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.

HAMMER

MEET THE BAND

WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!

ALL THE RAGE

WHY DOES METAL LOVE MASKS? • As Sleep Token become the latest masked band to achieve breakout success, we investigate the trend that shows no signs of stopping

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

IS THIS THE END OF SEVENDUST? • Frontman Lajon Witherspoon answers your questions about the band’s future, cocaine bears and zombie attacks

BRANDON SALLER • Atreyu’s drummer-turnedfrontman walks us through the soundtrack of his life

COREY TAYLOR • Bigger, bolder, more in-your-face… the singer promises his second solo album is going to turn some heads

DEZ FAFARA • The Coal Chamber and Devildriver frontman reflects on nu metal, working with Ozzy Osbourne and almost dying from Covid

VAGINA MINE PUSCIFER • The song that transformed Maynard James Keenan’s ‘gag’ solo project into a bizarre but brilliant meta metal band

OZZY NEEDS A GIANT THRONE • …and other suggestions, confessions, pledges of allegiance and words of enmity you had to offer on our special Tenacious D guest edit!

THE BIG DEBATE • As Iron Maiden were again denied entry into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, the internet seethed with outrage at the long-standing metal snub. Rock Hall CEO Greg Harris suggested it was all just a matter of time, however…

HAMMER STEREO

ELEGANT WEAPONS • Members of Judas Priest, Rainbow and Pantera unite to create triumphant, trad-inspired modern metal

JESUS PIECE • The Pennsylvania hardcore heavies find balance in brutality

PUNK ROCK FACTORY • The daft covers band winning over the hearts of metalheads en masse

BLACKBRAID

FVNERALS • This oppressive drone metal duo are ushering forth the end of the world

DISTANT • The Dutch band bending space and time are deathcore’s hot new thing

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

THE AVENGED YOU KNEW IS DEAD • Powered by existentialism and hallucinogens, Avenged Sevenfold have just crafted the weirdest album by a major metal band in decades. Will it pay off?

"IT TAKES YOUR MIND FOR A SPIN!"

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'

FULL SPEED OR NOTHING • Gigantic video towers, an in-the-round stage and 71,000 close friends. We join Metallica in Amsterdam as they kick off the epic M72 Tour

“I FELT LIKE I’D RUN A MARATHON!” • Architects frontman Sam Carter explains what it was like to open for The Four Horsemen themselves

BLONDE AMBITION • If Barbie went metal, she’d sound like gatekeeper-baiting ‘bimbocore’ heroine Scene Queen. And if the haters don’t like it, fuck ’em

STILL REIGNING • Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman died 10 years ago, but his influence lives on. His bandmates and friends look back at the enigma who gave thrash its extreme edge

MOSHING! MARRIAGES! MEAT HOOKS! • As Download turns 20, we meet some of the people who have helped make it the greatest metal festival on the planet

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