What do you mean it’s August already?! Wasn’t it just New Year’s Day last week?! Sadly, the passage of time seems to only go faster and faster as the year continues, but the good news is that means ...

Team Metal Hammer picks out some of the spookiest and most terrifying tracks you need to metal up your Halloween mix in 2025 ...

Here are the 67 best rock and metal songs of 2024! While 67 songs feels like quite a generous crop, these standouts represent just a small, small percentage of the thousands of new tracks released ...

What are some of the most metal-sounding songs by grunge bands? Although grunge is considered a subgenre of rock, it was undoubtedly influenced by heavy metal as well. Drop-tuned guitars are one of ...

Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

Max Martin and Shellback started out in heavy metal bands before transforming the sound of pop music in the 21st century.

Ozzy Osbourne was the premier voice in heavy metal. When he summoned all the terror in his being to sing “What is this which stands before me?” on the 1970 song ...

Has the heavy metal era passed? Many fans of the genre would laugh in your face if you ask them this question about a rock music genre that probably has the most sub-genres around and has, since its ...