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"We went to his place, had a jam, and then he asked if I’d ever played with a Ouija board." Ball lightning, a freak house fire and the occult: how one classic 80s anthem officially crowned the queen of heavy metal

Recording outside Germany for the first time, Warlock's swansong would also launch an international metal icon

Metal Hammer · Jan 15

“I said, ‘Listen, I don't think you should die!’” How Dave Grohl realised that the end was near for Kurt Cobain and Nirvana

“Five minutes later the phone rings, and someone goes, ‘Dude, turn on CNN’”

Metal Hammer · Jan 14

"Calvin Klein asked us to do an advert. We were like, 'f-you, no way!' That would have been huge." From touring with Slipknot to turning down iconic fashion designers, the story behind Kittie's classic nu metal anthem, Brackish

Kittie's breakthrough single made them accidental trailblazers in a nu metal scene dominated by men

Metal Hammer · Jan 14

"We get off stage and I haven’t seen him like that in 20 years. He was livid." How Metallica's crazy team-up with Lady Gaga started with an A-list dinner party and almost ended in total chaos

One of the most unlikely collaborations in Grammys history was also one of the most cursed, but they pulled it out of the bag

Metal Hammer · Jan 13

“It was a strange time. We didn’t have a manager and the base of the band had fallen out”: How Sepultura came back to life with Choke

After losing Max Cavalera, Sepultura found a new singer in the unlikeliest of places. This is the story of the song that brought Derrick Green to the dance.

Metal Hammer · Jan 13

“We are still getting compared to artists that have nothing to do with us. And not always good or talented artists”: Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk takes aim at the term “female-fronted band”

The progressive metal singer is sick and tired of being pitted against other women in the scene

Metal Hammer · Jan 12

“What happens when a guy can decide everything when he owns everything?”: Elon Musk inspired the bad guy on the new album by synthwave maestro Carpenter Brut

The French artist says he sold his Tesla after the world’s richest man became part of Donald Trump’s cabinet last year

Metal Hammer · Jan 12

"Every time I opened Rolling Stone there was a picture of him in his underpants." How Mariah Carey, Cher, Whitney Houston, Courtney Love, Michael Stipe and more got savaged by one of the 90s' most brutal diss tracks

This classic 90s industrial metal banger is also one of the angriest

Metal Hammer · Jan 12

“AC/DC started calling me ‘Batgirl’. Every day I’d go into my dressing room and there’d be a little bat rubber ducky”: AC/DC threw Taylor Momsen a bat-themed birthday party, after she got bit halfway through a show

“When AC/DC give you a nickname, you stick with that!”

Metal Hammer · Jan 11

"I had to stick my head in the low bins - it got blown off when Bill Ward was hammering the kick drum." Alex Van Halen praises the impact of seeing Black Sabbath for the first time

Alex Van Halen opened up to Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain about what it was like seeing Black Sabbath in the early 70s

Metal Hammer · Jan 11