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Contributors
Emmie Bielby, Dean Brown, Cheryl Carter, Richard
Chamberlain, Chris Chantler, Alec Chillingworth, Toby Cook,
Ali Cooper, Joe Daly, Alex Deller, Malcolm Dome, John Doran,
Dave Everley, Jerry Ewing, Paris Fawcett, Connie Gordon,
Stephen Hill, Emma Johnston, Dom Lawson, Dannii Leivers, YOU NEVER KNOW what kinds of crazy left turns it
Dave Ling, Sophie Maughan, Edwin McFee, Chris McGarel,
Ken McIntyre, Joel McIver, Tom O’Boyle, Dayal Patterson, could take or, most pertinently, when it could be
Greg Prato, Adam Rees, Alastair Riddell, Natasha Scharf,
Nick Thorpe, James Weaver, Christina Wenig, snatched away from you completely. And few have
Jon Wiederhorn, Holly Wright, Nik Young
Cover images: Jeremy Saffer been left contemplating that more than Dave Mustaine.
Image Manipulation: Gary Stuckey
Photography After a year battling cancer, his announcement that he
Ben Bentley, Justin Borucki, Derek Bremner, Steve Brown,
Janson Bulpin, Stephanie Cabral, George Chin, had beaten that most evil of diseases sent a wave of
Duncan Everson, Mick Hutson, Will Ireland, Tina Korhonen,
Marie Korner, John McMurtrie, Kevin Nixon, Jake Owens, positivity through London’s Wembley Arena earlier this
Tom Russell, Jeremy Saffer, Ester Segarra, James Sharrock,
Travis Shinn, Dani Wilgress, Frank White, Neil Zlozower year. This month, we travelled to his adopted hometown
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Lovingly borrowed from our Having shot Dave many times Ali does so much for the front
chums at Bass Guitar mag, over the years, Jeremy was the section of Hammer we should
where Jamie plies much of his obvious choice to man our rename it Ali Avenue. This
trade, our man in Nashville cover shoot this issue. He got month, she finds out about
makes his Hammer debut this to put a metal icon in front Download’s recent changes,
month courtesy of a candid of the lens, and had a much- fires your questions at In This
cover feature with MegaDave. needed break from hanging Moment’s Maria Brink and
He did such a stellar job, we with horror movie actors and gets some Life Lessons from
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