Metal Hammer UK

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.

METAL HAMMER

AND THEN THERE WERE THREE!

RITE CLUB

MERCH MADNESS • Wear your band merch on October 20and raise money for Rob Halford-endorsed charity Metal For Good

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

DID SOMEONE REALLY KIDNAP YOUR CAT? • Immortal mastermind Demonaz answers your questions on stolen moggies, global warming and black metal’s early days

JAKE ONI • From titans of metal to new talent shaping the genre’s future, these songs have given the ONI mastermind food for thought

GREEN LUNG • British occult metallers look to make the leap from cult favourites to heavy metal heroes on album #3

GINA GLEASON • From fronting an all-female Metallica tribute act to sharing stages with The Smashing Pumpkins and Cirque Du Soleil, these are the learnings of Baroness’s chief shredder

IN DUE TIME KILLSWITCH ENGAGE • The song that brought original vocalist Jesse Leach back into the fold and gave Killswitch Engage a second wind

WE ARE NOT WORTHY • …and other anguished howls, cheers, salutations and condemnations you had to offer on last issue’s Within Temptation, Ghost and Hanabie features!

THE BIG DEBATE

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

NOTHING, NOWHERE. • Former SoundCloud alt-rapper embraces 00s nostalgia on his star-studded new album

BEYOND EXTINCTION • Essex deathcore youngsters fire off barrages of brutality

JAAW • Alt metal and noise rock veterans unite to create industrial-noise bedlam

DIRGE • The Indian band finding catharsis through emotional post-metal

PEST CONTROL • Spiky 80s style crossover thrash from the north of England

IN THE KNOW • What your favourite bands are listening to

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

THE POWER OF THREE • In April, Babymetal welcomed third member Momometal to the band and began their next chapter as a trio once more. But what’s next, and what’s all this about spin-off band Metalverse?

MOTORBIKE-STRADDLING, DEFECATION-INDUCING, FRED DURST-APPROVED DIGITAL PUNK-METAL NOISE? WARGASM HAVE GOT IT COVERED.

WARGASM MATHS!

THE REVENGE OF DAVE MUSTAINE • Forty years ago, Megadeth emerged from a maelstrom of drugs, carnage and raw fury. Now, the man at the centre of it looks back at the birth of one of metal’s most iconic bands

A ROCK STAR IS BORN? • He’s headlined Wembley. He worships the rock gods. He wears a goddamn bandana. But is Beartooth’s Caleb Shomo ready to embrace being a rock star, once and for all?

BRAVE NEW WORLD • A dizzying concept, an imagined world, virtual reality and AI – with War Of Being, Tesseract have made the most ambitious prog metal album of the year

BLAZE BAYLEY • His motorcycle was set on fire mid-gig, he’s clashed with super-producer Rick Rubin, replaced Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden and fought back after a major heart attack - we speak to metal’s great survivor

''ARE YOU A QUITTER A GR NOT?" •...