Test your metal knowledge with the all-new Metal Hammer quiz Are you a true metal warrior or a shameless poseur? Try our new quiz and find out! Metal Hammer · Mar 14, 2025
“My village was the first one in England to install CCTV, just to spot us skateboarding”: Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth spent his teens being a skate punk hoodlum In a new interview with Metal Hammer, the Cradle Of Filth frontman talks about his grungy roots in the Suffolk hardcore scene Metal Hammer · Mar 14, 2025
Spiritbox have released two new live tracks only available until tomorrow Songs recorded at recent live shows in London and Paris are available on an expanded edition of new album Tsunami Sea, which can be downloaded until 11:59pm on Thursday Metal Hammer · Mar 12, 2025
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“It was s***. The singing’s s***, the playing’s s***”: Opeth covered a beloved Iron Maiden song – and Mikael Åkerfeldt really, really doesn’t like it The Opeth frontman also reveals which of his songs he feels are overrated in a new interview with Metal Hammer Metal Hammer · Mar 11, 2025
“Everybody was fighting in the streets, getting thrown through car windows, it was insane! The cops arrested Jimmy and he went to jail!”: How Avenged Sevenfold went from metalcore brats to 21st century metal heavyweights The rise and rise of Avenged Sevenfold, in their own words Metal Hammer · Mar 9, 2025
“I lost the tips of two fingers in an accident when I was 17. Doctors told me that I had no hope of playing guitar again. I refused to accept that”: The life and times of Tony Iommi, metal’s indestructible dark lord If it wasn’t for Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, the world would sound very, very different Metal Hammer · Mar 9, 2025
When you look into a human’s eyes, you feel this soul. You look into this bear’s eyes, you don’t see anything in there”: Slaughter To Prevail frontman Alex Terrible’s guide to wrestling bears Thinking of wrestling a Russian brown bear? Slaughter To Prevail’s Alex Terrible has some tips Metal Hammer · Mar 8, 2025
“I don’t think anyone is as iconic as I am right now”: How Ville Valo helped lead HIM to stardom and became a modern rock god in the process In 2006, HIM were at the peak of their powers –and frontman Ville Valo was living the rock star life to the max Metal Hammer · Mar 8, 2025
“Had fans had mobile phones, they would have been climbing over old-age pensioners to take selfies”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is a big fan of Ghost banning phones from gigs Talking to Metal Hammer last year, Iron Maiden’s frontman discussed attending Ghost’s 2023 Los Angeles shows and his joy over the absence of mobile phones Metal Hammer · Mar 8, 2025
The new issue of Metal Hammer features FIVE cover to choose from: Electric Callboy, Jinjer, Slaughter To Prevail, Bambie Thug and Bloodywood! Meet your New Heavy cover stars for 2025 Metal Hammer · Mar 4, 2025
“I was eating tons and tons of painkillers. It was as hard to kick as heroin. It was really, really bad”: How High On Fire’s Matt Pike pulled back from the edge of darkness to make De Vermis Mysteriis The story of High On Fire’s bonkers stoner doom landmark De Vermis Mysteriis Metal Hammer · Mar 2, 2025
“A lot of bands, it’s nepotism that gets them anywhere – go to the right party and make the right friends. For us, that wasn’t an option”: How Disturbed defied the odds to become nu metal superstars with The Sickness Disturbed hit it out the park first time with debut album The Sickness Metal Hammer · Mar 1, 2025
“We got pelted with glass bottles and dead rabbits. We stood our ground”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn’s wild tour stories of bust-ups, injuries and urine-soaked tobacco When Slipknot’s Corey Taylor met Machine Head’s Robb Flynn Metal Hammer · Mar 1, 2025
Metal Hammer · Feb 22, 2025 “Religion never accepts the balance that exists in a human being. It’s just a one-way street. That’s always going to cause conflicts”: How Dimmu Borgir made an irreligious symphonic black metal classic with In Sorte Diaboli Dimmu Borgir sealed their status as black metal’s biggest band with 2007’s In Sorte Diaboli
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Metal Hammer · Feb 15, 2025 “Death happens to everyone and if it hasn’t happened yet it’s going to happen. So what better way to deal with it?”: How Mastodon found light in darkness with The Hunter With 2011’s The Hunter, Mastodon ditched the concepts and came up with something different
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Metal Hammer · Feb 9, 2025 “This is a band with no limits. If there’s a metal fan on the moon, we’ll be there”: How Iron Maiden’s epic Somewhere Back In Time tour took them where other metal bands dare not go In 2008, Metal Hammer climbed aboard Ed Force One to join Iron Maiden on the tour of a lifetime
Metal Hammer · Feb 8, 2025 “That TV celebrity that I became, I didn’t like it. My heart is in music. I hated every second of it”: How Ozzy Osbourne rediscovered himself with the Scream album In 2010, Ozzy Osbourne released his eleventh solo album Scream – and he had reality TV, reunions and “Jesus Freaks” on his mind
Metal Hammer · Feb 8, 2025 “In six months, we got through 300 bottles of vodka, 400 bottles of whiskey and cases of beer. It was insane”: The unbelievable story of Def Leppard’s 80s hard rock masterpiece Hysteria Four years, one near-fatal car crash and an ocean of booze in the making, Def Leppard’s Hysteria is the 80s hard rock album against which all others should be measured
Metal Hammer · Feb 4, 2025 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month Conquer Divide/Avoid/Defences/Faetooth
Metal Hammer · Feb 4, 2025 "The goal is world domination." Spiritbox are on the cover of Metal Hammer as one of the most exciting bands in modern metal prepare to unleash Tsunami Sea Rising Canadian metalcore stars Spiritbox talk about the year ahead, only in the new issue of Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer · Feb 2, 2025 “It had a 13-minute spoken-word black mass on the B-side”: The mysterious late 60s album that Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt says invented Satanic rock Six months before Black Sabbath released their landmark debut album, another band were praising Satan
Metal Hammer · Feb 1, 2025 “The joke has always been, ‘Zakk, are you from the South?’ And I say, ‘Yeah, South Jersey! Down near the shore, bro!’”: Why Zakk Wylde swapped Black Label Society and metal for southern rock on Book Of Shadows 2 Zakk Wylde’s love of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young knows no bounds