Come in and make your predictions for 2009 and we’ll re-post this thread at the end of the year and highlight just how right (and wrong!) we can all be. (more…)

Check out James Gill’s live review of up-and-coming prospects, Diagonal. (more…)

Inspired by digging out awesome albums that we’ve not heard for ages over the festive period, the ‘Hammer blog brings you the ‘Lost Gems’ challenge.

We’re challenging you to head on in to this page and leave us an album that you’ve played recently that you’ve not paid for ages in our comments section and we’ll send a goodie bag to the entry that makes us rub our chins the hardest.

It’s a Youtube video that does exactly what it says on the tin. One day, we’ll be in an interview with someone and they’ll tell us that they like Turtles too.

Ever wondered what would happen if Mary Poppins was a horror movie? Well this spoof trailer is genuinely enough to make you lay a turtle head in your undercrackers.

With today being a day for all things holy, we thought we’d share with you the most metal evangelist possible. (more…)

Christmas comes but once a year but there’s a reason to give praise to Joey DeMaio everyday! (more…)

MH’s Gill: “Am I the only person who thinks these guys are the most promising heavy British band since Johnny Truant and Sikth?”
Early Grave video

According to Australia’s ABC News, two University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers concluded in a study published in the British Medical Journal this week that headbanging to a typical heavy metal tempo could cause mild traumatic brain injury or concussion, and neck injury, particularly as the tempo of the music and angle of movement increased.
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We’re not going to explain. Just see what sheffield rock-core upstarts got up to at Hard Rock Hell the other week. The Plight naked in North Wales.