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

METAL FOREVER

MEET THE BAND

ONE STEP CLOSER

THE HOTTEST REUNION OF THE UNDERGROUND IS COMING TO THE UK • Beloved by System Of A Down and Slipknot, Acid Bath are playing bigger shows than they ever did in their 90s heyday

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

WTF IS THIS DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE WE’RE LIVING IN? • Nova Twins face down your questions on societal chaos, long toes and relaxing in metal garden centres

AWKA MONDAKA • From nature worship to screaming, Mawiza’s singer/guitarist shares the metal and Mapuche music that’s shaped him

JOHN 5 • He’s played with everyone from Rob Zombie to Mötley Crüe. Now the six-string wizard shares his wisdom

METAL THRASHING MAD ANTHRAX • How a bunch of snotty New Yorkers gave thrash metal its name

CALVA LOUISE • Nuns! Jack Black! Sliding keyboards? Meet the globe-trotting trio mixing metalcore with Latin music

AUTUMN LIES BURIED • Emo band in name. Nu-deathcore band in nature

SVARTA HAVET • Proudly political blackened hardcore from Finland’s southwest

DARK CHAPEL • Black Label Society axeman goes grunge

WITCHROT • psychedelic sludge quintet will put you under their This spell

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

SUBSCRIBE TO METAL HAMMER AND SAVE 50%*!

METAL’S NEXT GENERATION STEPPED UP • We might have lost metal’s founding fathers, but the next generation proved that the music lives on

OZZY SAID GOODBYE • We lost the Prince Of Darkness this year – but he made the perfect exit

“OZZY IS STILL MY MATE, ALBEIT IN A DIFFERENT PLACE” • Judas Priest’s Rob Halford celebrates the life and legacy of the Prince Of Darkness

WE MET PAPA V PERPETUA • Revealed via one legendary gig announcement and brought to life with Ghost’s sixth album, Skeletá, he gave Tobias Forge a new lease of life

BABYMETAL BROKE RECORDS • Conquering London’s 02 Arena and the US charts, the kawaii metallers went from strength to strength. Kon! Kon!

MAIDEN CELEBRATED 50 YEARS • We got a new book and a massive world tour, which shows no sign of stopping. Mastermind Steve Harris reveals all

WE LOST BRENT HINDS • The guitarist shaped the sound of Mastodon and beyond. His former guitar tech, current Slipknot bassist V-Man, pays tribute

SLEEP TOKEN SPAWNED A TRIBUTE BAND • They are called Sleep Broken, and their frontman is called Bessel. Worship.

ACE FREHLEY TOOK HIS FINAL ROCKET RIDE • The stars queued up to pay tribute to Kiss’s original guitarist, who died in October

NU METAL GOT EVEN BIGGER • Thanks to the fandom on TikTok, bands found themselves headlining stadiums and festivals

METALLICA PLAYED THE BACKYARD OF A BAR • Sly Stallone and Paul McCartney watched metal’s biggest band play a tiny show in a tent

METAL GOT CAUGHT UP IN PRESIDENTIAL FEVER • Forget the Cheeto-in-Chief – masked marvels President won the public vote as the buzz band of...