Latest articles by Alec Chillingworth
There's a little over a week to go until Babymetal's new album arrives - and our verdict is in...
From Bring Me The Horizon’s Sempiternal to Ghost’s Infestissumam, happy birthday to these absolute montsers
Lorna Shore’s Pain Remains is the most essential deathcore album of the decade
From Ghost and Slipknot to Zeal & Ardor and Ithaca, these are the best albums of the last 12 months
From Abbath and Blackbraid to Gaerea and Zeal & Ardor - these are the 10 best black 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 thrilling cult metal bands that prove there's more to Sweden than Tobias Forge's satanic superstars
From gruesome slashers and iconic monsters to terrifying spirits and beyond, these are the 50 films that have defined horror over the last century
Album review: Devin Townsend dials back the musical mania of Empath without losing what makes him so unique on new album Lightwork
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
We asked YOU to vote for the greatest Slipknot song of them all. And the maggots have spoken
A Slipknot playlist so heinous, it should be put into one of Clown's metal bins and pushed down a mountain
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
Iron Maiden have played their eponymous track over 2000 times. We look at the songs shown a little less love...
An alphabetical guide to the late legendary drummer and Slipknot founder Joey Jordison
Everything you need to know about the perennial Californian funk rock merchants
Synthwave heavyweight Carpenter Brut talks trilogies, uniting music fans and this year's absurdly fun Leather Terror album
The back catalogue of Rammstein, Berlin’s finest, rearranged in order of greatness
Tool’s Maynard James Keenan is known for his enigmatic lyrics, but this is what happened when he laid bare his family tragedy
Album review: prog-metal emperors Meshuggah deliver another head-spinning classic with new album Immutable
The top 10 Rammstein songs of the 90s that set the tone for the mayhem to come
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 black metal meets black spirituals mesh reaches near perfection on their self-titled third album
