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METAL HAMMER celebrated 300 issues! As a present to you, we gathered all of the biggest names in metal and put together a special issue about the health of our scene. Featuring Corey Taylor, Randy Blythe, Papa Emeritus, Jonathan Davis, Dave Mustaine, Ice-T and a ton more, it was even better than cake.

Legendary label NUCLEAR BLAST celebrated three decades of heavy. We went to Germany’s Summer Breeze festival to party at their Blast Bash day, featuring Battle Beast, Hatebreed, Epica, Children Of Bodom and Kreator. We might have had a few beers...

ARCHITECTS’ Sam Carter called out a man for groping a woman at their show. The band were playing at Lowlands Festival in The Netherlands when he saw him grab the woman’s breast while she was crowdsurfing. “It is fucking disgusting and there is no place for that shit,” he rightly raged.

August 24 marked the 10-year anniversary of SOPHIE LANCASTER’S death. Sophie, just 20 years old, was killed while defending her boyfriend from a gang at a park in Bacup, Lancashire. Led by her mother, Sylvia, the Sophie Lancaster Foundation have been tirelessly working with schools and police to stamp out hatred and intolerance.