
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

Marilyn Manson’s Acting Roles Ranked From Worst To Best
By Alec Chillingworth published
Marilyn Manson pops up in the most unexpected places on your TV – but some of his thespian jobs have been better than others…

The 10 Best Industrial Metal Albums
By Alec Chillingworth last updated
The essential industrial metal albums you need in your life

The 10 worst Rammstein songs
By Alec Chillingworth published
The most entertaining industrial metal band on the planet? Sure. But mein gott, Rammstein recorded some turkeys

10 Deep Cuts from The Darkness
By Alec Chillingworth published
Sponsored 10 magnificent chunks of prime rock mined from deep within The Darkness

10 genius Nine Inch Nails songs that only diehards know about
By Alec Chillingworth published
Trent Reznor has buried some classics on Nine Inch Nails b-sides

Devin Townsend: My Top Five Guitarists
By Alec Chillingworth published
Devin Townsend reveals the five guitarists who've most shaped his sound

Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Immortal's Demonaz and Horgh get back on the frostbitten track with Northern Chaos Gods

LLNN – Deads album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
LLNN take you on a harrowing journey into the darkest recesses of post-metal

Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Hard partying rock icon takes a delirium-inducing detour

Black Space Riders - Amoretum Vol. 1 album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
German space rockers branch out from their base station

Cradle Of Filth and Savage Messiah at Electric Ballroom, London - live review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedGothic metal mavens still own their orgy

Big Dumb Face - Where Is Duke Lion? He’s Dead… album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Wes Borland’s crew wage a new war on your senses

Dragonforce & Power Quest at Electric Ballroom, London - live review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedEpic metal lunatics prove their staying power

Spreading The Disease - Insurrection album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Brutality-edged melodic metallers miss a few too many punches

Stray From The Path - Only Death Is Real album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Political metalcore stalwarts offer fast food for thought

GWAR - The Blood Of Gods album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Shock rock grotesques usher in the post-Oderus era

Septicflesh - Codex Omega album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Greece’s epic death metallers power up the pomp

Swans at The Roundhouse, London - live review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Subterranean live

Napalm Death/Brujeria/ Power Trip/ Lock Up at Electric Ballroom - live review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedGrind legends find new fuel for the furnace

Slaughter To Prevail - Misery Sermon album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Cranium-crushing deathcore from UK/Russian alliance

Earth Groans - Renovate album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Small Mercies - new Blood

Endon - Through The Mirror album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Japan’s noise sculptors wring the trophy out of catastrophe

Timeworn - Venomous High album review
By Alec Chillingworth published
Resilient if familiar riff-worship with an air of gothic gloom
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