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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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A RINGING ENDORSEMENT • Lordi have written a brand new song, promoting the world’s first mobile phone made entirely from metal

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

WHY ARE YOU A RAGING FEMINAZI? • Kittie vocalist Morgan Lander tackles your questions about nu metal, cats and why supporting equality shouldn’t mean vilification

JULIE CHRISTMAS • The noise/post-rock maverick nods to Sepultura, Aretha Franklin and everything in between

ANTHRAX • From recording at Dave Grohl’s studio to working with Chuck D again, the thrash legends say good things come to those who wait

DAVE WYNDORF • The Monster Magnet mastermind and all-round Space Lord philosophises about rock’n’roll, AI and why you can’t please everyone

THIS IS THE TIME (BALLAST) NOTHING MORE • How a crowdfunding campaign and a spectacular festival appearance helped Nothing More break out, ending a decade of indifference

THROWN • The brutish Swedes giving metalcore a whole new pissed-off, aggro dimension

FOLTERKAMMER • New York operatic black metal with a feminist-domme twist

BELUSHI SPEED BALL • Self-styled ‘pizza thrashers’ bringing GWAR levels of daft theatricality to crossover

DERMABRASION • The bewitching Canadian duo mixing gothic tones and occult practices

BATTLESNAKE • A seven-headed rock’n’roll beast from Down Under

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

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We are lucky to be alive • A turbulent few years saw Nightwish mastermind Tuomas Holopainen facing up to his own mortality. The result? Epic and uplifting new album Yesterwynde

Desert islands, cave bears and Indiana Jones • Tuomas Holopainen’s track-by-track guide to Yesterwynde

SOME KIND OF MONSTER • A concept album about Moby-Dick could have left Mastodon’s career dead in the water. Instead, Leviathan became the breakthrough they needed

WHITE! WHALE! HOLY! GRAIL!

BLOOD, SATAN, SERIAL KILLERS • As Slayer gear up for their comeback shows, we revisit the thrash icons’ 20 greatest songs and the stories behind them

Beyond The Rave • Doom trap queen Mimi Barks is the missing link between metal, hip hop, industrial and the debauched German club scene. Her dream? People having sex in the moshpit

“IT’S US AGAINST THE RICH” • Zeal & Ardor come from the Swiss city of Basel. We went to see how its wealthy families, squats and arse-flashing mythological beasts shaped them

PAIN REMAINS • UK metal hotshots Graphic Nature are taking the mental turmoil and physical trauma of frontman Harvey Freeman’s life and turning it into something cathartic

THE SUBLIMINAL VERSUS • Their rivals Slipknot got the glory, but masked marauders Mushroomhead did it first – if only acclaim and recognition had followed

THE REVIEWS

ZEAL & ARDOR

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