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2 weeks ago | 
loudersound.com | Rich Hobson |Stephen Hill
When you've known someone like Ozzy Osbourne for over 30 years, it's safe to say you've probably got a few stories to tell. Longtime Ozz solo guitarist and metal icon in his own right Zakk Wylde certainly had a thing or two to say when asked by Metal Hammer readers what his favourite wholesome moment with The Prince Of Darkness was for this month's People Vs feature in the new issue of Metal Hammer. “I remember we played the Budokan [Arena] in Tokyo.
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3 weeks ago | 
loudersound.com | Stephen Hill
New Zealand's Alien Weaponry are one of the most exciting metal bands to have emerged in the last decade. Brothers Lewis and Henry de Jong started playing together before they had even hit their teens, and their prodigious talents and chemistry, coupled with a desire to splice crushing groove metal with influences from indigenous Māori culture is certainly a unique USP.
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1 month ago | 
loudersound.com | Stephen Hill
There aren’t many vocalists in the worlds of metal and hardcore like Jesse Leach. The Killswitch Engage frontman couldn’t be further away from the stereotypical metalcore tough guy. For one thing, he’s calling Hammer via Zoom not from a big city apartment but from his new home, tucked away in the woodlands in the Catskill Mountains, upstate New York. “I can be alone here, in the middle of nowhere,” he says.
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1 month ago | 
loudersound.com | Stephen Hill
"Come on, man!” barks Wardruna’s Einar Selvik.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Stephen Hill
4 hours agoWhat's new on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Shudder, and more! Looking for something great to watch at home? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for choice between Hulu, Netflix, Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video, Shudder, Paramount+, Peacock, and more. And that's before you even look at the vast …
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1 month ago | 
loudersound.com | Stephen Hill
“It seems like the metal purists are a little… shy about claiming us,” Chat Pile guitarist Luther Manhole admits. He’s not wrong. Despite having a sound that crosses over into a variety of scenes – from hardcore to noise rock, alt metal and beyond – and releasing critically acclaimed albums in 2022’s God’s Country and 2024’s Cool World, the Oklahoma City quartet seem to do a pretty good job of pissing people off. Not least because they’re using the iconography of extreme metal.
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2 months ago | 
loudersound.com | Stephen Hill
It's been six years since Killswitch Engage released Atonement, marking their longest gap between albums by far. The pandemic during that period appears to have been on vocalist Jesse Leach’s mind during the crafting of the band’s ninth album. He’s spoken about his consequent mental struggles, his initial rage and frustration turning to sadness and despair at the fractured state of the world. That journey can be heard throughout This Consequence.
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2 months ago | 
loudersound.com | Stephen Hill
Killswitch Engage will release their first album in six years, This Consequence, next month – and they have six years of pent-up fury to unfurl!In this exclusive interview taken from the new issue of Metal Hammer, singer Jesse Leach reveals that he initially wanted to write sage songs containing “words of wisdom”, but that the band saw through the holy positivity of his lyrics. Ultimately, the frontman’s penned 10 savage tracks, laced with trauma and anger from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
loudersound.com | Stephen Hill
Jinjer have had plenty on their minds for the past couple of years due to the Russian invasion of their homeland of Ukraine. But they’ve processed it by focusing on their fifth album, as previewed by recent singles Kafka and Someone’s Daughter. In the new issue of Metal Hammer, out now, singer Tatiana Shmayluk and bassist Eugene Abdukhanov revealed what we can expect from Duél. Hi guys. What can you tell us about the new album? Tatiana Shmayluk: “There’s something of a concept to it, shall we say.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
loudersound.com | Stephen Hill
Arch Enemy are melodeath’s ol’ reliables. While such pioneers as In Flames and At The Gates have either deviated from the genre or split up over the years, this international force have been dealing in flurrying guitars and savage tunes uninterrupted. It’s unlikely that Arch Enemy will go samba on their newly announced album Blood Dynasty, but things certainly won’t be stale either.
