Metal Hammer’s 50 best albums of 2024
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024
“I was fired after two months because I was playing guitar with a dildo and being an idiot”: The wild life and crazed career of Devin Townsend, metal’s misunderstood maverick
From defecating in Steve Vai‘s guitar case to puppet-based concept albums, Devin Townsend is out there on his own
We celebrate 50 years of Yes’s Relayer on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
Plus Marillion, Clannad, Pavlov's Dog, Klone, Swallow The Sun, Dilemma and more
“Bowie comes in wearing a black jumpsuit, holding a can of Heineken and a big bit of cheese”: Simple Minds on the night David Bowie and Iggy Pop invaded their studio
The pair roped in the Scottish rockers for some football-style chanting when they found themselves working in the studio next door
“It was me being a complete and utter dunderhead”: Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield on the guitar solo where he went full method
There was more to Bradfield’s searing guitar part on this classic Manics cut than flashy playing, the singer and guitarist explains
“When I found out you could do the Hawaii Five-0 theme in chicken noises, that became the challenge”: Robert Ramsay’s silly and serious album Confound And Disturb
The self-described “Chief Audience Abuser” with Tinyfish and Shineback explored the idea that he might be a musician on 2017 release – but also expounded...