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

THE POWER IS IN THE BLOOD

IT’S ON!

EVIL CUMS AGAIN! • Cult metal-horror-comedy Deathgasm is getting a sequel – and Trivium’s Matt Heafy is doing the soundtrack

HOW MANY HOURS DO YOU PRACTISE DANCE ROUTINES? • Japan’s premier metal trio answer your questions on choreography, dream cover songs, and the idea of a Babymetal festival

AARON PAULEY • The Of Mice & Men frontman picks the bands that shaped him, from Papa Roach and Tool to Sigur Rós

SHOOTING DAGGERS • London’s rabble-rousing queercore trio are readying their long-awaited debut album

MISHA MANSOOR • The Periphery guitarist/djent pioneer shares his opinions on TikTok, trolls, and why embracing technology is a double-edged sword

WINDOWPANE OPETH • Stressed, isolated and under pressure to make two albums simultaneously, Mikael Åkerfeldt crafted one of Opeth’s most popular – and haunting - tunes

ANOTHER WEAPON AGAINST METAL ELITISM • …and other things you had to say about our massive, four-cover, The New Heavy special issue last month – featuring rising stars Scene Queen, Bad Omens, Lorna Shore and Hanabie!

DOGMA • Nun more metal? Meet the Sisterhood committing sacrilege in the name of sexual liberation

LOST SOCIETY • The Finns dragging old-school influences kicking and screaming into metal’s bright new era

PLAGUEMACE • Danish death metal with a reptilian twist

SIGNS OF THE SWARM • Pittsburgh deathcore brutes offer unity against darkness

CASKETS • The Yorkshire metalcore newcomers crowdsourcing opinion 

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

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES • An epic new solo album? A mind-bending comic book series? Dead twins, ritual sex magic and ghostly occultists? We join Bruce Dickinson at Comic Con Brazil to find out what the hell The Mandrake Project really is

"IT'S THE FOUR OF US AGAINST THE WORLD!" • It’s been 15 years since Halestorm released their self-titled debut album, so we asked Lzzy Hale to pick her 15 favourite songs of their career. From mudslides to threesomes, it’s all here…

Kings Of The Stone Age • Amid the monoliths and barrows of England, something strange and pagan lurks. Occult-metal upstarts Green Lung are about to take us on a trip into Weird Britain

The class of 2024

RYUJIN • Reborn ‘samurai metal’ warriors uniting East and West, with a little help from Matt Heafy

BLACKGOLD • Limp Bizkit-approved masked marauders mixing up nu metal, “dirty” hip hop and anything else they damn well please

BRAT • Pink-loving New Orleans filthsters giving extreme metal its own Barbie moment 

ALT BLK ERA • Nu gen livewires on a mission to make space in the alternative community

GEL • Drive-thru-playing New Jersey hardcore mavericks who refuse to be pigeonholed

THE SUN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE NIGHT • Enigmatic black metallers with a hardcore streak, painting on a cosmic canvas...