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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.

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BABY, JOIN ME IN DEATH

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PHIL CAMPBELL 1961-2026

THE SUMMER OF SABBATH… CONTINUED • Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery has extended its exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of Ozzy Osbourne

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

DOES IT BOTHER YOU THAT PEOPLE CALL BVB POSERS? • Black Veil Brides vocalist Andy Biersack talks critics, action figure obsessions, and his dream of becoming Batman

ROB DUKES • The returning Exodus vocalist on what he’s learned from riots, welding cars, and following in the footsteps of late frontman Paul Baloff

GIMME CHOCOLATE!! BABYMETAL • High-speed riffs, angry gatekeepers and… tutus? How the kawaii icons took metal by surprise

NATIVE JAMES • The UK rapper giving nu metal a grimy makeover

BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT • The band trading rainy Portland for sunny LA and doom for shoegaze

QASU • The cross-Atlantic trio bringing black metal into the future

THE NONE • Indie lifers from London and Birmingham find meaning in noise, chaos and the here-and-now

DIMSCÛA • Searing post-metal pulled from the depths of grief

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

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Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights • Thirty years ago, Him released their debut EP and started the journey that saw them crowned kings of 21st-century goth metal. Frontman Ville Valo reflects on that wild ride – and what the future of the band may hold

DIaBOLIKaL RaPtuRes • Every Him album in Ville’s words

THE 25 GREATEST GOTH METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME • Embrace the gloom, children of the night, with the records that brought gothic darkness to metal

"WE HAD SO MANY IDEAS!" • The Gathering singer Anneke van Giersbergen and drummer/co-founder Hans Rutten on Nighttime Birds

"THERE WERE OLD CATHEDRALS AND GRAVEYARDS!" • Tribulation vocalist/bassist Johannes Andersson on his band’s journey to the dark side with The Children Of The Night

A MATTER OF THE AND DEATH • It’s Iron Maiden’s world – we just live in it. As new documentary Burning Ambition hits cinemas, we speak to some of the diehard fans whose lives have been changed by ’Arry and co

THE DEEP END • When Nina Saeidi ditched the corporate world to form Lowen, a band celebrating her Iranian heritage, little did she know she’d become a political spokesperson too

BRITISH STEEL • Heavy metal fundamentalists Tailgunner are here to party like it’s 1985 – and they don’t care if you’re laughing at them

TAILGUNNER MATHS • The albums that inspired Tailgunner

The Godfather • Metal lost a giant when At The Gates singer Tomas Lindberg died last year at 52. His bandmates look back on the life and times of a man who helped invent a new genre

“MURDER.REPRESSION.STOLEN LAND.THAT IS DICTAT ORSHIP IN BELARUS” • Dymna Lotva were forced to flee Belarus after speaking out against the...