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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25 YEARS OF ORANGE GOBLIN, BABY! • One of the UK’s most beloved metal bands is celebrating a quarter-century in the game with two epic livestreams. Frontman Ben Ward explains what we should expect

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH • What’s been blowing our tiny brains

WOULD YOU SLAP A KOALA FOR WORLD PEACE? • There’s nothing Oceans Of Slumber’s Cammie Gilbert won’t face down. Even having to smack a marsupial

ADDI TRYGGVASON • Sólstafir’s frontman talks us through the journey that spawned Iceland’s premier post-metal masters

LAJON WITHERSPOON • He might be one of metal’s good guys, but the Sevendust frontman has had his fair share of turbulence and tragedy

INGESTED • Less than a month after releasing their fifth record and Mancunian death metal heroes Ingested are already well underway with their next chapter(s)

LAST TRAIN HOME BY ARMORED SAINT • Written in the aftermath of losing their guitarist to cancer, this inspiring anthem became the hallmark calling card of the US metal mainstays

SPIRITBOX • One of 2020’s breakout bands are channelling all sorts of horror into their ever-evolving sound

HELLRIPPER • A one-man blackened speed metal project from Scotland has somehow produced one of the most exciting underground albums of 2020

RAGE OF LIGHT • Trance-metal? It’s a thing, and Rage Of Light are the band taking it to the next level

SHARPTOOTH • One of the year’s best very hardcore albums is also one of the most vital. Here’s why…

YEAR OF THE KNIFE • A sudden lifestyle change helped these hardcore bruisers craft a killer of a debut

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

“IT WAS LIKE HE CAME FROM ANOTHER PLANET” • From blowing Sabbath offstage with his band to influencing everyone from Dimebag to Adam D with his playing, Eddie Van Halen’s impact on the metal world was unlike any other. We celebrate the life of a true legend, with a little help from his friends and peers

WE LOVE EVH • Metal’s biggest names pay tribute to a legend, and pick the songs you need to know about

BREAKING SILENCE • Marilyn Manson was a new type of metal hero: an articulate spokesman, fearless in expressing himself. But as the discourse in music changes, are #MeToo and ‘cancel culture’ too close to home?

THE 10 QUESTIONS WE ASKED MARILYN MANSON • Following this interview, we asked Manson to respond to 10 questions. He didn’t, but his PR did give us a statement

GHOST ARE TEN • Ten years ago, a band formed by a former death metal mainstay turned the underground on its head. A decade on, we look inside the unlikely rise of Ghost

PAPA ANONYMOUS • Tobias Forge only became Papa after several singers knocked him back. Ex-Candlemass frontman Messiah Marcolin failed to check his inbox

HOPPING MAD • Twenty years since their last album, Mike...