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.

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WHAT CAN WE SAY ABOUT RANDY BLYTHE?

MEET THE BAND

BEAST MODE

“WE’RE HONORING A LEGEND” • Members of Mastodon, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden have contributed to King Ultramega – a Chris Cornell covers project raising money for charity

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

HAVE YOU SETTLED YOUR BEEF WITH THE NATIONAL TRUST? • Malevolence’s Alex Taylor answers your questions on nature, famous British actors and… milk rounds?!

GAUTIER SERRE • Mortician. Meshuggah. Morbid Angel. What does Igorrr’s mastermind love? Why, extreme metal of course!

CHUCK BILLY • What Testament’s frenetic vocalist has learned from Native American healers, Bay Area aggression and robots

I GET OFF HALESTORM • It took 12 years for Halestorm to release their debut – in that time, Lzzy Hale went from Christian schoolgirl to sex-positive rock goddess

SUN DON’T SHINE • Dour power from Type O Negative and Crowbar men

JET JAGUAR • The Mexicans plying old-school metal with a 21st-century edge

BENTHOS • The Italian prog metal merchants questioning the universe

LE ROX • London hardcore with a sense of heart

ASH MAGICK • The Turkish duo rekindling BM’s chaotic flame

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

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THIS IS A MOTHER FU*KING INVITATION… • …For Randy’s friends to ask him whatever they hell they want. We sat the Lamb Of God frontman down for an all-star grilling

A COMEDY OF TERRORS • Farting! Deadpool! Muggles? Puscifer might have delivered their darkest album yet, but they’re not skimping on the humour that’s been their brand since day one

ON SALE NOW!

BARMY BARBS • THE INSULTS ON NORMAL ISN’T, RANKED!

MAX CAVALERA • From Sepultura to Soulfly, this is how a hungry young thrash kid took Brazilian metal to the global stage

THE COMPLETE STORY OF GHOST

“MY BRAIN SPLIT INTO TWO PARTS” • Rapping about her identity disorder in three languages while wearing a creepy mask, trap-metal newcomer N0trixx has made 2026’s most astonishing debut album

NOTRIXX MATHS • The albums that have powered the masked singer

“I USED TO BE IN THIS BAND!” • What’s it like to be in a band at the very beginning of their career – only to leave before things take off? We ask early members of Deftones, Papa Roach, Trivium and more

Death. Chaos. Controbersn. Resurrection. • As frontman with Mayhem, Tormentor, Sunn O))) and more, Attila Csihar has been the enigma at the heart of extreme metal for 40 years – and he’s seen the best and worst of it

YOUR SOUNDTRACK TO METAL HISTORY

CONVERGE • How a bunch of metal-loving kids from the East Coast changed the hardcore game – and made one of the most influential albums of the 21st century

HARDCORE UPROAR • The essential Converge records in their own words

THE REVIEWS

LAMB OF GOD • Richmond’s groove metal...