The Biggest Metal Hammer Ever Is Here! Starring Megadeth, 50 Defenders Of The Faith, Awesome Nightwish Mini-Mag And More!

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The biggest Metal Hammer in history has arrived, and it’s a fucking monster! Featuring our gigantic Megadeth feature, Trivium, Lamb Of God, Watain, Within Temptaion, Devin Townsend, In Flames, Rise To Remain, Ghost, plus a free 24-page Nightwish pull-out and more!

Issue 225 has arrived like a juggernaut riding on a flame-powered freight train, and it’s the biggest Metal Hammer in history! As well as a free awesome 24-page NIGHTWISH pullout mini-mag and, for UK readers, the debut album from Brit newcomers Furyon, we’re packing a massive, 13-page feature detailing the 50 heroes of metal today, featuring interviews with everyone from IN FLAMES, WATAIN, TRIVIUM, DEVIN TOWNSEND, GHOST, KORN (with Skrillex), WITHIN TEMPTAION and many more to lists of the best metal labels, festivals and producers of 2011!

And, in an incredible exclusive, we travelled to Dave Mustaine’s home to talk to one of the most legendary names in metal in our biggest MEGADETH feature yet, giving you the inside scoop on awesome new album ‘Th1rt3en’, the truth behind the Big 4 shows and more! Plus, Hammer descends into the dark depths of THE DEVIL’S BLOOD, explains the colourful history of THE MISFITS and heads to Tunisia to retell MYRATH’s tales of religion, revolution and almost dying for metal. MOTÖRHEAD’s iconic frontman Lemmy tells us tales of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll from his years on the road, and we give you the front-to-back and top-to-bottom of seminal Newcastle metallers VENOM.

Also interviewed are LAMB OF GOD, who talk about brand new album ‘Resolution’, Burton C Bell of FEAR FACTORY and CITY OF FIRE, ARTHEMIS, WEDNESDAY 13 and Max Cavalera, who discusses the new SOULFLY album from the studio! Need more? We also chat to black metal veterans DIMMU BORGIR, US death metallers JOB FOR A COWBOY, proggy newcomers CIRCLES, Dez Fafara’s DEVILDRIVER and Son-Of-Ozzy, JACK OSBOURNE! Want new blood? How about features with rising pups TURBOWOLF, JUNIUS, FURYON, UNEVEN STRUCTURE and SWORN AMONGST?

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Plus, Guns N’ Roses legend DUFF MCKAGAN writes for Hammer about the glory days of the Sunset Strip, Josh from SYLOSIS speaks to NWOBHM legends DIAMOND HEAD’s Brian Tatler, and we head to France to get crazy with new French lords of deathcore, BETRAYING THE MARTYRS.

In this month’s Subterranea, we delve to the depths of the finest black, death, doom and extreme noise with PENTAGRAM, KRISIUN, the LIVE EVIL festival, SHINING, DETRIMENTUM, IRON WITCH and more…

More reviews, you say? How about albums from VENOM, THIS IS HELL, SLASH, MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER, KITTIE, MARIONETTE, DREAM THEATER, WILL HAVEN, BEHEMOTH, NIGHTWISH, AS I LAY DYING and the controversial new KORN album!

Well, we did tell you it was the biggest issue ever. Now stop gawking and GRAB YOUR COPY NOW!

Metal Hammer 225. Bigger, badder, better.

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