Dayal Patterson remembers the guitarist and keyboard player for Sweden’s relentlessly imaginative and eccentric black metal act. (more…)

We just spoke with Joey Demaio and Sir Christopher Lee. (more…)

Hammer scribe Greg Moffitt reports from the O2 Apollo in Manchester, as Judas Priest’s last ever world tour burns a trail towards this weekend’s High Voltage festival, and beyond. (more…)

The German industrial juggernaut that is Rammstein have finally announced the full host of UK Arena dates that will be melting your eyeballs in spring next year. (more…)

Norway’s raging blackened hardcore punk troupe and Hammer faves Kvelertak were invited as special guests when Foo Fighters played at the Telenor Arena in front of 22, 000 people in Oslo last Friday June 24. (more…)

According to Machine Head’s Rob Flynn, the band’s forthcoming seventh album, Unto The Locust, looks set to be the most the band have ever recorded. (more…)

SOAR say: “We figured you may like to have a ’round up’ of the past years releases, and a preview of what’s to come including 40 minutes of music.” (more…)

Tickets for the Deftones/Coheed & Cambria gig at the O2 Academy Brixton on November 17 go on sale officially tomorrow, but you can order them online today exclusively through Metal Hammer and our partners, Viagogo.com. (more…)

Multi-award-winning drummer, Mike Portnoy has announced that he is parting ways with Dream Theater, the prog-metal giants he co-founded back in 1985. (more…)

Bloodstock Open Air Festival have announced that the first confirmed band for next year’s bash will be none other than Norway’s theatrical, fire-breathing black metal legends, Immortal. (more…)