Issue #416 (Loathe): Magazine + Exclusive T-shirt

This Metal Hammer x Loathe bundle comes with an exclusive T-shirt, designed by Feisal, as we grill the band about why their new album took five years to make.

Elsewhere inside the Issue…

• As German electronicore stars Electric Callboy prepare to release new album Tanzneid, we speak to co-vocalists Kevin Ratajczak and Nico Sallach about how they went from car salesman and intensive care nurse to become metal’s ultimate party band;
  
  
• We celebrate 25 years of Slipknot’s iconic second album, Iowa. “We were looking to help Norway burn some more churches,” super-producer Ross Robinson tells us. “We wanted to join that extreme metal club!”
  
  
• Meanwhile, from Metallica to Iron Maiden, every band has a stinker clogging up their back catalogue. But are metal’s ‘worst’ albums really that bad? Our writers defend their favourites. 
  
  
• We also get in a dungeon with German zombie sensations Dominum, and share the inside story of Nightwish’s Bye Bye Beautiful – symphonic metal’s first-ever diss track.
  
  
• I Prevail’s Eric Vanlerberghe answers your questions about lasagne-towers, Judas Priest/Elegant Weapons man Richie Faulkner explains why he once summoned the Devil, and Sharon Osbourne reveals how she’s keeping Ozzy’s legacy alive – from a movie of Back To The Beginning, to the return of Ozzfest and a controversial AI avatar.
  
  
• Plus, we meet Eihwar: the mysterious Viking war trance duo bringing an Asgardian rave to the moshpit.
  
  All this, along with Primus, AFI, The Hu, Halestorm, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mortiis, our big Download and Mystic reviews and much, much more. Only in the new issue of Metal Hammer, on sale now.