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I WAS A TEENAGE NU METALLER

IN THE EARLY 00s I spent Monday nights

MICK HUTSON 1965 - 2023

From stopping New York traffic for Metallica to getting Dimebag Darrell into a stretch Hummer, we remember the Hammer photographer who made some of metal’s most iconic images

SABBATH BALLET SABBATH

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has teamed up with Birmingham Royal Ballet for the world’s first full heavy metal production

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

What’s been blowing our tiny brains DOLLY PARTON

WHY DID YOU FIGHT SO MUCH?

Max and Iggor Cavalera unite to tackle your questions about brotherly love, celebrity fans and the possibility of a Sepultura reunion

WOLFGANG VAN HALEN

THE SLAYLIST

WITHIN TEMPTATION

IN THE STUDIO

JOE DUPLANTIER

LIFE LESSONS

HALO SOIL

THE STORY BEHIND

HANABIE

NEW NOISE

LANA DEL RABIES

NEW NOISE

ASHENSPIRE

Anarchist black metallers imagine a boot stamping on a face forever

GRIEF SYMPOSIUM

East Anglian doom merchants take their cues from 90s legends

WARKINGS

European history enthusiasts write heavy metal epics for the ages

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 GREAT NU METAL TAKEOVER

From the rise of Evanescence and Dimebag Darrell’s last hurrah to Guitar Hero and Jackass, the 2000s was the decade where everything happened. And it began with Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Papa Roach and nu metal’s blockbuster era

Reinbenting The Steel

Bruised from the implosion of Pantera, Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul dusted themselves down and launched Damageplan – one of the great lost bands of the 2000s

Axe maniacs

Guitar Hero was the ultimate 2000s metal videogame. How would teenage thrashers Tortured Demon handle something that was massive when they were still in nappies?

METAL VS BUSH

Long before Donald Trump, there was George W. Bush – America’s most divisive President and target for metal’s finest

The 50 GREATEST ALBUMS OF THE 2000s

PAUL TRAVERSNu metal, melodeath, metalcore, industrial and a man in a ridiculous catsuit – this is the ultimate soundtrack to the decade

CHOUL'S OUT!

Joey Jordison’s glam-punk side-project Murderdolls worshipped horror movies and pissed off Billy Idol. As Wednesday 13 remembers, it was a side of the Slipknot drummer that fans had never seen before

LOONEY TUNES

Lovingly spoofing metal bands, and featuring voiceovers from the likes of Mark Hamill, James Hetfield and Corpsegrinder, Metalocalypse put our scene back on the screen

metal buru

Lemmy, King Diamond, Cronos from Venom… and Dave Grohl? This is the story of Probot – the Foo Fighters mainmain’s love letter to the 80s metal scene

CONEFESSIONS OF A CARABORE BAND

Attack Attack! drummer and keyboard player Andrew Wetzel looks back on MySpace, haters and that video

THE HAMMER INTERVIEW STEVE-O

He was the wildman of Jackass who drank goldfish, snorted wasabi and stapled his scrotum to his leg. Now 15 years sober, he’s no less of a daredevil

SKINDRED

Smile EARACHE

ACID MAGUS

Hope Is Heavy MONGREL

AETHERIAN

At Storm’s Edge LIFEFORCE

ASTRALBORNE

Across The Aeons PROSTHETIC

DYMNA LOTVA

The Land Under The Black Wings: Blood PROPHECY PRODUCTIONS

AN AUTUMN FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN

Closure PROSTHETIC

CADAVER

The Age Of The Offended NUCLEAR BLAST

CHAMBER

A Love To Kill For PURE NOISE

CRYPTA

Shades Of Sorrow

DEITUS

Irreversible CANDLELIGHT

THE DEVIL’S TRADE

Vidékek Vannak Idebenn

ELEINE

We Shall Remain

HANABIE

Reborn Superstar!

MAMMOTH WVH

Mammoth II

END REIGN

The WayOfAllFleshIsDecay

FROM ASHES TO NEW

Blackout

THE GORGE

Mechanical Fiction

KATAKLYSM

Goliath

MIZMOR

Prosaic

THE NIGHT ETERNAL

Fatale

NUCLEAR POWER TRIO

Wet Ass Plutonium

BAITED

Cutting Teeth

BLACK SPELL

Walpurgis Night

BLESSED BLACK

Seasons Vol.1

HERUVIM

Battle ForCimmeria

INHUMAN CONDITION

Panic Prayer

MUTOID MAN

Mutants SARGENT HOUSE

OUTER HEAVEN

Infinite Psychic Depths

OXBOW

Love’s Holiday

PANZERCHRIST

Last Of AKind

RADIANT KNIFE

Pressure

ROYAL DECEIT Ill

PRIME COLLECTIVE

SAUL

This Is It... The End Of Everything

SIGNS OF THE SWARM

Amongst The Low & Empty

SAINT AGNES

Bloodsuckers SPINEFARM

SEVENDUST

Truth Killer

SILVERBURN

Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation

SOMNURI

Desiderium

THE SUN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE NIGHT

Worldless

WORLD SERVICE

Heavy metal uprisings from around the globe

DEVIN TOWNSEND

Devolution Series #3 – Empath Live In America

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Superunknown Redux

VOIVOD

Morgöth Tales

THE ZENITH PASSAGE

Datalysium

URNE

A Feast On Sorrow

VALLETTA

Come Alive

DOWNLOAD 2023 DONINGTON PARK, DONINGTON

Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon and Slipknot headline an unforgettable 20th birthday blowout

MYSTIC FESTIVAL

GDAŃSK SHIPYARD, POLAND

TENACIOUS D STEEL BEANS

O2 ARENA, LONDON

DEATH PILL

THE LEXINGTON, LONDON

VENDED

REBELLION, MANCHESTER 

AMON AMARTH BLEED FROM WITHIN

CIVIC HALL, WOLVERHAMPTON

DINO CAZARES FEAR FACTORY

FIVE MINUTES WITH