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 UK

EDITOR’S LETTER • BEHOLD. CONSUME. WORSHIP.

MEET THE BAND

THE BIG PICTURE • ENJOY YOUR SLAY

THE POW WOW FACTOR • Fire In The Mountains festival is a celebration of metal and culture on sacred Native American grounds

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

WHAT POKÉMON WOULD SVALBARD AND NOCTULE BE? • Serena Cherry talks pocket monsters, hippo boss fights, and her affinity with the Nemesis rollercoaster creature

MARKO HIETALA • The former Nightwish man turned soloist has been inspired by Metallica, Master Of Reality, and Moomins

BERT McCRACKEN • The Used frontman’s real name is Rob, and these days he prefers books to booze. But after years in Australia, he’s still not used to giant spiders

THE SUFFERING COHEED AND CAMBRIA • New York’s prog metal mavericks swapped space battles for doomed romance – and became bigger than ever

NECKBREAKKER • The upstarts supporting Slayer and putting Danish death metal on the map

LOVE IS NOISE • The heavy-gaze heroes wearing their Deftones influences on their sleeves

RUÏM • Black metal legend Blasphemer delves deeper into the dark arts

PØLTERGEIST • The Calgary goths embracing the dark arts

BEX • The nu gen punk looking to start a revolution

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

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“THERE WERE PEOPLE IN THE EARLY DAYS WHO DIDN’T GET IT” • With new album Even In Arcadia and a Download headlining appearance imminent, Sleep Token are officially the biggest new metal band of the decade. This is how it happened

ARCADIA GAMES • Breaking down what we know about Sleep Token’s new album, Even In Arcadia

UNBOUND. UNBREAKABLE • Robb Flynn started Machine Head in his hometown of Oakland, California, dealing drugs to fund the band. He shows us around the city that’s given him a survivor mentality

“IT WAS SO VIOLENT AND IGNORANT!” • Robb Flynn’s Top 5 Bay Area musical heroes

SHARON OSBOURNE • Manager, wife, mother, trailblazer – the world of metal would look very different without her

BETTER IN THE 90s • As metal’s hottest Deftones-core band, Australia’s Thornhill are bringing 90s cool to a new generation

THORNHILL MATHS • The albums that have inspired the Aussies

METAL HAMMER AT 400 • As Metal Hammer reaches its 400th issue, we dig into the archives and pull out the first appearance in the magazine by 10 major bands

The Devil Rides Out • Black magic, human skulls and Aleister Crowley – the twisted story of Death SS, Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band

WITHIN TEMPTATION • From helping draw up the blueprint for a whole new genre, to the romantic split that nearly tore the band apart, Sharon den Adel looks back on the history of the symphonic metal pioneers

HIGH FIVE! • Sharon den Adel’s essential Within Temptation...