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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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ONE MORE LIGHT • A Linkin Park charity tribute concert is set to hit Birmingham – featuring members of Bury Tomorrow, Creeper, Bullet For My Valentine and more

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

WAS IT DIFFICULT TO ADAPT AFTER LEAVING DELAIN? • Charlotte Wessels faces down your questions on endings, starting afresh and her feelings on testudines

EINAR SOLBERG • The songs that turned Leprous’s leader from teenage raver to prog metal maestro

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER • US death metal heroes plan to triumph over tragedy with album 10

DUFF McKAGAN • The GN’R legend shares the lessons that took a Seattle punk with big dreams to being part of one of the biggest bands on the planet

96 QUITE BITTER BEINGS CKY • Fictitious car crashes, flooded basements and Jackass: how CKY became unlikely MTV stars at the turn of the millennium

BLOODMAGIC • Fresh from playing Vecna in Stranger Things, Jamie Campbell Bower has teamed up with a powerhouse drummer to turn alt metal upside down

TAILGUNNER • Approved by Dave Mustaine and K.K. Downing, the UK band bringing back trad metal in a thrilling new way

KOLLAPSE • Existentialist post-metal from the heart of Denmark

PERCHTA • The Austrian band exploring femininity and sexuality through folk-tinged black metal

DEFECTS • Fiery UK metal with an emotional core

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

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THE YEAR THAT THRASH BROKE • From carnage in the Bay Area to Metallica’s towering Ride The Lightning album, 1984 was a pivotal era for thrash. This is the story of 12 months that changed metal forever

THRASH ’84 • Twelve essential albums, EPs and demo tapes that defined the thrash scene in 1984

IT’S ELECTRIC! • It’s the album that changed thrash metal and catapulted Metallica to greatness. Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett break down Ride The Lightning, track by track

MOUTH FOR WAR • 2004: nu metal was dying, the US had invaded Iraq, and chaos was in the air. It was the perfect time for Lamb Of God to drop their era-defining fourth album, Ashes Of The Wake

“iT HAD A PROFOUND iNFLUENCE” • Malevolence frontman Alex Taylor on the enduring power of Ashes Of The Wake

“IT’S BEEN UNREAL!” • Guesting with Fred Durst, opening up Download and winning over a world of new fans: Japanese Harajuku-core sensations Hanabie are unstoppable right now

BANNED IN DC • Radical, explosive, controversial and an influence on everyone from Slayer to Fever 333 – this is the chaotic story of Bad Brains, the Rasta punk trailblazers who changed metal

“The riFFage oF My Last Serenade iS riPPed oFF Bad Brains” • Killswitch Engage singer and Bad Brains uber-fan Jesse Leach gives us his ultimate 10-track BB playlist

TOM MORELLO • He was born in Harlem,...