The 50 best metal songs of 2024 Ghost, Judas Priest, Babymetal, Gojira, Knocked Loose... 2024 was a massive year for metal songs. But which song did you vote as the very best? Metal Hammer · Jan 13, 2025
“I wanted to explore melody even more than we have in the past”: Employed To Serve’s next album inspired by In Flames The UK metalcore bruisers have pulled influence from Gothenburg metal for their hotly anticipated fifth album Metal Hammer · Jan 3, 2025
"Slash comes up to me and gives me a hug, and that was a moment that I will take to my grave." We asked Myles Kennedy to make us a playlist, and what he gave us is pure gold From rock icons like Guns N' Roses and Queens Of The Stone Age to metal behemoths Gojira, it's safe to say Myles Kennedy knows his way around a riff Metal Hammer · Dec 18, 2024
Slipknot, Ghost, Nightwish, Gojira and more star in Metal Hammer's blockbuster end of year issue, which comes with an Iron Maiden Powerslave patch, a Nightwish notebook and a 2025 heavy metal calendar The new issue of Metal Hammer is our biggest of the year and it's on sale now! Metal Hammer · Dec 5, 2024
2025 Grammy nominations revealed: Metallica, Judas Priest, Spiritbox, Knocked Loose, Gojira, Pearl Jam and St. Vincent amongst metal and rock names nominated Thrash legends, metalcore heavyweights and rising hardcore ragers are included in next year's Grammy nominations! Metal Hammer · Nov 8, 2024
Watch Gojira’s fiery Olympic Games performance get projected onto the Arc De Triomphe Paris celebrated its recent hosting of the Olympics by blaring death metal from a national monument, complete with fire and spotlights Metal Hammer · Sep 16, 2024
Korn kicked off their 2024 North American tour with some rare cuts - including one classic song not played in 25 years Korn, Gojira and Spiritbox are officially on the road, and Korn are packing bangers Metal Hammer · Sep 13, 2024
“In the future, we are going to be everywhere”: Slipknot’s Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan wants to play the Olympics in 2028 Will Slipknot follow Gojira’s lead and play the 2028 Olympics in L.A.? “We’d love to do it,” says Clown. Metal Hammer · Aug 31, 2024
The 13 best new metal songs you need to hear right now Gojira, Zeal & Ardor and Charlotte Wessels are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite! Metal Hammer · Aug 30, 2024
You can now stream Gojira’s performance at the 2024 Olympic Games on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. Relive the greatest metal moment of the year wherever and whenever you like! Metal Hammer · Aug 30, 2024
Gojira who? Another extreme metal musician secretly played the Olympics this weekend A sludge metal maven performed at the closing ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games, and we bet you didn’t notice Metal Hammer · Aug 13, 2024
“Hold onto your socks, it’s gonna be brutal!” Trivium, Machine Head and Gojira to headline stacked Bloodstock 2025 lineup Emperor, Lacuna Coil, Creeper and more have also been announced for the Derbyshire weekender in August 2025 Metal Hammer · Aug 9, 2024
There was a guy dressed like an Assassin's Creed character doing parkour while carrying the Olympic Torch in Paris, which was somehow one of the tamer parts of the opening ceremony My favorite part was still the Gojira show. PC Gamer · Jul 27, 2024
“I love people and I hate people at the same time. I’ve a lot of passion”: how Gojira took took metal in a whole new direction with L’Enfant Sauvage Twelve years before they played the Olympic opening ceremony, Gojira released their classic fifth album, 2012’s L’Enfant Sauvage Metal Hammer · Jul 27, 2024
Metal Hammer · Jul 27, 2024 Watch Gojira in fiery performance at Olympics opening ceremony in Paris Gojira blast out metal version of French revolutionary song Ah! Ça Ira at Olympic Games opening ceremony
Metal Hammer · Jul 25, 2024 French extreme metal icons Gojira to play Paris Olympics 2024 opening ceremony alongside Lady Gaga, Céline Dion and more Gojira will be mixing it up with pop royalty to kick off the 2024 Olympics in their homeland this weekend
Guitar World · May 9, 2024 “I care about my guitar’s wellbeing, but they’re meant to be sacrificed”: Knocked Loose’s Isaac Hale on how his new “hell tone”, a custom Ibanez and ancient mathematics helped the Slipknot support picks reinvent heavy guitar for 2024 Sticking with drop A and passive pickups, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed sees Hale push his chain to its limit via a prototype Überschall amp – and he’s seeing the music reach unsuspecting new listeners
Metal Hammer · Jan 14, 2024 10 amazing covers by massive metal bands that you’ve (probably) never heard From Iron Maiden going full prog to Black Sabbath smashing Smoke On The Water, only completists will have heard these extraordinary covers
Metal Hammer · Nov 22, 2023 The 11 most amazing onstage team-ups in heavy metal history Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne. Trivium and Slipknot. The entire Big Four. These are the most excellent onstage collaborations we’ve ever seen.
Metal Hammer · Nov 22, 2023 "Anyone who was there will remember because they probably got pink-eye." Actress and metal musician Jessica Pimentel on licking Meshuggah’s faces, Orange Is The New Black and why Peter Steele was like a big brother to her Orange Is The New Black actor and Brujeria vocalist Jessica Pimentel talks growing up in New York City, wild gigs and how metal helped inspire her acting
Total Film · Nov 17, 2023 The 32 best '50s movies After World War II, Hollywood studios perfected its formulas
Metal Hammer · Nov 2, 2023 The 10 greatest guest spots in heavy metal history From Bruce Dickinson teaming with Rob Halford to Dave Grohl’s Probot album, here are the times big names made great metal songs even greater
Metal Hammer · May 17, 2023 Jesse Leach: "After Alive Or Just Breathing came out, I was not in a great place" Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks new music, who he'd pick for his Roadrunner United team and the greatest hardcore song ever written
Metal Hammer · May 9, 2023 We went on the road with Gojira for their biggest French show ever, and it was mindblowingly good You haven't lived until you've seen 16 thousand Parisians screaming along to Gojira
Metal Hammer · Mar 23, 2023 August Burns Red's JB Brubaker picks his most influential metal albums of the 21st Century As they prepare to release their new album Death Below and celebrate their 20th year as a band, August Burns Red's guitarist reflects on the albums that have had the biggest impact on him