This Consequence is the sound of pent-up aggression, a creative release after Killswitch were stopped in their tracks.

Warbringer frontman John Kevill shouts out the best of new school thrash with bands who got their start in the 2010s or later ...

Thrash metal was already in development when Rick Rubin started, but he felt it didn't hit its stride until certain bands came to the forefront.

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

The best European metal bands are a key component in the genre’s history and evolution. It is impossible to understand what ...

Many fans agree that Metallica's first four albums, released between 1983 and 1988, were their finest. So, we ranked them.

The crowd inside Franklin Music Hall Saturday night was, in many respects, a standard mass of heavy metal mayhem. Pumping fists, brutal mosh pits, a man the size of an NFL linebacker charging to the ...

The likes of Trivium and Opeth had banner years in 2005, but these master-strokes proved there should have been a bit more ...

Lars Ulrich has always been outspoken, especially about the brilliance of Metallica, but he especially doesn't like being copied.

These excellent bands are true heavy metal legends, with plenty of killer tracks in their impressive discographies... just not from these albums.