In this limited-edition bundle issue, Scars On Broadway frontman Daron Malakian gets the full Hammer Interview treatment. Plus, we’ve teamed up with the SOAD guitarist to offer this exclusive Scars On Broadway T-Shirt, in honour of the band’s latest album, Addicted To The Violence.

Elsewhere in the issue…

•  Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale tells how it took her hitting rock bottom to make some serious life changes, as her band prepare to release their new album, Everest.
• We go inside the cult of Sleep Token, and find out why Paleface Swiss are Gen Z’s answer to Slipknot.
• Was Metallica’s Load an epic misfire? Or is it an underrated masterpiece? We pick it apart, track by track.
• Bloodywood guitarist and founder Karan Katiyar answers your questions; Dimmu Borgir remember the making of Progenies Of the Great Apocalypse; and Korn’s Jonathan Davis talks poodles, parakeets and bearded dragons.
• The mysterious President grant us an audience; Bleed From Within conquer New York with Bullet and Trivium; and we investigate how death metal crawled out of Florida’s swamps in the late 80s.
• An organiser from Morocco’s Tricinity metal fest explains how the scene is growing; Nervosa’s chief screamer Prika Amaral invites us into her record collection; and, talking of Brazilian thrash, the legendary Max Cavalera reveals his hard-learned life lessons. 
  

All this, plus all the essential gigs and reviews from the world of metal…