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In 1933, the students at California State Teachers College (now Penn West California) asked for the school to have a mascot or a symbol for their school. They decided on it being a Hammer and Tongs ...

Few modern rock stars are as charismatic as former HIM frontman Ville Valo. In 2006, Metal Hammer travelled to Italy to meet Ville and his band to try to find out what made this modern rock god tick.

With its dark fantasy world, heavy-hitting strikes, and third-person camera that stays close to the action, Blades of Fire ...

The thrash metal legends' surprise reunion rumbles on as they confirm shows in Canada and the US, and tease appearances in ...

Back in 2015, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain seemingly ended the franchise for good, with Kojima leaving Konami and the Metal Gear Solid IP behind to form his own studio. However ...

From Slayer singing about Dracula to Cradle Of Filth and Creeper taking style notes from Interview With The Vampire and Near Dark, this is how heavy metal has intersected with vampires in popular ...

Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth slams Spotify: "I want my bands to be paid because if they’re not paid, they’re not bands anymore" ...

Atlanta, now with a shot in hand and its ball in virtually the same position as L.A., opted to “throw” the strategic lodestar of the new indoor simulator league: “The Hammer.” Billy ...

Machine Head have announced their new album and released single Unbound. The song is taken from the Oakland groove metal kingpins’ upcoming record Unatoned, set to come out via Nuclear Blast and ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It sounds like something ripped out of a science fiction movie: a metal that’s as ...

Kevyn Major Howard, known for appearing as Rafterman in the 1987 Stanley Kubrick Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket, has died at the age of 69. “Kevyn Major Howard gave and gave and gave so much ...