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.

LIVENATION

MEET THE BANDS

WELCOME TO THE NEW HEAVY: 2024

METAL HAMMER

KEVIN ‘GEORDIE’ WALKER 1958 - 2023

MAIDEN’S ART ATTACK

BIRTH, SCHOOL, LIFE AND NAPALM DEATH • Thirty-six years after joining grindcore pioneers Napalm Death, bassist Shane Embury has released an autobiography that reveals all about his life behind the audial anarchy

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU SAW AS A POLICEMAN? • Tesseract frontman Dan Tompkins faces down your questions on dream duets, career changes and inspiring the next generation of British prog metal

KATERINA ECONOMOU • The screamer-in-chief of New England’s Escuela Grind explains how Prince and Converge set her on the path to grindcore

BLIND CHANNEL • Finland’s Eurovision superstars are blazing a path as the “Backstreet Boys of metal” with album #5

DAVID ELLEFSON • The ex-Megadeth bassist talks about addiction, his sex scandal and starting afresh in new death metal band, Dieth

ENEMY SEVENDUST • The song that sparked rumours of B-list beef, but instead showed that even with nu metal dying, Sevendust weren’t going down without a fight

SOUTH OF SALEM

TRIVAX

FUMING MOUTH

TO KILL ACHILLES

HYPERIA

HOARD ALMIGHTY

THE MYSTERIOUS NOAH SEBASTIAN • Bad Omens are one of the most-hyped metal bands in the world right now. So why does their frontman seem so unhappy about it?

THIS IS THAR AJUKU-CORE • Brash, bold, colourful and chaotic - enter the world of Hanabie, Japan’s most exhilarating new metal hopes

NUCLEARBLAST

HOW DEAOCHRE NOT FUN AGAIN • With their symphonic bombast and viral pig squeals, Lorna Shore have reinvented the genre. Will they be the first ones to headline arenas?

SCENE QUEEN • Misogynists, creeps and gatekeepers beware – Scene Queen’s sex-positive, genremashing bimbocore is set to rule 2024

50 Albums you need to hear in 2024 • From Kerry King and Korn to Killswitch Engage and Kittie, this will be your soundtrack to the next 12 months

THE HAMMER INTERVIEW • From the highs of rock stardom to the downward spiral that nearly finished him off for good, here are the life and times of the dark prince of love metal

THE WILD RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF CHILDREN OF BODOM • They were the former schoolmates who put Finnish metal on the map in the late 90s. But the demons that drove frontman Alexi Laiho would destroy the band – and the singer himself

96 BABYMETAL • Kawaii metal queens spread the wonder across two nights at the Roundhouse

LORD OF THE LOST • Industrial goth mischief-makers toy with the classics on their covers album

BRIGHT & BLACK

SMALL MERCIES

CHILDREN OF BODOM

FROSTBITE ORCKINGS • AI-generated outfit fail to rewrite the fantasy metal code

LUCIFER • Stockholm’s occult rock mesmerists find glory in the gloom

WORLD SERVICE

RYUJIN • Japan’s Matt Heafy-mentored folk/power metallers enter a new era

SAXON •...