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"He was centre-half and you didn't go near the man. He was dangerous!" How AC/DC’s Brian Johnson ended up playing on the same football team as Chuck Norris

This headline sounds a fever dream, but it really happened in 1983

Metal Hammer · Aug 2

"I probably should've put them through hell." Tarja reflects on her public dismissal from Nightwish in 2005

Fallouts, tabloids and mended bridges: Tarja Turunen talks us through the lessons she's learned in 30 years of making music

Metal Hammer · Aug 2

Ross Robinson reveals that Slipknot were talking about splitting up just before they made Iowa: “We’re just not getting along. We’re gonna break up.”

Forget Sid Wilson – things have always been dramatic in the world of Slipknot

Metal Hammer · Aug 2

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"Rock and metal is one of the few genres that has kept a certain quality." Lacuna Coil singer says metal bands are maintaining higher standards than most in the face of industry challenges

In today's world of short attention spans, metal still sounds pretty great according to Lacuna Coil's Andrea Ferro

Metal Hammer · Aug 1

“If someone says they don’t like something, that makes me embrace it even more”: Steve Harris defends Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying album – and names the one radical thing he’d change about if

Do you love Iron Maiden’s eighth album? You’re in good company

Metal Hammer · Aug 1

"One of the things that Bruce Dickinson and Paul Di’Anno didn’t have was, they’d not seen Iron Maiden as a fan." Blaze Bayley on heart attacks, being banned by the church and his legacy with 'metal's greatest band'

Blaze Bayley is open to working with Iron Maiden again - and has ideas of how he'd love to do it

Metal Hammer · Aug 1

Jim Root responds to rumours that Sid Wilson has been fired from Slipknot: “Don’t believe everything you read. Stop. Think.”

According to a report, Sid Wilson is no longer a member of Slipknot

Metal Hammer · Aug 1

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"They liked the Butthole Surfers, they liked Iggy Pop, they liked us… we were keeping good company." How Beavis and Butt-head's approval of Thunder Kiss '65 turned White Zombie into a million-selling band

"It was our most normal song. A song that a normal person might enjoy."

Metal Hammer · Aug 1

The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Tony Iommi makes a long awaited return, Electric Callboy channel their inner boyband and Sheri Moon Zombie strikes out as a solo artist in this week's best new metal songs round up

Metal Hammer · Jul 31

"I said to him, Do you want to play on something else? He said, No, no. Your solos are good." Why Queen's Brian May is the only guest musician featured on Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi's forthcoming solo album

Tony Iommi's upcoming solo album From The Dark features his old friend Brian May on a song called Death Wake

Metal Hammer · Jul 31

Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive Loathe cover and t-shirt designed by bassist Feisal El-Khazragi

Celebrate the release of the metalcore band’s new album A Stranger To You in style

Metal Hammer · Jul 30

"You're nude under the full moon, drinking chalices of blood and hanging out with goats." Watch Twin Temple explain modern-day Satanism to America as they make their late night US TV debut on The Daily Show

"It's time for a little more Satanic Panic. Let's get it going again"

Metal Hammer · Jul 30

“2012 wasn’t that long ago but it was in terms of women and evolution. That almost made me want to double down”: How Halestorm tackled sexuality and broken relationships, and emerged with hit single I Miss The Misery

Singer/guitarist Lzzy Hale looks back on the arguments that inspired her band’s biggest song – and the cheaters and fan stories that have strengthened its meaning

Metal Hammer · Jul 30

“You’re gonna see the Crazy Train and get on the Crazy Train”: What to expect at Universal’s Ozzy Osbourne haunted houses this Halloween

The Prince Of Darkness will take over Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando and Hollywood. One of its directors explains what will happen and how it was set up.

Metal Hammer · Jul 30

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Metal Hammer · Jul 30

“I have nothing against 50 Cent, but what does that even mean?!” AFI were told to collaborate with 50 Cent in the mid-2000s

Their A&R wanted to get the attention of a label boss who’d just declared that rock’n’roll was dead

Metal Hammer · Jul 29

"Another exciting step as we continue to grow his licensing program around the world." Universal Studios launch two Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness haunted houses

Ozzy's afterlife continues

Metal Hammer · Jul 29

"It’s weird when you hear stuff from so long ago." Tony Iommi says that Black Sabbath's earliest recordings, dating back to when they were known as Earth, will be released "at some point"

Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes was originally set for release in July 2025 until Sharon Osbourne intervened on behalf of the band

Metal Hammer · Jul 29

"I make anti-racist songs for anti-racists, I make anti-fascist songs for anti-fascists." System of a Down's Serj Tankian, Kneecap and Beartooth's Caleb Shomo to guest on new Tom Morello solo album Everyone Gets Everything They Want

Tom Morello shares "which side are you on?" single Date Night

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Metal Hammer · Jul 29

“We’re not trying to prove anything – it’s a great album, it rocks!” Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi releases solo single World Alone, announces long-awaited album From The Dark

The heavy metal architect’s first solo effort since 2005 drops in October

Metal Hammer · Jul 29

"I keep thinking about what happens to creative communities during authoritarian times." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian appears on chilling cover of David Bowie's I'm Afraid Of Americans

I'm Afraid Of Americans appears on an upcoming album by composer Brendan Angelides

Metal Hammer · Jul 28

“What if the sweetest late-90s boyband love ballad suddenly turned into one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever written?” Electric Callboy subvert the soppy tropes with surprisingly heavy new single The Way You Are

A taste of their upcoming album Tanzneid, out next week

Metal Hammer · Jul 28

“The basement where we rehearsed got flooded and some of our equipment we just had to throw away”: How Meshuggah foresaw the future of extreme metal with 1995’s Destroy Erase Improve

Despite floods and two horrific hand accidents, the Swedes drew the blueprint for what heavy music would become in the 21st century

Metal Hammer · Jul 28

“The first Slipknot album is all chaos; the Stone Sour album is a baring of the soul”: Corey Taylor reveals the 10 albums that changed his life

The Great Big Mouth on his best records, Les Misérables and how great sex made him a Depeche Mode fan

Metal Hammer · Jul 28

DevilDriver’s Dez Fafara is living with a non-cancerous tumour in his head: “We can beat this f*cking thing!”

He says that it has to grow before doctors can remove it

Metal Hammer · Jul 27

"The romantic tale of a man who seduces a young lady at a Bavarian shooting party and makes love with her in a pig barn." 10 Faith No More deep cuts which perfectly capture their subversive, maverick spirit

In celebration of their imminent return, here are the 10 best Faith No More curios that may have passed you by

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