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Every Testament album ranked from worst to best

Rearranging Testament's back catalogue into order of greatness

Metal Hammer · Nov 1, 2024

The 20 songs that defined Slayer's career (and the stories behind them)

The ultimate guide to thrash metal titans Slayer - as told through their greatest songs

Metal Hammer · Oct 4, 2024

“Chuck Schuldiner from Death yelled at me for being drunk onstage. That was me not at my best”: Legendary drummer Gene Hoglan is interviewed by equally legendary drummers from Slipknot, Sepultura and more

Happy birthday to iconic metal drummer Gene ‘The Atomic Clock’ Hoglan – born on this day in 1967

Metal Hammer · Aug 31, 2024

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"We were like, ‘These guys are just like us, this is crazy! We want to hack things up with machetes with them!’” Members of Metallica, Megadeth, Ghost and more talk the years that made Slayer into the ultimate thrash icons

Slayer might not have been the first band in thrash metal, but they became the genre's ultimate champions

Metal Hammer · May 10, 2024

“I think about Van Halen a lot. I have to play some treacherous licks, so I need the right kind of inspiration. I’m overplaying to an extent – it’s gotta be huge and bombastic”: Brendon Small on writing Dethklok’s brutal final act

You can cancel Dethklok but you can't kill them. As the world's biggest fictional metal band return, Small reveals how he takes inspiration from Reb Beach and Eddie Van Halen, why stand-up comedy helped his guitar performance, and what he hopes to learn from Nili Brosh

Guitar World · Jan 8, 2024

“The blueprint for the beginning of death metal.” How Slayer dragged metal to new depths of evil with Show No Mercy

From the otherwise hair metal backdrop of Los Angeles, Slayer began a campaign of pure, satanic thrash with Show No Mercy

Metal Hammer · Dec 6, 2023

10 drummers who could replace Jay Weinberg in Slipknot

From Adrian Erlandsson to Gene Hoglan, these drumming dynamos all have the skills needed to join The Nine

Metal Hammer · Nov 13, 2023

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"Metal was getting heavier and heavier again. I had this idea..." How Metalocalypse finally brought heavy metal back to the TV screen

With the likes of Beavis and Butt-head and Headbanger's Ball disappearing from TV, metal needed some new representation on the small screen. Enter a goofy, animated extreme metal band named Dethklok

Metal Hammer · Aug 18, 2023

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