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

OZZY FOREVER

OZZY OSBOURNE 1948-2025

ALIEN OR PREDATOR? • Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach fields your questions on monsters, Meat Loaf, and the dark secrets of The Munsters

NIKOLINE SPJELKAVIK • Witch Club Satan’s vocalist/guitarist on wild Turbonegro gigs, meeting Necrobutcher and how Dimmu Borgir inspired her to explore witchcraft

NICK HOLMES • The Paradise Lost singer looks back on BMX injuries, pissing off Snow Patrol and dodging potted geraniums

NEMESIS ARCH ENEMY • The anarchist anthem that helped Arch Enemy build a better world for themselves – and for women in metal

FORLORN • Metalcore meets folk horror in a bewitching concoction dubbed ‘Midsommar metal’

CHEPANG • Nepalese-via-New York philosophical grinders want you to use your head before they cave it in

SLUNG • The doom-pop newcomers casting dark clouds over Brighton

STATIC DRESS • Screamo Northerners take a stand against homogenised metal

IDLE HEIRS • Emotionally crushing heft from the minds that brought you Coalesce and Norma Jean

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

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THE GODFATHER • On July 22, 2025, Ozzy Osbourne boarded the crazy train for the final time. But while he may be gone, he will never be forgotten

OZZY OSBOURNE 1948-2025 • The stars pay tribute to the Double O

OZZY FOREVER! • On July 30, 2025, tens of thousands of people gathered in Birmingham to watch Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral procession. This is what happened when The Prince Of Darkness came home for the final time

THE DADDIES OF BADDIECORE • A new album in Private Music and a whole new generation of fans who find their music sexy? Deftones are having a major resurgence – and Chino Moreno is as surprised as anybody

“METAL’S GETTING SEXIER!” • Stray From The Path drummer Craig Reynolds is the genius behind the word ‘baddiecore’

“WE WANT TO INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION!” • Big talk? Maybe – but Nova Twins have gone from playing to sheep in a field to becoming one of the most electrifying bands of their time

REIGN IN BLOOD • Deathcore is long overdue its big commercial breakthrough. And with their new album, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me, Lorna Shore are ready to kick down the door

PIG SQUEALS & BEAR WRESTLING • Five bands turning this into a Deathcore Summer

“IF WE GAVE UP NOW, IT WOULD DESTROY OUR SCENE" • Since forming in 2008, Overthrust have become the leaders of Botswana’s death metal community. We join them on their first UK tour

ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS • Sepultura remain the gold standard in global metal, so who better to support Overthrust in London than Iggor Cavalera?

HELLOWEEN • Pumpkins, power metal and one of the most unexpected reunions in metal – this is the tangled story of the German band who made epic even bigger

SMASHING PUMPKINS! • Five key Helloween albums, in their own...