Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Slayer, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Children Of Bodom, Korn, Mike Portnoy, Jason Mewes, 3 Inches Of Blood, Firewind, SXSW and more in the new issue! of Metal Hammer, on sale today! Order your copy inside.

In honour of the awesome new issue of Metal Hammer, we got Firewind and Ozzy Osbourne guitar maestro Gus G to pick his five favourite Metallica songs! Get your Download tickets inside.

Download Festival has just got even bigger! The organisers have announced an additional 19 bands to the ever-growing summer line-up. My Passion, Yashin, Ghost and La Dispute join the bill, alongside Breed 77, Feed The Rhino, Shadows Fall and Sanguine and more. The full list of bands playing the 2012 June weekender can be viewed below. Download F...

12 new bands have been added to this year's stellar Download bill, including Europe, Firewind, Halestorm, The Safety Fire, Emmure and many more! Get your Download tickets inside...

Guitar wizard Gus G has spoken exclusively to Hammer about the Greek power metallers having to tour Europe and the UK without frontman Apollo Papathanasio. (more…)