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@MetalHammer has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in October 2020. The social media accounts linked to from @MetalHammer are: • Facebook • Instagram • TikTok Besides social media accounts, MetalHammer has populated their site with: • Motörhead - Issue #407 (Motörhead): Magazine + Exclusive Gold Metallic Ink T-shirt – Louder • Metallica: the story behind Creeping Death | Louder • The story behind Skindred's Nobody and the meaning behind the song | Louder • "You’re playing for 5 or 6,000 men and women who all have M16s on their shoulders. And they’re trying to pit, and it’s pretty crazy" How Avenged Sevenfold and Call Of Duty forged one of music and gaming's greatest relationships | Louder • From Ozzy Osbourne and Sleep Token to Stranger Things and Alien: Earth needle drops: the metal songs that defined 2025 | Louder • See our top 50 albums of 2025 | Louder • Cradle Of Filth's Her Ghost In The Fog: the story and meaning of the song | Louder • Cannibal Corpse's Hammer Smashed Face: the story behind the song | Louder • Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner killed in Los Angeles | Louder • Farewell to British heavy metal heroes Orange Goblin | Louder • Slipknot member Alessandro ‘V-Man’ Venturella pays tribute to Mastodon guitarist and his dear friend, Brent Hinds | • Deftones' White Pony: the story behind the album | Louder • Iron Maiden's Man On The Edge: The Story Behind The Song | Louder • Sleep Token's manager has been speaking about the band's extraordinary success in 2025, and what it means for rock and metal as a whole moving forwards | Louder • Slipknot: the story behind the Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. album | Louder • "I said, 'I think we should write the best song in the world.' Jack Black said, ‘You can’t do that!'" How Dave Grohl, Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk and Maynard James Keenan helped Tenacious D bring the greatest tribute song ever to the world | Louder • Nineteen years ago, Machine Head released their sixth album. Today it sounds like a Master Of Puppets for the 21st century • A study suggested that men who play guitar in extreme metal bands mainly do it to impress other men | Louder • What the science behind mosh pits can tell us about human behaviour | Louder • I’m a metal musician who tours the world, and this is why I refuse to let my local venue die | Louder • How Tool attracted mainstream attention – and the ire of one of rock’s greatest frontmen • That time Metallica launched a worldwide search to find a new vocalist via an ad in a British music magazine | Louder • Jack Black, angry nuns and Duolingo: the strange story of metal's weirdest new stars, Calva Louise | Louder • Danko Jones interview: Leo Rising and a wild night with Lemmy | Louder • Bruce Dickinson's unreleased rock opera may be the greatest untold story of them all | Louder • Human Waste Project: the story of the forgotten nu metal band | Louder • System Of A Down: the story behind Sugar | Louder • Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris on 50 years of heavy metal - and what comes next | Louder • Nine Inch Nails: the story behind Starsuckers Inc and the meaning of the song | Louder • Elon Musk inspired the bad guy on the new album by synthwave maestro Carpenter Brut | Louder • Issue #409 (Megadeth): Magazine + Limited 'Ruin' Vinyl LP - • Skindred - You Got This: Limited Pink Orange Marble Vinyl LP + Signed Artcard – Louder • "The only reason you look in the rearview mirror is to see how cool you look going forward." This is what happened when Metallica's Lars Ulrich interviewed one of his heroes, Iron Maiden legend Steve Harris | Louder • The story behind Kittie's Brackish - and the meaning of the song | Louder • Ball lightning, a freak house fire and the occult: how one classic 80s anthem officially crowned the queen of heavy metal • HEALTH - Issue #409 (Health): Magazine + '100% Cum Metal' Soap Bar – Louder • “Birmingham has always been embarrassed about its heavy metal heritage - and that’s unacceptable.” The story behind the petition to get Birmingham Airport named after Ozzy Osbourne - and why its founder is refusing to give up | Louder • Kyle Gass reflects on the "highly inappropriate, dangerous" joke that forced Tenacious D to go on hiatus, and reveals his horror over the "tsunami of s**t" that followed | Louder • The story behind Limp Bizkit's Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water | Louder • THE HARA - The Fallout • Lamb Of God, Converge and other leading metal bands speak out following fatal ICE shootings in Minneapolis | Louder • Metallica: story of the abandoned Presidio album sessions | Louder • Turbo Lover by Judas Priest: The Story Behind The Song | Louder • Doro Pesch on Lemmy, Gene Simmon and a life in metal | Louder • "They're lining up six hours before the show. They just scream when you go out on stage as if it's Beatlemania." Nine Inch Nails and Korn love them and they might have invented metal's sleaziest subgenre. This is the story of Health | Louder • What is the story of Tatiana from Jinjer? Her life, in her own words | Louder • How the death of a loved one, pig squeals and TikTok helped crown a modern metal classic | Louder • Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Back To The Beginning and Ozzy | Louder • The story behind Feel Good Hit of the Summer by Queens of the Stone Age | Louder • Agabas - Hard Anger Deluxe MAIN LINK • BUY THE NEW HEAVY ISSUE • Iron Maiden: the story behind the song Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter | Louder • How Possessed’s Jeff Becerra changed metal forever | Louder • Issue #410 (The New Heavy - Sleep Theory): Magazine, Sleep Mask + Sign – Louder • Metallica’s Garage Inc.: The story of metal’s greatest covers album | Louder • "She’d be talking about a song with a really good guitar solo and demand we change it, make it heavier." The trailblazing metal singer who saved an influential band's career and inspired a generation of women in the process | Louder • Issue #410 (The New Heavy - PRESIDENT): Magazine + Exclusive Stamp – Louder • Issue #410 (The New Heavy - Castle Rat): Magazine, Exclusive 'The Bestiary' Vinyl LP + Plush Toy • The cult Italian band that broke boundaries and became household names in metal thanks to this classic 00s album • Director Corin Hardy on how music shaped new horror Whistle | Louder • Issue #410 (The New Heavy - Paleface Swiss): Magazine + Exclusive Patch Set • We need to talk about the toxic effect touring can have on heavy metal | Louder • Sepultura's Ratamahatta: the story behind the song and what it's about | Louder • How Alien Ant Farm’s bizarre cover of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal turned them from D-listers to nu metal giants (for a bit, anyway) | Louder • Issue #410 (Avatar): Magazine + Signed Art Print – Louder • Heavy metal legend and ever-controversial icon Dave Mustaine on the end of Megadeth, making peace with Metallica and what's next | Louder • Kreator - Issue #410 (Kreator): Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt – Louder • Worm: the story of the battiest band in modern black metal | Louder • Ho99o9's Yeti Bones: 10 records that changed my life | Louder • Iron Man by Black Sabbath: the story behind the song | Louder • Following the devastating death of their frontman, friend and beloved figurehead of extreme metal, Tomas Lindberg, At The Gates have released an emotional new video and details of new album The Ghost of a Future Dead | Louder • Ace Of Spades by Motörhead: The Story Behind The Song | Louder • Deftones' Back To School: the story behind the song | Louder • The albums that changed Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt’s life | Louder • "He's singing and screaming his guts out in the middle of the field. I can't understand a word he's saying but I feel every syllable of it." This is what it's like at Thailand's biggest metal festival, Rock Alarm | Louder • "It was super duper heavy!" The story behind the Dave Grohl song that Ozzy Osbourne rejected, which found a home on one of the most unexpected heavy metal albums ever released | Louder • Rock Imperium Festival | Rock Imperium Festival | 3-4-5 Julio 2026 | Parque El Batel Cartagena • "In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons | Louder • Watch Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale sing Black Sabbath covers at Geezer Butler and Paul Rodgers tribute show this week | Louder • The birth, death and perpetual rebirth of Castle Rat | Louder • BUY THE NEW LAMB OF GOD ISSUE • How one of the worst riots in the history of music got Slayer banned from a major Hollywood venue | Louder • The Hara have stadium-sized ambitions | Louder • Zakk Wylde: my favorite albums | Louder • "I was walking down the street and I saw this junkie washing out his needle with wine." How one of the most hyped metal bands of the 90s bounced back from firings, studio disasters and, erm, constipation | Louder • Puscifer Bundle (Issue #411) • A wild and weird weekend in Las Vegas with Avatar | Louder • The ultimate Motorhead playlist (as picked by Metallica, Judas Priest and more) | Louder • Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell dead at 64 • How Slipknot's Clown was born in a shopping mall in the mid '80s | Louder • Issue #411 (Soulfly): Magazine + Signed Art Card • How President became metal's next big masked sensation | Louder • The story behind Evanescence's Call Me When You're Sober • Paleface Swiss are challenging masculinity in metal | Louder • Jinjer's Pisces: the story behind the song | Louder • Spiritbox's Holy Roller: the story behind the song | Louder • Limp Bizkit's Nookie - the story and meaning of the song | Louder • Metal Hammer x Lamb Of God t-shirt bundle • How the Clash Of The Titans tour put thrash metal in arenas | Louder • The albums that changed Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia’s life | Louder • How Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer explore comedy and tragedy | Louder • How Max Cavalera became a global metal icon | Louder • BUY THE POPPY ISSUE • The classic Linkin Park anthem that Chester Bennington didn't originally like but became one of the biggest rock songs of all time • "I am your Rat Queen! We're on a mission to defend the realm from those who seek to destroy it." Watch one of the most hyped young bands in heavy metal battle on stage as Castle Rat slay a brilliant new live set | Louder • Where did Myrkur come from? The incredible story of Amalie Bruun | Louder • The story behind Slipknot's People = and the meaning of the song | Louder • How Converge reinvented metalcore | Louder • The story of Albatross by Corrosion Of Conformity | Louder • Stephanie Vaquer interview: Wrestlemania 42 and her life as a heavy metal fan | Louder • What it was like seeing metal legends Metallica in their early days, according to fellow thrash veteran and Death Angel frontman Mark Osegueda | Loude • Watch R&B superstar Thundercat play bass for his former band, thrash metal hellraisers Suicidal Tendencies, at Coachella last weekend | Louder • Who is Royale Lynn? The story behind her switch from country to metal | Louder • Petition · Save Battery Studios – Protect the Future of UK Music - United Kingdom · Change.org • We interviewed a therapist to try and understand how metalheads’ brains work | Louder • How grindcore changed metal forever | Louder • Slipknot: "I would drink from the moment I woke up, until I passed out" | Louder • Watch a tearful Yungblud pay emotional tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with his cover of Black Sabbath's Changes in Birmingham last night | Louder • Evanescence's Amy Lee: I had to step away from being a rockstar | Louder • How Brazilian metal legends Sepultura were demonised and scapegoated by the media following the horrific murder of a 12-year-old school girl | Louder • When Opeth gave their label two albums for the price of one | Louder • Slayer: inside their first ever UK tour | Louder • Watch Megadeth play Metallica's Ride The Lightning for the first time | Louder • From Eminem teaching her about authenticity to the Nirvana song that made her pick up a guitar, this is the soundtrack to Mimi Barks' life | Louder • The story of Twin Temple: the Satanic doo-wop band that bewitched the metal scene | Louder • The rise, fall and rise of Skindred's Benji Webbe | Louder • BUY THE NEW HIM ISSUE • Ex-Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz has joined DragonForce | Louder • Jason Newsted reveals how addiction struggles contributed to Metallica exit | Louder • HIM T-shirt • Evanescence bundle • Every HIM and VV album in Ville Valo's own words | Louder • The story of In Flames • Sonic Temple 2026 Day 1 review: Nekrogoblikon, Flyleaf and more | Louder • Anthrax - Cursum Perficio: Transparent Red Vinyl 2LP – Louder • Big inflatable willies, nu metal and 80s pop covers - here's what went down on day two of Sonic Temple 2026 | Louder • German thrash metal, British metalcore and American nu metal: all the best bits from Sonic Temple 2026 day 3 | Louder • Bring Me The Horizon Sonic Temple 2026 review | Louder • Motionless In White smash their headline audition in front of one of Sonic Temple's rowdiest crowds | Louder • With their ferocious Sonic Temple show, Lorna Shore have shown they're not gonna stop there | Louder • Halestorm Sonic Temple review 2026 | Louder • System Of A Down: why there will (probably) never be a new album | Louder • Babymetal's Gimme Chocolate: the story and meaning behind the song | Louder • Inside the cult of Sleep Token | Louder • Watch Gojira’s emotional performance of rare classic Global Warming during 2025 tour of France | Louder • Buy Beartooth - Pure Ecstasy: Green Marble LP (UK Exclusive) • Buy Motionless In White - Decades: Red Vinyl 2LP • Slam Dunk 2026 review: evidence that hardcore might just be the most exciting music scene on Planet Earth right now | Louder • How a member of Bloc Party teamed up with some of the UK's best hidden talents to make howling, noisy hardcore | Louder • How Dymna Lotva escaped a dictatorship to make black metal | Louder • Melding visceral grime with pulsating metal, Native James is one of the UK's most unique and exciting new artists | Louder • The incredible life story of Lowen's Nina Saeidi | Louder • Buy the new Evanescence cover with gifts • Donate to Ol Drake's Gofundme • Ghost's Mary On A Cross: the story behind the song and what it's really about | Louder • Evanescence– Shop the exclusive bundle and more • Subscribe to Metal Hammer today and get your first 3 issues for £/$5 • Metallica’s Load: the story behind the album | Louder • Inherited - INHERITED (Official Music Video) • Shop now for Father's Day at Metal Hammer • "I asked Ozzy if he was having vocal lessons back then, and he said, ‘No, just lots of alcohol and drugs.’" Zakk Wylde talks tributes, hot sauces and trying to turn Mark Wahlberg onto metal | Louder • Wednesday 13's I Walked With A Zombie: the story and meaning of the song | Louder • Subscribe to the store mailing list • Hear Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale pay tribute to Chris Cornell on powerful new cover of Soundgarden’s Loud Love | Louder • Buy the exclusive Bring Me The Horizon bundle • Buy the new Iron Maiden issue with exclusive water bottle now! • Buy the The Pretty Reckless bundle - Issue #415 • Buy the Official Iron Maiden EddFest Programme And Museum Guide • Slipknot: the story behind Snuff and the meaning of the song | Louder • Slayer and Anthrax members voice support for Yungblud following "breakdown" | Louder • Iron Maiden - Issue #415 (Iron Maiden): Magazine + Glow-in-the-Dark Eddie Bass T-shi – Louder • Mastodon reveal reasons for their dismissal of late guitarist Brent Hinds in new film | Louder • Iron Maiden talk Eddfest and 50 years of heavy metal • Iron Maiden Eddfest review: a celebration and a triumph | Louder • Watch grindcore legends Napalm Death play the heaviest Tiny Desk Concert in history | Louder • What was System Of A Down's old band? The untold story of Soil | Louder • On the anniversary of Chris Cornell's birth and Chester Bennington's death, this is what the Linkin Park frontman had to say about the Soundgarden legend and his dear friend • A year without Ozzy Osbourne: all the biggest tributes, covers and controversies since the Prince Of Darkness’ death | Louder • Taylor Momsen interview: from child actor to AC/DC-approved rock star | Louder • BUY THE NEW ELECTRIC CALLBOY ISSUE • Megadeth: the story behind Symphony Of Destruction | Louder • Avenged Sevenfold’s Statica EP is a goofy, auto-tuned mess – and exactly the kind of risk more big metal bands should take | Louder • Exclusive Loathe bundle • Electric Callboy bundle • Wacken 2026 review: Judas Priest, Sabaton, Powerwolf and more make it a weekend to remember | Louder • Dominum bundle • Slaughter To Prevail pass their big Bloodstock test with flying colours (and lots of breakdowns) | Louder • Hammer Online: News, Reviews, and more. • Buy Motionless In White Issue 417 here • Louder Stores | Official Home of Metal Hammer, Classic Rock & Prog • Shop Hammer • Buy the new Sabaton Metal Hammer • Lamb Of God: the story behind Laid To Rest | Louder • BUY THE NEW TOOL ISSUE 🔧 • Wolfgang Van Halen shares his life lessons | Louder • Win two Weekend VIP Passes, roundtrip airfare and hotel accommodation for the DWP festival of your choice - Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple, Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life or Aftershock 2024! • "It’s strange when you’re playing in front of 30 people, lip-syncing. Especially when you’re hanging upside down with a piece of meat behind you." How Nine Inch Nails' anthem of self-loathing and sleaze got twisted into the ultimate horny metal track | Lo • “I get excited when a witch comes out of the broom closet”: Order your limited edition Chelsea Wolfe bundle – featuring an exclusive patch • Murderdolls’ Dead In Hollywood: the story behind the song | Louder • “It’s the end of Sabbath, believe me”: The story of Black Sabbath’s abandoned 20th album • Metallica: the story behind The Unforgiven | Louder • The 10 best horror movies of 2023 • Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train: the story behind the song | Louder • See why Will Ramos has been described as the best metal vocalist of his generation with this outstanding one-take of Lorna Shore's emotional metal anthem, Glenwood | Louder • Creeper's Sanguivore is Metal Hammer's album of the year • The story behind System Of A Down's Chop Suey - and the meaning of the song | Louder • Slipknot, Disturbed, Misfits, Limp Bizkit, Evanescence and many more for Sonic Temple 2024, tickets on sale today • The Osbournes: Expecting the unexpected with Ozzy and Sharon | Louder • Slipknot announce UK and European 25th Anniversary shows • Orbit Culture Bundle • Jay Weinberg shares new statement following departure from Slipknot on what would have been his ten year anniversary with the band • Metallica - Until It Sleeps: the story behind the song | Louder • "He's not well...you guys gotta be loud." Watch Vessel take a step back from singing at last night's historic Sleep Token show at Wembley Arena, as band reveal startling new, nu metal-style masks • How Justin Hawkins became metal's least likely influencer | Louder • "I’ve never felt comfortable about that title" Ozzy Osbourne explains why he doesn't like being called metal • Buy the new Lemmy Metal Hammer issue • The 50 best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer • Linkin Park - Numb: the story behind the song | Louder • Vote for the best metal song of 2023 • Ex-American Head Charge singer Cameron Heacock is currently homeless and living on the streets - and fans are desperate to help him | Louder • The story of Underside, Nepal's biggest metal band • Metallica: the story behind Master Of Puppets and what the song is about | Louder • An interview with metal's busiest man, Matt Heafy | Louder • The Osbourne family speak out against musicians lying about their final interactions with Ozzy - and "nutters" pretending to speak to him from beyond the grave | Louder • Dogma allegations: here's everything we know about the implosion of the heavy metal nun band | Louder • Billy Corgan's interview with Wendy Dio is epic - and emotional | Louder • "I haven't seen an outpouring like that since Princess Diana died." Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne share their emotional response to the world mourning their husband and dad, Ozzy | Louder • Who are Castle Rat? Getting to the fantasy metal band everyone's talking about | Louder • Anthrax and Public Enemy: the story of Bring The Noise | Louder • Poppy - Empty Hands: Bone w/ Violet & Baby Blue Twister Vinyl LP – Louder • Avenged Sevenfold: the story behind A Little Piece Of Heaven | Louder • Type O Negativr's Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All): the story behind the song | Louder • A female-fronted band is finally headlining Download Festival. It's about damn time | Louder • Exclusive Skindred vinyl variant • Within Temptation: the story of Angels and the meaning behind the song | Louder • "I dug the record 'cause it was incorporating hip hop into rock. I was like, 'This is cool!'" How one rap legend joined the unlikeliest tour ever to help bring hip hop to the nu metal generation | Louder • Sabaton Bundle: Exclusive Sabaton Camo Pyjamas– Louder • That time Ozzy mooned the audience because he didn't think they were rocking hard enough • Dave Mustaine explains why Megadeth reimagined Metallica’s Ride The Lightning for their final album | Louder • In The End by Linkin Park: the story behind the song | Louder • Disturbed need a “nice, long break” as controversial European tour comes to a close | Louder • Godflesh: the story of the metal band worshipped by Metallica, Faith No More and Korn | Louder • This is what it’s like to audition for Metallica – and not get the job | Louder • Ghost’s Tobias Forge on the Ozzy Osbourne-inspired anthem that turned his band from occult sensations into bona fide stars • Issue #406 (Malevolence): Magazine + Exclusive Crossbody Bag – Louder • Bastion Rose | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree • Cypress Hill’s Insane In The Brain: the story behind the song | Louder • The story behind Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff, from MTV to Woodstock 99 chaos | Louder • "He just couldn’t do it. He had asthma, then he got a throat infection. The whole thing was downhill for him." The bizarre story of how two beloved extreme metal bands suddenly swapped singers...only to swap them straight back again | Louder • Slayer: the story behind Angel Of Death | Louder • Watch Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall drop out of a helicopter onto the Sydney Opera House, because he’s cooler than you in every way | Louder • "I get a message from my sister: 'Hey, I’m getting chased down the street by the riot patrol. They have the K9 unit.'" From getting the police called on their rabid crowds to becoming Australia's best live band, the incredible rise of Parkway Drive | Loud • The story of Iron Maiden: 50 years of heavy metal history | Louder • Disturbed’s David Draiman is beefing with John Cusack, after the Hollywood star called the singer “psychotic” for signing an IDF bomb | Louder • Slaughter To Prevail guitarist denies that the band have Nazi beliefs, but admits the controversy around them is their “own fault” | Louder • System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Evanescence and more to play insanely stacked Sick New World 2026 events in Las Vegas and Texas | Louder • Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows defends making video message for freed Israeli hostages | Louder • Deftones’ Around The Fur: the story behind the album | Louder • Ministry at Nottingham Rock City: the story of a chaotic night in the midlands | Louder • Watch Fred Durst pay tribute to Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers | Louder • Limp Bizkit bass player Sam Rivers dead at 48 | Louder • Ozzy Osbourne's Mama I'm Coming Home - the story behind the song | Louder • Mawiza: the story of the Slipknot-endorsed band fighting for Indigenous rights | Louder • Korn: the story behind Freak On A Leash | Louder • Disturbed say they want their music to “heal people” after their singer signed a bomb and caused their Belgium gig to be cancelled | Louder • "Lady Gaga passes this bottle of Jameson to me, and I just tip the whole bottle over my face. That was a formative moment." Wargasm's Milkie Way makes us a playlist and takes us inside her world of Sabbath, Gaga, Bowie and more | Louder • Watch unmasked Ghost frontman Tobias Forge perform with Swedish star Lars Winnerbäck | Louder • Ex-Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins killed in prison attack | Louder • Megadeth - Megadeth: Limited 'Ruin' Copper/Emerald Marble Vinyl LP – Louder • It's time to talk about Iron Maiden's "worst" album | Louder • "We got on with Slipknot like a house on fire. We were like their naughty little brothers!" The underground metal band helped by Charli XCX's future manager that invaded the UK charts and almost became a household name | Louder • I've been a metal guitarist for almost two decades and not enough people talk about these incredible guitar-shredding albums | Louder • Megadeth - MEGADETH: Limited 'Ghostly' Red & Blue Vinyl LP + Signed Art Card – Louder • Issue #405 (Iron Maiden): Magazine + Exclusive Iron Maiden T-Shirt – Louder • Ghost mega-bundle • Ultimate Ghost fan pack • What is the song at the end of episode 6 of season 2 of Peacemaker? Why James Gunn turned to Dynazty for that shocking twist | Louder • Parkway Drive exclusive t-shirt and cover • I Prevail t-shirt bundle • Buy the new Iron Maiden Metal Hammer • Issue #406 (Creeper): Magazine + Sanguivore II - Mistress of Death LP – Louder • Slayer’s Disciple: the story behind the song | Louder • "To Carry The Weight might be one of the most gutwrenching songs that I’ve ever written." Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach on buried projects, ska records and how he once met the cast of Friends | Louder • “We didn’t want to be some huge rock’n’roll band. We wanted to make music for the people”: the inside story of Kyuss’ Blues For The Red Sun, the classic album that changed the course of stoner rock | Louder • “I’d play Bodies five times a night if people really wanted it that bad!" How a misunderstood mosh anthem and patronage by Sharon Osbourne made Drowning Pool nu metal's new superstars - before tragedy snatched it all away | Louder • The Four Horsemen vs Mechanix – how Metallica and Megadeth released two warring versions of the same song • "They came to my house, we jammed together in my studio, they even played with my dog." How System Of A Down's Serj Tankian almost signed a young Muse to his own label - but was "screwed over" | Louder • At The Gates: the story behind the Slaughter Of The Soul album | Louder • "I started going to rituals when I was 13. My mother made me robes and I had my own staff." Midsommar metal is officially a thing: say hello to Forlorn | Louder • The story of That’s The Spirit, the album that sent Bring Me The Horizon into a different realm | Louder • Prika Amaral: 10 songs that changed my life | Louder • Cannibal Corpse: the story of the Vile album | Louder • Sanguivore II - Mistress of Death: Purple Vinyl LP + Signed Art Card – Louder • Issue #404 (Helloween): Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt – Louder • "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 | Louder • Black Label Society interview: the story of the Sonic Brew abum | Louder • Def Leppard: the story behind Hysteria | Louder • Ghost’s Mary On A Cross: the meaning of the song | Louder • Lzzy Hale's wild tales of Dio, Alice Cooper, Skid Row and more | Louder • "I felt embarrassed - I haven’t been that angry in a long time." From dinner at Bradley Cooper's to an unplugged mic, the story of Metallica's chaotic Grammys performance with Lady Gaga | Louder • How Daron Malakian went from nu metal misfit to international metal star with System Of A Down and Scars On Broadway | Louder • How Trent Reznor pulled back from the abyss to make Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero • “I’m a good actor. I’m the Jack Nicholson of rock’n’roll! I can do the one expression and people still believe it”: how Ville Valo became one of rock’s last great stars • A metal fan’s guide to Rush • Watch Daron Malakian join stunned System Of A Down tribute band for cover of Cigaro in Chicago • Issue #404 (Nova Twins): Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt • Cradle Of Filth guitarist fired following vicious statement days after keyboardist wife’s departure • Order our Ozzy Osbourne tribute cover • “All of a sudden we’re satanic and controversial. People wanna buy our records and burn them? Go ahead!” Why heavy metal fell in love with the Devil • “I was so lucky and blessed to be a part of a very small group that got to call him ‘Dad’”: Jack Osbourne posts emotional tribute to late father Ozzy on social media • Scars On Broadway bundle • Babymetal bundle • The 50 best Ozzy Osbourne songs of all time • "Ozzy had a chimney brush over his shoulder, a shoe on a dog leash and no shoes on his bare feet." Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler recalls his very first meeting with Ozzy Osbourne, and the start of "the most incredible journey of our lives" • Ozzy Osbourne 1948 - 2025 • Watch Ghost bewitch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with a performance of Lachryma • Woodstock ’99 was supposed to be nu metal’s crowning moment. Instead, it was an epic clusterf**k • "I’ve been whipped, stabbed and had to have surgery. Most recently, I got licked on the tongue by Alice Cooper's snake." Nita Strauss shares the battle scars that shaped her into a modern guitar hero • How stoner-doom kings Electric Wizard made the classic Dopethrone album • "Me and Ozzy were a team. I never thought, 'What about me?'" We chat to Sharon Osbourne about growing up in the music industry, her "confrontational" father, feuding with Iron Maiden and Billy Corgan and a whole load more • "I got taken in by a group of older witches."How Bambie Thug went from ballet and Catholic school to witchcraft, Eurovision and touring with Babymetal • Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning Official Programme • Exclusive Blizzard Of Ozz Tarot T-Shirt • “We knew Chris Barnes had to go. We phoned him on the road and said, ‘Dude, you’re out.’ It was as simple as that”: How Cannibal Corpse made 90s death metal classic Vile and ended up in the US charts • Classic Rock & Metal Hammer Competition • Disturbed’s David Draiman responds to being booed at Black Sabbath’s farewell gig • "It's not until Ozzy's actually there, thanking fans and getting tearful, that it sinks in." Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning: our ultimate review of their triumphant final show • Every Slipknot album ranked from worst to best • Everything you need to know about Back To The Beginning, Black Sabbath’s reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert • Get your new Black Sabbath issue HERE! • SHOP PREVIOUS ISSUES OF METAL HAMMER! • Metal Hammer writers name the albums they’d listen to during a zombie apocalypse • The Top 10 best metal covers of 80s pop songs • 13 rock and metal musicians hating on their own songs • 10 metal bands who ‘went soft’ – and were better off for it • Metal Hammer x RADAR Festival Cat Pyjamas • Why your favourite British metal bands are breaking up • Watch latest masked metal sensations President play their first ever show at Download this past weekend • Korn have finally headlined Download - and it was an absolute triumph • “When are we going to stop with this Pink Floyd stuff and start playing some metal?”: The story of the most ambitious song in death metal history • You can watch Spiritbox's entire, pro shot, rain-soaked Rock Am Ring 2025 set right now • Issue #401 (Volbeat): Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt • The pretentious gatekeeping around Sleep Token points to a toxic heavy music culture - as a metal guitarist of over 25 years, I've seen this movie before • Glamour Of The Kill • Get the new issue! • "It's the least metal thing I've ever heard. You could put this in your hand luggage and it'd go through the scanners." TV presenter Richard Osman of Pointless and House of Games fame has discovered Sleep Token, and he's more than a little confused • Iron Maiden have played a surprise-stuffed first show of their 50th Anniversary tour - watch videos • Watch Ghost's Tobias Forge sing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as Brian May and Roger Taylor look on • Katatonia: 'Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State' LP + Exclusi • Order your exclusive Alt Blk Era t-shirt • Alt Blk Era: the cover story • "We need pets – they make us live longer." Korn's Jonathan Davis teams up with fashion designer Ashton Michael to raise money for a dog shelter with his pet brand Freak On A Leash • Listen to the most surprising single of 2025, Robbie Williams' "adrenaline-filled and balls-to-the-wall" collaboration with Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and 'The Voice Of Rock' Glenn Hughes • Skunk Anansie: Exclusive 'The Painful Truth' LP + Signed Art Card • Matt Tuck explains why the Poisoned Ascendancy tour is ending and Matt Heafy urges everyone to calm down • The best metal albums of 2025 (so far) • Photo gallery: we threw a big party for Metal Hammer's 400th issue • Issue #400 (Machine Head): Magazine, Exclusive 7” Single + Numbered Ar • New Sleep Token covers - two to collect! • How Beast In Black, Diablo IV and Berserk have created 2025's ultimate metal-gaming-manga team-up • Issue #399 (Ghost): Magazine, Exclusive ‘SKELETÁ’ Vinyl LP, Sticker Se • Watch Korn’s Jonathan Davis sit in a ‘haunted’ chair that apparently makes him hallucinate and feel like he’s high • "Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant." Tobias Forge's Satanic Swedes have made the biggest, most joyous and sweetest album of their career • Employed To Serve Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt • Bloodywood bundle • Bambie Thug bundle • Jinjer bundle • Slaughter To Prevail bundle • The official Metal Hammer store (New Heavy bundles now live!) • Watch Ghost's new video Satanized and meet new frontman Papa V Perpetua as the band officially announce brand new album Skeletá • Order Bloodywood cover • Order Bambie Thug cover • Order Slaughter To Prevail cover • Order Jinjer cover • Order Electric Callboy cover • Slayer announce two monster UK shows with Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon and more • "People are baffled if I say I love Taylor Swift." Modern metalcore icon Chris Motionless on being a Swiftie, ice hockey and why Motionless In White are taking their time on a new album • Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Evanescence and more announced for Louder Than Life 2025 • An unreleased solo album by Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge seems to have leaked on Youtube • Killswitch Engage bundle • Lacuna Coil Signed Art Card bundle • Papa Roach put on a nostalgic classic in London’s most historic arena • Order our Spiritbox issue • “We jumped offstage and took our masks off and started swinging at people at the end of one song”: The wild story of Slipknot vs Mushroomhead, the masked band feud that lit up nu metal • Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine promised “the metal tour of 2025” – and The Poisoned Ascendancy may well have delivered • Watch the cringe-inducing moment an interviewer mistakes Spiritbox singer Courtney LaPlante for Poppy on the Grammys red carpet • Bid on Sophie Lloyd's guitar • Wardruna - Birna: Vinyl 2LP + Exclusive Signed Art Card • Employed To Serve's new video includes a singing Will Ramos • Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson finishes 13th in fencing tournament, watch him compete • Metal Hammer #396: BFMV x Trivium Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt Bundle • The Halo Effect have crafted the first great melodic death metal album of 2025 with March Of The Unheard • Order our Bullet x Trivium issue • Vended might have big links to heavy metal royalty, but that doesn't mean they're getting an easy ride • Heavier Trip director Juuso Laatio on making 2024's most metal movie • We went backstage with Powerwolf, Hammerfall and Wind Rose on the power metal tour of the year - and it was even more ludicrous than we'd imagined • "They are honouring Chester's memory but also creating their own legacy." How Linkin Park pulled off the biggest comeback of 2024 • Slipknot put on 2024's biggest heavy metal nostalgia party in Manchester • Oli Sykes says Bring Me The Horizon are considering going on hiatus: "We need time to recharge our batteries and have that time away" • "I've always existed between two cultures." Meet Lowen, 2024's breakout prog metal sensation inspired by System Of A Down and Akercocke • "Today will be my final gig with Iron Maiden." Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain retires from live shows after 42 years • Slipknot, Ghost, Nightwish, Gojira and more star in Metal Hammer's blockbuster end of year issue • Sleep Token show London why they've become metal's biggest success story in over two decades • Black Friday • Metal Hammer Black Friday Subscription • Watch Knocked Loose and Poppy destroy Jimmy Kimmel Live! with the heaviest talk show performance in history • Every Metallica album ranked from worst to best • Papa Roach Magazine + Exclusive Tee • Poppy has gone and made a full-on arena metal album, and it absolutely bangs • Welcome To Rockville announces headliners Shinedown, Green Day, Linkin Park and Korn, plus more than 150 others, for 2025 • Linkin Park announce enormous 2025 world tour, including a date at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium • "Linkin Park have crafted a genuinely great album worthy of their canon." From Zero is a resounding success that fans of every era of Linkin Park will find something to enjoy in • Buy our Papa Roach issue • “Let’s jam, let’s have a good time for the fans, for us, for ourselves.” Andreas Kisser invites Max and Iggor Cavalera to play final Sepultura show • Rejoice! Deftones and Weezer announce huge London outdoor show • The Battle Of Los Angeles at 25: how Rage Against The Machine just about kept it together to create one final masterpiece before imploding • Poppy bundle • Tribulation's sixth album is the perfect goth rock digestif to wrap up spooky season • Ghost announce six-month 2025 world tour with UK, Europe, America dates • Mastodon join stacked Bloodstock 2025 lineup • Babymetal announce European tour including biggest UK show ever - with Poppy and Bambie Thug in support • Former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno dead at 66 • Limp Bizkit announce 2025 UK tour • Iron Maiden Magazine + Exclusive T-shirt • The greatest Ozzy Osbourne songs as picked by members of Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Halestorm and more • Get an exclusive Iron Maiden Powerslave Metal Hammer cover only in Tesco • Iron Maiden bring the Future Past tour to Aftershock - and it's spectacular • Judas Priest bring heavy metal heaven to Aftershock with a set that's all killer, no filler • More Aftershock 2024 reviews • Slipknot eviscerate Aftershock with one of the heaviest festival headline sets in history • Korn's classic debut album at 30: the weirdness, the trauma and the birth of nu metal • Halestorm's riotous Aftershock set is a present for all • Slayer just showed Aftershock festival why they're still the undisputed kings of thrash metal with a devastating headline set for the ages • Order our Poppy cover • Sabaton throw down the gauntlet as the world's biggest power metal band with The Tour To End All Tours movie • Arch Enemy, In Flames and Soilwork bring melodeath magic to the Hammersmith Apollo • The official Metal Hammer store • How Amy Lee reconnected with herself on Evanescence’s self-titled third album • Heriot live up to their potential as Britain's best new metal band on Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell • Linkin Park's London O2 show is a celebration of one of 21st century metal's most impactful and important bands • Slayer have just played their first set in five years - see their reunion setlist and watch fiery video footage here • A tribute to Michelle Kerr, the ass-kicking, passionate PR legend who helped shape modern metal as we know it • Iron Maiden announce 50th anniversary world tour for 2025, confirm biggest ever UK headline show • Max Cavalera picks the five songs that define his career • Clown admits Slipknot aren’t as “close” now as they were 25 years ago • Slipknot 25th anniversary issue • The 14 best new metal songs you need to hear right now • Metal Hammer Issue 391 - Mimi Barks Magazine + T-Shirt + Signed Art Card + Temporary Tattoos Bundle • Mimi Barks Exclusive Metal Hammer T-Shirt • Nightwish Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt Bundle • Will Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley front a reunited Linkin Park? The internet is starting to think so… • Lamb Of God – Exclusive Signed Art Card + Ashes Of The Wake 20th Anniversary Black LP • Metal Hammer Mastodon Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt Bundle • Get our Nightwish issue, complete with keyring and print! • Order Creed's Human Clay • Exclusive Machine Head red/black splatter vinyl • Exclusive Metallica ‘Ride The Lightning’ T-Shirt Bundle • Wacken Festival confirms first bands for 2025 lineup • Marilyn Manson is back. His return highlights how little the music industry cares about protecting women • How Scowl became the most exciting new band in hardcore • Powerwolf Wake Up The Wicked review • Metal Hammer Issue 389 - Limited-Edition Ghost Magazine Cover + T-Shirt Bundle • Order our Metallica Ride The Lightning issue • Kittie Magazine + Exclusive T-Shirt Bundle • Ghost - Exclusive 'Rite Here Rite Now' blue cassette • Scene Queen's debut album is a naughty, fearless, genre-splicing knockout • Buy our new Ghost issue • Ghost's first concert movie Rite Here Rite Now is an instant classic • Download 2024 reviews • Buy Metal Hammer Lord Of The Lost Bundle • BUY THE NEW KERRY KING ISSUE • Thrown - Exclusive 'EXCESSIVE GUILT' orange, black and white LP • The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear right now • Iron Maiden weren’t part of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, says ex-singer: “We felt like we were on our own” • Meet Witch Club Satan, the Necrobutcher-approved feminist trio pushing the boundaries of metal's most extreme subgenre • Metal Hammer News • Watch Lemmy prove how he was an anti-gatekeeping king while sharing his opinion on Motörhead copycats • “Dystopian in mood, it’s a reflection of the angst and anti-authoritarian attitude I had to conformity.” Listen to Serj Tankian's 'new' single A.F. Day, originally written for System Of A Down • “I’m climbing out of the ashes of Slayer”: Kerry King’s exclusive track by track guide to his new album From Hell I Rise • Watch Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Phil Collins serenade the Queen with Black Sabbath’s Paranoid in 2002 • “The lights would go out and 15 kids would beat the crap out of me”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson opens up on traumatic boarding school days • "The most aggressive thing Kerry King has produced since God Hates Us All": Kerry King's solo debut From Hell I Rise sees the thrash legend at his tooth-gnashing, head-banging best • Metal Hammer Issue 387 - Knocked Loose Magazine + Exclusive Tote Bag Bundle • The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now • Buy Metal Hammer 387 P.O.D Bundle • “Slipknot is so lucky to have you”: Members of Slayer, Megadeth, Rage Against The Machine and more react to Eloy Casagrande joining The Nine • Ghost announce first-ever concert film Rite Here Rite Now for global cinema release • Linkin Park considering 2025 reunion tour with female singer, according to new report • Slipknot have officially named Eloy Casagrande as their new drummer • “If you wanna be disgusting, do it outside!” Bruce Dickinson blasts fan for allegedly using pepper spray during Brazil concert • Watch Slipknot break out new masks, classic songs and their brand new drummer at last night's super-intimate, 300-capacity show in Pioneertown, California • Watch Greg Puciato take on Trve Or False • "I think he'd like to see a wall of death": Watch side-stage footage of Sleep Token teaming up with a masked Oli Sykes during Bring Me The Horizon's Brisbane show • Slipknot are teasing something special with a mysterious billboard and website • Letlive are reuniting for a “proper” farewell tour in 2025 • "What is this band about? I’m not sure. I like that it’s a mystery to me.” Meet five excellent young bands inspired by Tool • “Without him, there would be no Metallica.” See James Hetfield's new Motörhead tattoo with Lemmy’s ashes in it • One of Linkin Park’s heaviest songs is now available to stream for the first time ever • "Dev Patel was like 'this is Indian, but metal as ****'" Bloodywood just soundtracked 2024's most epic fight scene in new action thriller, Monkey Man • "The gap between pop and metal is getting smaller." From trauma-powered Taiwanese black metal to “nu gothika”, here are some of the best new metal bands you need to hear right now • "You cannot underestimate the impact of seeing a woman blaze a trail right before your eyes." Why Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow means so much to me – and to women in the metal scene • “As soon as we get past the arguments, we can get **** done!” Tool are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer • Order our Judas Priest bundle with T-shirt • Raven Records: introducing London's new heavy metal record store, coffee joint and alcohol-free bar • The 20 greatest Korn songs ever - as voted by you • "This looks f***ing mint": Order your limited edition While She Sleeps bundle – featuring an exclusive patch and stencil • Order your limited edition Chelsea Wolfe bundle here! 🧙‍♀️ • Rob Halford is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer - buy yours now • “Bloodstock has always been a special place for Motörhead and for Lemmy.” Lemmy Kilmister’s ashes to be displayed annually at Bloodstock festival • The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week • “Why did you let Some Kind Of Monster come out?” What happened when Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson interviewed Metallica’s Lars Ulrich • We spent a day amongst neolithic tombs and monoliths with occult metal sensations, Green Lung • Slipknot are rehearsing with a new drummer – and the signs are that they hit very, very hard • "I would assume it’s going to happen." Are Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine going to release a song together? • Watch actor Mark Benton win almost £10,000 on The Celebrity Weakest Link - and donate it all to the ultimate heavy metal charity, The Heavy Metal Truants • “It’s about how grateful we were to have our time with Cliff”: Watch the only time Metallica have ever played emotional instrumental To Live Is To Die live • “It was a real awkward time”: The story of the abandoned Metallica album • Order your copy of the Bruce Dickinson headlined new issue of Metal Hammer • 7 brilliant new metal bands to watch out for in 2024 • Slayer, Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe and many more confirmed for massive Aftershock lineup • “They don’t know how to make a bad album!” Metal Hammer writers battle it out over which Ghost album is best • The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear right now • "I don't know, I'm the bass player": Tim Commerford admits he has no idea if Rage Against The Machine have broken up • Bullet and Trivium announced UK tour • Slayer to reunite to play Louder Than Life 2024 alongside Slipknot, Korn, Motley Crue, Judas Priest, Disturbed, Evanescence, Five Finger Death Punch and many more • Ihsahn Bundle • 10 heavy metal stars who should have solo careers • 10 heavy metal bands that wouldn’t be the same without Dune • The story of the new System Of A Down album that will (probably) never happen • Inkcarceration 2024: get your tickets • The 10 best Ghost songs not by Ghost • The checkered story of Limp Bizkit’s Break Stuff, from festival chaos to a star-studded music video • "I don’t wish him dead at this moment": Kerry King hasn't spoken to, texted, or emailed Tom Araya since Slayer split • Lamb Of God and Mastodon announce epic 'Ashes Of Leviathan' tour playing two classic albums in full, with Kerry King and Malevolence in support • Rising Japanese metal stars Hanabie have their sights set on world domination • The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2024 • The 11 best new metal songs you need to hear this week • How Scene Queen became the unlikely heroine metal needs right now • Bruce Dickinson is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer! • Listen to Kerry King's ferocious debut solo single, Idle Hands • How an earnest, sober young man in a grubby white t-shirt called Andrew W.K. convinced a post-9/11 world to embrace positivity with a song called Party Hard • "I kinda don't recognise myself." Corey Taylor addresses mental health concerns after cancelling North American tour dates • “We were all saying, ‘We’re gonna make this something they can never follow up.’” How Linkin Park and Jay-Z united for the ultimate metal and hip hop crossover, Collision Course • P.O.D. - "I WON'T BOW DOWN" (Official Music Video) • An Ozzy Osbourne music school with "55 years of memorabilia" is being worked on in Birmingham, according to Sharon • From Bad Omens to Sleep Token, it's time to talk about toxic fandom in metal • Mystic Festival announces 17 more bands to join 2024 headliners Megadeth, Bring Me The Horizon and Machine Head • The 10 best cover songs by thrash metal bands • Metallica take potshots at St Anger in new announcement • The tragic story of Snot, the best lost band in nu metal history • Inspired by Bat Out Of Hell and the theatricality of Ziggy Stardust, Creeper have proved Sleep Token aren't the only band bringing sex appeal back to metal • Mudvayne's Chad Gray slams new bands for all sounding "the same" • 10 heavy metal solo careers that fell completely flat • How Myrkur is balancing loss, motherhood and humanity • "Bands need to say 'we're not doing it'": Why musicians are taking a stand on merch cuts • Watch Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian join Bring Me The Horizon on stage for a ripping Antivist in Cardiff last night • "We couldn't be more excited." Korn announce biggest ever UK headline show with support from Denzel Curry, Spiritbox, Wargasm and Loathe • Rob Trujillo talks 72 Seasons, celebrity mosh pits and what comes next for Metallica • David Ellefson opens up on the sex scandal that got him fired from Megadeth • WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE | MAY 9-12, 2024 | DAYTONA BEACH, FL • P.O.D. (featuring Tatiana Shmayluk) - "AFRAID TO DIE" (Official Music Video) • Buy Metal Hammer Magazine Subscription from MagazinesDirect • Order your limited edition Evanescence bundle – featuring a exclusive Fallen patch and print