Page 27 - Metal Hammer Issue 334 - UK (May 2020)

LETTERS
YOUR SHOUT
THERE ARE
TOO MANY
FESTIVALS
And other
complaints,
celebrations and
curious musings you
guys sent our way
this month
WISHMASTERS
As a fan, I love that Nightwish
are doing a double album now.
Although I hope it’s better than
99% of double albums by metal
or rock bands. Can anyone name
many good ones? I bet you can’t!
Domini Goodman (email)
We reckon Iron Maiden had a
pretty damn good stab at it with
The Book Of Souls. We also back Use
Your Illusion 1 and 2 if they count.
If you wanna go back far enough,
,DVQE?=J #P=įRE by some band
called Led Zeppelin did pretty OK
too. That’s about it, though.
FLOOR ENSEMBLE
With your recent cover, surely
Floor has now set the record
for most Metal Hammer cover
appearances for a Nightwish
singer? I remember Anette getting
NIGHTWISH: JOHN McMURTRIE I need the facts! YOUTH GONE WILD
one or two, did Tarja get one?
Karen Cearny (email)
You’re quite right, our Karen:
Floor is indeed a record-breaking
Nightwish superstar, with three
covers and counting. With the
Nightwish: record breakers
#TWEETS
Really excited
for @Slipknot on
Wednesday! Broke
my heart when I told
my 6yo she couldn’t
come see the
“guys in masks”.
To Serve, Venom Prison and Power #VDƝDBPDW
Trip! These bands all kill! It’s time
to give them a chance! I wanted to talk to
AZkkr Pab`Ʈ^e] !?Z\^[hhd" Steve Harris when
Zh#djuhh$#Lwġv#zk|#zhġyh#kdg# I met him but my
features on every single one of mouth just didn’t
band’s rise showing no signs those bands in recent months, work. I just stood
of stalling, we can’t say we’re and why we’ll continue to do so. there looking like
much surprised. Khdy|#pxvlf#lv#dolyh#dqg#zhoo$# my brain had just
fallen out of my ear.
NIFTY FIFTIES GLOBAL METAL @MogOneill
As a reader who actually Really enjoyed the ‘on location’
uhphpehuv#slfnlqj#xs#wkh#Ľuvw# pieces in last month’s issue – Are Evanescence still
Black Sabbath record when it Nightwish in Lapland, Ihsahn in a thing? Assumed
came out, let me say how great Norway and Sepultura in France! they had that one-
it is to see what they started still Can we have more of that please hit wonder and
being in such good health! Metal – it’s way more interesting to see would do one!
forever! From a 67-year-old and bands outside of the UK bubble. #&XQQLQJKDPB8.
still loving it metalhead! One Happy Traveller (email)
Tudor Vernon (email) Banging idea. If anyone fancies Parkway Drive’s last
Kdwv#rļ#wr#|rx/#vlu$#Zh#fdqġw#txlwh# taking some journalists to Hawaii record was damn
eholhyh#lwġv#ehhq#Ľyh#ghfdghv# to hang with some metal bands near a carbon copy
since Black Sabbath heralded the iru#d#ihdwxuh/#zhġuh#rĿfldoo|# of Machine Head’s
arrival of heavy metal either. It’s putting our names in the hat. Just Catharsis. Just worse.
UNITED STATES Damn, that Ziltoid
putting that out there.
done alright since then, hasn’t it?
#DWURFLW\
OF AMERIKA
looks pretty
People saying rock is dead or that
omniscient.
Finally! I don’t know why it’s taken
metal isn’t producing new stars:
let me introduce you to Loathe,
so long for Rammstein to come
#'DYHWURQ
Code Orange, Conjurer, Employed
back to America (Amerika?!) but
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