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 UK

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A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS • Ice Nine Kills are bringing their horror movie convention to the UK – with some bloody special guests

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

DO YOU ALWAYS SMELL LIKE A FREAK SHOW? • Avatar’s ringleader Johannes Eckerström faces your questions on Insane Clown Posse, balloon animals and why he’ll never play ska

JENNIFER HABEN • Beyond The Black’s powerhouse vocalist explains how she started listening to Whitney Houston and ended up at Lemmy

WOLFGANG VAN HALEN • Hard rock’s greatest prodigy talks joining Van Halen, opening for Metallica and trying to carve out his own legacy

CLOSER NINE INCH NAILS • How a misinterpreted horny anthem turned Trent Reznor into an unlikely – and unwilling – rock’n’roll sex god

DEVILOOF • Deathcore brutality and visual kei flair? This Japanese band are making a mark

WITHIN DESTRUCTION • The Slovenian and Thai brutes using Japanese culture to break out of deathcore

BENEATH A STEEL SKY • Meditative Scottish sextet meld post-metal’s bile with post-rock’s beauty

CWFEN • Haunting, emotive darkness from the heart of Scotland

CALL ME AMOUR • Genre-bending metal that refuses to be defined

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

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HE WAS LEMMY & HE PLAYED ROCK‘N’ROLL • On December 24, Motörhead’s legendary frontman would have been 80 years old. On the 10th anniversary of his death, and his band’s 50th anniversary, we celebrate the man, the music and the myth

LEMMY FOREVER • The Motörhead icon may be gone, but he lives on in bullet casings, statues and tattoos. This is how Lemmy’s ashes were spread around the world

EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYONE ELSE • 50 years, 50 songs – these are the greatest Motörhead tracks, as picked by some of your favourite metal artists

“ALL THE SHIT I’D BEEN THROUGH MELTED AWAY” • In this exclusive extract from his new book, Last Rites, Ozzy Osbourne looked back on his surprise return to the stage at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham – and how it ushered in his final chapter

REFUSE/RESIST • From underground ragers to Amy Lee - and Fred Durst-approved metal-edged hardcore nihilists, Dying Wish are making a stand against the tides of hate

DYING WISH MATHS • Emma Boster on the musical inspirations behind Flesh Stays Together

IF YOU GO DOWN TO THE WOODS TODAY… • …you’ll find one of the most exciting metal bands of 2025. They are Orbit Culture, and they’ve lured us to their hometown in deepest, darkest Sweden

ORANGE GOBLIN • Thirty years, 10 albums, a reservoir of booze – Orange Goblin are linchpins of the British metal scene. But these hairy warhorses are about to call time on their career

“YOU CAN SMELL THE BOOZE!” • Five essential Orange Goblin albums

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