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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HORN FOR GREATNESS
FESTIVAL FEVER • The summer season might be over, but there’s plenty to look forward to in 2023. We round up some of the best of the fests
10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH
HOW MANY FIVE-YEAR-OLDS COULD YOU TAKE IN A FIGHT? • Parkway Drive’s fearless frontman Winston McCall faces your questions on killer kids, wrestling sharks and how much fire he can handle
JONAS RENKSE • He sings in progressive metallers Katatonia and mans the low end for death metal nasties Bloodbath. So of course his taste is eclectic
NEIL FALLON • From touring with Motörhead to not wanting to be Dave Grohl, Clutch’s fiery preacher shares the parables that have made his band a rock’n’roll mainstay
ROYAL THUNDER • Atlantan rockers return from the edge of oblivion with a message of healing through honesty
IN THE SHADOWS THE RASMUS • The Rasmus were already beloved in their homeland of Finland, but In The Shadows turned them into global gothic superstars
MURDERDOLLS WILL ALWAYS KICK ASS • …and other declarations of adoration, hatred and apathy you had to offer about the Lamb Of Godadorned issue of Hammer, featuring the likes of Amy Lee, Coheed And Cambria and more!
THE BIG DEBATE • Nu metal is blazing a comeback trail, but not everybody is happy. Incubus’s Brandon Boyd wasn’t very complimentary about the genre, so nu metal’s detractors and defenders came out in force…
HAMMER STEREO
L.S. DUNES • MCR guitarist teams up with pals in Coheed And Cambria, Circa Survive and Thursday to revive the magic of when they were young, via early 00s post-hardcore and emo
KASSOGTHA • It’s a case of all or nothing for this Swiss prog-death powerhouse – stress, sweat and scars be damned
1914 • Anti-war Ukrainian metallers issue their dispatches from the trenches
GOSPELHEIM • Manchester’s morose misfits court blasphemy by fusing BM and goth
FELLOWSHIP • High fantasy power metallers offer hope and happiness in these dark times
IN THE KNOW
HOARD ALMIGHTY • Box sets, underground oddities and all the essential merch you need this month
FREAKS UNLEASHED • Two legendary bands. Two icons that defined a generation of misfits. Here’s what happened when we united Evanescence’s Amy Lee and Korn’s Jonathan Davis to talk fame, friendship, and facing your demons
SHOW ME THE MUMMY! • Pyramids, sphinx heads and the monumental Live After Death album – Iron Maiden’s World Slavery Tour made epic even bigger. But it also came close to finishing the band off for good
CAN TIKTOK SAVE METAL? • Metal is long overdue a mainstream revival. With its viral hits and vibrant community, TikTok could be the game-changer it needs
CRONOS • Dating witches? Performing occult rituals? Creating extreme metal? It’s all in a career’s work when you’re the founder of the one and only Venom
NATIVE SON • Fusing Indigenous American culture and black metal, Jon Krieger – aka Blackbraid – is becoming the biggest...