Cold Nights, Hot Year
As autumn rolls into winter, it has gradually got darker and colder where I am – just outside London – but when I realise that...
“It was my first time hearing heavy metal – and I was terrified of it.” Here are 8 spooky metal classics you need on your Halloween playlist this year
Team Metal Hammer picks out some of the spookiest and most terrifying tracks you need to metal up your Halloween mix in 2025
“How all deluxe releases should be done”: The latest upmarket makeover of The Who’s Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive
The Who’s last blast with Keith Moon
“Leonardo DiCaprio released a movie with the exact same storyline. It was as if he’d bugged the room! We scrapped the whole thing”: When fate intervened to destroy an art-rock record, its creators wrote an album about fate
New concept LP begins with the true story of a baggage handler who stole a plane and killed himself, and goes on to celebrate a...
“I was in the hotel with Joni Mitchell, but then the helicopter pilots decided they wanted more money”: The last interview with Terry Reid
Touring with Marvin Gaye when he was 16, being pals with Aretha Franklin, turning down Led Zeppelin, making wonderful solo albums… Late British singer/guitarist Terry...
“Idiosyncrasies flow naturally; melodies hit hard, seamlessly twisting in unexpected ways”: Gazpacho’s Magic 8-Ball explores characters at breaking point
Norwegian art-rockers deliver tightly-focused songs after a Hollywood clash forced them to reboot their 12th album