Liz Scarlett

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Is your home metal enough? Kit yourself out with EMP's Cyber Weekend sale, offering tonnes of metal homeware with great savings

By: Liz Scarlett

Welcome maggots into your house with this Slipknot doormat available in EMP's Cyber Weekend sale, alongside other killer metal decor and home goods by Black Sabbath, Metallica, Iron Maiden and more

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Ozzy’s retirement, belly dancers, and whales flying around an arena: the best metal concerts of 2025, as picked by Metal Hammer’s writers

By: Matt Mills, Kiarash Golshani, Joe Daly, Rich Hobson, Paul Brannigan, Merlin Alderslade, Jonathan Selzer, Liz Scarlett, Jack Rogers, Eleanor Goodman

The Hammer team name their greatest gigs of the year, from stadium extravaganzas to sweaty basement dust-ups

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"I felt misunderstood by the German music industry. They called me too extreme." From Eminem teaching her about authenticity to the Nirvana song that made her pick up a guitar, this is the soundtrack to Mimi Barks' life

By: Liz Scarlett

Nu gen provocateur Mimi Barks talks us through the songs that have defined her life

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"I got $100 to do the job, and it was a full day with Michael Bolton." From Saturday Night Live and King Diamond to Eurovision and pagan rituals, Myrkur has tales to tell

By: Liz Scarlett

Amalie Bruun (aka Myrkur) shares how she entered Eurovision to honour her late father, how she ended up on a viral SNL skit and why her five-year-old is friends with King Diamond

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"We’ve had a handful of women come up to us and say, 'Hey, I started this project because of you.'" Blackwater Holylight's mix of witchy shoegaze and fuzzy heavy metal is so good it's making everyone want to be in a band

By: Liz Scarlett

Blackwater Holylight have produced one of 2026's best metal albums, and they're proud to see their influence growing

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“People think that Enjoy The Silence could be one of our songs. That was the whole point”: From modern goth anthems to a career-defining Depeche Mode cover, Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia breaks down her life in 11 tracks

By: Liz Scarlett

The vocal dynamo looks back at her three decades on Italian metal’s frontlines

Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia breaks down her career in 11 songs

By: Liz Scarlett

The vocal dynamo looks back at her three decades on Italian metal’s frontlines

How Blackwater Holylight are inspiring young women in the metal underground

By: Liz Scarlett

Blackwater Holylight have produced one of 2026's best metal albums, and they're proud to see their influence growing

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“I’m out here owning my weird because of Alice Cooper. He gave me the permission”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale reveals the 10 albums that shaped her career

By: Liz Scarlett

From Black Sabbath to Björk, this is the music that moulded modern hard rock’s leading lady

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A year without Ozzy Osbourne: all the biggest tributes, covers and controversies since the Prince Of Darkness’ death

By: Matt Mills, Liz Scarlett

Award wins, all-star celebrations, a divisive AI avatar – these are the ways that Ozzy’s passing rocked the heavy metal world