Metal Hammer Annual (2025)

Some of our favourite interviews and features taken from across the last twelve months of Metal Hammer. Be it the dazzling, ultra-colourful ‘Harajuku-core’ of Japanese metal starsin-waiting Hanabie, the endless, boundary-prodding innovation of Zeal & Ardor, the genre-clashing chaos of Mimi Barks or the strange sonic bedfellows that gave birth to Scene Queen’s ‘bimbocore’ sound, metal is flush with exciting, creative, genre-progressing young names. Flick across these pages to find interviews with those particular young firebrands and a whole host more.