Articles by: Alec Chillingworth

Every Bring Me The Horizon album ranked from worst to best

By Alec Chillingworth published 26 April 23

Rearranging Bring Me The Horizon's fascinating back catalogue in order of greatness

A press shot of Bullet For My Valentine in the Poison era, stood outside on rubble

Every Bullet For My Valentine album ranked from worst to best

By Alec Chillingworth published 25 April 23

Every Bullet For My Valentine album, ranked from the great, to the good, to the downright...erm...not very good

Brilliant new bands you need to hear right now

By Alec Chillingworth published 6 April 23

Black metal covers of Justin Bieber, gothic post-punk revival and Linkin Park style nu metal from the former guitarist of letlive. - make sure you check out these brilliant new bands this month

Babymetal's ambitious concept album The Other One proves the band have truly come of age

By Alec Chillingworth published 15 March 23

There's a little over a week to go until Babymetal's new album arrives - and our verdict is in...

20 killer metal albums turning 10 in 2023

By Paul Travers published 1 February 23

From Bring Me The Horizon’s Sempiternal to Ghost’s Infestissumam, happy birthday to these absolute montsers

Lorna Shore in a dark room under atmospheric light

Lorna Shore are the deathcore band 2023 needs: “We wanna make people cry and punch each other in the head”

By Alec Chillingworth published 11 January 23

Lorna Shore’s Pain Remains is the most essential deathcore album of the decade

The 50 best metal albums of 2022

By Rich Hobson published 26 December 22

From Ghost and Slipknot to Zeal & Ardor and Ithaca, these are the best albums of the last 12 months

Here's every song Rammstein have never played live

By Alec Chillingworth last updated 22 May 23

Their shows may be spectacular, but these are the 23 songs Rammstein have yet to play on a stage

Best black metal albums of 2022: Watain/Zeal & Ardor/Kaoteon/Abbath/Ibaraki

The 10 best black metal albums of 2022

By Rich Hobson published 16 December 22

From Abbath and Blackbraid to Gaerea and Zeal & Ardor - these are the 10 best black metal albums of 2022

Best power metal albums of 2022: Blind Guardian/Battle Beast/Hammerfall/Sabaton/Bridear

The 10 best power metal albums of 2022

By Rich Hobson published 12 December 22

From Sabaton and Blind Guardian to Wind Rose and Bridear, these are the 10 best power metal albums of 2022

Parasit/I Of The Tree And Wind/Blodskam/Gravkade

10 cult Swedish metal records from 2022 to stop you moaning about Ghost

By Alec Chillingworth published 14 November 22

10 thrilling cult metal bands that prove there's more to Sweden than Tobias Forge's satanic superstars

The 50 greatest horror movies of all time

By Merlin Alderslade last updated 31 October 22

From gruesome slashers and iconic monsters to terrifying spirits and beyond, these are the 50 films that have defined horror over the last century

Devin Townsend’s Lightwork album: arena rock eccentricity with a prog metal heart

By Alec Chillingworth last updated 24 October 22

Album review: Devin Townsend dials back the musical mania of Empath without losing what makes him so unique on new album Lightwork

Satan, social justice and the ‘sh*t mafia’: an audience with Watain, black metal’s most uncompromising band

By Alec Chillingworth published 22 September 22

Watain’s Erik Danielsson has lived by black metal’s rulebook for almost 30 years – and he’ll carry on doing so until he dies

Carpenter Brut Leather Terror album cover

Carpenter Brut: "I thought it would be cool to make a metal album without guitars"

By Alec Chillingworth published 30 June 22

Synthwave heavyweight Carpenter Brut talks trilogies, uniting music fans and this year's absurdly fun Leather Terror album

Every Rammstein album ranked from worst to best

By Alec Chillingworth last updated 5 May 22

The back catalogue of Rammstein, Berlin’s finest, rearranged in order of greatness

The Story Behind The Song: Tool’s 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)

By Alec Chillingworth published 1 April 22

Tool’s Maynard James Keenan is known for his enigmatic lyrics, but this is what happened when he laid bare his family tragedy

Meshuggah’s Immutable: still running rings around every other metal band on the planet

By Alec Chillingworth published 27 March 22

Album review: prog-metal emperors Meshuggah deliver another head-spinning classic with new album Immutable

The 10 best Rammstein songs of the 90s

By Alec Chillingworth published 21 March 22

The top 10 Rammstein songs of the 90s that set the tone for the mayhem to come

How Venom Prison became death metal's most vital young band

By Alec Chillingworth published 9 March 22

Venom Prison talk abuse in the music industry, pushing the boundaries of metal and how they aren't about to back down

Zeal & Ardor's self-titled album: "Originality is a scant currency, and Manuel Gagneux’s pockets are full"

By Alec Chillingworth last updated 11 February 22

Zeal & Ardor's black metal meets black spirituals mesh reaches near perfection on their self-titled third album

Limp Bizkit standing in a row in front of a wall

Every Limp Bizkit Album Ranked From Worst To Best

By Alec Chillingworth, Rich Hobson published 19 January 22

The classics and the clangers from Limp Bizkit's nu metal back pages

10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually that great

By Fraser Lewry, Dom Lawson, Malcolm Dome, Jon Hotten, Sleazegrinder, Stephen Hill, Rob Hughes, Dave Ling, Alec Chillingworth published 15 October 21

Everybody's got to start somewhere, and some of our very best bands started slowly. Here's 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great

Every Ministry album, ranked from worst to best

By Alec Chillingworth, Rich Hobson published 4 October 21

From their roots in synthpop to ascension as industrial metal legends, here's every Ministry album arranged in order of greatness

Ministry's Moral Hygiene: Anti-Trump vitriol proves acerbic, if slightly out-dated

By Alec Chillingworth published 30 September 21

Industrial legends Ministry's 15th record offers parting shots to the Trump nightmare