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"I want to keep the attention on Ukraine." Watch the moving new video for Within Temptation's latest single A Fool's Parade, filmed in Kyiv

Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel flew out to Kyiv herself to take part in the shoot

Metal Hammer · Apr 11, 2024

System Of A Down and Deftones announce stacked one-night-only co-headline show

The two leading nu-metal-but-not-really bands will be joined by The Mars Volta, Viagra Boys and Vowws

Metal Hammer · Apr 10, 2024

"We're all messed up! You know what I mean? There's no such thing as a normal person, is there?" The Bring Me The Horizon song inspired by Oli Sykes' ADHD diagnosis

One of Sykes' most personal songs was inspired by a life-changing mental health diagnosis

Metal Hammer · Apr 8, 2024

“As soon as we get past the arguments, we can get **** done!” Tool are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer

Maynard James Keenan and Adam Jones reveal what life’s like in metal’s most mysterious band

Metal Hammer · Apr 2, 2024

“We can make records until our hands fall off. But if we can’t sell it live, I don’t want to”: how Slayer reconnected with 80s thrash and made World Painted Blood

Slayer’s 2009 album World Painted Blood was the best since their 80s heyday – and this is how they made it

Metal Hammer · Mar 31, 2024

“We’d play a song in a certain tempo. Three weeks later, it would be twice as fast”: who invented thrash metal? Kirk Hammett has a theory

Kirk Hammett was there at the birth of thrash with his original band Exodus, so he should know more than anyone who invented the genre

Metal Hammer · Mar 30, 2024

Vinnie Paul “was never behind” the idea of Pantera reuniting, says former bandmate

Hellyeah and Mudvayne singer Chad Gray says late drummer Vinnie Paul never wanted Pantera to reunite following the death of his brother Dimebag Darrell

Metal Hammer · Mar 28, 2024

“I love how they’ve evolved over the years. They’ve taken risks, but always stayed true to themselves.” Watch the time Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia joined her idols Paradise Lost onstage in 2013

At 2013’s Metal Hammer Golden Gods, two titans of gothic metal united for a spectacular collaboration

Metal Hammer · Mar 26, 2024

“That whole Christian thing, it’s so wrong. We were never Christian metal”: how doom pioneers Trouble overcame chaos, darkness and misunderstanding to make their 80s masterpiece The Skull

The story behind Chicago doom lords Trouble’s landmark 1985 album The Skull – the album which helped shape a generation

Metal Hammer · Mar 25, 2024

"The war doesn't stop. I know a lot of people are tired of it, but Ukraine doesn't have that luxury." Why Sharon den Adel travelled to Kyiv to film Within Temptation's new video for upcoming single A Fool's Parade

Within Temptation frontwoman Sharon den Adel discusses travelling to an active warzone and why she is determined to continue spreading support for Ukraine

Metal Hammer · Mar 25, 2024