The Metal Hammer Podcast

Exclusive interviews, the essential album reviews and the biggest issues affecting metal courtesy of Team Hammer and guests

Episodes

201: The 10 Best Albums Of 2002

February 16, 2022 • 74 mins

We're feeling nostalgic on this week's show, so we thought we'd take a trip back twenty whole years to 2002! Merl and Steve discuss what was a unique and rather transitional year for heavy music - nu metal had peaked, the metalcore and emo explosions hadn't properly begun yet, and few metal heavyweights released brand new studio albums. And yet, there was still some cracking music, so the lads both picked their five favourite album...

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200: Review Round-Up - Zeal & Ardor, Cult Of Luna, Amorphis, Bloodywood

February 11, 2022 • 52 mins

And the big releases keep coming! Merl and Steve sift through some absolute bangers this week as we discuss whether the new Zeal & Ardor album has brought Manuel Gagneux's vision to new heights, whether Cult Of Luna's The Long Road North is up to their usual impeccable standards, how Amorphis have proved they're folk metal's most reliable band with Halo and why Bloodywood may have just dropped the funnest album of 2022.

Buy the late...

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199: Review Round-Up - Korn, Venom Prison, Rolo Tomassi, Turnstile

February 3, 2022 • 76 mins

It's the first of what we can safely assume is going to be a large number of absolutely stacked review round-ups for 2022! Merl and Steve get stuck into new Korn album Requiem and discuss why sometimes less is more (and why, all these years later, no one does Korn like Korn); we also heap praise on what is surely the best metal album of 2022 so far in Venom Prison's masterful new opus, Erebos; we rate the new Rolo Tomassi record, W...

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198: 2022 Previewed (Part 2)

January 27, 2022 • 45 mins

It's finally here! Part 2 of our big 2022 preview has arrived, and on this week's show Merl and El answer all your burning questions about the year ahead. Questions such as: will touring really come back to life this year? What are the best festival lineups of the year? Why can't anyone clash with Iron Maiden at Download? And what's gonna be the Metal Hammer album of 2022?!

We also discuss the When We Were Young Festival bill that h...

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197: The Legacy Of Every Time I Die

January 20, 2022 • 52 mins

With everyone upset by the untimely and, let's be honest, pretty messy demise of Every Time I Die, we decided to push Part 2 of our 2022 Preview to next week and instead have Merl and Steve pay tribute to the career, influence and legacy of one of modern heavy music's very greatest bands.

From debut album Last Night In Town setting them up as one of the more promising hardcore bands on the early 00s scene; to their embracing of sout...

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