We digest the fallout of the MARILYN MANSON allegations.

How DOWNLOAD PILOT gave us all hope for the future.

Are you ready? It’s time to count down the 50 BEST METAL ALBUMS OF 2021!

What’s BABYMETAL’s new album all about? And are they getting a new member?! We head to Tokyo.

Nightwish’s FLOOR JANSEN embarks on an emotional solo voyage..

The next stars of symphonic metal? It might just be BEYOND THE BLACK.

And we couldn’t forget TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN! He ranks every NIGHTWISH album.

BLEED FROM WITHIN reaffirm their metalcore credentials..

You’ve read about the big guns, but what about the up-and-comers? Say hello to THE CLASS OF 2023.

They’ve spent years moving away from their roots. So why are IN FLAMES upping the melodeath?

The radical Slaylist of WITCH FEVER’s Amy Walpole.

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER host a swansong for Trevor Strnad.

Lebanese outcasts KAOTEON reassert their black/death bona fides.

IRON MAIDEN’s World Slavery Tour might have been epic, but it almost broke the band.

Thanks to TikTok, GHOST and a host of other heavy bands are getting a whole new lease of life.

What happened to the NEW WAVE OF AMERICAN HEAVY METAL? We investigate…

Halestorm leader LZZY HALE gets The Hammer Interview treatment.

Ten years gone, we remember Suicide Silence’s MITCH LUCKER..

The story behind INCUBUS banger A Certain Shade Of Green.

As Dirt hits 30, some of your favourite rockstars choose their favourite ALICE IN CHAINS songs.

MERCYFUL FATE, MACHINE HEAD and LAMB OF GOD go full blast at BLOODSTOCK..

Armed with a dark new album and in therapy, PARKWAY DRIVE have had a hell of a time.

TATTOO THE PLANET should have been the star-studded tour of the year – then 9/11 happened..

WATAIN
Flames! Bones! Taxidermy! At home with Erik and co.

LAMB OF GOD
Inside their “gnarly and vomiting” new record..

From The Dillinger Escape Plan to maverick solo creator, GREG PUCIATO reveals his life story.

Sparky London duo NOVA TWINS are making space in the scene – and bringing all the tunes.

BOB VYLAN share their eclectic Slaylist. Featuring, er, Wheatus.

Wrestler, rock star, podcaster and all-round legend CHRIS JERICHO does The Hammer Interview.

Welcome to NU GEN: the rising scene redefining heavy music for the 20s.

DECAPITATED send out a missive from the moral maze.

He’s mysterious, he’s French, and he’s a synthwave phenomenon: it’s CARPENTER BRUT.

Trivium’s Matt Heafy has teamed up with Emperor man Ihsahn for IBARAKI – 2022’s coolest collab.

Matt Heafy goes all out for grandeur, with Ihsahn-backed solo project IBARAKI..

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE pioneered metalcore. Employed To Serve’s Justine Jones maps their journey.

In a mesmeric meeting of minds, genius comedian Bill Bailey sits down with WARDRUNA.

In 1997, WITHIN TEMPTATION and NIGHTWISH unleashed symphonic metal on the world.

ZAKK WYLDE
His definitive Metal Hammer interview.

CONVERGE
Jacob Bannon answers your questions.

ROLO TOMASSI’s Eva Korman reveals her mathy, poppy Slaylist.

He’s lived through grunge and even flirted with Hollywood. We sit down with JERRY CANTRELL.

Metal is dead! But don’t panic, the other genres are too, according to Merseyside innovators LOATHE.

AVENGED SEVENFOLD lead our big preview! 2022: EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW.

We get in the studio with Manuel Gagneux, AKA ZEAL & ARDOR.

Thrash royalty EXODUS rustle up some more riffage.

METALLICA, MASTODON and THE ORIGINAL MISFITS raise the spirits at Sacramento’s AFTERSHOCK festival.

WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM’s Aaron Weaver picks his Slaylist.

We count down the 25 GREATEST SYMPHONIC METAL ALBUMS.

From playing with Emperor to partying with Kesha, DANI FILTH reveals the secrets to his success.

He’s got a faceful of piercings and has stared down death, but can MINISTRY’s Al Jourgensen handle your questions?

We quiz the amazing artists behind the most ambitious covers album ever: THE METALLICA BLACKLIST.

Modern metal’s new heroes SPIRITBOX unleash all the feels..

How New Zealand’s ALIEN WEAPONRY are forcing people to confront past injustice.

National death metal treasure JEFF WALKER relives a life spent at the cutting edge of extremity..

COVID tests! Moshing! Rain! We bring you all the action from DOWNLOAD PILOT.

We dig deep inside the brain of Nightwish mastermind TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN.

MAX CAVALERA reps for metal’s underground in his slaylist.

Before Evan Rachel Wood named MARILYN MANSON, a group of women were investigating him.

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