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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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END OF A SEPULT-ERA • The Brazilian groove metallers are calling it quits – but not before releasing a final EP

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

HOW FAR DOES YOUR HERDING CALL CARRY? • Danish songwriter Myrkur answers your questions on rounding up animals, Jack Sparrow, and her highest score on Tetris

MIMI BARKS • From the melancholia of The Cure to the big beats of The Prodigy, these are the songs that shaped the doom trap queen’s identity

JOHN GARCIA • The sometime Kyuss and Hermano frontman on reunions, animal hospitals and those infamous generator parties

PUSH IT STATIC-X • How the evil disco band became rising stars of nu metal’s second wave

SHIELDS • Tragedy cut their careers short. Now the metalcore hopefuls have returned after stints in… Sleep Token and the circus?!

ROYALE LYNN • The rising Nashville star who ditched country for radio-ready alt metal

PERPETUAL PARADOX • These metalcore Brits have big news: breakdowns are out, riffs are in

ALPHAWHORES • Powerful, doomy sounds from Panama pair

WITCHER • Spellbinding black metal from the wilds of Hungary

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

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would the real poppy please stand up? • Enigma, provocateur, puppet-lover – how Poppy is bringing metal into a new era

HOW MASTER OF PUPPETS CHANGED EVERYTHING • Metallica’s magnum opus just turned 40. From peers to their producers, this is the impact it had

BENJI WEBBE • From the Newport reggae scene to fronting one of metal’s greatest live bands, the Skindred frontman has lived one hell of a life

BLAZING SQUAD • They’ve got the Gojira and Mastodon seals of approval, but have Urne already made the best British metal album of 2026 with Setting Fire To The Sky?

URNE MATHS • Four albums that shaped Setting Fire To The Sky

THIS IS DLEATHCORE • Deathcore’s gateway band are headlining its biggest-ever UK tour. We join Lorna Shore on the road in Manchester

DANCING LIKE FLAMES • We meet the fans going wild for Lorna Shore in Manchester

THAI HARD • We spent a weekend in Bangkok inside one of Asia’s most passionate metal scenes. Our hosts? Local metalcore heroes Defying Decay

KINGDOM OF METAL • Five Thai metal bands you need to hear

Punching up • She moved countries to pursue her dream of fronting a metal band, screams about unsolicited dick pics, and she’s a tattooist? Cage Fight’s Rachel Aspe is metal’s knockout new star

THE KNOWLEDGE CROWBAR • Death, addiction and famous friends – mainman Kirk Windstein looks back on the sludge metal warhorses’ journey from the Lousiana swamps to unlikely TikTok fame

SWAMP MUSIC • Five essential Crowbar albums, by Kirk Windstein

THE REVIEWS

SKINDRED • Newport’s ragga metal party-starters get some even bigger...