THE NEW ISSUE OF METAL HAMMER IS ON SALE NOW!!

Clang! Like Thor’s mighty tool, our Hammer hits the shelves like an anvil hits a Vauxhall Nova. And not least because this month’s issue is the Golden God Awards special – featuring all the gory details on the night’s hard rockin’ shenanigans. Kerry King, Cristina Scabbia, Kat Von D, Chuck Billy, Max Cavelara, Phil Demmel, Airbourne, Tarja, Within Temptation, Lee Dorrian, Bleeding Through and of course our uncontrollable host, Oderus Urungus were spotted getting up to no good. Read all the bits that were fit to print only in this issue!

And don’t forget all the bands who played our annual metal love-in: In Flames, Disturbed, Children Of Bodom, Testament, Apocalyptica, Bring Me The Horizon, Valient Thorr, Job For A Cowboy, Alestorm, Audrey Horne and Amon Amarth were all there for the craic!

With all that, it’s a wonder we had room for anything else. But we do. We speak to the Metal God himself, Rob Halford about the new Judas Priest album, Nostradamus; we get deep with Filter’s mainman, Richard Patrick, and talk to the surprise heavyweight success story Parkway Drive.

We also speak to Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe about their DVD; tell the enigmatic goth Carl McCoy’s life story and give Machine Head a rare grilling in the Spanish Inquisition. And we tell the story of Def Leppard’s Hysteria album, inform you on which Alice Cooper albums to buy and run around Download getting battered in order to write about it and fill you in on who stole the golf buggy and which member of Children Of Bodom was caught ‘sleeping’ on a car.

And how could we forget that we have an exclusive new Slipknot track for you to hear! Also on the Golden Gods CD are tracks from nominees including In Flames, Megadeth, Testament, Devildriver, Apocalyptica, Down and The Black Dahlia Murder.