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Watch lyric video for new Foo Fighters single Caught In The Echo

Caught In The Echo is the third track to be released from upcoming 12th Foo Fighters album Your Favorite Toy

Metal Hammer · Mar 21

"The songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars stole was real." American fraudster earns eight million dollars streaming AI songs that no human has ever listened to

US man pleads guilty to defrauding musicians and music streaming platforms

Metal Hammer · Mar 21

"We need this, perhaps more than ever, and we suspect we are not alone." Hugely influential post-metal pioneers Neurosis return with stunning new album and an underground metal legend as their new frontman

"This was now or never"

Metal Hammer · Mar 20

“I wound up in a place that I needed to stop and sit with myself”: Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl addresses infidelity and social media fallout in new interview

The singer/multi-instrumentalist says he’s had 430 therapy sessions in the past 70 weeks and suggests that fathering a child with a woman outside of his marriage in 2024 is part of the reason why

Metal Hammer · Mar 20

"He is undergoing ​a full battery of tests": AC/DC's Stevie Young hospitalised in Argentina

The news comes ahead of three scheduled shows at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires

Metal Hammer · Mar 20

“This was a journey of me saving myself, staying alive, keeping my family together and continuing to make music”: Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s memoir In My Darkest Hour, looking back on his cancer battle, to come out in September

The book will detail the thrash singer/guitarist’s life after being diagnosed with a squamous cell carcinoma at the back of his tongue in 2019

Metal Hammer · Mar 19

“There’ve been times where I’ve come back from a tour and my kids don’t know who I am”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on 25 years of Blackwater Park, another Steven Wilson team-up, hating the road and why he might stop growling again

We caught up with the progressive metal mastermind and made him begrudgingly talk about his band’s magnum opus

Metal Hammer · Mar 19

"I never thought someone would actually run with that song title. I suppose it's all my fault." The story of the extremely silly but surprisingly poignant Limp Bizkit anthem that made them the biggest (and most hated) metal band of their generation

What seemed like a throwaway lyric tacked onto a catchy Bizkit banger actually had some profound meaning for Fred Durst

Metal Hammer · Mar 19

“We lived through a mudslide, a flood, a fire and an earthquake, and we were living on 20 bucks a day”: Lzzy Hale looks back on the industry mishaps and natural disasters Halestorm endured to make their first album

The Pennsylvania hard rockers also survived a producer stepping down and their A&R guy being fired by their label

Metal Hammer · Mar 19

"Gods of metal!" Watch Dune star Javier Bardem, Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello and more in the first trailer for new Iron Maiden documentary Burning Ambition

We've finally got a proper glimpse of the biggest heavy metal documentary coming in 2026!

Metal Hammer · Mar 18