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HORN FOR GREATNESS

PRESS/ NATHAN ZUCKER PAPA ROACH PLAYED their biggest-ever

BOOM-DA DA-UMMMM-AH AH-ENNA!

OK, SO I’M not Jonathan Davis, but I

FESTIVAL FEVER

The summer season might be over, but there’s plenty to look forward to in 2023. We round up some of the best of the fests

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

What’s been blowing our tiny brains

HOW MANY FIVE-YEAR-OLDS COULD YOU TAKE IN A FIGHT?

Parkway Drive’s fearless frontman Winston McCall faces your questions on killer kids, wrestling sharks and how much fire he can handle

JONAS RENKSE

He sings in progressive metallers Katatonia and mans the low end for death metal nasties Bloodbath. So of course his taste is eclectic

NEIL FALLON

From touring with Motörhead to not wanting to be Dave Grohl, Clutch’s fiery preacher shares the parables that have made his band a rock’n’roll mainstay

ROYAL THUNDER

Atlantan rockers return from the edge of oblivion with a message of healing through honesty

IN THE SHADOWS THE RASMUS

The Rasmus were already beloved in their homeland of Finland, but In The Shadows turned them into global gothic superstars

MURDERDOLLS WILL ALWAYS KICK ASS

…and other declarations of adoration, hatred and apathy you had to offer about the Lamb Of Godadorned issue of Hammer, featuring the likes of Amy Lee, Coheed And Cambria and more!

THE BIG DEBATE

Nu metal is blazing a comeback trail, but not everybody is happy. Incubus’s Brandon Boyd wasn’t very complimentary about the genre, so nu metal’s detractors and defenders came out in force…

HAMMER STEREO

What’s been blowing our office speakers

L.S. DUNES

MCR guitarist teams up with pals in Coheed And Cambria, Circa Survive and Thursday to revive the magic of when they were young, via early 00s post-hardcore and emo

KASSOGTHA

It’s a case of all or nothing for this Swiss prog-death powerhouse – stress, sweat and scars be damned

1914

Anti-war Ukrainian metallers issue their dispatches from the trenches

GOSPELHEIM

Manchester’s morose misfits court blasphemy by fusing BM and goth

FELLOWSHIP

High fantasy power metallers offer hope and happiness in these dark times

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

FREAKS UNLEASHED

Two legendary bands. Two icons that defined a generation of misfits. Here’s what happened when we united Evanescence’s Amy Lee and Korn’s Jonathan Davis to talk fame, friendship, and facing your demons

SHOW ME THE MUMMY!

Pyramids, sphinx heads and the monumental Live After Death album – Iron Maiden’s World Slavery Tour made epic even bigger. But it also came close to finishing the band off for good

CAN TIKTOK SAVE METAL?

Metal is long overdue a mainstream revival. With its viral hits and vibrant community, TikTok could be the game-changer it needs

CRONOS

Dating witches? Performing occult rituals? Creating extreme metal? It’s all in a career’s work when you’re the founder of the one and only Venom

NATIVE SON

Fusing Indigenous American culture and black metal, Jon Krieger – aka Blackbraid – is becoming the biggest underground sensation of 2022

We fear notbing

In 2002, Lacuna Coil put out Comalies, the career-defining album that changed their lives forever. Twenty years later, they decided to give it one hell of a makeover

THE DOOMED GENERATION

In Cuba in the early 1990s, hundreds of metal fans injected themselves with HIV as a protest against the government. This is the tragic story of Papo Delgado and los frikis

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