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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

HALE TO THE QUEEN

MEET THE BAND

LET THERE BE FROCK

ARE YOU READY?

WHAT ABOUT US?

ROCK THE KASBAH • Twenty years ago, Amine Hamma was arrested for playing in a death metal band. Now he’s helping build Morocco’s metal scene with the Tricinty Festival

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

NAAN OR PARATHA? • Bloodywood mastermind Karan Katiyar takes your questions on Indian food, getting engaged at a gig, and rubber ducks

PRIKA AMARAL • Raised on thrash and death metal, the chief screamer/shredder of Brazilian, er, thrash/death metallers Nervosa shares her fave songs

MAX CAVALERA • The Brazilian legend has been kicked out of three schools, split his head open onstage, and believes in the afterlife. Here’s what he’s learned

PROGENIES OF THE GREAT APOCALYPSE DIMMU BORGIR • The song that brought black metal howling out of the underground via symphonic orchestras and Hollywood

PRESIDENT • They’re masked, they’re anonymous, and they might be metal’s next big thing

GATES TO HELL • Kentucky-fried death metal with a hardcore stomp

THE DEFECT • Shimmering synths and clanging industrial in one alluring package

KING KRAKEN • Welsh riff lords shaking their rehearsal room to its foundations

SPLIT CHAIN • The Bristolian quintet putting a modern, hazy spin on 2000s nostalgia

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

SUBSCRIPTIONS

QUEEN OF EVERYTHING • Iron Maiden tours. Black Sabbath shows. Judas Priest documentaries. Times Square billboards. Lzzy Hale is everyone’s favourite go-to rock star. But it’s taken a rock-bottom moment and some existential soul-searching to get here

CLIMBING EVEREST • Halestorm guitarist Joe Hottinger gives us a track-by-track guide to the band’s new album

INSIDE THE CULT OF SLEEP TOKEN • The biggest new band of the decade attract devotion like no other – but why? We asked the worshippers who gathered to witness their landmark Download headlining set

DARON MALAKIAN • From class clown to maverick multi-platinum superstar, the System Of A Down guitarist and Scars On Broadway frontman has done it all

ALL OUT LIFE • Combining pure aggression with mental health awareness, Swiss bruisers Paleface Swiss are Gen Z’s answer to Slipknot

“LOAD WAS A BIG FUCK YOU!” • Underrated masterpiece or epic misfire? As Metallica’s divisive 1996 album gets a blockbusting reissue, we break it down track by controversial track

ON TOP OF THE WORLD • After years of hard work, Bleed From Within are finally breaking America. We join them with Trivium and Bullet in New York

CHILDREN OF THE CRAVE • How death metal crawled from the swamps of Florida in the late 80s to push noise to new extremes

STATE OF DECAY • Ten scorching Floridian bangers of death

THE REVIEWS

BABYMETAL

HALESTORM

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH

INCITE

SMALL MERCIES • Where EP...