Alec Chillingworth
Alec is a longtime contributor with first-class BA Honours in English with Creative Writing, and has worked for Metal Hammer since 2014. Over the years, he's written for Noisey, Stereoboard, uDiscoverMusic, and the good ship Hammer, interviewing major bands like Slipknot, Rammstein, and Tenacious D (plus some black metal bands your cool uncle might know). He's read Ulysses thrice, and it got worse each time.
Latest articles by Alec Chillingworth

By Alec Chillingworth, Rich Hobson Published
From their roots in synthpop to ascension as industrial metal legends, here's every Ministry album arranged in order of greatness

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Industrial legends Ministry's 15th record offers parting shots to the Trump nightmare

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Nirvana's classic second album Nevermind might have inspired a generation - but that doesn't stop us messing with it

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Progressive metal pioneers Between The Buried And Me return to the weird and wonderful world of their classic album, Colors

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Michigan's bloody-nosed rocker Andrew W.K. seeks transcendence on God Is Partying

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Post-metal is safe in the hands of UK experimentalists Bossk if their new album Migration is any measure

By Alec Chillingworth Published
How Rammstein’s third album, Mutter, took them from cult band to global metal superpower

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Album review: Gojira have delivered 2021’s most important metal album with Fortitude

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Toasters? Disembodied heads? Sex toys?! Step into the weird world of Rammstein merch. Mein Gott!

By Alec Chillingworth Published
They may have been around since the dawn of time, but Cannibal Corpse’s new album Violence Unimagined is perilously addictive

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Failed coups, bar brawls and Hitler’s dog - these are the secrets behind Rammstein’s breakthrough album Mutter

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Sweden’s Tribulation have delivered the finest goth metal album of 2021 – and even the departure of a key member can’t knock them off course

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Mike Patton’s deranged provocateurs Tomahawk are in prime form on their first album in eight years, Tonic Immobility

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Glenn Danzig’s horror movies are bad. Really bad. And that’s what makes them so brilliant

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Goth metal mavericks Tribulation put more swish into their capes with fifth album Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Acid witches, astro creeps and living dead girls – step into Rob Zombie‘s international spookshow

By Alec Chillingworth Published
We asked you to vote for the greatest Rammstein song ever. And you voted in your thousands

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Maynard James Keenan and co find serenity beyond the silliness on Puscifer’s new album Existential Reckoning

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Post-metal icon Ricinn makes her way out of the Igorrr menagerie on second solo album Nereïd

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Shaved eyebrows, record label rucks and inspiring Fight Club - here are are 15 things you didn’t know about Nine Inch Nails’ debut album Pretty Hate Machine

By Alec Chillingworth Published
A dig at sex tourists? A takedown of colonialism? Or just the ultimate Eurotrash industrial metal song? We unpack Rammstein’s mischievous 2019 single Ausländer

By Alec Chillingworth Published
How Du Hast introduced Rammstein and their exploding dildos to the world

By Alec Chillingworth Published
Post-black metal adventurers Ulver head deeper into 80s pop nirvana on Flowers Of Evil
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