We’ve always been looking a bit outside of the cage.” 2016’s drony Belfry established the bars of that cage – it remains the Messa album most beholden to doom’s textures and tropes – but it also ...

Drugs, dysfunction and 1977’s Draw The Line album sent Aerosmith into a tailspin that would take a decade to pull out of ...

This month marks a historic milestone in Metal Hammer history as we unveil our 400th issue! The cover stars? Masked metal ...

At the time, AC/DC were working on their third album, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt ... that they were producing within the band. In 1979, German heavy metal band Accept were experimenting with their ...

From LA alt metal maniacs Melted Bodies to rising blackgaze stars Dawn Of Ourobouros, industrial metal dancefloor fillers Tayne and Aussie melodic hardcore heroes Bloom, these are the bands you need t ...

For all intents and purposes, Acid Bath lived at the end of the world. “When you’ve got the barrel of a gun pointed at you by God, with hurricanes being thrown at you every year, people don’t worry ...

If you haven’t heard of Voivod, then you’ve clearly not been dialed into the Canadian thrash and speed metal scene ... appears on many album covers, including the band’s debut, War and ...

But if it’s returns you’re after, there were a couple of killer comebacks in the metal ... a cover of MDB’s I Am The Bloody Earth, so heavy it makes the original sound like the band were ...

Releasing over 20 studio albums throughout one's career is an achievement so impressive that very few mainstream artists have ...

"Mean Girls" will hit the Shubert Theatre and Ziggy Marley will perform in Connecticut. Plus Memorial Day parades and Cinco ...

Santana, Cage the Elephant, Morris Day and the Time, David Shaw and more musicians and bands to see on the second Locals ...