Grab your popecorn - Ghost return to the cover of Metal Hammer as we celebrate their spectacular new movie Rite Here Rite Now! Order yours via the link in the bio 🍿 👻
Please welcome Lord Of The Lost to our latest bundle cover, which comes packaged with an exclusive… “paperweight”. Only 300 available! Get yours now via link in bio 🍑
It's fair to say that everyone’s been prepped for Scene Queen’s vehement X-rated debut album. At the time of writing, the Bimbocore-pioneering artist has racked up 24 million streams alone of Pink Rover, an anti-harassment manifesto that includes the lyrics ‘And if that bastard whistles / Put a knife up to his boner’, while the video for MILF (‘Man, I Love Fucking’) sees Scene Queen aka Hannah Collins twerking and singing into a 12-inch dildo. Safe for work, Scene Queen is not, and the anticipated debut album, Hot Singles In Your Area, is no exception. Faced with 15 raw and rampant tracks straddling topics from S&M to pegging, it feels like we’ve been merely microdosing on Scene Queen until now.
Though Hammer readers will embrace the riffs and beatdowns throughout (the moshpit-assisted hoedown on MILF is savage), the album hijacks many genres outside its alternative core. From the Kanye West-inspired rap cadence of POV, featuring The Ready Set, to the Lady Gaga-esque vocoder on Stuck, featuring 6arelyhuman, and a nod to Ginuwine’s strip-club anthem Pony on slinky dancefloor- filler and album highlight Amateur, Scene Queen melds pop culture references and her acerbic dialogue with absolute ingenuity.
Her shout-out to the LGBTQ+ community doesn’t come harder (pun intended) than on the graphic, sapphic ode to cunnilingus, Finger, with Hannah spitting lyrics like a hyper-randy Dr. Seuss. It’s a show of an artist in complete control of her narrative, and while Hot Singles In Your Area might not be short on shock tactics, it’s the best vulgar display of power you’ll hear all year.
Read Metal Hammer's full 8/10 review of @scenequeenrocks_ !!re!!_039;s debut album via the link in the bio! 🍭🤘
Just @officiallordofthelost bigging up our special edition cover and limited edition, ahem, ‘paperweight’ that comes with it 🍑. Get yours via the link in the bio 😉
"If there is a message at the blackened (but glitter-covered) heart of Ghost's first ever full-length film, it's the importance of living in the moment, of refusing to be too wrapped up in those things we cannot control and seizing the chance to enjoy the things that we can. It's about what's right here, right now - geddit?! There may well be no better band to ram home such an ethos, and with Rite Here Rite Now, Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge and director Alex Ross Perry have crafted us an all-singing, all-dancing front row seat at the most joyous show in heavy metal."
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Read our five-star review of Ghost's spectacular new concert movie via the link in the bio 👻
Avenged Sevenfold brought Download 2024 to a close with a career-spanning, immersive performance. Hit the link in the bio to read our reviews of the best sets from this year’s festival! 🔭 (📸: Andrew Whitton)
