FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 7 - The Untold Story

10 brilliant but overlooked albums turning 40 this year

1983 was the year heavy metal truly took off in America, but some of rock and metal's biggest bands released albums that fell by the wayside

Metal Hammer · Jul 13, 2023

Demons, hair metal and Ozzy Osbourne playing a priest: Why Trick Or Treat is the 80s’ unsung metal horror classic

In 1986, director Charles Martin Smith made an underrated horror movie lambasting the PMRC – and he got Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne and Motörhead to help.

Metal Hammer · Jul 11, 2023

"I was still up at seven in the morning, howling away at the top of my voice" - How Lemmy wrote Motorhead by Motörhead

When Motörhead recorded the definitive version of Motorhead, it was third time lucky: this version would change Lemmy's life

Metal Hammer · Jul 7, 2023

Algy Ward, bassist with The Saints and The Damned and founder of Tank, dies aged 63

The UK bass player played a role in several acclaimed punk and metal bands, yet refused to be pigeonholed by either camp

Guitar World · May 23, 2023

Algy Ward, former bassist with Tank, The Damned and The Saints, dead at 63

Alasdair Mackie 'Algy' Ward passed away on May 17, it has been confirmed

Louder · May 22, 2023

You can now listen to Motorhead's cover of Metallica classic Enter Sandman - complete with a "horrifying" animated video

Motörhead's cover of Metallica's Enter Sandman comes from from a digital EP that includes songs by Hawkwind, Bob Seger and the Sex Pistols

Metal Hammer · May 8, 2023

The unspoken truth about gardening? It is a relentless, unwinnable war

Peace is simply not possible in my garden. If I snooze, I lose. The green tide just keeps coming and I can never beat it back

The Guardian - UK · May 4, 2023

Lemmy once tried to kick Tenacious D off a Motorhead show...so they snuck on stage and played anyway

Lemmy didn't feel Motorhead needed a warm-up band for their LA show in 2011: "We were like, ‘Oh ****, Lemmy hates us."

Metal Hammer · May 2, 2023

Jeremy Deller: ‘I’m probably the only person who’s ever cried at a Motörhead concert’

Curious, down-to-earth, satirical: Jeremy Deller is an artful master of the absurd, as Laura Antonia Jordan discovers ahead of the launch of his spirited new book

Evening Standard · Apr 28, 2023

Jethro Tull legend Ian Anderson says Motörhead and Mötley Crüe are misappropriating umlauts: "it ought to make you either laugh or get angry"

Jethro Tull will be using the umlaut properly for new album RökFlöte - unlike some certain rock and metal legends

Metal Hammer · Apr 17, 2023