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Doom metal band Trouble in the 1980s

“That whole Christian thing, it’s so wrong. We were never Christian metal”: how doom pioneers Trouble overcame chaos, darkness and misunderstanding to make their 80s masterpiece The Skull

By Malcolm Dome published

The story behind Chicago doom lords Trouble’s landmark 1985 album The Skull – the album which helped shape a generation

Albums
GWAR/Surgeon

"There’s a lot of similarities in watchmaking and Anthrax." Here's what members of some of your favourite metal bands went and did after quitting the music industry

By Paul Travers published

From the Anthrax guitarist who is now a master watchmaker to the death metal bassist who hung out with "sweary Muppets", these are the most unique post-music career paths of metal musicians

Interviews
Eric Wagner - In The Lonely Light Of Mourning

Eric Wagner’s In The Lonely Light Of Mourning is a fitting epitaph for the voice of doom

By Dom Lawson published

Album review: Trouble frontman and doom icon Eric Wagner’s posthumous In The Lonely Light Of Morning is a fitting goodbye to a legend

Albums
Trouble, 1990

The Skull’s Eric Wagner, former Trouble frontman, dead at 62

By Classic Rock published

Former Trouble frontman Eric Wagner passes away, aged 62, after contracting Covid pneumonia

Bands & Artists
US Christian Rock band Stryper in their yellow and black uniforms

Has there ever been a good Christian metal band?

By Chris Chantler last updated

Metal and Christianity aren’t mutually exclusive – but the two do have a poor track record together

Interviews
Doom Metal Lexicanum cover detail, by David Thiérrée

Doom metal gets the super-heavyweight tome it deserves

By Jonathan Selzer published

Doom fanatic Aleksey Evdokimov reveals all about his exhaustive new tome, Doom Metal Lexicanum

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