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All Hale Queen Lzzy! From supporting Iron Maiden, to being the only woman invited to play Black Sabbath’s farewell show, to being emblazoned across a Times Square billboard, to fronting Skid Row and contributing to a Judas Priest documentary, Lzzy Hale has been EVERYWHERE of late!

But it’s not been smooth-sailing for this in-demand star, and as she tells Hammer in this in-depth interview, it took her hitting rock bottom to make some serious life changes. Now, Halestorm are about to release new album Everest: Get excited! 

Elsewhere in the issue, we go inside the cult of Sleep Token, System Of A Down guitarist/Scars On Broadway frontman Daron Malakian gets the Hammer Interview treatment, and we find out why Paleface Swiss are Gen Z’s answer to Slipknot.

Was Metallica’s Load an epic misfire? Or is it an underrated masterpiece? We pick it apart, track by track. Bloodywood guitarist/founder Karan Katiyar answers your questions, Dimmu Borgir remember the making of Progenies Of the Great Apocalypse, and Korn’s Jonathan Davis talks poodles, parakeets and bearded dragons.

The mysterious President grant us an audience, Bleed From Within conquer New York with Bullet and Trivium, and we investigate how death metal crawled out of Florida’s swamps in the late 80s.

An organiser from Morocco’s Tricinity metal fest explains how the scene is growing, Nervosa’s chief screamer/shredder Prika Amaral invites us into her record collection, and, talking of Brazilian thrash, the legendary Max Cavalera reveals his hard-learned life lessons.

All this, plus all the essential gigs and reviews from the world of metal!

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