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TAYLOR HAWKINS 1972-2022

GETTY THE ROCK WORLD was devastated to hear

ALL HAIL HALESTORM

WHEN I WAS 18, I entered a Metal

METAL LORDS IS THE METAL MOVIE WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

Created by Game Of Thrones showrunner D.B. Weiss and with music from Tom Morello, Netflix’s coming-of-age movie Metal Lords is a love letter to the scene

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

What’s been blowing our tiny brains

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GHOST?

Yes, occult metal icon King Diamond has, since you ask. But that’s nowhere near as scary as him coming face to face with your questions…

JO QUAIL

What do Ghost, Pink Floyd and Tchaikovsky have in common? They’re all rattling around inside the head of metal’s cello queen

BRENT SMITH

LIFE LESSONS

AMON AMARTH

Raise your horns! The Viking metal chieftains are ramping up the aggression on album number 12

THE STORY BEHIND HEAD LIKE A HOLE NINE INCH NAILS

The industrial-metal classic that launched one of the most influential bands of the 90s, and turned former studio janitor Trent Reznor into a generational figurehead

IT’S ABOUT TIME!

…and other things you had to say on Meshuggah getting a Metal Hammer cover, Machine Gun Kelly and much more

BIG DEBATE

The legendary King Diamond gave us the definitive say on the ‘did Ghost rip off Mercyful Fate’ debate, giving us a resounding ‘NO’ on the issue. He’d know best, after all

HAMMER STEREO

What's been blowing our office speakers

GIANT WALKER

UK prog metal’s next big thing prove that some good stuff did manage to come out of the pandemic

IANAI

Otherworldly pagan-folk from not-so-secretive multi-national collective

SICKSENSE

Stuck Mojo and The Agonist alumni hoist the old-school nu metal flag high

I AM THE NIGHT

Black metal majesty from Omnium Gatherum guitarist

HOARD ALMIGHTY

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

THE RESURRECTION OF LZZY HALE

Isolated by the pandemic and spiralling back to the depression and anxiety of her childhood years, Lzzy Hale made a choice to come back fighting with Halestorm’s heaviest album yet

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ZEIT

After the decade-long gap between their last two albums, no one believed Rammstein would drop another record so soon – especially one as deep, existential and downright emotional as Zeit

THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR

For Trivium’s Matt Heafy, side-project Ibaraki hasn’t just been about making extreme music with the legendary Ihsahn, but about sharing his love for his Japanese heritage

JASON NEWSTED

THE HAMMER INTERVIEW

KILLER Instict

With his massive 80s beats, a story about a serial killer called Bret Halford and a huge helping of fun, Carpenter Brut has become synthwave’s biggest and most metal star

HEISTS. HOSTAGES. HIPPIES?

This year’s wildest TV show, Clark, tells the story of a notorious 70s bank robber – and it’s brought to you by two Swedish extreme metal legends

RAMMSTEIN

Zeit SPINEFARM/UNIVERSAL

HALESTORM

BACK FROM THE DEAD ATLANTIC

ALUNAH

Strange Machine

ANVIL

Impact Is Imminent

AUDREY HORNE

Devil’s Bell

CAGE FIGHT

Cage Fight

CALIBAN

Dystopia

CELESTIAL SEASON

Mysterium I

CELLARDOOR

A Place For Torment And Pain

CLEAVER

No More Must Crawl

THE DARK ALAMORTÉ

Lunacrium Thepsis

DEVIL MASTER

Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night

DOMKRAFT/ SLOMATICS

Ascend/Descend

CAVE IN

Heavy Pendulum

FOZZY

Boombox

ECSTATIC VISION

Elusive Mojo

EVERGREY

A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)

FAMYNE

II: The Ground Below

FREJA

Tides

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE ZUGLY

Research And Destroy

HELPLESS

Caged In Gold

I AM THE NIGHT

While The Gods Are Sleeping

SMALL MERCIES

Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’

IBARAKI

Rashomon

MALEVOLENCE

Malicious Intent

PUPPY

Pure Evil

JO QUAIL

The Cartographer

SEPTICFLESH

Modern Primitive

UPON A BURNING BODY

Fury

WATAIN

The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain

JUDAS PRIEST

QUEENSRYCHE

NAPALM DEATH

DAMIM/10 PLAGUES

MARDUK VADER

THE GARAGE, LONDON Titans of their genres, death

WIEGEDOOD

OSLO, LONDON “We are the band whose name

HALESTORM

SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE, LONDON

IN FLAMES

VEXED/DEFECTS

CRADLE OF FILTH

PRIVATE VENUE, LONDON Since live music’s comeback, Cradle

GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT

ISLINGTON ACADEMY, LONDON Originally scheduled to coincide with

WARDRUNA

JO QUAIL ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON

UNTO OTHERS

ZETRA THE UNDERWORLD LONDON

DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL URNE

THE FLEECE, BRISTOL

THE RUINS OF BEVERAST GRAVE MIASMA/FUOCO FATUO

ELECTROWERKZ, LONDON

DARK TRANQUILLITY/ENSIFERUM

NAILED TO OBSCURITY HEAVEN, LONDON

FIVE MINUTES WITH CAMMIE GILBERT

OCEANS OF SLUMBER