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For over three decades, Metal Hammer has brought the biggest and the best in the world of metal each and every single month. From exclusive interviews with the biggest bands in our game to celebrating the rise of the new artists taking our genre into its next chapter, we represent heavy music in all its many forms, offering world class features, unbiased reviews and special looks inside the scenes no one else will talk about. Be it heavy metal, punk, hardcore, grunge, alternative, goth, industrial, djent or the stuff so bizarre it defies classification, you'll find it all here and backed by the best writers and photographers in our game. If you like heavy music on any level, welcome to your new favourite magazine.

I WAS A TEENAGE NU METALLER

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MICK HUTSON 1965 - 2023 • From stopping New York traffic for Metallica to getting Dimebag Darrell into a stretch Hummer, we remember the Hammer photographer who made some of metal’s most iconic images

SABBATH BALLET SABBATH • Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has teamed up with Birmingham Royal Ballet for the world’s first full heavy metal production

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

WHY DID YOU FIGHT SO MUCH? • Max and Iggor Cavalera unite to tackle your questions about brotherly love, celebrity fans and the possibility of a Sepultura reunion

WOLFGANG VAN HALEN • From emo teen to Mammoth WVH mastermind, these songs have shaped the young Van Halen’s life

WITHIN TEMPTATION • The Dutch symphonic legends set their sights on bright new stylistic horizons

JOE DUPLANTIER • The Gojira vocalist reflects on what pop music, family and activism have taught him

HALO SOIL • How a bunch of ex-death metallers got over being gazumped by Disturbed to deliver one of the greatest rock club bangers of the 2000s

HANABIE • With high-energy songs about Gen-Z life, these four young women are Japan’s latest viral metal sensations

ASHENSPIRE • Anarchist black metallers imagine a boot stamping on a face forever

LANA DEL RABIES • Arizona’s industrial dissident finds forgiveness in the aftermath of fury

GRIEF SYMPOSIUM • East Anglian doom merchants take their cues from 90s legends

IN THE KNOW

WARKINGS • European history enthusiasts write heavy metal epics for the ages

HOARD ALMIGHTY • Box sets, underground oddities and all the essential merch you need this month

THE GREAT NU METAL TAKEOVER • From the rise of Evanescence and Dimebag Darrell’s last hurrah to Guitar Hero and Jackass, the 2000s was the decade where everything happened. And it began with Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Papa Roach and nu metal’s blockbuster era

Reinbenting The Steel • Bruised from the implosion of Pantera, Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul dusted themselves down and launched Damageplan – one of the great lost bands of the 2000s

Axe maniacs • Guitar Hero was the ultimate 2000s metal videogame. How would teenage thrashers Tortured Demon handle something that was massive when they were still in nappies?

METAL VS BUSH • Long before Donald Trump, there was George W. Bush – America’s most divisive President and target for metal’s finest

The 50 GREATEST ALBUMS OF THE 2000s • PAUL TRAVERSNu metal, melodeath, metalcore, industrial and a man in a ridiculous catsuit – this is the ultimate soundtrack to the decade

CHOUL'S OUT! • Joey Jordison’s glam-punk side-project Murderdolls worshipped horror movies and pissed off Billy Idol. As Wednesday 13 remembers, it was a side of the Slipknot drummer that fans had never seen before

LOONEY TUNES • Lovingly spoofing metal bands, and featuring voiceovers from the likes of Mark Hamill, James Hetfield and Corpsegrinder, Metalocalypse put our scene back on the screen...