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

FLOOR JANSEN IS UNSTOPPABLE

TILL THE END

MEET THE METAL MEOWLISHA • The cat charity run by Obituary’s Donald Tardy will give you fuzzy feelings about fuzzy felines

WHEN WERE YOU FIRST BURIED ALIVE BY LOVE? • Ex-Him frontman and newly minted solo artist Ville Valo answers your questions on love, pornography and… sheep

THE SLAYLIST CASSYETTE • From club bangers to emo anthems, Cassyette picks out the songs that made her a nu gen star

PUPIL SLICER • The mathcore gang’s ringleader Katie Davies details a second album even more “deranged” than the last

SHANE EMBURY • Napalm Death’s chief sonic architect shares tales of poverty, brushes with celebrity and telling Nazis to fuck off

THE BOOK OF HEAVY METAL (MARCH OF THE METALLIANS) DREAM EVIL • Fredrik Nordström spent the 90s revolutionising extreme metal as a producer. But in the new millennium, his own band were bringing classic metal back in a big way

HOLY FAWN • Call it post-metal, blackgaze or alternative… the Arizona quartet are taking heavy music in divine new directions

SKIN FAILURE • Former Black Peaks frontman cuts loose with some unhinged crossover thrash

ESCUELA GRIND • The rap-quoting New England grindcore progressives endorsed by Kurt Ballou and Napalm Death

CHUGGABOOM • The tongue-in-cheek nu metalcore pranksters bringing a bit of levity to the scene

ISAFJØRD • Post-rock luminaries celebrate Iceland’s music and landscapes

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

"LIFE IS SHORT TIME IS NOT ENDLESS" • From the pandemic to her recent cancer surgery, the last few years have been a rollercoaster for Nightwish’s Floor Jansen. Now, she’s ready to embark on a brand-new chapter

BITTER SWEET SYMPHONIES • Tuomas Holopainen says Nightwish’s albums are his “children”. So naturally we asked him to rank them from worst to best, because we’re cruel like that…

THE NEW BLACK • Beyond The Black might just be symphonic metal’s next megastars. Fronted by former pop star and magician’s assistant Jennifer Haben, they’re determined to bring you under their spell

THE GIGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD • From the moment when metal was born to the shows that launched the genre’s biggest superstars, these are the 10 most landmark concerts ever

MONSTER, INC • Epic songs, Satanic Panics and real-life Eddie Munsons – this is the story of metal’s decades-long love affair with Dungeons & Dragons

DANNY ELFMAN • He’s the goth-theme daddy whose compositions soundtracked a generation of macabre Tim Burton classics – and that’s before we get started on that Coachella performance. We chat to a living legend

GOOD Omens • How did Bad Omens transform from an average metalcore band into a fast-rising phenomenon? It’s all thanks to pop music and better mental health, says frontman Noah Sebastian

CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS • Yes, you can! As it’s cold outside, we wanted to bring you some Iron Maiden...