Votum have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Metal Hammer Festival in their native Poland

Opeth have been added as the final headliner for the 10th anniversary of the Bloodstock Open Air.

Swedish progressive black metal legends Opeth have been revealed as the final headliners of this year’s Bloodstock festival! (more…)

Opeth, Bloodstock and Metal Hammer are giving one of you budding artists the chance to have your creativity commited to t-shirts! Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt is inviting Hammer readers to design a t-shirt for his death metal side-project Bloodbath. (more…)

Type O Negative vocalist / bassist Peter Steele passed away at 6pm EDT on April 14 of apparent heart failure. He was 48 years old.His surviving bandmates - guitarist Kenny Hickey, keyboardist Josh Silver and drummer Johnny Kelly - paid their respects to Peter in a statement on the band's official website, www.typeonegative.net."[He] was one of t...