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

LONG LIVE THE KING

THE JUICE IS LOOSE

EUROVISION GOES …OUIJA-POP? • Ireland’s Bambie Thug and Norway’s Gåte are the latest metal-friendly acts to hit the song contest, giving a boost to the alternative scene

IF YOU AND JON BON JOVI FOUGHT NOW, WHO WOULD WIN? • Sebastian Bach faces down your questions on Skid Row, singing techniques and his seemingly endless supply of rock star beefs

EMMA BOSTER • From bruising hardcore to country and rap, these songs have shaped Dying Wish’s firebrand vocalist

PAIN • Peter Tägtgren’s industrial metallers are ready to hit the dancefloor like it’s 1999

LZZY HALE • The Halestorm icon talks discovering music through Hanson, Devil worship, and how she’d love to make the jump to the big screen

SILENCE SPEAKS WHILE SHE SLEEPS • How tragedy healed the rift between the DIY Sheffield crew and Bring Me The Horizon, resulting in a unifying British metalcore anthem

PALEDUSK • The genre-mashing metalcore quartet who have caught the ear of Bring Me The Horizon – sax solos and all

ALL FOR METAL • Sword and sorcery high fantasy set to rousing power metal

END • Will Putney’s metalcore mob open the floor for all-star ugliness

FUTURE STATIC • The Australians tackling trauma with buoyant metalcore

WHOM GODS DESTROY • Muscular heavy prog from monster musicians

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

RETURN OF THE KING • The new album. The new band. That surprise reunion. How Kerry King made the most anticipated metal album of the year

“We never thought we would see this” • Not only have Within Temptation released a new single decrying the Ukraine war, singer Sharon den Adel flew to Kyiv to film the video. This is her firsthand account of visiting a warzone

“WE WANT TO BE THE BIGGEST HEAVY BAND IN THE WORLD!” • Armed with viral mosh calls and approved by the likes of Billie Eilish and Demi Lovato, Knocked Loose are fast becoming hardcore’s breakout success story

Season of the witch • Raw, abrasive and rage-fuelled, Witch Club Satan are the most provocative black metal band you’ll hear this year. But not for the reasons you’d expect

San Diego’s State of Mind • It’s been more than 30 years since P.O.D. formed in the city they call ‘The Big SD’. As the nu metal survivors gear up to release new album Veritas, they give us a guided tour of their hometown

AL JOURGENSEN • Fleeing a communist revolution, inventing industrial metal, spending 20 years strung out, pissing off Steven Spielberg – the Ministry mainman has done all this and more. Much, much more

SYMPHONY FOR THE DEVIL • What happens when the producer behind some of Rammstein’s greatest hits convinces members of Meshuggah, Watain, Opeth and more to go classical? We went to Estonia to find out

METALICA RELOADED • Apocalyptica are returning to their Plays Metallica… format for a new album – featuring collaborations with Rob Trujillo, James Hetfield and Dave...