Metal Hammer UK

SUCH WERE THE words plastered over Metal Hammer when we first put Five Finger Death Punch on our cover just a little under 10 years ago. Even way back then it was clear that they were a band destined for huge things, and as this decade comes to a clo

“Bands revisiting their legacies and using it as a way of rediscovering what it is they – and the fans – loved about it all in the first place and rekindling that connection is sometimes the only thing keeping the car on the road. We’ve lost so many

An intense tune. Zoltan describes its hard-hitting lyrics as “almost sarcastic: Is it heavy enough for you now? Am I bleeding enough?” Adds Ivan: “I want to come out of the gates swinging. We’re not bending for anyone.” “It was something that I wrote

“Yesterday we lost our brother, and the world seems a little smaller because of it.” So began one of the most harrowing eight minutes of video any metal fan had thus far witnessed, as Slipknot held an emotional press conference to confirm the news th

Even with their name on the official line-up poster, it was still hard to believe: Metallica were headlining Glastonbury. The world’s biggest festival had rarely embraced metal over its four-decade history, so the news that our biggest band would be

Guardians of Blashyrkh, purveyors of vicious and epic Norwegian black metal and lords of all metal memes, Immortal were one of the underground’s great untouchables. But in 2015, it was announced that frontman Abbath had been sacked by co-founder/lyri

After 13 years, Tool finally released their fifth album, Fear Inoculum. Not only did it bag them the No.1 slot on the US Billboard Charts, it knocked off Taylor Swift’s Lover album, much to the chagrin of her fans. Cries of, ‘Who the fuck is Tool?’ e

Dark ambient has a long history. What was your entry point, and how did that affect you? “I listened to black metal bands with strong ambient sides, such as Lurker Of Chalice, Urfaust, Leviathan and Darkspace as a teen, and I discovered a Norwegian a

As one of the original progenitors of post-black metal, Manchester’s Caïna have been on the scene since 2004 (and upsetting plenty of Nazi boneheads in the process with their outspoken leftist views). Ever-evolving, perpetually experimental, the proj

Walk Beyond The Dark BLOOD MUSIC Atmospheric black metallers pull at an internal set of strings Abigail Williams’ history has been chequered with line-up shifts and break-ups. However, the music has been consistently creative and founding member Ken