Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this ... it's already looking to be another incredible year for heavy music, no matter what you're into.

Metallica are one of the biggest heavy metal bands in the world, but even they have music they regret, such as this album Jason Newsted can't listen to.

From Cradle of Filth to Whitechapel, Bloodywood to Spiritbox, these are some of the best metal releases of 2025 so far.

Then, in the 1980s and into the 1990s, artists like Fates Warning, Queensr che, Savatage, and especially Dream Theater ...

The former drummer for a legendary heavy metal band is dead at 73. Les Binks, who was a member of Judas Priest during a key stretch in the 1970s, died “peacefully” at a hospital in London, according ...

The Saxon frontman takes Hammer reader's questions - and definitively answers whether Vikings or Saxons would win in a fight ...

From Metallica and Lou Reed’s Lulu to Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying, the Metal Hammer team band together to defend ...

The metal I know and (sorta) love dates back to the 1980s. Little Rock’s Rwake sounds nothing like those acts, nor does its ...

The heavy metal group Disturbed is currently on tour with an upcoming show date at the BJCC Legacy arena in Birmingham on ...

Midnight pay homage to the punk and metal of their hometown on the ripper "Cleveland Metal." It's our Heavy Song of the Week.