METAL HAMMER

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SABATON & BABYMETAL = SABAMETAL? BABYTON?

WHEN IT CAME to choosing this month’s cover,

WHISKY A GO-GOAT

JEREMY SAFFER MANNEQUINS OF A young Papa Nihil

WHEN VEGANS ATTACK

Electronica musician Moby has teamed up with legends of our world for a surprising new activism documentary

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

What’s been blowing our tiny brains

HOW CAN I LEARN THROAT SINGING?

The Hu have gone from viral sensations to all-conquering metal heroes, but how will bandleader Gala fare against your questions?

DEBBIE GOUGH

Heriot’s snarling guitar-slinger picks the songs that hooked her on heaviness and noise

GRAVE PLEASURES

Finnish post-punks prove that not all goth is gloom

IVAR BJØRNSON

From black metal’s violence to Peter Steele’s threesomes, the Enslaved mastermind has seen it all and somehow survived

ANCHOR CAVE IN

Cave In were underground metalcore darlings, but 2003’s Antenna was their shot at the big time – and it almost ended the band for good

FLOOR JANSEN CAN SING THE PHONE BOOK

…and other bold claims, complaints and cheerful words of support you had to offer on our massive Nightwish cover, In Flames comeback and more

DEATH PILL

The Ukrainian hardcore punk trio fighting for a better world against a backdrop of sexism, war and uncertainty

SPIDER GOD

Black metal meets true crime, Ingmar Bergman and… Justin Bieber?

NAUT

Bristolian post-punks bring back Bauhaus and the Banshees

HOST

Yorkshire’s godfathers of gloom revisit the guilty pleasures of their youth

ANNISOKAY

What your favourite bands are listening to

HOARD ALMIGHTY

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

THE NORSE CODE

Sabaton have taken their own island. Well, kinda. As their mission to conquer Europe continues, we head to Gotland to find out what the hell is going on

INTO THE METAL VERSE

Babymetal are back with a wild new concept album. But what does it all mean? And are we getting a third member? We flew to Tokyo for answers

55 MUSICIANS. 36 BANDS. ONE ALBUM… AND A LOT OF HANGOVERS

In 2005, some of music’s biggest names teamed up for an audacious all-star album and gig. This is the story of Roadrunner United - metal’s very own Avengers Assemble

SECRET MEETINGS PIGS'BLOOD.MURDER?

With a new co-vocalist and killer new album The Seventh Son on the way, Bury Tomorrow have levelled up. But what the hell is with the knives and cult behaviour?

TOM G WARRIOR

He was the ridiculed outsider who became a trailblazer with Celtic Frost, earning the approval of H.R. Giger and inventing the death grunt. We meet an extreme metal legend

the hard men

Circle-pits, viral videos and the kind of buzz other bands would kill for – how Malevolence became British metal’s 17-year overnight success story

BABYMETAL The Other One COOKING VINYL

Japan’s Metalverse voyagers break yet more boundaries

FLOOR JANSEN

Paragon

AUGUST BURNS RED Death Below SHARPTONE

Long-running metalcore heavies find a perfect equilibrium

BURY TOMORROW

Southampton metalcore heavies branch out

DAWN RAY’D

To Know The Light

ENSLAVED

Enslaved herald a new dawn Heimdal NUCLEAR BLAST

LOVEBITES

Judgement Day

SUICIDE SILENCE

Remember... You Must Die

RESURRECTIONS

Unearthing the latest metal reissues

TRIVIUM

HEAVEN SHALL BURN / MALEVOLENCE

SLEEP TOKEN

NORTHLANE

HEILUNG

EIVØR / LILI REFRAIN

TARJA

TEMPERANCE ELECTRIC BALLROOM, LONDON

APOCALYPTICA / EPICA

WHEEL ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON

LIFE OF AGONY

MADBALL / TARA WHO? THE DOME, LONDON

LEPROUS

MONUMENTS / KALANDRA SHEPHERD’S BUSH EMPIRE, LONDON

FIVE MINUTES WITH MARTIJN WESTERHOLT DELAIN

In 2021, everyone quit the symphonic metal band except its founding member. Now he’s rebuilding anew