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

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THE LOST SLIPKNOT ALBUM • Recorded at the same time as 2008’s All Hope Is Gone, experimental side-project Look Outside Your Window has finally been released

CAN YOU WRITE A DAILY COLUMN CALLED BLAZE DAILY? • The vocalist takes on your questions on journalism, sci-fi and whether he’d ever sing with Iron Maiden again

CHARLIE ROLFE • Why Busted inspired the As Everything Unfolds singer to form a band, and Asking Alexandria ensured it would be heavy

TARJA TURUNEN • The former Nightwish singer on public firings, supermodels and how music saved her after a stroke

NOTHING A • How a band who insisted they had nothing to do with nu metal gave the UK its only Top 10 nu metal hit

BLUE MEDUSA • After her shock departure from Arch Enemy last year, Alissa White-Gluz has launched a new band

EXCIDE • South Carolina’s newest hardcore hopefuls

SILO • The Isle Of Man band casting their heavygaze on world domination

HASHTRONAUT • Metal so stoned it’s practically rock

YSBRYDNOS • The one-man project instilling a love for Welsh culture through shrieking black metal

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

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THE SUMMER OF THE BEAST • One band, an army of fans and a big field at Knebworth – Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson tease what we can expect from Iron Maiden’s epic Eddfest

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM • One of the main attractions at Eddfest is a display of classic Maiden props and memorabilia. Here’s a taste of what to expect…

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD • Even a band as famous as System Of A Down has to start somewhere. This is the untold story of Soil and the birth of the legend

TAYLOR MOMSEN • From child actor to AC/DC-approved rock’n’roll singer, The Pretty Reckless frontwoman has silenced the haters and survived loss, self-destruction and near-fatal animal bites

POWER TO THE PEOPLE • London punks Hawxx want to start a revolution – or at least get people to care about something beyond themselves

BLESSED BE • Count Your Blessings was a scrappy debut album from a bunch of deathcore wannabes from Sheffield. It was also the beginning of Bring Me The Horizon’s incredible rise to the top

DAMAGE INC. • In an arena in Florida, Slaughter To Prevail’s Alex Terrible is staging the ultimate collision of metal and bare-knuckle fighting. Welcome to the violence and viscera of Blood4Blood

DIMMU BORGIR • How a bunch of Norwegian teens became black metal’s biggest band – and its most divisive

THE PRETTY RECKLESS

WARNING

ARISE FROM WORMS

DEVILDRIVER

PRINCE OF FAILURE

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THE GATHERING

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