I can't be alone on this one. You come home from a long day at work/school, to tired to stay up, but to awake to sleep, and not exactly in the mood or energy to read anything to complex or deep. So you pull out a copy of your Metal Magazine of choice, or perhaps when your on the bus, or have dead time to kill at work, who knows. For all you magazine readers out there, I want to know your choice of metal magazine to read. Possibly some recommendations.

Metal Hammer-My current choice. But unfortunately they have pretty bad reviews and there articles tend to focus on bands for issues and issues on end without changing. On the upside that magazine is responsible for helping me discover a few cool new bands in the "Incoming" and "Subterranean" sections. And I like the interviews and articles. And it always comes with a sampler CD.

Revolver-One I used to read a lot then it just went downhill to the point where its not even a metal magazine anymore, more on the same wavelength as AP (alternative press).

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
Kind of boring sometimes, a little more consistent then a lot of what Ive read, not bad at all.

*Note to mods: Im surprised there already isn't a discussion on this already, but I searched and I didn't see anything, will delete this topic if needed.

Well I read a monthly portuguese magazine, called LOUD!

Its quite expensive nowadays but I still read it, besides the usual information about concerts, it has reviews and interviews with the bands, and now they added a few new things. And it has a column for Fernando Ribeiro (Moonspell) every month and thats interesting to read. They have reports on the underground scenes. And we can win band's cds and tshirts. And its has concerts reviews as well, thats good too.

Its the only portuguese magazine I know, maybe there are others.

About the foreign magazines, sometimes I buy them when I can find them in stores but they are hard to find, at least in the places I know that sell magazines.

There was a subject on it in the old forum, I remember cause I started the topic :-)

Metal Hamster is IMO an atrocity (the English Metal Hamster that is, I don't know what the American is like though)

My favourite English language mags are:
Terrorizer
Metal Maniacs
BW & BK

Dutch language Mags:
Aardschok (even older than Kerrap)
Rock Tribune

German mags;
Rock Hard
Legacy

But the most interesting reads are usually the fanzines cause they feature unknown bands and don't have to rely on the more mainstreamish stuff to sell.

But we use to be such tread dont know where but we use to maybe in old forum

I dont read much because thay are quate expsncive and almosut ewery had some crap bands, for example metal hammer, I us eto by it some times, but thay put some crapp nu metal bands and bands what I dont like
Ok in some liberies in Sweden I look pictures and reda soemthing but not all

I've been a Terrorizer reader for a few years and I like the fact that they occaisionally feature other stuff as well as metal. Terrorizer used to be the place I got most of my metal information from for a while, since I got internet connection only about year ago. Their interviews can be boring but I like the reviews and the occsaional special features.

Written by BloodTears on 30.03.2008 at 11:46

Well I read a monthly portuguese magazine, called LOUD!

Same here. But his month I skipped it because I found nothing of interest to me. I went to the store, read Fernandos column and that was that. Next month I'll see if it's worth buying again.

Written by BloodTears on 30.03.2008 at 11:46
About the foreign magazines, sometimes I buy them when I can find them in stores but they are hard to find, at least in the places I know that sell magazines.

Plus, those are even more expensive than LOUD! And if I'm not mistaken, they manage to get to the shelves even later than LOUD!.

I used to read Metal Hammer and Riff when I was younger and when there were no national editions available. But nowadays I can get almost all the information I need from the Internet, so magazines have been gradually put aside.

@Marcel
Metal Hamster? Dont think I know of that one....unless your making fun of Metal Hammer, then the joke went completely over my head...

Written by Doc G. on 31.03.2008 at 00:31

@Marcel
Metal Hamster? Dont think I know of that one....unless your making fun of Metal Hammer, then the joke went completely over my head...

yes, I was referring to Metal Hammer there, just as Kerrap (pronounce phonetically) is a reference to Kerrang. SOrry, if it went over head I thought it was quite obvious what I was referring to.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 31.03.2008 at 00:54

Written by Doc G. on 31.03.2008 at 00:31

@Marcel
Metal Hamster? Dont think I know of that one....unless your making fun of Metal Hammer, then the joke went completely over my head...

yes, I was referring to Metal Hammer there, just as Kerrap (pronounce phonetically) is a reference to Kerrang. SOrry, if it went over head I thought it was quite obvious what I was referring to.

Yeah it actually was, but I didn't want to assume anything just in case it turned out to be some oddly named obscure magazine. Yeah the North American and UK Metal Hammer are pretty much the same. A lot of it does anger me, like how they were bashing My Chemical Romance, even though they had them on the cover of the magazine only a few months previous. There reviews are pretty atrocious and they focus on the same bands for months on end. Unfortunately its hard to find any other metal magazines where I live, the only other one Ive seen is BW & BK, and thats rare that I see that. I gotta admit I like some articles and interviews in MH, which is mostly what I buy it for.

Dark City - the best metal magazine of Russia!

Written by owl on 30.03.2008 at 22:24

Written by BloodTears on 30.03.2008 at 11:46

Well I read a monthly portuguese magazine, called LOUD!

Same here. But his month I skipped it because I found nothing of interest to me. I went to the store, read Fernandos column and that was that. Next month I'll see if it's worth buying again.

Written by BloodTears on 30.03.2008 at 11:46
About the foreign magazines, sometimes I buy them when I can find them in stores but they are hard to find, at least in the places I know that sell magazines.

Plus, those are even more expensive than LOUD! And if I'm not mistaken, they manage to get to the shelves even later than LOUD!.

I used to read Metal Hammer and Riff when I was younger and when there were no national editions available. But nowadays I can get almost all the information I need from the Internet, so magazines have been gradually put aside.

Its actually more expensive now, you know? I thought that wasnt too good. But yes, the foreign magazines are also very expensive so I don't read them. I do make sure I buy it because I dont have a lot of patience to be on the net doing that.

Well yes, some issues are better then others, not all of them are worth it but usually there is something useful there.

Terrorizer is without a doubt the best metal magazine around, IMO.

I also used to write for another mag: Explicitly Intense. It was not a bad mag, but they tried to ripp me off so I quit.

Would Guitar World count as a metal magazine? They tend to have a lot of articles on metal musicians that also helps talk about the bands they were/are in.

Kerrang and Metal Hammer are a pisstake almost to the extent of the "metal" section in HMV.

Don't know if there's any other metal magazines that you can buy in supermarkets or the like over here in England, but I usually just stick to the internet.

Written by Inlé on 31.03.2008 at 16:36

Kerrang and Metal Hammer are a pisstake almost to the extent of the "metal" section in HMV.

Don't know if there's any other metal magazines that you can buy in supermarkets or the like over here in England, but I usually just stick to the internet.

Get Terrorizer, it is English soo should be readily available I should think (since it is easy to get hold of here in The Netherlands at quite a lot of news stands.)

Close-Up Magazine: This one is seriously great! The only one I read, it also covers Punk too. Cool articles and great reviews with a rating from 1-10. They never give 10:s, I've only seen them give away one when they review re-released classics and/or important releases. 9 is also very rare, mostly it's between 4-7. The next number, #100, will probably own with a list containing the 100 best albums from 1991-2008. 1991 is the year the magazine started.

I generally look to three - Terrorizer (my fave), Metal Maniacs, and decibel ( http://www.decibelmagazine.com/ - they pretty much put the entire thing online, which i think is cool. ). I sometimes check out Revolver, depending upon who is on the cover, etc.

Written by BloodTears on 31.03.2008 at 11:56

Written by owl on 30.03.2008 at 22:24

Written by BloodTears on 30.03.2008 at 11:46

Well I read a monthly portuguese magazine, called LOUD!

Same here. But his month I skipped it because I found nothing of interest to me. I went to the store, read Fernandos column and that was that. Next month I'll see if it's worth buying again.

Written by BloodTears on 30.03.2008 at 11:46
About the foreign magazines, sometimes I buy them when I can find them in stores but they are hard to find, at least in the places I know that sell magazines.

Plus, those are even more expensive than LOUD! And if I'm not mistaken, they manage to get to the shelves even later than LOUD!.

I used to read Metal Hammer and Riff when I was younger and when there were no national editions available. But nowadays I can get almost all the information I need from the Internet, so magazines have been gradually put aside.

Its actually more expensive now, you know? I thought that wasnt too good. But yes, the foreign magazines are also very expensive so I don't read them. I do make sure I buy it because I dont have a lot of patience to be on the net doing that.

Well yes, some issues are better then others, not all of them are worth it but usually there is something useful there.

There is also the magazine Elegy Ibérica,I like this one but I prefer the LOUD!

Written by BitterCOld on 31.03.2008 at 21:05

I sometimes check out Revolver, depending upon who is on the cover, etc.

Yeah, Revolver used to be consistent. I haven't seen a decent issue in a long time.

Written by SlaytallicA on 01.04.2008 at 01:27

Written by BloodTears on 31.03.2008 at 11:56

Written by owl on 30.03.2008 at 22:24

Written by BloodTears on 30.03.2008 at 11:46

Well I read a monthly portuguese magazine, called LOUD!

Same here. But his month I skipped it because I found nothing of interest to me. I went to the store, read Fernandos column and that was that. Next month I'll see if it's worth buying again.

Written by BloodTears on 30.03.2008 at 11:46
About the foreign magazines, sometimes I buy them when I can find them in stores but they are hard to find, at least in the places I know that sell magazines.

Plus, those are even more expensive than LOUD! And if I'm not mistaken, they manage to get to the shelves even later than LOUD!.

I used to read Metal Hammer and Riff when I was younger and when there were no national editions available. But nowadays I can get almost all the information I need from the Internet, so magazines have been gradually put aside.

Its actually more expensive now, you know? I thought that wasnt too good. But yes, the foreign magazines are also very expensive so I don't read them. I do make sure I buy it because I dont have a lot of patience to be on the net doing that.

Well yes, some issues are better then others, not all of them are worth it but usually there is something useful there.

There is also the magazine Elegy Ibérica,I like this one but I prefer the LOUD!

Never heard of that one, is it spanish?

My favourite one is Terrorizer, they have pretty cool reviews, also Zero Tolerance is another good one. Don't like Metal Hammer though, it's way too emo for me

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Written by BloodTears on 01.04.2008 at 11:39

Written by SlaytallicA on 01.04.2008 at 01:27

There is also the magazine Elegy Ibérica,I like this one but I prefer the LOUD!

Never heard of that one, is it spanish?

There are 2 versions, the spanish and the portuguese...
http://www.elegyiberica.com/

Metal hammer and the swedish mag Sweden rock magazine

Mostly Metal Hammer, but I that's probably only because they have a rather large focus on thrash metal at the time. I don't like all the emo crap in it though.

Here in Denmark we have a magazine called Metalized that I read from time to time, but they are quite hard to get a hold of.

I got recently Nuclear Blast magazine and it is very cool, but the problem is, that is written only in german language, so I've got problems with that. It would be easier for me if it would be in english.

Written by DrunkenFuck on 02.04.2008 at 14:44

I don't like all the emo crap in it though.

Dont worry, they'll be bashing all the emo bands they support in a matter of a few months, take My Chemical Romance for example, they were once on the cover of the magazine, now I see a lot of the writers bashing them, so give it a few months and the likes of HIM and Bullet For My Valentine will be on the chopping block.

Written by Doc G. on 02.04.2008 at 23:54

Written by DrunkenFuck on 02.04.2008 at 14:44

I don't like all the emo crap in it though.

Dont worry, they'll be bashing all the emo bands they support in a matter of a few months, take My Chemical Romance for example, they were once on the cover of the magazine, now I see a lot of the writers bashing them, so give it a few months and the likes of HIM and Bullet For My Valentine will be on the chopping block.

I sure hope so

Ok, any reason I had for buying Metal Hammer just got flushed down the drain, I was just reading the March issue, on the readers poll they had Municipal Waste at the #4 spot for "Best New Band" even though they released there debut album about 5 years ago, and have released 2 more albums since. Then they called Eluveitie "Swedens answer to Korpiklaani"....Eluveitie are from Switzerland, do they even research anything before printing crap like that? Are their editors trying to get fired or something? My god....

Written by Guest on 01.04.2008 at 11:46

My favourite one is Terrorizer, they have pretty cool reviews, also Zero Tolerance is another good one. Don't like Metal Hammer though, it's way too emo for me

How much do they cost ?

Written by Doc G. on 13.04.2008 at 07:29

Ok, any reason I had for buying Metal Hammer just got flushed down the drain, I was just reading the March issue, on the readers poll they had Municipal Waste at the #4 spot for "Best New Band" even though they released there debut album about 5 years ago, and have released 2 more albums since. Then they called Eluveitie "Swedens answer to Korpiklaani"....Eluveitie are from Switzerland, do they even research anything before printing crap like that? Are their editors trying to get fired or something? My god....

My response to that first point: Absolutely disgusting indeed. I wouldn't get outraged over it though, it's just not worth it, dude