You are currently viewing the Canada version of the site.
Would you like to switch to your local site?
LESS THAN 1 MIN READ TIME

MARE COGNITUM

Unlock this article and much more with
You can enjoy:
Enjoy this edition in full
Instant access to 600+ titles
Thousands of back issues
No contract or commitment
Try for $1.39
SUBSCRIBE NOW
30 day trial, then just $13.99 / month. Cancel anytime. New subscribers only.


Learn more
Pocketmags Plus
Pocketmags Plus

This article is from...


View Issues
Metal Hammer
Issue 347
VIEW IN STORE

Other Articles in this Issue


EDITOR’S LETTER
I’LL NEVER FORGET THE FIRST TIME I SAW SONNE
I WAS AT a mate’s house watching Kerrang!
METAL HAMMER
ENJOY THE SILENCE?
PRESS/ISABELLA D’ALESSANDRO LAST MONTH, ON Saturday February 27, Lacuna
PRAISE SEITAN!
Meet the YouTube sensation proving that black metal and veganism are a match made in Hell
10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH
What’s been blowing our tiny brains
STOP DOING PRIEST WRONG!
And other such demands, queries and thoughts you lot shared with us this month
FRONT ROW
WHAT EXTINCT ANIMAL WOULD YOU BRING BACK?
As the frontman of Loathe, the Deftones-approved young band who are tearing up the UK scene, Kadeem France has a lot to be excited about. But how will he fare with your questions?
ED GIBBS
The Devil Sold His Soul singer guides us through his record collection, from melodic hardcore to post-rock and pop surprises
RANDY BLYTHE
The Lamb Of God frontman reflects on the highs, lows and personal battles that went into forging more than a quarter-century of heavy metal brilliance
LINGUA IGNOTA
One of the most exhilarating voices of the underground returns – with added banjo
CLOUDS OVER CALIFORNIA BY DEVILDRIVER
Written for landmark third album The Last Kind Words, this future setlist staple for the modern metal heavyweights revealed things weren’t as sunny as they seemed
PUPIL SLICER
With a name like that, it’s hardly gonna be smooth jazz. Meet the Londoners tearing up the underground with their savage grind/math sounds
SENYAWA
Experimental duo blend traditional Indonesian sounds with boundarypushing heaviness
FROZEN SOUL
Meet the Texan titans of cold-school death metal
THE HYENA KILL
After almost giving up, these altrockers turned painful experience into a dark, expansive new sound
STEPSON
Meet the young Brisbane crew making metalcore exciting again
MICHIGANDER
What your favourite bands are listening to
HOARD ALMIGHTY
Box sets, underground oddities and all the essential merch you need this month
LETTERS
THE BIG DEBATE
In a recent issue of Metal Hammer, Korn/Love And Death guitarist Head suggested that Korn had inspired their fair share of good and, um, not so good metal bands. Here’s what you lot had to say on the matter
HAMMER STEREO
What’s been blowing our office speakers
FEATURES
HOW MUTTER CHANGED THE GAME
With two albums under their leather belts and the gag between their teeth, Rammstein had a point to prove. Twenty years on, this is how  Mutter made them megastars  
EVANESCENCE HAVEN'T RELEASED A 'PROPER' ALBUM FOR 10 YEARS...
… and yet it’s been the busiest and most turbulent decade of Amy Lee’s life. Long-awaited new record The Bitter Truth was born from honesty, tragedy and a life well lived
Angry Critics, Secret Auditions And The Exit Of Paul Di'Anno: Inside Killers
After their debut shook metal to its foundations, Iron Maiden needed something big for a follow-up. But there were some significant challenges ahead
SERJ TANKIAN
He’s just released an eye-opening personal documentary, but how much do you really know about System’s mainman? We sat down to talk through his incredible life story
"I DON'T THINK PEOPLE SHOULD BE SCARED OF DYING"
From heroin addiction, to Hurricane Katrina, to the liver disease that could have been fatal, Eyehategod’s Mike IX Williams has survived it all and lived to tell the tale
"CLIVE BARKER WROTE TO ME"
Mike might howl like a blowtorched dog, but he’s an erudite guy and published author. He explains how literature has influenced him
THE 20 BEST ALBUMS EVER
It remains metal’s most gruesome, over-the-top and gloriously extreme subgenre. Here are death metal’s 20 finest cuts, as picked by our rancid writers (er, no offence)
"PEOPLE CALL US LEADERS OF THE NU METAL RESURGENCE… I HOPE WE DON ’T LET THEM DOWN"
Starting life as a thrash band before getting inspired by nu metal’s downtuned guitars, big personalities and mainstream appeal, Tetrarch are twisting the bones of the genre into inspiring new forms
DOWNTUNED FOR LIFE
Guitarist Diamond Rowe picks her favourite nu metal axe-wielders
LG PETROV WAS THE ULTIMATE METALHEAD
Entombed’s legendary frontman wasn’t just a great vocalist – his lust for life made him an adored figure in our world
RIP, LG
The great and the good of metal pay their respects to a lifer and an innovator of the genre
ALBUM REVIEWS
WHILE SHE SLEEPS
SleepsSociety
’68
GiveOneTakeOne
THE ARMED
Ultrapop
AS EVERYTHING UNFOLDS
Within Each Lies The Other
ÅRABROT
NorwegianGothic
AUTARKH
Form In Motion
BLAZE BAYLEY
War Within Me
BEWITCHER
Cursed Be Thy Kingdom CENTURY MEDIA Oregon’s
BLUE OX
Holy Vore
BREATHS
Lined In Silver
CAMBION
ConflagrateThe Celestial Refugium
CELESTIAL SANCTUARY
Soul Diminished
BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT
Paint The Sky With Blood
BONGZILLA
Weedsconsin
CONAN
Live At Freak Valley
COSMIC REAPER
Cosmic Reaper
CRUELTY
ThereIs No God Where  I Am
CRYPTOSIS
Bionic Swarm
DEMISER
Through The Gate Eternal
EGO KILL TALENT
The Dance Between Extremes
FUATH
II
SMALL MERCIES
Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’
CANNIBAL CORPSE
Violence Unimagined
FUOCO FATUO
Obsidian Katabasis
GENGHIS TRON
Dream Weapon
GREENLEAF
Echoes  From A Mass
GRORR
Ddulden’s Last Flight
HORNDAL
  Conceptual stoner thrashers forge a new, hometown tale
IMMERSE
The Weight That Holds Me Here
LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT
LTE3
CAPRA
In Transmission
DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL
Loss
LOS DISIDENTES DEL SUCIO MOTEL
Polaris
MONO
Beyond The Past
WORLD SERVICE
Heavy metal uprisings from around the globe
MORK
Kathedralen
NORTHMAÄN
Northmaän
OLDE
Pilgrimage
PERENNIAL ISOLATION
Portraits
HOLDING ABSENCE
The Greatest Mistake Of My Life
LAMB OF GOD
Live In Richmond,VA
PURGATORY
Lawless To Grave
SANGUISUGABOGG
Tortured Whole
SMITH/KOTZEN
Smith/Kotzen
SPELLJAMMER
Abyssal Trip
DEVIN TOWNSEND
DevolutionSeries #1 – AcousticallyInclined, LiveInLeeds
WHEEL
Resident Human
WODE
Burn In Many Mirrors
THE LION’S DAUGHTER
Skin Show
LIVE REVIEWS
SLAY AT HOME FEST
YOUTUBE
LEPROUS
NOTODDEN TEATER, NOTODDEN, NORWAY
GATECREEPER
CRESCENT BALLROOM, PHOENIX
SPIRIT MOTHER/MOUNTAIN TAMER
MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA
CROWBAR
OCD RECORDINGS AND PRODUCTION, NEW ORLEANS
BENJI WEBBE SKINDRED
The Skindred frontman on Brit-pop, costume changes and, er, Asda
Chat
X
Pocketmags Support