Five predictions for the next Ghost album.

Taylor Hawkins passed away today at age 50. These are some reflections of an afternoon I spent with him at his home in October, 2019.

Kvaen’s Jacob Björnfot discusses his band’s latest release, The Great Below, along with the stunning success of 2020’s The Funeral Pyre.

One of metal’s rising powers talks about growing up in war-torn Lebanon, being arrested and held for three days on suspicion of devil worship and his forthcoming new LP, which Metal Hammer has flagged as one of the year’s most hotly-anticipated releases.

Mizmor’s sixth studio campaign sees the Portland doomslayer exploring life’s biggest questions.

When personalities clash, lineups change. Here are some that worked out really well, along with a few others that didn’t.

First released in 1980, Back In Black might not be AC/DC’s all-time greatest work (it’s Powerage), but it remains one of the most important albums of the modern era; a brilliant benchmark of howling, bullshit-free rock and roll that has both stood the test of time and extended far beyond the spheres of hard rock and heavy metal.

In late 2018, Judas Priest’s founding guitarist K.K. Downing, – who left the band in 2011 — released Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest (DaCapo Press).