ARTISTS ARE PEOPLE TOO!

IF YOU KNOW Tool, you’ll know that their

HAMMER

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A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN

Avenged Sevenfold launch their first-ever VR gig – featuring flowers, walls of fire and giant Deathbats!

MIKE SHINODA

The Linkin Park legend talks 80s pop, trance, and how Anthrax and Public Enemy showed him the way

VENDED

Iowan upstarts prepare to step out from their famous dads’ shadows

MICHAEL POULSEN

The Volbeat frontman and Asinhell guitarist talks Elvis, the underground metal scene, and getting high on running

MILQUETOAST HELMET

They helped inspire nu metal and got offers from Hollywood, but New York’s Helmet were alt metal weirdos through and through

DELILAH BON

The nu gen star fighting against misogyny for bodily autonomy

OXYMORRONS

The Fever 333- and Corey Taylor-approved genre-hoppers breaking down boundaries in alternative music

RESOLVE

The French metalcore hopefuls looking to turn viral success into real-world results

NO TERROR IN THE BANG

Cinematic French prog metal with high art aspirations

HOARD ALMIGHTY

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

THE RULE OF TOOL

Rebellious. Secretive. Fractious. We went to LA for an audience with Maynard James Keenan and Adam Jones, to uncover the inner workings of the band

HAWXX

Fire and feminist fury with a progressive metal spirit

OU

Enigmatic and unique prog metal from the heart of China

WHEEL

Former acoustic pop-rocker living the prog metal dream

EVERY HELL

Rising from the ashes of Black Peaks, this is where Tool meet Twenty One Pilots

MOUNTAIN CALLER

Post-metal instrumentalists with a sci-fi story to tell

PRIME EVIL

Praise Satan – Slayer are back to play festival shows later in 2024. But this is how the legend started, more than 40 years ago with Show No Mercy and Hell Awaits

″THE WORLD IS READY FOR US NOW″

They rose to fame in the 2000s before vanishing in the 2010s. Now the rejuvenated Kittie are back with a fearsome new album, and they’re making up for lost time

ICE,ICE BABY!

Having faced tragedy, Frozen Soul write death metal anthems about the coldness of life. But beneath their hardened exterior lies a genuine warmth and an ability to spark joy

"I'M NOT ADAM,I'M NOT EVE,I'M THE SNAKE IN PARADISE"

Born intersex, raised as a girl, identifying as a hermaphrodite, Raven van Dorst of genre-blurring Dutch rockers Dool is on a mission to challenge attitudes and change minds

SCREAM BLOODY GORE

In 1993, iconic videogame Doom and its metal-inspired soundtrack changed the world. More than 30 years on, its influence is as huge as ever

THE 20 MOST METAL VIDEOGAMES EVER

Doom might be the OG metal videogame, but these zombie-infested, car-smashing, Ozzy-featuring classics took things way past 11

KORPIKLAANI

Rankarumpu NUCLEAR BLAST

BIG | BRAVE

A Chaos Of Flowers THRILL JOCKEY

DEICIDE

Banished By Sin REIGNING PHOENIX MUSIC

DOOL

The Shape Of Fluidity

Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’

SMALL MERCIES BURN DOWN EDEN Dismal SEEK &

Voidkind

METAL BLADE

Cure

UNFD

HAMFERÐ

Hamferð prepare to leave you emotionally wrecked Men

Heavy metal uprisings from around the globe

PENTAGRAM (CHILE) EternalLifeOfMadness LISTENABLE As stuck in the

HIGH ON FIRE

Cometh The Storm

Tarantula Heart

IPECAC RECORDINGS

MY DYING BRIDE

A Mortal Binding NUCLEAR BLAST

CELESTIAL DARKNESS

Ihsahn and Tribulation bring the wonder to London’s newest metal fest

HEIDEVOLK

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PALM READER

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CREEPING DEATH

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SILENT PLANET / THORNHILL

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WARGASM

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ALEX TAYLOR MALEVOLENCE

The vocalist spills the tea on arena ambitions, the band’s next album – and why they covered Anastacia