"It is an incomprehensible void that he is leaving in our lives"

Tom Morello confirms charity expectations as more than five million fans access pay-per-view livestream

Heads it‘s King Charles, tails it’s Eddie

Celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with the inaugural issue of Metal Hammer Italy – also featuring Ghost, Sleep Token, Machine Head and more

Norwegian heavy proggers Green Carnation will release A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia in September

We've teamed up with cult heavy metallers Night Demon for an exclusive competition

The Canadian quartet played Soft Spine and probably rattled a few US television sets in the process

It’s only been out for a month, but Amazon just dished out the first discount on Turnstile’s 4.5-star landmark album

NWOBHM pioneer Kevin Riddles was also a member of Tytan, Paul Samson's Empire and Baphomet

Panic attacks, substance abuse, wrecked hotel rooms and backstage visits by David Bowie and Lou Reed: photographer Jonathan Ranch had a front seat to it all when he followed NIN on tour

15 years in, it's obvious Babymetal were never meant to be just a flash-in-the-pan viral sensation

Metallica and Guns N’ Roses threw in some curveball covers at the Back To The Beginning show

Filing down the biggest heavy metal show ever to pick out some key moments was hard - but I did it anyway

Judas Priest, Lord Of The Lost and Warkings are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Still confused about the details of this weekend's epic final Black Sabbath show? We got you

Sharon Osbourne on Ozzy, Randy Rhoads, Bill Ward and Tom Morello, and why she won't be borrowing Dave Grohl's throne

Members of Jinjer, Blood Incantation and Rivers Of Nihil explain the current rapid evolution of a genre that broke out 40 years ago

King Diamond rolls back the years with a bombastic, theatrical showing in Murcia

Our blow-by-blow review of the biggest heavy metal show ever as Black Sabbath triumphantly bow out

Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon and Hatebreed supported Slayer for their spectacular UK comeback

“I think we did Mr Flint proud”

No offence Jarvis, but THIS is hardcore

Iron Maiden come back to their birthplace and – armed with a new drummer, a stacked setlist and some extravagant visuals – show 75,000 people just how much they’ve grown

"The crowd in front of the Other Stage is a bubbling sea of pits, dancing, headbanging and fist-pumping"

The UK’s premier proprietor of grime metal makes a big impact on the Greenpeace stage