Meshuggah are aiming to release their eighth album next year, drummer Tomas Haake has revealed. And he's offered a sneak preview of one of the band's songs in progress

In what is officially both the Best Gig Week Ever and the Most Nuts Metal News Week Ever, Merl, Steve and Amit review gigs from Devin Townsend and Meshuggah, Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, Bring Me The Horizon and Crossfaith, plus talk Tim Lambesis (WTF?!), Allen West (WTF?!?!), Frankie Palmeri (WTF?!?!?!?!?!?) and much more.

HOLY TECH METAL, BATMAN! Meshuggah and Devin Townsend will team up for a mindblowingly huge show at London's Brixton Academy on May 3 - and US djent chums Periphery are supporting! Not bad. Not bad at all. Get your tickets inside.

HOLY TECH METAL, BATMAN! Meshuggah and Devin Townsend will team up for a mindblowingly huge show at London's Brixton Academy on May 3 - and US djent chums Periphery are supporting! Not bad. Not bad at all. Get your tickets inside.

Black Sabbath, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica, Mastodon, Gojira, Sabaton, Fear Factory, Ihsahn, Tesseract, Architects, Cancer Bats, Meshuggah, a FREE CD and more all feature in the new issue of Metal Hammer, out next week! Order your copy inside right now...