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.

PUNCHING UP

THE BIG PICTURE IRON FIST

METAL: HELLSINGER • It’s Doom meets Guitar Hero, and features Serj Tankian, Matt Heafy, Randy Blythe, Alissa White-Gluz and more. Metal: Hellsinger is the only game you’ll need to play in 2022

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

WHAT WAS IT LIKE HAVING MEAT LOAF AS A FATHER-IN-LAW? • He’s been Anthrax’s riffmeister general for 40 years, but can Scott Ian handle your questions about hair plugs and decapitated animal heads?

MATT TUCK • Bullet For My Valentine’s frontman cranks up the 10 songs that put him on the path to metal greatness

LAMB OF GOD • No two songs are the same on Lamb Of God’s most eclectic album to date, says guitarist Mark Morton

TATIANA SHMAYLUK • From an unlikely love of Britney to the horrific events happening in her home country of Ukraine, this is what life has taught Jinjer’s frontwoman

SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE • The rap-metal firebrands were already music’s most incendiary outfit, but no one expected them to shut down the New York Stock Exchange for a promo video

FUCK KEITH RICHARDS! • …and other patently absurd musings you had to offer on the return of Megadeth to the cover of Hammer, our tributes to Trevor Strnad and Chester Bennington, and more.

BIG DEBATE • Anthrax guitarist (and all-round thrash legend) Scott Ian opened up on his relationship with Metallica, as well as the early days of thrash. Only, he opened a can of worms when he suggested Metallica’s fame had outpaced Iron Maiden’s…

HAMMER STEREO

VENDED • Slipknot: The Next Generation? The offspring of Des Moines’ finest gouge out their own path to superstardom – and fuck the haters

BANSHEE • ‘Fairy metal’ pioneer bringing together Lamb Of God and Megan Thee Stallion

CINNAMON BABE • Triple-threat singer out to take the nu metal power back

IN THE KNOW • What your favourite bands are listening to

PLAGUE YEARS • No-holds-barred brutality? These Detroit thrash ragers have it in spades

VOLCANDRA • BM crew swapping sacrilege and Satan for videogames and geekery

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

THE REBIRTH OF FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH • Influenced by Ivan and Zoltan’s brushes with death, AfterLife is 5FDP’s most defiant album yet. They’ve got new music, a new outlook… and their own metaverse?!

DEAD GOOD • Zoltan Bathory talks us through every track on new album AfterLife

"ME AND ZO HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY!" • British guitarist Andy James on auditioning for the band, playing arenas and moving in with Zoltan

"I'M LIVING OUT MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS" • Drummer Charlie Engen on hair metal, archery and why he’s qualified to teach

"HE TRIED TO TAKE PICTURE WHILE I WAS PISSING!" • Bassist Chris Kael on visiting Parliament, weird fans and that gnarly beard

BORN IN BRITAIN. MADE IN AMERICA • Acid trips. Helicopter rides. Car crashes. Screaming For Vengeance...