Latest articles by Alec Chillingworth
Tribulation's Sub Rosa In Æternum is the perfect goth rock digestif to wrap up spooky season
Tribulation continue to flirt with the gothic rock flourishes they've moved towards in recent years
Unto Others step up as goth rock royalty on superb new album Never, Neverland
The Oregon goth rockers embrace the dark side on album three
Every Bring Me The Horizon album ranked from worst to best
Rearranging Bring Me The Horizon's fascinating, diverse back catalogue in order of greatness
New Powerwolf album Wake Up The Wicked is epic, catchy and brilliantly daft - like all the best power metal should be
You won't get any surprises from Powerwolf at this stage, but with songs this good, who cares?
"It’s just a marginally horny karaoke booth." Lord Of The Lost cover everyone from Judas Priest to Lady Gaga on Weapons Of Mass Seduction - but if you're tackling such legends, you just have to do better
Lord Of The Lost's bloated new covers album is harmless fun, but absolutely nothing more than that
Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2023 (and the stories behind them)
Sleep Token, Creeper, Within Temptation: 2023 has been a massive year for metal, and these 50 records represent the very best the year has had to offer
Metal Hammer writers name their best gigs of 2023
From the monolithic Metallica to rising stars like Green Lung, these are the greatest shows that Team Hammer saw this year
The 50 best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer
From Metallica to Sleep Token, Avenged Sevenfold to Babymetal, these are the best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by you!
The best metal albums of 2023 so far
From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date
“When the metal community heard a Metallica song with acoustic guitars, they lost their lunches.” How Metallica beat the gatekeepers and turned tragedy into an immortal ballad with Fade To Black
In 1983, Metallica would have never dared write a ballad. But, after all their gear got stolen one year later, the band mined their emotional side to stunning effect.
Starbenders' Take Back The Night is a hodgepodge of lukewarm ideas only saved from disaster by the talent of Kimi Shelter
Georgian glam rockers Starbenders' third album Take Back The Night fails badly to deliver on the promise of sex, drugs and romantic turmoil
“I love that nobody knows who Sleep Token are!” These are the up-and-coming metal bands Corey Taylor thinks you should be listening to
Slipknot’s Great Big Mouth has a great big soft spot for Sleep Token, Code Orange and Bad Omens
The best new metal bands you need to hear this month
From history-obsessed power metallers to sonically devastating singer-songwriters, here are the new artists you need to know about
4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month
French pagan-folksters Skáld, Danish hardcore rabble-rousers Eyes, Aussie animal rights activisits To The Grave and synthwave-laden black metal from Nighted: these are the bands you need to hear in August 2023
The 50 best metal albums of the 2000s
From nu metal classics by Slipknot, Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit to metal legends like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest bouncing back in style, these are the albums that defined the 2000s
The history of Iron Maiden as told in 10 groundbreaking gigs
From London pubs to rugby stadiums, this is the story of Iron Maiden distilled into 10 shows
The 10 funniest rock and metal songs according to Tenacious D
AC/DC, Disturbed, Electric Six: Tenacious D talk us through some of rock and metal's funniest songs
20 bands whose second album is the best thing they ever did
The bands who defied the sophomore slump to deliver the greatest albums of their career
Here's every song Rammstein have never played live
Their shows may be spectacular, but these are the 23 songs Rammstein have yet to play on a stage
Every Bullet For My Valentine album ranked from worst to best
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
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
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
From Bring Me The Horizon’s Sempiternal to Ghost’s Infestissumam, happy birthday to these absolute montsers
