Metal Hammer spoke exclusively with Scott Ian today about Dan Nelson’s departure from Anthrax, working with John Bush again, and the future of Anthrax in general.  The controversial back and forth about Dan Nelson’s firing, I mean quitting, oops, I mean illness is actually getting quite old.
In my opinion, while talented, Dan Nelson wasn’t with Anthrax long enough for the story of his leaving to warrant more than 3 days or so of front page metal news. So unless John Bush decides to permanently rejoin the band, I’ll probably leave this story with Scott Ian’s words.

Metal Hammer Magazine is hosting a contest at Future competitions. where you could win a cool blood splattered Slayer Crash Helmet. As you probably know, Slayer is headline the Unholy Alliance tour with Mastodon, Trivium and Amon Amarth. If you live in Europe and you have the means, this is a concert not worth missing. Having seen all the bands live in the past, with the exception of Amon Amarth, I must say that it’s a must-see concert. Head on over and enter for your chance to win the Slayer Crash Helmet by answering a Slayer trivia question. How …read more

Wanna know what UK’s Metal Hammer guys thinks of Death Magnetic? Hope you have about 28 minutes to spare. Click the link to watch the video
http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/metal_hammer_tv/tv2/player?clipId=479

Testament won the Metal Album Of The Year Award at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards. Um…we’re not even half way through the year and there is a plethora of other great shit coming out the second half of 2008.
But anyway, that’s cool and good for them because The Formation Of Damnation is a great album. Now if you wonder how they won just take a look at the bands they were up against. Bullet For My Valentine, Children Of Bodom, Down and Atreyu. The only band that in my opinion had a chance is Children Of Bodom, with …read more

C.O.B. Myspace Repost:
This is it! A fantastic opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the hardest rocking awards show of the year!!Spinefarm Records UK is offering 150 pairs of tickets to see Children Of Bodom perform in all their heavy metal glory at this year’s Golden Gods Awards, to be held June 16th 2008 at London’s O2.

Here are a few excerpts from an interview with Rita Haney (Dimebag Darrell’s ex-girlfriend) and Vinnie Paul (If you don’t know who Vinnie Paul is then you shouldn’t be here). Anyway It came out of Metal Hammer’s January Issue. Three years later you’d think people would stop asking the same damn questions to the same people.
Metal Hammer: Do you think that had Darrell not been murdered that he and Vinnie might have eventually made their peace with Phil, and PANTERA might have gotten back together?

Manowar have recorded both an English and German version of ‘Silent Night’
You can read an article on Manowar and the recording at Metalhammer.co.uk and download the MP3 of Manowar’s Silent Night there as well. Or to download it from here, either click on the link listen via Quick Time player or right click and “save link as” to download to you hard drive.
It’s good to see these guys wearing clothes again.
Manowar-Silent Night
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I hate this guy. Ville Valo judging Metal Hammer’s Get In The Ring with Oderus Urungus from Gwar…WTF? You may as well have Lemmy judge a rap Battle. Ville is not metal, his band is not metal, hell, his belt buckle probably isn’t even metal. Come on Metal Hammer, you can find better hosts than Ville. I think I’m going to go throw up now.
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The UK’s best metal magazine Metal Hammer Reports:
Billboard says Donington festival is the best
Download festival at Castle Donington, was named top festival at the fourth annual Billboard Touring Awards, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. Live Nation received the top promoter nod.
US’s Blabbermouth said: “The Download festival is a three-day rock/metal/punk festival held annually at the spiritual home of rock music in England — Donington Park, which hosted the Monsters of Rock festivals between 1980 and 1996, and 2002’s Ozzfest. It takes place in early summer, and is owned and managed by Live Nation.”
This year’s Download festival — …read more

As if we need another Dimebag tribute. The tributes will slowly fade through the years but his memory we’ll never forget. In the meantime we need to respect the tributes even if we grow tired of them and just want to put this tragedy behind us. Metal Hammer, the bad ass metal magazine from the glorious UK has given us, the non-celebrities a chance to be a part of their tribute. Read on…
“The time has come to pay tribute to one of the greatest heavy metal guitarists of all time and a genuine legend — a man who changed the …read more