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

’TIL ’DETH DO US PART?

MEET THE BAND

WHALE OF A TIME

IRON MAIDEN’S LOST SINGER • The creator of 2010’s Lemmy has made a brutal, brilliant movie about ex-Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

WHEN’S THE IRN-BRU COLLAB COMING? • Bleed From Within’s Scott Kennedy faces down your questions on fizzy drinks, the Bullet/Trivium beef and… Weegie bams?!

YETI BONES • Ho99o9’s singer/instrumentalist on biker gangs, his dream collab with Corey Taylor, and why Mike Patton makes him horny

TAYLOR MOMSEN • You might know her as The Pretty Reckless’s fearless leader, but AC/DC know her as… Batgirl? This is her advice

TO THE HELLFIRE LORNA SHORE • A decade in, the band were nearing breaking point. Then powerhouse pig-squealer Will Ramos showed up and helped make them deathcore’s biggest stars

THE PRETTY WILD • The Las Vegas duo who went viral with a cough

200 STAB WOUNDS • Gore-soaked death metal with evil melodies

ALLT • Swedish tech brutes soundtracking the end of the world

DIE SPITZ • The Texans fuelled by politics and Sabbath riffs

LASTELLE • Post-hardcore reaching for emotional peaks

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

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COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION • After 43 years at the helm, Dave Mustaine says Megadeth’s self-titled new album will be their last. But is this really the end of the road for one of metal’s most outspoken figures?

50 ALBUMS YOU NEED TO HEAR IN 2026 • Welcome to the soundtrack of your next 12 months

TATIANA SHMAYLUK • Manifestation, misplaced comparisons and Soviet-era cartoons – how Jinjer’s singer went from pop-punk kid to one of metal’s most fearsome icons

Stealing The Spotlight • Fed up with playing to 20 people a night, Dayseeker almost broke up. Now they’re rising stars of baddiecore

Dayseeker Maths • The albums that have influenced Rory

REHEKŌ! • This is what happened when we went to Aotearoa, aka New Zealand, to see Māori metallers Alien Weaponry jump off a bridge. Let’s go!

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION • Hard and soft, ethereal and heavy, blissed-out and unsettling – Trent Reznor-approved genre-benders Health are pushing metal and industrial music into the future

THE EVIL THAT PENS DO • January is a grey month – so why not brighten it up by colouring in these Eddies? Up the Irons!

ALBUM REVIEWS

MEGADETH

KREATOR

ALTER BRIDGE

SMALL MERCIES • Where EP is short for ‘Epic Potential’

MØL

URNE

DAMNATION FESTIVAL 2025 • Napalm Death, Deafheaven and Castle Rat uphold the underground’s broad, blistering church

VOLBEAT

HANABIE

LACUNA COIL

ELECTRIC CALLBOY

MALEVOLENCE

HALESTORM

BAD OMENS

SVALBARD

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