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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.

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ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN • Divide And Dissolve’s Takiaya Reed has made the leap to composing symphonies – with some help from the BBC

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

WHAT’S YOUR GO-TO KARAOKE SONG? • Avantasia and Edguy frontman Tobias Sammet gets grilled on opera music, dinner parties and massive rats

EICCA TOPPINEN • Metallica songs alongside symphonies? It could only be the playlist of Apocalyptica and Bright & Black’s shredding cellist

CHRIS MOTIONLESS • Motionless In White’s goth king on ice hockey, mall punks… and being a Swiftie?

VICE GRIP PARKWAY DRIVE • The song that turned the Aussies from an everyday metalcore band into skydiving, arena-baiting heroes

CHAT PILE • The US metallic noise punks storming the mainstream

DANEFAE • The prog metallers proving there’s more to Denmark than Vikings and mermaids

CANTERVICE • Concept-driven metalcore from the land of the free

PALEFACE SWISS • The Zurich crew dubbed the “deathcore Slipknot”

VOWER • From the ashes of three beloved UK cult bands rises a fiery new phoenix

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

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A Rising Tide • A viral video. Collabs with Megan Thee Stallion. Stadium shows with Korn and Bring Me The Horizon. And now, stunning new album Tsunami Sea. There’s just no stopping Spiritbox

Girls to the front • From her guest spot with rapper Megan Thee Stallion to live performances with her heavy peers, Courtney explains why she loves collabing with other female artists

“I hate so many people!” • Courtney and Mike’s track-by-track guide to Tsunami Sea

The Durstnais sance • Epic live shows, celebrity love-ins and Dad Vibes - Limp Bizkit are officially one of metal’s biggest bands once more. This is the story of…

JESSE LEACH • He’s the son of a preacher man who went from hardcore Christianity to metalcore stardom with Killswitch Engage, and this is his life story so far

“THIS IS AN EXORCISM!” • Featuring murderous alter egos and sex with Greek gods, new album My God Has Got A Gun sees Vukovi driving out their demons

VUKOVI MATHS • Janine reveals three albums that have influenced the Scottish duo

ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS! • Stand aside, Bear Grylls! Nature-loving Wardruna frontman Einar Selvik is taking Metal Hammer foraging in an East London cemetery. On the menu: hummingbird nectar and nettle smoothies

BEAR NECESSITIES • Famous bears ranked in order of scariness, in honour of Wardruna’s Birna

SEEING RED • Some bands are angry. Fit For An Autopsy are really angry. As a deathcore band writing about real-world horrors, they can’t bring themselves to look away – no matter what


WHERE THERE’S A WILL… • As well as being Fit For An Autopsy’s co-founder and key songwriter, Will Putney has produced albums for the likes of...