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Dave Lombardo defends Lars Ulrich and isn't happy with his haters: "I admonish the people who talk **** about him"

Think it's cool to dunk on Lars? A certain Slayer legend would like a word

Metal Hammer · Aug 16, 2023

"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

Metal Hammer · Aug 16, 2023

The time Blaze Bayley and Bruce Dickinson sang together at an Iron Maiden show in 1990

Blaze Bayley replaced Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden in 1994 - but the two men had sung Bring Your Daughter To the Slaughter together four years earlier

Metal Hammer · Aug 12, 2023

“Joey asked me, ‘Do you like Slipknot?’ I said, ‘Not really’”: Wednesday 13 on meeting Joey Jordison and launching Murderdolls

The goth metal frontman remembers his first encounter with the late drummer and reveals “Slipknot just weren’t the sort of thing I listened to”

Metal Hammer · Jul 23, 2023

“Dime was still upset about Pantera”: Zakk Wylde recalls inspiring Dimebag Darrell to carry on in the early 2000s

The Black Label Society frontman says it was the only time late Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell “wasn’t a force of positivity”

Metal Hammer · Jul 22, 2023

“It would have been career suicide”: Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares on why he refused to audition for Limp Bizkit

The Fear Factory guitarist turned down an audition for Fred Durst’s nu metal giants in 2001, saying that “Limp Bizkit’s [sound] was already on its way down”

Metal Hammer · Jul 20, 2023

The new issue of Metal Hammer is a massive celebration of the 2000s

Metal Hammer’s 2000s Issue celebrates the decade that brought us everything from nu metal to Jackass

Metal Hammer · Jul 20, 2023

“In those days, you didn’t talk about those kind of things”. Rob Halford's reaction to becoming metal’s first gay icon

How Judas Priest’s Metal God revealed his sexuality and became a trailblazer in the genre

Metal Hammer · Jul 18, 2023

Watch Homer Simpson singing System Of A Down's Chop Suey!

This AI-generated clip of Homer Simpson belting out System Of A Down's Chop Suey! wins the internet today

Metal Hammer · Jul 9, 2023

"Wherever you go, the Metallica family is there": Front row and in the snake pit at the opening night of Metallica's blockbuster M72 tour

Metal Hammer meets the Metallica fans who have travelled around the world to see the opening night of the M72 tour

Metal Hammer · Jul 8, 2023