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The 50 best metal songs of 2025

Sleep Token, Ghost, Babymetal - these are the songs you picked as the finest 2025 had to offer

Metal Hammer

"In a lot of abusive relationships, the hardest thing is to break away from it. That song helped break that stigma." How a bold, boundary-breaking song with some taboo lyrics helped break one of America's best modern rock bands

Some of the lyrics on this modern classic were brave, but they helped laid the foundations for what was to come

Metal Hammer

"This is definitely the best we've ever been." Ghost's Skeletá has been named the album of the year by Metal Hammer - read Tobias Forge's reaction and see our top 50 albums of 2025

Ghost's fabulous latest album is officially our album of the year - but who else made the list?

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Iron Maiden, Ghost, Babymetal and more star in Metal Hammer’s blockbuster End Of Year issue, which comes with an exclusive Iron Maiden pin badge, Halestorm sticker and a 2026 heavy metal calendar

The new issue of Metal Hammer is the biggest of the year, and it’s on sale now!

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“I had this look of shock on my face. The whole audience got quiet: ‘Did somebody die?!’”: This is what it’s like finding out you’re Grammy-nominated halfway through your own concert, as explained by Halestorm

The hard rockers took home the Grammy Award For Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance with their single Love Bites (So Do I) in 2013

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"Robert Plant talking about juice running down his leg...there shouldn't be a double-standard. Women in this business think about it too!" Halestorm's Lzzy Hale opens up on the "empowering" song that helped launch their career

I Get Off didn't pull its punches on its subject matter - even if the song had to "devolve" to get there

Metal Hammer

“You’re hanging out with Steven Tyler; James Hetfield is there and Tom Morello and Axl Rose, but everybody was the same. No head was higher”: Halestorm describe what it was like backstage at Ozzy Osbourne’s retirement show Back To The Beginning

Pennsylvania’s hard rockers were one of the dozens of iconic heavy bands who played at Ozzy’s swansong in July

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“This poor guy had to sell his guitar because of medical bills. He was so incredibly excited that it was gonna get played”: Lzzy Hale on swapping Les Pauls for Explorers – and finding her first on Craigslist

Hale fell in love with the Explorer while recording Halestorm's first album, and she never looked back

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This footage of Indian metal sensations Bloodywood playing Halla Bol will convince you they’re the funnest thing in rock right now

Check it out as the New Delhi trio continue their European tour with Halestorm

Metal Hammer

“Morello was like, ‘Hey, you can't do that. I think Metallica was gonna do that…’” Halestorm reveal the song they were originally set to play at Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s final show

The band ended up putting their own spin on Perry Mason, from Ozzy’s 1995 record, Ozzmosis

Guitar World

Tool, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, Shinedown, Halestorm, Megadeth, Alter Bridge and over 130 more bands will play next year's Sonic Temple festival in Ohio

The five-stage weekender will take place in Columbus, Ohio from May 14 to 17

Metal Hammer

"I sent Rob Halford some eight-inch spiky high heels for Christmas": Lzzy Hale's wild tales of Ronnie James Dio, Alice Cooper, Skid Row and more

She’s shared stages with Slash, Skid Row and Tom Keifer, and bonded with Ann Wilson and Amy Lee. She’s Lzzy Hale, and these are her stories

Metal Hammer

"The entire world could burn and we would still absolutely love each other and love what we do." How Lzzy Hale beat her demons with a little help from her Halestorm bandmates on new album Everest

Lzzy Hale faced her biggest challenges yet going in to make Everest. Thankfully Halestorm were there to help her pull through

Metal Hammer

Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale opens up about breaking up with alcohol: “I was looking for an escape in all the wrong places”

Halestorm’s singer/guitarist explains why she turned her back on booze in December 2023

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 11, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Foxy Shazam, Royal Republic, Halestorm and more

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"The album is packed with arena-sized intensity": Halestorm finally scale rock's summit on Everest

US hard rockers Halestorm bring on-stage ferocity into the recording studio

Guitar World

“He took us to 5150, and it still had all the tapes up there. There was Jump, the old analog tapes, everything marked”: Lzzy Hale on why Wolfgang Van Halen is well positioned to “save rock ‘n’ roll”

Hale and the rest of Halestorm were invited to Eddie Van Halen's iconic home studio

Metal Hammer

“Easily the band’s boldest work to date, boasting some of their most interesting songs yet”: Halestorm reach a career peak with new album Everest

Halestorm are still Halestorm on album number six, but the hard rockers have more ideas in their back pockets than ever before

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“I had this idea, ‘We really need to make a hard rock jock jam!’”: Halestorm’s exclusive track by track guide to their new album Everest

Halestorm guitarist Joe Hottinger breaks down the band’s upcoming album Everest

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Slash, Halestorm, Blackberry Smoke and more line up for star-studded Bad Company tribute album

Watch now: The Struts' video for their cover of Bad Company's Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy

Metal Hammer

"Iron Maiden's crew said, ‘We can't believe it. No middle fingers, no coins or shoes being thrown!'" Lzzy Hale on playing in front of one of metal's most stubborn fanbases

Lzzy Hale on why she relishes the challenge of winning over potential hostile crowds

Metal Hammer

“I saw a woman I did not want to become”: Halestorm are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer, as they prepare to release new album Everest

Lzzy Hale gives us the inside story of the personal journey that resulted in Everest – only in the new issue of Metal Hammer

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Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty on recriminations,revivals and reunions: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Brian Wilson, Electric Light Orchestra, Halestorm, Bush, Rick Derringer, The Black Keys, Volbeat, Steve Harley, Joe Bonamassa & Joanne Shaw Taylor, Orianthi, Wytch Hazel and more

Metal Hammer

"We are all fifteen-year-old boys. The fart jokes were rampant": Lzzy Hale reflects on touring with Skid Row

"The meat is so sweaty"

Metal Hammer

The 11 new metal songs you need to hear right now

Soothe your post-Back To The Beginning blues with new tracks from Babymetal, Deftones, Halestorm and more, and vote for your favourite

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