metal

Two elderly men escaped a German nursing home on Friday to attend Wacken Open Air, a festival dubbed as the world’s largest heavy metal festival. If that isn’t goals we’re not sure what is. Read more: Alice In Chains to replace Avenged Sevenfold at Louder Than Life Festival  According to German news outlet Deutsche Welle, […]

In a bit of underground music news that’s somehow not a Hard Times article, Swedish prog-metal innovators Meshuggah have offered a tongue-in-cheek apology for inciting the rapid-paced, highly repetitive metal sub-genre known as djent. Read more: Here’s Lil Uzi Vert moshing at a deathcore show As pointed out by Revolver, Meshuggah guitarist Mårten Hagström recently […]

Hip-hop star Lil Uzi Vert was apparently feeling the metal vibes last night. Enjoy some video of the “XO Tour Llif3” rapper moshing and jamming out to New Jersey deathcore champs Lorna Shore at an eclectic death metal show in Philadelphia. Read more: 10 of the most punk Crayola crayon colors Lil Uzi Vert and […]

Trivium‘s Matt Heafy is no stranger to covering songs from outside of his band’s own genre, and now the frontman has given us a metal twist on Britney Spears‘ classic “…Baby One More Time.” Watch the vid from Heafy’s Twitch channel below. Read more: ‘Metal Disney’ amps up the Mouse’s classic jams The ongoing “Kiichichaos […]

Legendary drummer Vinnie Paul, co-founder of metal band Pantera and current member of Hellyeah, has died at age 54. Read more: Pantera emojis are officially here UPDATE: According to TMZ, Vinnie’s family has stated that the musician “died in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas. His body’s been turned over to the medical […]

Ozzy Osbourne paid tribute to his late friend and legendary Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards on Monday. The Black Sabbath singer and solo artist, who is currently on his farewell tour, spoke of contacting Lemmy on the day he died in December 2015. Read more: Kid drums through Metallica’s […]

[Photo by: Mikael Eriksson] Ghost frontman Tobias Forge (aka Cardinal Copia, formerly Papa Emeritus I-III) is speaking out about the lawsuit brought against him by former band members. Read what the Papa has to say about the Ghost lawsuit below. Fans of the Swedish heavy metal act are no doubt aware that former Nameless Ghouls […]

Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta has started new Youtube channel, and unsurprisingly, it’s pretty metal. Read more: Fan gets kicked out of Slayer Gig, swims back in Metal Dudes Doing Non-Metal Things is a new Youtube series that showcases the most metal guys, doing not-so metal things. For the first episode of the series, Jasta teamed up with Light […]

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan commiserated with Metallica's Lars Ulrich on the often “disrespected” state of metal music during an appearance on the drummer's radio show on Apple Music Beats 1—check it out. Read more: Halsey defends her emo upbringing As pointed out by MetalSucks—which mentioned Corgan's early-aughts alt-rock supergroup Zwan and then posted an […]

[Photo by: SumerianRecords/YouTube] The hills are alive with the sound of… metal music theater? Yes, indeed! While promoting his debut solo album Black Labyrinth, out May 25, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis has said he someday wants to write a “dark, metal” musical. Read more: Jonathan Davis details his new solo tracks But aren't musicals lame? […]

[Photo by: Cattle Decapitation, Colorado State University] Two Native American brothers from the Mohawk tribe were removed from a campus tour at Colorado State University after a parent on tour became “nervous,” calling the police on them for “looking suspicious” and that their clothing featured some “dark stuff.” What were the metalhead fans wearing? Cattle Decapitation […]

[Photo by: Pexels] A gathering of metal music lovers in Scotland was recently mistaken for a suicide cult and reportedly “rescued” by police after their group was erroneously linked with a possible kidnapping by a passerby, as covered by the NME. Read more: The album cover that's flipping metalheads out A “full-scale rescue operation” was launched […]

Death metal mainstays the Black Dahlia Murder and Whitechapel will hit the road for a huge co-headlining tour in the U.S. this summer, each act playing one of their albums in full. See the complete list of cities and dates below. Read more: Study shows metal music is good for your brain With support from […]

[Photo by: Slayer/YouTube] Before heading out on their final North American tour as a band, metal veterans Slayer are assessing their past in new web documentary series called Early Days. Catch the first episode of the new Slayer doc down below. Read more: Watch these kids cover Slayer's “Raining Blood” The opening installment of Slayer's […]

[Photo by: Pexels] Need a reason to crank up the jams? Listening to metal music can actually improve your mental health, according to a new study published in the Journal of Community Psychology. Looks like it's time to start headbanging! Read more: Study explains why we don't like new music In “Contextualizing the Mental Health […]

[Photos by: Scott Ian/Instagram, Martin Hausler] Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian is feeling optimistic about Slayer's final world tour—on which his band will be a supporting act—despite being taken by surprise with the announcement that the trek will be the metal band's last run. Read more: Slayer announce final world tour Speaking to Detroit's WRIF Meltdown […]

Merriam-Webster is including metal, the adjective, as one of their words to watch—and it could end up in the dictionary. Read more: QUIZ: Can you guess which crazy metal band name is real? The dictionary points out that, although metal has been a noun since the 13th century, new examples have shown the word is being used as […]

[Photo by: Herring & Herring] Metallica's Lars Ulrich is digging deep into the band's punk and thrash origins in a new interview clip from the upcoming documentary The Rise Of LA Thrash Metal. Watch Ulrich elucidate Metallica's genre roots below. Read more: Metallica made the top rock album of the year The Rise Of LA […]

[Photo by: Netflix, Alex Morgan] Who'd have ever guessed that Cannibal Corpse would go “Big Willie Style“? One of the veteran death metal band's signature tunes has ended up in Will Smith's new Netflix movie, Bright. Check out the video below. Read more: Cannibal Corpse on why catchy isn't a bad word in death metal […]