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NUCLEARBLAST

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WELCOME TO THE NEW HEAVY: 2024

THE NEW YEAR is here! And what better

MEET THE BANDS

BAD OMENS Jonathan Weiner The fastest-rising metalcore band.

KEVIN ‘GEORDIE’ WALKER 1958 - 2023

GETTY ON NOVEMBER 26 it was announced that

MAIDEN’S ART ATTACK

Iron Maiden’s classic Piece Of Mind album gets the graphic novel treatment in an epic new 40th anniversary book

BIRTH, SCHOOL, LIFE AND NAPALM DEATH

Thirty-six years after joining grindcore pioneers Napalm Death, bassist Shane Embury has released an autobiography that reveals all about his life behind the audial anarchy

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

What’s been blowing our tiny brains

WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU SAW AS A POLICEMAN?

Tesseract frontman Dan Tompkins faces down your questions on dream duets, career changes and inspiring the next generation of British prog metal

KATERINA ECONOMOU

The screamer-in-chief of New England’s Escuela Grind explains how Prince and Converge set her on the path to grindcore

BLIND CHANNEL

Finland’s Eurovision superstars are blazing a path as the “Backstreet Boys of metal” with album #5

DAVID ELLEFSON

The ex-Megadeth bassist talks about addiction, his sex scandal and starting afresh in new death metal band, Dieth

ENEMY SEVENDUST

The song that sparked rumours of B-list beef, but instead showed that even with nu metal dying, Sevendust weren’t going down without a fight

SOUTH OF SALEM

The horror-obsessives combining classic rock and heavy metal to become one of the UK’s hottest new bands

TRIVAX

Formed in Iran and reforged in Birmingham, the band are using blackened death metal to call for liberty

FUMING MOUTH

Crusty death metallers compose symphonies to the power of overcoming sickness

TO KILL ACHILLES

Heart-wrenching post-hardcore from the streets of Dundee

HYPERIA

Canadian thrashers set their sights on the world

HOARD ALMIGHTY

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

THE MYSTERIOUS NOAH SEBASTIAN

Bad Omens are one of the most-hyped metal bands in the world right now. So why does their frontman seem so unhappy about it?

THIS IS THAR AJUKU-CORE

Brash, bold, colourful and chaotic - enter the world of Hanabie, Japan’s most exhilarating new metal hopes

HOW DEAOCHRE NOT FUN AGAIN

With their symphonic bombast and viral pig squeals, Lorna Shore have reinvented the genre. Will they be the first ones to headline arenas?

SCENE QUEEN

Misogynists, creeps and gatekeepers beware – Scene Queen’s sex-positive, genremashing bimbocore is set to rule 2024

50 Albums you need to hear in 2024

From Kerry King and Korn to Killswitch Engage and Kittie, this will be your soundtrack to the next 12 months

THE HAMMER INTERVIEW

From the highs of rock stardom to the downward spiral that nearly finished him off for good, here are the life and times of the dark prince of love metal

THE WILD RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF CHILDREN OF BODOM

They were the former schoolmates who put Finnish metal on the map in the late 90s. But the demons that drove frontman Alexi Laiho would destroy the band – and the singer himself

96 BABYMETAL

Kawaii metal queens spread the wonder across two nights at the Roundhouse

LORD OF THE LOST

Weapons Of Mass Seduction

BRIGHT & BLACK

Apocalyptica, Meshuggah and Watain members help score a classical marvel

SMALL MERCIES

Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’

CHILDREN OF BODOM

A Chapter Called Children Of Bodom: The Final Show In Helsinki Ice Hall 2019

FROSTBITE ORCKINGS

The Orcish Eclipse METALVERSE

LUCIFER

Lucifer V NUCLEAR BLAST

RYUJIN

Ryujin NAPALM

SAXON

Hell, Fire And Damnation

VEMOD

The Deepening

BABYMETAL VUKOVI

Japan’s queens of kawaii metal bedazzle across two nights in the capital

ITHACA

WALLOWING THE DOME, LONDON

LORNA SHORE

RIVERS OF NIHIL / INGESTED / DISTANT

BATUSHKA

KANONENFIEBER THE DOME, LONDON

EMPIRE STATE BASTARD

BENEFITS ELECTRIC BRIXTON, LONDON

BRUTUS

KARIN PARK ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL, LONDON

LOATHE

KILLING ME SOFTLY / LOVE RARELY WAREHOUSE, LEEDS

ATREYU

THE HURT PROCESS ELECTRIC BALLROOM, LONDON

JOHN GALLAGHER DYING FETUS

The death metal growler/guitarist talks #WhyNotDyingFetus, South Park and whether death metal still has the power to shock