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.

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ARTISTS ARE PEOPLE TOO!

A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN • Avenged Sevenfold launch their first-ever VR gig – featuring flowers, walls of fire and giant Deathbats!

MIKE SHINODA • The Linkin Park legend talks 80s pop, trance, and how Anthrax and Public Enemy showed him the way

VENDED

MICHAEL POULSEN • The Volbeat frontman and Asinhell guitarist talks Elvis, the underground metal scene, and getting high on running

MILQUETOAST HELMET • They helped inspire nu metal and got offers from Hollywood, but New York’s Helmet were alt metal weirdos through and through

DELILAH BON

OXYMORRONS • The Fever 333- and Corey Taylor-approved genre-hoppers breaking down boundaries in alternative music

RESOLVE • The French metalcore hopefuls looking to turn viral success into real-world results

NO TERROR IN THE BANG

METH.

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

THE RULE OF TOOL • Rebellious. Secretive. Fractious. We went to LA for an audience with Maynard James Keenan and Adam Jones, to uncover the inner workings of the band

HAWXX • This month’s cover stars have inspired countless young bands in different ways. Here are five who are using Tool’s influence to come up with something new

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MOUNTAIN CALLER

PRIME EVIL • Praise Satan – Slayer are back to play festival shows later in 2024. But this is how the legend started, more than 40 years ago with Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits

″THE WORLD IS READY FOR US NOW″ • They rose to fame in the 2000s before vanishing in the 2010s. Now the rejuvenated Kittie are back with a fearsome new album, and they’re making up for lost time

ICE,ICE BABY! • Having faced tragedy, Frozen Soul write death metal anthems about the coldness of life. But beneath their hardened exterior lies a genuine warmth and an ability to spark joy

"I'M NOT ADAM,I'M NOT EVE,I'M THE SNAKE IN PARADISE" • Born intersex, raised as a girl, identifying as a hermaphrodite, Raven van Dorst of genre-blurring Dutch rockers Dool is on a mission to challenge attitudes and change minds

SCREAM BLOODY GORE • In 1993, iconic videogame Doom and its metal-inspired soundtrack changed the world. More than 30 years on, its influence is as huge as ever

THE 20 MOST METAL VIDEOGAMES EVER • Doom might be the OG metal videogame, but these zombie-infested, car-smashing, Ozzy-featuring classics took things way past 11

KORPIKLAANI • Finland’s folk metal boozers stir in a dash of new blood

BIG | BRAVE • Canada’s avant-doom adventurers go all in on the immersion

DEICIDE • Unholy death metal legends bring out the sulphurous smelling salts

DOOL • PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS The Netherlands’ shape-shifting rockers make a stand for non-conformity

Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’

Voidkind • Post-metal cosmonauts perfect their sonic universe

Cure • Metalcore’s...