Metal Hammer is proud to team up with Gojira for this exclusive variant of their May 2021 issue, featuring an exclusive alternate cover and hand-signed lyric sheet. Only 200 worldwide! 

In this jam-packed issue of Hammer, we chat to the Duplantier brothers of the mighty Gojira, and crown them the band of the decade. Find out why inside. We also count down the top 50 cult bands, those who never got the fame and fortune they truly deserved. Impotent Sea Snakes, Super Junky Monkey, Lȧȧz Rockit, Human Waste Project, Reverend Bizarre… they’re all in here. It’s a great, mammoth read. Elsewhere, we find out what Perturbator is up to now synthwave is apparently dead, catch up with Evile as they’re back with a vengeance (and a familiar vocalist), find out about Sevendust’s Lajon’s encounter with Alice Cooper and shrooms, and look back at how Master Of Reality was the real gamechanger for Black Sabbath. Twenty years on from their debut album, we revisit the 15 moments that defined Avenged Sevenfold, chat cuddly toys with Cannibal Corpse’s George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher, and rummage through the record collection of Neurosis’s Steve Von Till. We check out the new Bullet For My Valentine book, hit the studio with Spiritbox, let you lot loose questioning While She Sleeps’ Loz Taylor, and celebrate the awesomeness of Devin and Anneke, surely the greatest pairing since mac’n’cheese. We get the lowdown on the best new artists, and bring you the latest news and more than 50 album reviews!