HM (magazine)

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HM Magazine

HM Magazine, Issue #117, Jan/Feb 2006
Editor Doug Van Pelt
Categories Christian metal
Frequency Bimonthly
First Issue Summer 1985
Company HM
Country Flag of United States United States
Language American English
Website hmmagazine.com
ISSN 1066-6923

HM Magazine is an American bimonthly publication focusing on both Christianity and hard rock. Articles include news, reviews and interviews with Christian artists. The recurring "So and So Sez" interviews focus on artists who are often not Christians, to determine their views on Jesus and other spiritual matters.

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Doug Van Pelt began the publication in the summer of 1985 under the name Heaven's Metal. The name was changed to HM Magazine in 1995, where the HM can also represent "Hard Music". Despite name and format changes over its history, the magazine's spiritual focus remains identifiably Christian, as it follows the Christian metal movement.

On October 2004, Van Pelt brought back the Heaven's Metal name by starting a new fanzine under that title. Christianity and hard music are also themes of this venture, but produced in a smaller, less formal format. Heaven's Metal is scheduled between issues of the primary HM Magazine.

Van Pelt remains the editor and publisher of both HM and Heaven's Metal.

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