This magazine shows the band "The Blackout" with the two main vocalists in front of the other band members leaning closer to the camera which relates to the pull quote above and uses brightly coloured text boxes with phrases like "Live Riot!" in which gives attracts the reader because it suggests energy. The Masthead is slightly obscured by the image of the band.
The contents page is attractive to the audience because of it is easy to to read and gives the audience pictures of who/what an articles is about as well as short descriptions of some of the articles. The pictures are placed creatively at different angles like cuttings that have been cut from the pages and pasted there, there is also a picture from a gig of someone who has been picked by the magazine to win something, this is done to increase the magazine sales because people buy it to see if they have won anything by going to a gig.
This double page spread uses bright colours to attract the reader and to emphasize parts of the text such as the quote "If you don't play each gig like it's your last, then why carry on?"
This is a special edition cover of Metal Hammer a and shows a picture of ex-Metallica bassist Cliff Burton and his birth and death years and has a quote from him before he died. The skyline says "25 years of keeping it heavy:" which links with the lead image and lead story as it is the year Cliff Burton died and the year the magazine was founded
The contents page is laid out in an easy to read way with a more mature font to a magazine like "Kerrang!" this may be because it is aimed at a more mature fan base as this issue is mainly taking the best or biggest parts of previous issues of the past twenty five years and it is targeting the people who will be able to remember at least a good part of that time and may aim to create a sense of nostalgia in these readers.
The double page spread is clearer and more organized in this issue than in "Kerrang!" as it is introducing a story that spans ten pages and is aimed at older readers the picture is used to add to the nostalgia of the article.
This front cover is simpler and more straight forward and clear than Kerrang! but has more going on than Metal Hammer it is targeting the same audience as Kerrang! and Metal Hammer, but it is also trying to widen the target audience by including bands that don't appear in either of those magazines such as the King Blues.
This contents page is clear and easy to read with parts highlighted in red to grab the audiences interests, it also takes pictures from the main articles and quotes to convince the reader that they want to know about those articles and see what the interviewee has to say or how a particular gig was.
This double page spread shows an interview with a member of the band "A Day To Remember" featuring a drawing of him as a character from the classic arcade game street fighter which may attract the audience because it could create the sense of having something in common with him or a curiosity as to what the article is about.
