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Babymetal are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer as they prepare to unleash star-studded new album Metal Forth
Japan’s biggest metal band and their special guests take us inside the exciting new album, only in the new issue of Metal Hammer
Babymetal get skull-smashingly heavy with Slaughter To Prevail on new single Song 3, postpone album release yet again
The grisly track will appear on Babymetal’s Metal Forth, now due on August 8, and on Slaughter To Prevail’s upcoming album
Download festival comments after artists speak out over “unsafe” toilets for trans people
Several musicians complained on social media after reports that the UK’s biggest rock/metal festival does not want trans people using the toilets of the gender they transitioned to
UK post-metal dynamos Svalbard to break up in 2026, announce farewell tour
Talking exclusively to Metal Hammer, singer/guitarist Serena Cherry describes her band’s split as a creative decision and says they have one song left to release
A.A. Williams reveals UK and Europe tour plans
London post-rock luminary A.A. Williams details upcoming shows
Watch Ghost's Tobias Forge sing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as Brian May and Roger Taylor look on
The performance came as Queen were awarded the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm by Sweden's King Carl Gustaf
The woman on the cover of Black Sabbath's debut album is raising funds for a cat rescue project
"Many Black Sabbath fans have asked me online for my autograph and to this day nobody has one" - Louisa Livingstone
Iron Maiden have played a surprise-stuffed first show of their 50th Anniversary tour - watch videos
Scream for me, Budapest!
Watch metalcore pioneers Converge play chaotic new song WWNTS live
The track is one of two new songs the Massachusetts band have added to their setlist since recording their next album
Family say taking their daughter to see Metallica saved them from deadly truck crash
The McKee family say that going to bed early to drive their daughter to a Metallica show the next day removed them from the path of a pickup truck that crashed into their living room
Watch Metallica rip through Enter Sandman on tour in Virginia, USA
Metallica release pro-shot footage of Enter Sandman performance in front of raucous audience on North American tour
Ice Nine Kills issue sarcastic apology for using AI-generated promo picture
The horror-metalcore band came under fire for allegedly using AI to promote a merch sale over the weekend
Jim Root wants Slipknot’s new album to be made like the debut and Iowa
The guitarist also reveals that he has “six finished arrangements” for the nu metal icons’ eighth studio album
Incubus played two sold-out New York City shows days after 9/11
Brandon Boyd tells Metal Hammer about how selling out the Hammerstein Ballroom on September 15 and 16, 2001 brought “lightness in a dark period of time”
"I'm scared for my life and career at this point." Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy jokes he's worried about his job after spate of drummer firings
Josh Freese, Zak Starkey and Jason Bonham have been let go – which Portnoy says makes it a weird time for drummers
See Electric Callboy get “darker” and “more serious” with twisted new song/video Revery
Germany’s synth-metal party boys have reinvented themselves in dramatic fashion
Music agent Dave Shapiro and ex-Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams die in San Diego plane crash
Shapiro and Williams died in a crash that injured eight people on the ground and is presumed to have killed six overall
