Metal Hammer Magazine

IN THE NEW HAMMER!

Kaboom! RAMMSTEIN have exploded back into our world more controversial than ever. We speak to the German metallers about the sex and the fire in a rare British interview! Hammer flew to Detroit to catch KISS the most consistently flamboyant rock band of all time playing a mammoth show in their spiritual home and talking about an album we never thought we see – let alone one this good!

Metalcore survivors SHADOWSFALL tell us about stepping up a gear to support Lamb Of God. As DRAGONFORCE ready themselves for a marathon UK Hammer-sponsored tour Herman Li takes us through the shredders that shaped his gnarly playing. PORCUPINE TREE mainman Steve Wilson takes us through their most challenging album yet.

SKELETONWITCH: they’ll take your thrash and your NWOBHM and raise you some HEAVY! The US metallers tell us how. Critically acclaimed heavyweights BARONESS tell us the story of their awesome new ‘Blue Record’ album. And we catch up with, BUCKCHERRY, the only 80s-inspired rock band who are keeping the flame burning bright and true.

Also: We get nekkid with STEEL PANTHER in the sauciest Access All Areas yet, OZZY OSBOURNE tells us some lesser-known facts about his life and we tell the dark and twisted story of the making of CANNIBAL CORPSE’S Gallery Of Suicide Album. We also have a look at the importance of Sleep (the band, naturally), dig into ZAKK WYLDE’S prolific back catalogue and give The WILDHEARTS a drilling (literally, wait til you see the pictures!)

Also: SLAYER, GORGOROTH, LANDMINE MARATHON, DESPISED ICON, ELECTRIC WIZARD and tons more.

The magazine also comes with a wicked CD (which includes brand new music from SLAYER, KISS, ATREYU, EVERY TIME I DIE, SKINDRED, SKELETONWITCH, SONATA ARCTICA, INSOMNIUM and loads more) a huge poster of STEEL PANTHER and the delectable Fuel Girls on one side, and the MEGADETH magazine cover you all loved so much, and the piece de resistance, if you buy the magazine in HMV, you get the very special RAMMSTEIN cross cover. Check out the video of what that entails!

Oh, and there’s a limited edition DRAGONFORCE patch too, so get your denim out!