Telekom Electronic Beats x Namilia
Telekom Electronic Beats x Namilia
Life’s Too Short to Not Be at the Helm

Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale fronts a capsule of close-fitting pieces and slogans about choosing your own direction, with the last items on view at Berlin’s KaDeWe.

Adam Lewis Jacob
Adam Lewis Jacob
Before It Goes In

Dismantled heels, chance and overlooked underground artists shape a practice that looks at what remains alive before it is fixed, archived or defined.

Berlin Fashion Week 2027
Berlin Fashion Week 2027
A Call for New Ideas

Berlin Fashion Week is already looking towards its next edition with two open calls supporting designers and new ways of experiencing fashion across the city.

Películas que queremos ver antes de que acabe el año
Películas que queremos ver antes de que acabe el año

Entre el terror queer, la ciencia ficción y las comedias incómodas, trece películas dibujan el último tramo de 2026 y ofrecen motivos para volver a las salas.

Nippa
Nippa
Roots in Motion

Nine tracks, two sides of the Atlantic and one clear centre: “Homegrown” finds the artist broadening his sound without losing sight of Tottenham.

TERE
TERE
Learning to Stay

With “riendas”, the singer-songwriter turns losing control into a playful Latin-pop reflection on love, freedom and finally finding a reason not to run.

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Coca-Cola x Sonorama Ribera 2025
Coca-Cola x Sonorama Ribera 2025
¿A qué sabe la música?

Sonorama nos ha vuelto a regalar una edición para el recuerdo, que ha sido posible gracias al apoyo incondicional de Coca-Cola a la música y los festivales.

Neopop Festival 2025
Neopop Festival 2025
Tres noches navegando en el cosmos electrónico

Bajo un cielo cubierto de luces y niebla, el festival ha reunido a la élite de la electrónica mundial en Portugal y ha anunciado un 20º aniversario que promete ser histórico.

METAL Nº52 - Story 5
METAL Nº52 - Story 5
Antonino Cafiero & Brando Prizzon

The World Through AI
The World Through AI
To Shape AI Before It Shapes Us

The Jeu de Paume Museum presents "The World Through AI," a journey through contemporary human-machine art and a dissection of the reality we are imminently facing.

Diez películas veraniegas
Diez películas veraniegas
Flirteo, olas de calor, desiertos y rituales

Del triángulo amoroso de “Challengers” a la ola de calor en “Do the Right Thing”, pasando por la inocencia de “Ponyo” o el folk horror de “Midsommar”, aquí van diez pelis que huelen a verano.

Sean Byrne
Sean Byrne
Stop Being Afraid of Sharks

Are you afraid of sharks? Then, don’t watch “Dangerous Animals” before going to the beach, even if the director is trying to subvert the fear we have of those majestic animals.

Warburton S/S 2025
Warburton S/S 2025
Back to Its Roots

Warburton revisits its roots in “Southside” Spring/Summer 2025, blending heritage and sustainable production in a sun-faded capsule captured in rural Murcia.

Black Fondu
Black Fondu
Breaking Boundaries

New drops “im not sleeping” is a raw, self-made single and video blending punk, noise, rap, and hyperpop, ahead of UK/EU tour dates this summer.

Nosce Te Ipsum: Membrum Fantasma, de Ayana V. Jackson
Nosce Te Ipsum: Membrum Fantasma, de Ayana V. Jackson
Conociéndonos a través de la fotografía

Para conmemorar su 150º aniversario, el Museo Nacional de Antropología de Madrid acoge la primera gran exposición de la artista, quien habla de esclavitud, guerrilleras mexicanas y resistencia.

Jeffrey Henson Scales
Jeffrey Henson Scales
The Transformation of Harlem

With a series capturing the intimacy of a Black barbershop in the mid 1980s, the photographer and editor tells stories about community, gentrification, and masculinity.

@lotraiart
@lotraiart
Tolkien’s Universe Gets a Makeover

An AI scientist and engineer hides behind this Instagram account that makes the fan art we didn’t know we needed: Frodo as a “Sailor Moon” character or Aragorn as a cute puppy

METAL Nº52 - Story 4
METAL Nº52 - Story 4
Boris Camaca & Domenico Scialò

Howl Cube
Howl Cube
A New Stage for Queer Culture

The collective debuts as the UK’s first queer-led live performance web series, launching with Rose Gray’s electrifying “Wet & Wild” set filmed at Howl Pride.

Miss Beige: Hay que saber estar
Miss Beige: Hay que saber estar
Diez años desafiando el ojo crítico

El Museo Cerralbo de Madrid abre sus puertas a la perspectiva mordaz de la realidad de Miss Beige, y la celebración de los diez años de activismo artístico de la heroína de la normalidad.

Gorillaz. House of Kong
Gorillaz. House of Kong
Nothing Is Ever as It Seems

The revolutionary band changed the rules as the new millennium started. Now, this four-week exhibit in London allows you to get a glimpse of their fascinating world.

Nate Langston Palmer
Nate Langston Palmer
On Go-Go Music, Gentrification, and Portraiture

The photographer celebrates the subculture surrounding Beat Ya Feet dancers, Black youth, joy, and community in “Song of Sons,” a series that’s currently exhibited in Washington, DC.

Lecturas de verano
Lecturas de verano
Recomendadas por el equipo de METAL y ACERO

Desde las vivencias reales de una musa del punk de Nueva York en los 80 hasta una novela de folk horror, pasando por cómics de superhéroes, aquí hay varios títulos para amenizar estas tardes de calor.

Samsøe Samsøe F/W 2025
Samsøe Samsøe F/W 2025
It’s About Connection

Samsøe Samsøe’s new campaign, “WHERE THE LIGHTS MEET”, captures urban style and lasting connections amid the dynamic backdrop of Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz.

Haderlump
Haderlump
Deadstock as Poetic Dialogue

Berlin-based brand Haderlump presents "Ex Libris," a collection that treats fashion as memoir, using deadstock textiles to explore identity, narrative, and cultural longevity.

METAL Nº52 - Story 3
METAL Nº52 - Story 3
Joaquin Castillo & Max Weinstein

Swatch “Mission To Earthphase - Moonshine Gold”
Swatch “Mission To Earthphase - Moonshine Gold”
Cosmic Timing

The latest Bioceramic MoonSwatch is here: “Mission to Earthphase – Moonshine Gold.” It combines a new Earthphase indicator, Snoopy, and OMEGA's Moonshine™ Gold. Only available today, August 9.

METAL Nº52 - Story 2
METAL Nº52 - Story 2
Arianna Genghini & Serena Pompei

International Cat Day 2025
International Cat Day 2025
Celebrating Our Favourite Felines

From Choupette Lagerfeld to Hello Kitty, to Sabrina’s Salem or Marvel’s Goose, here’s a list of some of our favourite cats to celebrate that today is their day.

Seis álbumes de electrónica
Seis álbumes de electrónica
Para sudar (y sentir) este verano

Del trance al dembow y del jungle al house. Seis discos que demuestran que la electrónica global vive su momento más feroz, híbrido y emocional.