Metal Hammer UK

For over three decades, Metal Hammer has brought the biggest and the best in the world of metal each and every single month. From exclusive interviews with the biggest bands in our game to celebrating the rise of the new artists taking our genre into its next chapter, we represent heavy music in all its many forms, offering world class features, unbiased reviews and special looks inside the scenes no one else will talk about. Be it heavy metal, punk, hardcore, grunge, alternative, goth, industrial, djent or the stuff so bizarre it defies classification, you'll find it all here and backed by the best writers and photographers in our game. If you like heavy music on any level, welcome to your new favourite magazine.

Metal Hammer

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MEET THE BAND

TOMAS LINDBERG • 1972-2025

RIDE ON • From rock star to YouTuber, Justin Hawkins is taking his one-man show on tour in early 2026

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

HANABIE • The Japanese Harajuku-core stars answer your questions on fun, Fugglers and Freddy D

NEIL FALLON • Werewolves, bingo halls, voodoo – oh my! These are the songs that have defined Clutch’s fiery preacher

EVAN SEINFELD • Biohazard’s frontman on being a biker in prison drama Oz, making adult movies and impersonating Lemmy

TEARS OF THE DRAGON BRUCE DICKINSON • How Bruce Dickinson found his creative voice after leaving Iron Maiden

CASTLE RAT • The doomsters bringing high fantasy heroics back to heavy metal

BLOOD VULTURE • Dracula-inspired gothic sludge with a surprisingly human heart

WRATH OF LOGARIUS • Masked mysterious black metallers from the not-so-frosty realms of California

WARD XVI • Avant-garde theatrical metal with heaps of guts and gore

THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA • Deathcore revivalists bring back the glory years of MySpace – with added philosophy

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

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“THIS ENTIRE TOWN HAS BEEN POLLUTED BY HEAVY METAL!” • In deepest Sweden, five men have a warehouse full of tank parts, explosives and fake machine-guns. They are power metal action men Sabaton, and we are about to step inside their world

ELEPHANTS & SAMURAI! • Joakim Brodén’s track by track guide to Sabaton’s new album, Legends

THE WILD ONE • Guitarist, artist, lunatic woodworker, dog-lover, psychedelic traveller – Brent Hinds was all of these and more. We look back at the life of the late, great Mastodon guitarist

“MY KNEE BASICALLY EXPLODED!” • Jiu-jitsu injuries, Bullet beef and getting tapped out by his own kids – as Trivium drop a new EP, Matt Heafy takes us inside his wild year

CRISTINA SCABBIA • From making dance music, to local serial killer scandals, scoring videogames and repping Italian metal – the Lacuna Coil frontwoman has experienced a lot

A Wild Ride • Earthquakes, Covid, visa issues… Underside might have faced setbacks, but they’re determined to break out – while helping their fellow Nepali citizens along the way

Underside Maths • The albums that influenced the band

Ghoul’s Out! • Vampire rock bands, hooded mistresses and decapitated heads? Creeper are back with fangtastic sequel album Sanguivore II, and frontman Will Gould is ushering us into the dark depths of the band’s prop store

Top Of The Props • Will Gould’s favourite Creeper stage props

BREAK STUFF! • Six men, four walls, a bunch of stuff waiting to have the shit smashed out it – this is what happened when we let metalcore heroes Bury Tomorrow loose in a ‘rage room’

BRITISH STEEL • Bin fires, fistfights and dodgy 80s hair metal songs – this is...