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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.

Metal Hammer

ALL HAIL HALESTORM

TAYLOR HAWKINS 1972-2022

METAL LORDS IS THE METAL MOVIE WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR • Created by Game Of Thrones showrunner D.B. Weiss and with music from Tom Morello, Netflix’s coming-of-age movie Metal Lords is a love letter to the scene

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GHOST? • Yes, occult metal icon King Diamond has, since you ask. But that’s nowhere near as scary as him coming face to face with your questions…

JO QUAIL • What do Ghost, Pink Floyd and Tchaikovsky have in common? They’re all rattling around inside the head of metal’s cello queen

BRENT SMITH • From drunken run-ins with the law to urinating next to A-list stars, this is what life has taught Shinedown’s singer

AMON AMARTH • Raise your horns! The Viking metal chieftains are ramping up the aggression on album number 12

THE STORY BEHIND HEAD LIKE A HOLE NINE INCH NAILS • The industrial-metal classic that launched one of the most influential bands of the 90s, and turned former studio janitor Trent Reznor into a generational figurehead

IT’S ABOUT TIME! • …and other things you had to say on Meshuggah getting a Metal Hammer cover, Machine Gun Kelly and much more

BIG DEBATE • The legendary King Diamond gave us the definitive say on the ‘did Ghost rip off Mercyful Fate’ debate, giving us a resounding ‘NO’ on the issue. He’d know best, after all.

HAMMER STEREO

GIANT WALKER • UK prog metal’s next big thing prove that some good stuff did manage to come out of the pandemic

SICKSENSE

IANAI

BURNER

I AM THE NIGHT

HOARD ALMIGHTY

THE RESURRECTION OF LZZY HALE • Isolated by the pandemic and spiralling back to the depression and anxiety of her childhood years, Lzzy Hale made a choice to come back fighting with Halestorm’s heaviest album yet

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ZEIT • After the decade-long gap between their last two albums, no one believed Rammstein would drop another record so soon – especially one as deep, existential and downright emotional as Zeit

KILLER Instict • With his massive 80s beats, a story about a serial killer called Bret Halford and a huge helping of fun, Carpenter Brut has become synthwave’s biggest and most metal star

THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR • For Trivium’s Matt Heafy, side-project Ibaraki hasn’t just been about making extreme music with the legendary Ihsahn, but about sharing his love for his Japanese heritage

JASON NEWSTED • Metallica fans loved him, he helped write some of the band’s biggest hits, and he left it all behind for musical freedom. Would he play with them again? Only if Lars came calling…

HEISTS. HOSTAGES. HIPPIES? • This year’s wildest TV show, Clark, tells the story of a notorious 70s bank robber – and it’s brought to you by two Swedish extreme metal legends

RAMMSTEIN • Germany’s world-conquering firestarters display a little tenderness

HALESTORM • Lzzy Hale’s high-end rockers get a post-Covid power surge

ANVIL • AFM Canada’s heavy metal...