metal music scene; in 2007, the senior VP of Roadrunner Records indicated that Metal Forces, along with similar publication Kick Ass, "was my Bible... the way I discovered new bands and fed my insatiable appetite for all things emerging in the underground". In March 2012, Metal Forces launched their official website. Anthony "Gumpy" Morgan co-edits alongside Bernard Doe. Controversy In 1984, Metal Forces printed a review of black metal band Hellhammer so negative that the band's frontman, Thomas Gabriel Fischer, indicated the band would never play in England because of it. After forming a new band, Celtic Frost, Fischer continued to refuse requests for an interview with the magazine. In 1986, former Metallica guitarist and founder of Megadeth, Dave Mustaine, complained about the magazine because it named his successor at Metallica, Kirk Hammett, the number 1 in the readers' poll of Metal Forces. The voting was based on a demo recording of No Life 'Til Leather, which Mustaine had recorded rather than Hammett. Metal Forces Presents: Demolition – Scream Your Brains Out! Track listing "Violent Slaughter" – Leviathan "Chainsaw Massacre" – Hobbs' Angel of Death "War for Freedom" – Aftermath "Imprisoned" – Anacrusis "Chemical Dependency" – Atrophy "Leviathan" – Leviathan "Satan's Crusade" – Hobbs' Angel of Death "When Will You Die" – Aftermath "Disembowled/Annihilation Complete" – Anacrusis "Preacher, Preacher" – Atrophy References External links Official website Heavy metal publications Magazines established in 1983 Music magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines disestablished in 1992 Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom British heavy metal music 1983 establishments in the United Kingdom 1992 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Mass media in Hertfordshire