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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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“PEOPLE WANT TO PRY INTO THE PEEPHOLE!” • Following them from London’s Royal Albert Hall to the grounds of the Blackfeet Nation, a new documentary reveals the real Wardruna

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

WILL THERE EVER BE A DAVID HASSELHOFF COLLAB? • Lord Of The Lost’s baritone baron Chris Harms on German heritage, WhatsApp chats with Steve Harris and why he loves Lady Gaga

A.A. WILLIAMS • From learning piano with Queen to crying to Nine Inch Nails, these tracks shaped the post-metal singer-songwriter

ENKHSAIKHAN ‘ENKUSH’ BATJARGAL • The Hu’s horsehead fiddle player shares what he’s learned from rock’n’roll monks, hanging out with Iron Maiden and life in post-communist Mongolia

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE WEDNESDAY 13 • Stepping out of the shadow of Murderdolls and Joey Jordison, this is how the Duke of Spook got his duchy

MALLAVORA • The Bristol metallers terrifying celebs on reality show The Traitors and fighting for disabled rights

NOWHERE2RUN • Ex-Code Orange men take a swing with genre-blurring project

UNCULTIVATES • The Cork cowboys making ‘yee-hardcore’

KNOSIS • Former Crystal Lake vocalist finds a new lease of life

BIANCA • The Italian black metallers breaking all the rules

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

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SINGER. TRAILBLAZER. ICON. • Bring Me To Life sent Evanescence stratospheric and turned Amy Lee into a star. Two decades on, armed with a bold new album, she’s showing the next generation how it’s done

“AMY’S VOICE HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER!” • Nick Raskulinecz is one of the three producers who worked on Sanctuary. He tells us what it’s like to get in a studio with the legendary frontwoman

“IT FEELS LIKE DIRECTING A BATMAN MOVIE” • Producer Jordan Fish shares his experiences of writing with a talent like Amy, and a band who have such an established sound

“IT’S A NEW ERA FOR EVANESCENCE” • Not only did Zakk Cervini help produce Sanctuary, he mixed it too. His biggest skill? Making sense of the “chaos” around him

SATURN ASCENDS • Lawsuits, cats and crazy theories – Tool’s third album, Lateralus, is the mystical prog metal masterpiece that reshaped heavy music. Twenty-five years on, there’s still nothing else like it

LAJON WITHERSPOON • His grandad claims to have dated Aretha Franklin, his dad was in a disco band, and his cousin played for James Brown – but the Sevendust frontman has carved out a legacy all his own

Chasing a Dream • Grappling with the loss of drummer and partner Jamie Gowers, As Everything Unfolds frontwoman Charlie Rolfe had to make a choice: ignore reality, or face it head on

CHOCOLATE! KARATE! KAWAII! •  From teenagers in tutus to a genre-smashing global phenomenon, Su-metal, Moametal and Momometal take us through their wild evolution in 16 songs

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