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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Revolver
UPRISING • ARTISTS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW
Soul Glo • Philly mavericks tackle “hard conversations” through genre-bending hardcore
Devil Master • The occult black-metal punks thought they would go insane during the first, apocalyptic COVID wave. Instead, they found magical rebirth in its chaos.
The Callous Daoboys • Armed with catchy, spazzy, kaleidoscopic mathcore, this Atlanta, Georgia, crew are out to confront the “brainwashed” masses
Bastardane • Their dads are in Metallica, but Castor Hetfield and Tye Trujillo aren’t
OTTTO • chasing that legacy. Instead, they’re living out their own garage days.
VANGUARD • REBELS, INNOVATORS AND ICONOCLASTS
PRiMUS • How Les Claypool’s madcap trio of “lazy bastards” became world-renown, multiplatinum-selling cult heroes who won’t stop until the fun stops
DANZIG • On the 30th anniversary of Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, Glenn Danzig takes us back to the dirty black summer that birthed his dark-horse hit
GREG PUCIATO • The former Dillinger Escape Plan wild man opens up to A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel about the fear and freedom in going solo
Meshuggah • The Swedish djent godfathers are one of the most singular and influential bands in metal history. Drummer-lyricist Tomas Haake tells the album-by-album story of their creative evolution.
ZOLA JESUS • Nika Roza Danilova’s world collapsed in a cataclysmic moment. So, she embarked on a quest to find the “divine nature of music” and rebuild herself one song at a time.
SLIPTRICK RECORDS • Proudly serving the metal music industry since 2007, always striving to provide the most intense and innovative bands from all the countries of the world
Blöthar the Berserker • GWAR’s leader reflects on raunchy origins, replacing Oderus and hating his stepfather Dwayne
NorCal Hardcore
Q&A: Adam Nergal Darski • Behemoth’s leader on his latest extreme-metal call to arms, throwing fists for personal freedoms, and why he wants the world to “fuck my brain”
Paul Romano • Inspired by the music of Danzig III: How the Gods Kill and H.R. Giger’s cover art, which “created a small explosion in my brain [and] further pushed me into the life’s path that I am still on.”