MEET THE BAND

stephen Hill

Writer

“as befitting a man who writes riffs heavier than King Kong’s scrote, Joe Duplantier never ducked a single verbal punch the Hammer readers threw at him,” says our resident chilledout entertainer, who put your questions to Gojira’s frontman this month. “What a champ!”

dayal patterson

Writer

Dayal is one of the industry’s foremost experts on extremity, and when he’s not writing for Metal Hammer you can find him tweaking one of his excellent books on black metal. Dayal says his career to date has been “a highly rewarding decade-plus journey of heavy metal writing!”

Tina korhonen Photographer

our favourite Finn has seen and shot it all in her time at Hammer. her favourite moment ever, though? “I once shot chuck Billy from testament with a 10-foot Burmese Python!,” she remembers.

You just don’t get that shit with Practical Caravan, do you?