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In this issue of Metal Hammer, we chat to Lamb Of God about their incredible album and find out why they’re angrier than ever. We also take the opportunity to look back at the NWOAHM and find out where the class of 2002 are today. Chimaira, Shadows Fall, Bleeding Through, Unearth and more – we catch up with them all.

Heading back further into the mists of time, we revisit and re-evaluate Load and Reload, and ask, did they deserve the bashing they got? Were Metallica actually onto something?! Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale talks Dio, coming out and, er, singing to trees, and we celebrate the life of Suicide Silence’s Mitch Lucker, 10 years on from his tragic death.

We follow The Hu to California to find out if the US is ready for Mongolian folk metal, reminisce over Hellraiser and chat to the bands it influenced, and Coheed And Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez answers your questions. Evanescence’s Amy Lee gives us her life lessons, we hit the studio with In Flames, and Blacklab’s Yuko Morino invites us into her record collection.

Wednesday 13 remembers the early days of Murderdolls and the making of Dead In Hollywood, we look at the metal bands making a noise throughout Africa, and Iggor Cavalera talks roots, Roots and reinventing himself as an industrial noise maverick. All this, plus all the essential news and reviews from the world of metal.