Latest articles by Alec Chillingworth
The 10 best black metal albums of 2022
From Abbath and Blackbraid to Gaerea and Zeal & Ardor - these are the 10 best black metal albums of 2022
The 10 best power metal albums of 2022
From Sabaton and Blind Guardian to Wind Rose and Bridear, these are the 10 best power metal albums of 2022
10 cult Swedish metal records from 2022 to stop you moaning about Ghost
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
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
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
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
The Top 50 best Slipknot songs ever
We asked YOU to vote for the greatest Slipknot song of them all. And the maggots have spoken
The 10 worst Slipknot songs
A Slipknot playlist so heinous, it should be put into one of Clown's metal bins and pushed down a mountain
10 albums that changed my life, by Buckcherry’s Josh Todd
With latest album Hellbound giving good review, Buckcherry's Josh Todd reveals the 10 albums that made him the rock'n'roll thoroughbred he is today
The 16 least-played Iron Maiden songs
Iron Maiden have played their eponymous track over 2000 times. We look at the songs shown a little less love...
The A-Z Guide to Joey Jordison
An alphabetical guide to the late legendary drummer and Slipknot founder Joey Jordison
The A-Z of Red Hot Chili Peppers
Everything you need to know about the perennial Californian funk rock merchants
Carpenter Brut: "I thought it would be cool to make a metal album without guitars"
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
The back catalogue of Rammstein, Berlin’s finest, rearranged in order of greatness
The top 10 heaviest Prodigy songs
Ten tracks that prove Prodigy crush it just as hard as any metal band
The Story Behind The Song: Tool’s 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)
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
Album review: prog-metal emperors Meshuggah deliver another head-spinning classic with new album Immutable
The 10 best Rammstein songs of the 90s
The top 10 Rammstein songs of the 90s that set the tone for the mayhem to come
20 things you didn’t know about Rammstein’s Mutter
Failed coups, bar brawls and Hitler’s dog - these are the secrets behind Rammstein’s breakthrough album Mutter
How Venom Prison became death metal's most vital young band
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"
Zeal & Ardor's black metal meets black spirituals mesh reaches near perfection on their self-titled third album
Every Limp Bizkit Album Ranked From Worst To Best
The classics and the clangers from Limp Bizkit's nu metal back pages
10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually that great
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
