Sinners' director Ryan Coogler has confirmed that he was inspired by the music of Metallica while making his newly released ...

Some of the Best Guitar Riffs of the 21st Century (so far) have been written by The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, ...

And of course, Hammett says Black Sabbath’s first three albums “are like gospel” to metalheads. Specifically, the Exodus co-founder lists the 1975 song “Symptom of the Universe” as one that changed ...

Released as a statement-of-intent single ahead of the parent album two weeks prior, on June 4th 2001, New Born’s swing into ...

Metallica 's Kirk Hammett named one particular guitar riff that he believes "shifted heavy metal." ...

The former drummer for a legendary heavy metal band is dead at 73. Les Binks, who was a member of Judas Priest during a key ...

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

A sold-out crowd packed into the House of Blues Orlando for a night of unique alternative metal led by Los Angeles singer ...

Fans of ‘70s action cinema will have seen Mel Novak take on Bruce Lee in Game of Death, face off with Chuck Norris in A Force ...

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

Slayer announces a one-night-only show just added to the band’s handful of headline concerts set for this summer.  Marking the band’s only U.S. East Coast performance in 2025, Slayer will headline ...

He pioneered heavy metal guitar with his dark, heavy riffs and detuned sound. Iconic for the fact that he lost the tips of his fingers, and often played with miniature thimbles — using a coin in his ...