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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

OZZY & TONY & GEEZER & BILL.

MEET THE BAND

A BRAVE NEW WORLD

RAISE YOUR HORNS • As Wacken fast approaches, we find out how a small gathering in Germany evolved into one of the world’s biggest metal fests

HAMMER STEREO • What’s been blowing our office speakers

WHAT DO YOU SERVE? • From shark obsessions to Fatman Scoop, Employed To Serve’s Justine Jones and Sammy Urwin take on your questions

MANUEL GAGNEUX • The genre-agnostic mastermind behind Zeal & Ardor gives us a tour of his quirky record collection

DANI FILTH • Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts

JUDAS RISING JUDAS PRIEST • The song that rebuilt the band for the 21st century

PARADISE SLAVES • Former 36 Crazyfists frontman finds his second wind

UNPEOPLE • The Metallica-endorsed alt metallers smashing together misery and euphoria

SATURDAY NIGHT SATAN • Wanna get loose with Lucifer?

TIBERIUS • Scottish prog metallers bring a sense of fun

OVERSIZE • The Salisbury heavygazers taking a fresh look at 90s nostalgia

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

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“IT WAS US AGAINST THE WORLD” • On July 5, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne will play live for the last time ever. The four members look back on an incredible journey

IRON MAN • How Tom Morello pulled together the bill for the “greatest day in heavy metal history”

“SABBATH ARE TENDING THE FLOCK OF BANDS THEY CREATED” • In this exclusive roundtable interview, Sabbath superfans Lzzy Hale, Joe Duplantier, Brann Dailor and Randy Blythe bow down before the godfathers of metal

ROCK STAR. SURVIVOR. MADMAN. LEGEND. • From drugs, despondency and dead bats to changing the face of modern metal and gaining an unlikely celebrity status, this is the rollercoaster story of Ozzy Osbourne’s solo career

CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE • The Back To The Beginning show features the greatest metal bill ever assembled. Over the next 12 pages, some of the musicians appearing share just what Ozzy and Black Sabbath mean to them

“DID THEY GROW UP IN GRAVEYARDS?!” • Metallica bassist and ex-Ozzy solo band member Robert Trujillo salutes Sabbath’s scary magic

“LAYNE WOULD SING ALONG TO SWEET LEAF!” • Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell got his love of riffs from Iommi… and his bassist from Ozzy

TOBIAS FORGE

“OZZY WAS GIVING ME THE STARE OF DEATH!” • Anthrax’s Scott Ian on hearing Sabbath as an eight-year-old and confusing the hell out of Ozzy

NONE MORE BLACK • Ten killer Black Sabbath and Ozzy covers

“THERE WASN’T A NAME FOR WHAT WE WERE DOING!” • Ex-Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing witnessed the birth of Sabbath in Birmingham

“IT WAS A FANBOY, STARSTRUCK SCENARIO” • Black Sabbath are the only band to have left Slayer’s Kerry King speechless

“WE ALL GOT BAT...