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"It should have gone out with a fricking bang that shook the world, and it was more like a whimper." Michael Anthony on his Van Halen regret

Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony wishes it had ended differently

Metal Hammer · Jun 7, 2025

“Sometimes I think, ‘This has become so big that I can’t handle this monster any more.’ I have some trouble comprehending it”: How Nightwish became the planet’s most epic symphonic metal band with Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Nightwish endured line-up changes and self-doubt to swing for the fences with 2015’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Metal Hammer · Jun 7, 2025

Amorphis drop first new music from upcoming album Borderland with anthemic new single Light And Shadow

Finnish prog metallers Amorphis will release their new album, Borderland, in September

Metal Hammer · Jun 7, 2025

Babymetal name their favourite and most surprising collaborations on new album Metal Forth

The collabs-heavy effort comes out on August 8

Metal Hammer · Jun 6, 2025

Watch Creeper preview their forthcoming album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with punky new single Headstones, which explores "the dark perils of rock ’n’ roll, sins of the flesh, and pure evil"

"This is the band at its most over-the-top and unashamedly dramatic." William Von Ghould

Metal Hammer · Jun 6, 2025

Watch Turnstile perform two songs on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon ahead of today's release of new album Never Enough

Turnstile Summer has officially begun

Metal Hammer · Jun 6, 2025

"There were multiple shows that I would show up for fully black-out drunk. I don’t remember them." From addiction and alcohol abuse to parenthood and poetry, here's everything The Used's Bert McCracken has learned

Bert McCracken has lived one hell of a life, that's for sure

Metal Hammer · Jun 5, 2025

"The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change

Katatonia release their new album Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State tomorrow and share new video for Wind Of No Change

Metal Hammer · Jun 5, 2025

Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons: “I was like, ‘OK, dude, come on!’”

Rowe’s nu metal revivalists have also been endorsed by members of Fear Factory and Hatebreed

Metal Hammer · Jun 5, 2025

Does a new-look Katatonia mean a bold new era? Of course not, but Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State is a gloomily gorgeous listen all the same

The first Katatonia album without Anders Nyström is just about what you'd expect, but it's still very, very good

Metal Hammer · Jun 5, 2025