on the last three decades of up, downs and shaping heavy metal

Iron Maiden are back on the cover of Metal Hammer and they've brought an army of Eddies with them

Two shows left on UK tour – but manager hints that it won’t be the last

Go behind the scenes on the biggest tour of the year as Metal Hammer give you an all-access pass to Metallica!

How Rob Halford emerged from drug and alcohol hell to help Priest make their controversial masterpiece

They had Eric Clapton. They had Jeff Beck. They had Jimmy Page. In the late 60s, no other band could get close to them. And without The Yardbirds, there would be no Led Zeppelin

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and Judas Priest's Rob Halford join forces for the very first time in a world exclusive interview – only in the new issue of Metal Hammer magazine

It’s not a threat. It’s a promise. As Watain unleash their most ferocious album in a decade, Erik Danielsson unveils their new mission statement

Sickness! Tequila! Vaginas! We jumped aboard a plane to see what happened when Bullet For My Valentine took on Knotfest Mexico, and find out where they’re heading next

First gigs, first songs and their first guitar team… We go back to basics with Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy to find out how they became the guitarists they are today

Architects storm back into Metal Hammer for our first issue of 2018, which includes an exclusive Architects print, a Black Label Society magazine and an eight-track Underside CD

Why have HIM chosen to go out with a bang? In the new issue, we sit down with Ville Valo and find out why some things are best left to die

The new issue of Classic Rock comes in two flavours: one cover stars Bon Scott, as we relate the definitive account of what happened the night he died.... while the other celebrates Tom Petty

The God Of F*ck himself Marilyn Manson is back and he's all over the new issue of Metal Hammer. You have been warned!

The biggest metal bands issue a state of the nation address in Metal Hammer issue 300

It's bold. It's brash. It's... bigly. It's Stone Sour and they're on the cover of this month's Metal Hammer magazine!

Issue 238 Classic Rock is available with three different covers: two are tributes to the great Chris Cornell and Gregg Allman, while the third features the year that rock struck back, 1987