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THE 9 DEFINED 1999

MEET THE BAND

CONQUER OR DIE!

“IT’S GONNA BE BRUTAL!” • Bloodstock announces the first 19 bands of its 2025 line-up – including headliners Trivium, Machine Head and Gojira

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

WHAT DO ALIENS LOOK LIKE? • Bury Tomorrow frontman Dani Winter-Bates answers your questions on extraterrestrials, reincarnation and good dogs

KIMI • Bridear’s vocalist shares her love for J-metal, melodeath, videogame soundtracks and Metallica

OPETH • The prog metal masters make a much-anticipated return to extreme metal – and concepts

FALK MARIA SCHLEGEL • Powerwolf’s showboating keyboardist declares what he’s discovered after two decades of making Catholic-inspired lycanthropic power metal

OUR TRUTH LACUNA COIL • Comalies and Ozzfest helped introduce Lacuna Coil to the world, but the lead single from 2006’s Karmacode would see them embrace global influence

HOUSE OF PROTECTION • Former members of Fever 333 embrace the power of positive thinking

CROWN SHIFT • The Finnish metal supergroup bridging melodeath fury and prog pomp

DRAIN • Spinkicking crossover with the biggest grins in hardcore

IRESS • The Los Angeles band mixing shoegaze and doom to create ‘dream metal’

PROFILER • Bristol’s nu metal revivalists pine for simpler times

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

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“WE WERE NOBODIES, ANONYMOUS AND FACELESS, WITH NO RECORD OUT, BUT IN THAT MOMENT IT FELT LIKE MAYBE WE HAD A SHOT.” • In early 1999, no one outside of Des Moines, Iowa knew who Slipknot were. And then they released their debut. Twenty-five years on, Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan, Jim Root and Ross Robinson look back on the album that changed the world

“IT’S THE BEST OF ALL THINGS SLIPKNOT” • The band are planning an incredible reissue of their debut album

Welcome to IOWA • No one broke out of Des Moines… until Slipknot did. This is the story of their birth, by those who were there

(sic) of it all • Before they’d even played in the UK, Hammer met Slipknot in Memphis, Tennessee to get inside the mind of the sickest band on the planet

LONDON CALLING! • On December 13, 1999, Slipknot played their very first overseas show at London’s Astoria theatre. It was a gig that changed everything – for them and for metal

HOW SLIPK NOT’S DEBUT ALBUM CHANGED MY LIFE • Nine musicians explain why The Nine’s first record has had such an enduring impact on them

HERIOT ARE HERE • Heavy. Blissful. Experimental. and they’re the new face of British metal

“ I PULLED MOODS FROM SILENT HILL” • The non-metal influences that shaped Heriot’s debut album

LET’S GO F@#KING CRAZY! • To celebrate Ozzy Osbourne’s imminent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, we asked metal’s biggest names to pick the Prince Of Darkness’s greatest songs, from deep cuts to all-time classics

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