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The new issue of Metal Hammer features Ghost on the cover – and comes with three exclusive gifts!

Get your hands on a new Grucifix patch, a purple logo patch, and a special art print

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“She was literally getting onto the plane. I felt awkward about it, but I’ve got a bad enough reputation and so has she”: The classic Megadeth song that was originally supposed to feature Lisa Marie Presley

This Megadeth anthem could have sounded very different

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“We were a bit drunk, and I slurred to Ronnie, ‘Do you fancy doing an album?’ It was as simple as that”: How Heaven & Hell resurrected Black Sabbath’s other classic line-up with The Devil You Know

Heaven & Hell’s The Devil You Know was a Dio-era Sabbath record under any other name

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“You’ve no idea how cold it was – totally freezing. I know we’re a doom band, but this was suffering way beyond the call of duty”: How Candlemass changed metal forever with doom landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Doom metal never sounded so huge as it did on Candlemass’ game-changing 1986 debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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Ministry announce summer headline shows in the UK and Europe

If you had hoped to see Ministry outside of a festival next summer, you're in luck

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Prog and Metal Hammer partner with this year's post-rock and prog metal two-day event Pelagic Fest

Prog and Metal Hammer partner with post-rock and prog metal event Pelagic Fest which takes place in Maastricht in August

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“People are intimidated, or say I give off some bad vibe. But if you want to get a reaction out of a crowd, you better have an ego”: How Disturbed’s David Draiman became the metal star the press loved to hate

In the 2000s, sections of the UK press hated Disturbed – and singer David Draiman was trying to work out why

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“I’m not a role-playing games guy. I’m not about drinking beer and singing folk songs. I’m all about sex, blood and rock’n’roll”: How Finnish glam-goth metal icons The 69 Eyes blazed a trail for HIM

Before Ville Valo and HIM, there was Jyrki 69 and The 69 Eyes

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"Nu Delhi is an exhilarating rush that should see Bloodywood’s star rise still further." India's biggest metal sensations have produced another iron-clad rager with their second studio album

Indian nu metal machine Bloodywood are packing nothing but bangers

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“We have a Grammy-winning producer, a trained Shakespearian actor and a carpenter”: The death and resurrection of Hell, the occult metal pioneers that history forgot

How cult early 80s metallers Hell bounced back from tragedy nearly 30 years later

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“What did we get for being innovative? We got slaughtered by everyone. That’s what you face for trying something new”: How Saxon made Crusader, the album that marked the end of their early 80s glory years

Biff Byford looks back on Saxon’s divisive 1984 album Crusader

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Test your metal knowledge with the all-new Metal Hammer quiz

Are you a true metal warrior or a shameless poseur? Try our new quiz and find out!

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“My village was the first one in England to install CCTV, just to spot us skateboarding”: Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth spent his teens being a skate punk hoodlum

In a new interview with Metal Hammer, the Cradle Of Filth frontman talks about his grungy roots in the Suffolk hardcore scene

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Spiritbox have released two new live tracks only available until tomorrow

Songs recorded at recent live shows in London and Paris are available on an expanded edition of new album Tsunami Sea, which can be downloaded until 11:59pm on Thursday

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Order your exclusive Slaughter To Prevail, Jinjer, Electric Callboy, Bloodywood and Bambie Thug bundles, featuring limited edition t-shirts, longsleeves and spellbooks

Metal Hammer has teamed up with the New Heavy Class Of 2025 - Jinjer, Electric Callboy, Slaughter To Prevail, Bambie Thug and Bloodywood - for these special bundles featuring exclusive merch

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“It was s***. The singing’s s***, the playing’s s***”: Opeth covered a beloved Iron Maiden song – and Mikael Åkerfeldt really, really doesn’t like it

The Opeth frontman also reveals which of his songs he feels are overrated in a new interview with Metal Hammer

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“Everybody was fighting in the streets, getting thrown through car windows, it was insane! The cops arrested Jimmy and he went to jail!”: How Avenged Sevenfold went from metalcore brats to 21st century metal heavyweights

The rise and rise of Avenged Sevenfold, in their own words

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“I lost the tips of two fingers in an accident when I was 17. Doctors told me that I had no hope of playing guitar again. I refused to accept that”: The life and times of Tony Iommi, metal’s indestructible dark lord

If it wasn’t for Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, the world would sound very, very different

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When you look into a human’s eyes, you feel this soul. You look into this bear’s eyes, you don’t see anything in there”: Slaughter To Prevail frontman Alex Terrible’s guide to wrestling bears

Thinking of wrestling a Russian brown bear? Slaughter To Prevail’s Alex Terrible has some tips

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“I don’t think anyone is as iconic as I am right now”: How Ville Valo helped lead HIM to stardom and became a modern rock god in the process

In 2006, HIM were at the peak of their powers –and frontman Ville Valo was living the rock star life to the max

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“Had fans had mobile phones, they would have been climbing over old-age pensioners to take selfies”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is a big fan of Ghost banning phones from gigs

Talking to Metal Hammer last year, Iron Maiden’s frontman discussed attending Ghost’s 2023 Los Angeles shows and his joy over the absence of mobile phones

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The new issue of Metal Hammer features FIVE cover to choose from: Electric Callboy, Jinjer, Slaughter To Prevail, Bambie Thug and Bloodywood!

Meet your New Heavy cover stars for 2025

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“I was eating tons and tons of painkillers. It was as hard to kick as heroin. It was really, really bad”: How High On Fire’s Matt Pike pulled back from the edge of darkness to make De Vermis Mysteriis

The story of High On Fire’s bonkers stoner doom landmark De Vermis Mysteriis

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“A lot of bands, it’s nepotism that gets them anywhere – go to the right party and make the right friends. For us, that wasn’t an option”: How Disturbed defied the odds to become nu metal superstars with The Sickness

Disturbed hit it out the park first time with debut album The Sickness

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“We got pelted with glass bottles and dead rabbits. We stood our ground”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn’s wild tour stories of bust-ups, injuries and urine-soaked tobacco

When Slipknot’s Corey Taylor met Machine Head’s Robb Flynn

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