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

“SCREAM FOR ME!”

NO SLEEP ’TIL WEMBLEY

A SATANIC SOIREE IN THE DEVIL’S ARSE

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

DID YOU REALLY STEAL A CADILLAC? • Electric Callboy’s vocalists take your questions on grand theft auto and the gym – and explain why they’re cool being a ‘joke band’

MLNY PARSONZ

EMPIRE STATE BASTARD

JAY WEINBERG

TWILIGHT OF THE THUNDER GOD AMON AMARTH

A7X INVENTED A NEW GENRE: DMTCORE

THE BIG DEBATE • With Sleep Token’s Take Me Back To Eden reaching No.3 in the UK charts, Hammer’s Dave Everley dug a little deeper to ask why metalheads love bands in masks so much.

HAMMER STEREO

BROTHERS OF METAL

EYES

SKÁLD

TO THE GRAVE

DISTANT

NIGHTED

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

BACK TO THE FUTURE • Fan-favourite deep cuts, all-star football matches and a giant cyborg Eddie? Iron Maiden are back on the road on The Future Past Tour – and we’re in Prague with them

BIRDS OF FEATHER

HAPPY. SAD. ANGRY. HORNY. • …That’s how Armenian-American weirdbeards System Of A Down described their music when they first turned nu metal on its head 25 years ago. This is the story of their game-changing debut album

SICK NEW WORLD • Las Vegas’s Sick New World festival features a who’s-who of nu metal. But with a new generation getting into the music, is this a nostalgia fest or a revival?

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF HEAVY • The British metal scene is more exciting now than it has been in years. Members of Heriot, Wargasm, Blackgold, Ithaca and Loathe join forces in our special round table to look at what the future holds

TAKE THE POWER BACK • Their revolutionary songs have earned them approval from Tom Morello and the Indonesian equivalent of a Grammy, but Voice Of Baceprot are just getting started

LORD OF THE LOST • Iron Maiden love them. King Charles has met them. And the Pope may or may not own one of their butt plugs. German electro-metal sensations Lord Of The Lost have just one question…

GODFLESH • Metallica, Fear Factory and Code Orange have all been inspired by Godflesh’s dense, agonising industrial metal. But for frontman Justin Broadrick, it’s a chance to escape the chaos in his head

FOO FIGHTERS • Dave Grohl makes a defiant, emotional stand in the face of loss

ALBUM REVIEWS

DESERTFEST 2023 • Corrosion Of Conformity and Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats lead three days of riff-worship

MØL

POLYPHIA • Tech metal’s new champions swap the po-faced for party vibes

PORTALS FESTIVAL 2023 • Svalbard and Mono bring the heavy and the avant-garde to Hackney

NE OBLIVISCARIS

HERIOT

DANI FILTH • The macabre metal maestro talks witch cults, the next Cradle album and that Ed Sheeran team-up