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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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THE OZZFEST COMETH • From a full movie of Back To The Beginning to the return of Ozzfest and a controversial AI avatar, there’s a lot coming to commemorate the life of Ozzy Osbourne

MORE THAN A BLIP • From landing metal’s buzziest bands to sustaining future generations of music professionals, Radar is one of the UK’s best independent fests

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

DO YOU HATE ALL RICHARDS? • I Prevail’s Eric Vanlerberghe answers your questions about names, lasagne towers and run-ins with the law

RICHIE FAULKNER • From summoning spirits to meeting Sir Christopher Lee, these are the songs that shaped the Judas Priest/Elegant Weapons shredder

DAVEY HAVOK • AFI’s follicularly festooned frontman reflects on 35 years of mayhem across punk, emo and veganism

BYE BYE BEAUTIFUL NIGHTWISH • How the world-conquering Finnish band exorcised their demons in symphonic metal’s first diss track

EIHWAR • The mysterious Viking war trance duo bringing an Asgardian rave to the moshpit

HOLY WARS • The Alice Cooper-approved alt metallers purging tragedy through dark riffs and melodies

RONKER • The Belgian brutes who traded indie for thumping hardcore

LOVE RARELY • How djent, gospel and generational trauma inspired the UK’s most exciting new post-hardcore band

HEADWRECK • The Brisbane party metallers reveal the secret sauce for world domination

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

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PARTY ROCKETS • How did a bunch of lads from a small town in Germany become metal’s biggest party band this side of Limp Bizkit? The answer involves bodily fluids, luxury cars and… pigeons?

“WE HAD 80S ACTION HEROES IN MIND LIKE KNIGHT RIDER?” • Kevin and Nico talk us through the tracks on Tanzneid

“WE WANTED TO HELP NORWAY BURN SOME CHUR CHES” • As Slipknot’s iconic second album, Iowa, turns 25, producer Ross Robinson and others involved in it look back on the making of a modern metal masterpiece

“THE MAGGOTS CAME OUT IN FORCE” • Slipknot’s UK label boss Mark Palmer on Iowa’s explosion

“I’VE GOT A PIC’S HEAD ON MY FOOT!” • How Disasterpieces concert movie director Matthew Amos captured chaos on camera

“JOEY TOOK A SHIT IN THE CORNER!” • Raging Speedhorn’s Frank Regan on supporting Slipknot circa Iowa

DUBSTEP, FOLK ROCK & 16TH-CENTURY PROPHETS?! • From Metallica to Iron Maiden, every band has a stinker clogging up their back catalogue. But are metal’s ‘worst’ albums really that bad? Metal Hammer’s writers defend the indefensible

RESIDENT EVIL • Being trapped in an escape room with a couple of zombies? That’s the fate that befell Hammer when we met undead metal freaks Dominum in Nuremberg

DEAD GOOD! • Dominum’s all-time favourite zombies

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