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PRESS/COURTESY OF NETFLIX METALLICA’S MASTER OF Puppets has

OLD DOES NOT MEAN DEAD…

WHEN PAUL GRAY tragically passed away in 2010,

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RICH HOBSON WRITER Our staff writer across the

COBRA KAI IS BACK AND KICKING ASS

Thor had Guns N’ Roses. Stranger Things had Metallica. We’re seeing a renaissance of rock and metal bands popping up in TV and film – but how did Aussie rockers Airbourne become the house (dojo?) band for hit Netflix series Cobra Kai?

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

What’s been blowing our tiny brains

WOULD YOU CONSIDER PLAYING IN KERRY KING’S NEW BAND?

Whether he’s drumming for Testament or Slayer, the Misfits or Mike Patton, Dave Lombardo is a percussive legend. But how will he fare against your questions about Stranger Things, punk rock and partying hard?

ZACHARY EZRIN

Imperial Triumphant’s frontman gets eclectic, with everything from dissonant death metal to 80s space opera and jazzy dad rock

ENSLAVED

Black metal’s most fearless explorers are blasting full-thrust towards space rock and thrash

BENJI WEBBE

The Skindred/Dub War vocalist shares the lessons that took him from life as a feral kid on the streets of Newport to one of metal’s most brilliantly exuberant frontmen

A CERTAIN SHADE OF GREEN INCUBUS

A Certain Shade Of Green introduced Incubus to a generation, but even though they toured with Korn and Limp Bizkit and had hip hop influences, singer Brandon Boyd isn’t having it when people call them ‘nu metal’

DURAN DURAN? DISGRACEFUL!

…and other sweeping dismissals, generalisations and disturbingly detailed musings you had on Machine Head, Parkway Drive and Joseph Quinn appearing in last month’s issue of Metal Hammer

THE BIG DEBATE

Metallica are back in the mainstream in a big way thanks to Stranger Things, but it wasn’t long before someone suggested the band should be cancelled…

HAMMER STEREO

What’s been blowing our office speakers

HARPER

The 10-year-old from Somerset has gone from wowing America’s Got Talent to leading the charge for the next generation

GRIEF RITUAL

Death metalcore brutes relish putting the boot into Tory Britain

STATE OF YOU

Meet the UK’s answer to Every Time I Die and Cancer Bats

GOZER

Sheffield metallers exorcise their demons in tectonic, sludgy fashion

AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION

Woe betide anyone who doesn’t explore what these genre-splicing mavericks have to offer

IN THE KNOW

What your favourite bands are listening to

HOARD ALMIGHTY

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

THE END (OF THE BEGINNING)

With their new members locked down and apparent harmony in the ranks, Slipknot have made their most surprising album of the last two decades. As Corey Taylor explains, it’s the start of a bold new chapter

HERE WE GO AGAIN, MOTHERFUCKER...

Corey gives us his track-by-track breakdown of The End, So Far

OZZY FOREVER

He’s been hospitalised, sliced open, incapacitated and close to death more than once. But as all-star new album Patient Number 9 proves, a defiant Ozzy Osbourne isn’t going out without a fight

“DARKNESS. BRUTALITY. BEAUTY”

That’s how Anthrax’s Scott Ian sums up Alice In Chains’ music. To celebrate 30 years of the grunge icons’ second album, Dirt, we asked a bunch of musicians to tell us their favourite AIC song

GLORIA CAVALERA

She’s the self-taught manager who steered her husband Max’s band, Sepultura, to global success. Even heartbreaking tragedy and painful acrimony haven’t dented her groundbreaking career

HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN?

Before lockdown, Electric Callboy were plugging away in youth centres. Now they’re headlining arenas. We flew to their native Germany to ask…

HYPA ACTIVE

We asked Electric Callboy’s fans why they’re crazy for the band

URBAN HYMNS

Porto isn’t a black metal city, so how did it spawn rising phenomenon Gaerea? We tracked down their anonymous frontman to talk about tourism, creepy masks and burning people alive

SLIPKNOT

The End, So Far ROADRUNNER Iowa’s nine-man metal juggernaut

LAMB OF GOD

Lamb Of God beam down onto new sonic

AUTOPSY

Morbidity Triumphant PEACEVILLE

CLUTCH

Clutch: keeping rock’s frontier spirit alive Sunrise On

SMALL MERCIES

Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA

The Devil Wears Prada glow up on album

GAEREA

Gaerea reach out beyond black metal’s borders Mirage

PETBRICK

Petbrick get their industrial groove on Liminal ROCKET

THE RETALIATORS

BETTER NOISE FILMS

SONJA

Sonja’s Melissa Moore breaks the chains of her

STRIGOI

Strigoi: grave keepers of the death/doom code Viscera

VENOM INC.

There’s nothing craggy about Venom Inc. on their

A.A. WILLIAMS

As The Moon Rests BELLA UNION

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ARCTANGENT 2022

FERNHILL FARM, BRISTOL

RADAR FESTIVAL 2022

CASINO NIGHTCLUB, GUILDFORD

CHURCH ROAD RECORDS’ 5TH BIRTHDAY SHOW

THE BLACK HEART, LONDON

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PUPIL SLICER / GRIEF RITUAL / GUTTER

GRAVE LINES

FIVE THE HIEROPHANT / TORPOR

UADA

PANZERFAUST

VENDED

GRAPHIC NATURE

CHARLOTTE WESSELS

The symphonic metal hero and newly established solo artist talks folk horror, getting drastic haircuts, and life after Delain