WELCOME TO CHAPTER V

NOT CHAPTER V as in their YouTube series

JONNY ZAZULA 1952-2022

GENE AMBO/MEDIAPUNCH INC/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO LAST MONTH, IT

THE RETURN OF BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD

Beavis and Butt-Head are coming back for a second feature-length movie – and we couldn’t be more excited

DID SOMEONE REALLY EAT YOUR SICK OFF THE STAGE?

Converge frontman and underground legend Jacob Bannon has spent 30 years on the frontline and has the broken bones to prove it. But nothing can prepare him for a grilling from you

YETI BONES

Death metal brutalists, techno-thrash revolutionaries and Black visionaries – these are the sounds on loop inside the Ho99o9 co-frontman’s head

TOMI JOUTSEN

LIFE LESSONS

MACHINE HEAD

Catharsis Shmatharsis – Robb Flynn is threatening a return to his explosive best on the Bay Area bangers’ new album

10,000 DAYS (WINGS PT 2) BY TOOL

Maynard James Keenan is known for his esoteric, enigmatic lyrics. But this is what happened when he laid bare his family tragedy

IT’S NICE TO READ SOME POSITIVITY

…and other observations you gave us this month

THE BIG DEBATE

When Avatar frontman Johannes Eckerström suggested to metalhammer.com in January that Black Sabbath’s final run was a flop, we can’t say we were surprised that you lot had Some Thoughts about it

HAMMER STEREO

What’s been blowing our office speakers

HERIOT

Half a decade and one false start after they first came out snarling, British metal’s most exciting young band are back – retooled, resurrected and reborn

SOUL GLO

NEW NOISE

FRIENDS OF HELL

Doom all-stars tip an old-school nod to Satan

INHUMAN NATURE

Apocalyptic malcontents dragging thrash screaming into 2022

KUROKUMA

Ancient Aztec culture meets modern sludge courtesy of psychedelic metal shamans

HOARD ALMIGHTY

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

That’s showbiz baby!

Thought Prequelle was over the top? You ain’t seen nothing yet. In a world exclusive, Hammer meets Tobias Forge on Ghost’s blockbuster US tour to find out how Impera is taking things to a delirious new level

THE WAR WITHIN

Death, line-up changes and Covid have rocked Sabaton in recent years. And yet, ahead of new album The War To End All Wars, they’re somehow stronger than ever

ZAKK WYLDE

His dreams came true when he landed the gig as guitarist for his childhood hero, Ozzy Osbourne. But he’s also fronted Black Label Society, auditioned for GN’R and, er, managed to dodge the nickname ‘Paper Asshole’

BITE Club

Stylish vampire sequel Queen Of The Damned may have been panned by critics, but it produced an all-time classic metal soundtrack that, 20 years on, still has teeth

FULL POWER METAL

FUCK YEAH

" HIS RECOVERY IS A MIRACLE "

Battling Covid complications in the ICU, the doctors told the family of MWWB guitarist Paul ‘Dave’ Davies that they were going to turn off his life support. Then he came back from the brink

SURVIVAL HORROR

How did post-metal favourites Cult Of Luna end up teaming up with the composer of iconic modern horror, Hereditary? We got them together to talk about this year’s most sinister collab

GHOST

Impera LOMA VISTA

SABATON

The War To End All Wars NUCLEAR BLAST

ALBUM REVIEWS

The survey says… Abbath is still a metal god

ALBUM REVIEWS

Dark Funeral: still looking for souls to feed

ALBUM REVIEWS

NIGHTRAGE Abyss Rising DESPOTZ Gallant Greco-Swedish

VEIN.FM

This World Is Going ToRuin You NUCLEAR BLAST/CLOSED CASKET ACTIVITIES

ALBUM REVIEWS

Eric Wagner: doom’s troubled soul leaves us with

RESURRECTIONS

Unearthing the latest metal reissues

SAXON

URIAH HEEP/GIRLSCHOOL/DIAMOND HEAD

PARADISE LOST

Greg Mackintosh and Nick Holmes make an art of

TURNSTILE

Turnstile: one huge leap for the hardcore scene

SOULFLY

Soulfly’s Max Cavalera: still putting the world to

RUDOLF SCHENKER SCORPIONS

The German metal icon on revolutions, partying to excess and those CIA rumours