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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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2025’S EPIC SUMMER OF LIVE MUSIC • From Sleep Token at Download to Iron Maiden’s stadium megagig, the summer of 2025 is shaping up to be massive

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

SMOOTH OR CRUNCHY PEANUT BUTTER? • Body Count leader Ice-T answers your questions on nuts, dinosaurs, and whether he still has it out for the cops

LIZ SELFISH • NOLA sludge, deathcore and Cali punk inspired BRAT’s vocalist to create her own genre called bimboviolence

BRANT BJORK • The godfather of stoner rock remembers generator parties, the breakdown of Kyuss, and supporting Metallica

OBLIVION MASTODON • How teenage trauma, head injuries and a team-up with the producer who broke Pearl Jam took Mastodon into the big leagues

SEVEN HOURS AFTER VIOLET • Shavo Odadjian ditches nu metal for deathcore

HIDDEN MOTHERS • Blackened post-hardcore with a heart of gold

LUTHARO • The Canadians blending euphoric power metal and melodeath

HULDER • The one-woman black metal project causing a maelstrom in the Pacific Northwest

ANA.N7N • The Saudi Arabians proudly connecting their culture with prog metal

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

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THE WORLD WENT MAD – AND SO DID METAL • Controversies, beefs, hill-trolls and vegan handbags - these are metal’s best, worst and most WTF moments of 2024

GOJIRA LIT UP THE OLYMPICS • Fire, opera and decapitated royals – the French band’s revolutionary performance at the Opening Ceremony was 2024’s greatest spectacle

GHOST WENT TO HOLLYWOOD • In his most ambitious undertaking yet, Tobias Forge took Papa and co. to the silver screen

SLAYER MADE A SURPRISE COMEBACK • Absence makes the heart grow fonder – even if they’d only been away for five minutes

METAL WENT COLLAB CRAZY • Ska-punk horror metalcore? Industrial threesomes? These were 2024’s best hook-ups

ICE NINE KILLS MADE THE GORIEST VIDEO • The horror-movie obsessives went all-out for A Work Of Art, the official song of Terrifier 3

LZZY HALE JOINED SKID ROW • When the 80s hard rock heroes needed an emergency singer, there was just one person to call – and even Sebastian Bach approved!

BANDS CAME BACK TO LIFE • The death of a beloved singer doesn’t mean the end of a band, as Linkin Park, Power Trip and The Black Dahlia Murder proved

SLIPKNOT CELEBRATED A BIG ANNIVERSARY • Clown and guitarist Jim Root look back on 25 years of the Iowa band’s game-changing debut album

BLOODYWOOD SOUNDTRACKED THE GREATEST FIGHT SCENE • Monkey Man was the Indian John Wick – and star Dev Patel knew which band he wanted for its key scene

EUROVISION WENT OUIJA-POP • Last year it was Lord Of The Lost. This year it was Bambie Thug’s turn to terrify Graham Norton

METAL LOST AN ICON • Former Iron Maiden singer...