METAL HAMMER

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ENJOY YOUR SLAY

KATJA OGRIN ICE NINE KILLS have announced their

BEHOLD. CONSUME. WORSHIP.

SLEEP TOKEN’S ASCENSION has been incredible to watch.

THE POW WOW FACTOR

Fire In The Mountains festival is a celebration of metal and culture on sacred Native American grounds

HAMMER STEREO

What’s been blowing our office speakers

BEAST MODE

For Diablo IV: Season 8 , developers Blizzard have partnered with anime and manga series Berserk for a grimdark player experience like no other. And as if that wasn’t enough, Finnish metallers Beast In Black have written a brand-new song for the game

WHAT POKÉMON WOULD SVALBARD AND NOCTULE BE?

Serena Cherry talks pocket monsters, hippo boss fights, and her affinity with the Nemesis rollercoaster creature

MARKO HIETALA

The former Nightwish man turned soloist has been inspired by Metallica, Master Of Reality , and Moomins

BERT McCRACKEN

The Used frontman’s real name is Rob, and these days he prefers books to booze. But after years in Australia, he’s still not used to giant spiders

THE SUFFERING COHEED AND CAMBRIA

New York’s prog metal mavericks swapped space battles for doomed romance – and became bigger than ever

NECKBREAKKER

The upstarts supporting Slayer and putting Danish death metal on the map

LOVE IS NOISE

The heavy-gaze heroes wearing their Deftones influences on their sleeves

RUÏM

Black metal legend Blasphemer delves deeper into the dark arts

PØLTERGEIST

The Calgary goths embracing the dark arts

BEX

The nu gen punk looking to start a revolution

HOARD ALMIGHTY

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

"THERE WERE PEOPLE IN THE EARLY DAYS WHO DIDN'T GET IT"

With new album Even In Arcadia and a Download headlining appearance imminent, Sleep Token are officially the biggest new metal band of the decade. This is how it happened

UNBOUND-UNBREAKABLE

Robb Flynn started Machine Head in his hometown of Oakland, California, dealing drugs to fund the band. He shows us around the city that’s given him a survivor mentality

“IT WAS SO VIOLENT AND IGNORANT!”

Robb Flynn’s Top 5 Bay Area musical heroes

SHARON OSBOURNE

Manager, wife, mother, trailblazer – the world of metal would look very different without her

BETTER IN THE 90s

As metal’s hottest Deftones-core band, Australia’s Thornhill are bringing 90s cool to a new generation

THORNHILL MATHS

The albums that have inspired the Aussies

HAMMER AT 400

As Metal Hammer reaches its 400th issue, we dig into the archives and pull out the first appearance in the magazine by 10 major bands

The Devil Rides out

Black magic, human skulls and Aleister Crowley – the twisted story of Death SS, Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band

WITHIN TEMPTATION

THE KNOWLEDGE

BURY TOMORROW

Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience MUSIC FOR NATIONS / SONY

CALIBAN

Back From Hell CENTURY MEDIA

CANCER

Inverted World PEACEVILLE

COFFIN FEEDER

Big Trouble LISTENABLE

TETRARCH

Wanna go back to the 00s? Tetrarch have got

THE CALLOUS DAOBOYS

The Callous Daoboys don’t inspire fence-sitters I Don’t Want

CONAN

Violence Dimension HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS Liverpudlian doomlords bring

DEATH SS

PRESS The Entity LUCIFER RISING Italy’s influential occult metallers

EYES

Spinner PROSTHETIC LLNN-affiliated hardcore crew set off on a

GHOST BATH

Rose Thorn Necklace NUCLEAR BLAST Post-black metal forerunners stay

ELUVEITIE

Ànv NAPALM

THE GREAT SEA

Noble Art Of Desolation AOP

HATE

Bellum Regiis METAL BLADE

INHUMAN NATURE

Greater Than Death CHURCH ROAD

SMALL MERCIES

Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’

IDLE HEIRS

Idle Heirs: Coalesce’s frontman returns – older, wiser,

KARDASHEV

Alunea METAL BLADE

LANDMVRKS

The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been ARISING EMPIRE

MAGNOLIA PARK

Vamp EPITAPH

NIGHTFALL

Children Of Eve EASON OF MIST

WORLD SERVICE

Heavy metal uprisings from around the globe

NOVELISTS

Coda NOVEMVRKS Gallic alt metallers spread their

PARADISE SLAVES

With Hell In His Eyes SPINEFARM 36

TEMPLE FANG

Lifted From The Wind STICKMAN Amsterdam’s prog/psych

SVARTA HAVET

Svarta Havet have determined humanity isn’t out of the

STEVE VON TILL

Alone In A World Of Wounds NEUROT

WEDNESDAY 13

PRESS/VIIMA TUOHIMAA Mid Death Crisis NAPALM Lexington’s

WOLVES AT THE GATE

Wasteland SOLID STATE Christian metalcore journeymen finally

THE YAGAS

Midnight Minuet SELF-RELEASED Scream queen Vera

LIMP BIZKIT

SSE WEMBLEY ARENA, LONDON

VUKOVI

UNPEOPLE / ARTIO

KNOCKED LOOSE

BASEMENT / HARM’S WAY / PEST CONTROL

AVANTASIA

THE ROUNDHOUSE, LONDON

BLOODYWOOD

CALVA LOUISE / DEMONIC RESURRECTION O2 FORUM KENTISH TOWN, LONDON

CULT OF FIRE

THE GREAT OLD ONES 229, LONDON

WARDRUNA

ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON

BRYAN GARRIS KNOCKED LOOSE

Hardcore’s yelper-in-chief on the Grammys, his fear of flying, and making pig squeals mainstream