
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

Your heretical Hellfest playlist
By Alec Chillingworth published
It's Hellfest this weekend, so we reckon you should listen to this!

Coal Chamber, live in London
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedSupport: Soil, The Defiled, Dope

Swans punish London's ears with exquisite noise
By Alec Chillingworth published
New York experimentalists go off like jackhammers in Camden's roundest venue

Bullet For My Valentine are headlining Camden Rocks
By Alec Chillingworth published
The Welsh metallers are the secret headliner for the London all-dayer

Hammers's Gigs Of The Week: 11/5/15 - 17/5/15
By Alec Chillingworth published
There's a ton of gigs happening this week, and here's some of the best!

Dir En Grey: (Not Just) Big In Japan
By Alec Chillingworth published
Dir En Grey's frontman on how the band tore up the J-metal rulebook

Ten Bands To Watch At Incineration Festival
By Alec Chillingworth published
It's Incineration in London this weekend, are you going? You should. LOOK WHO'S PLAYING!

Hammer's Gigs Of The Week: 4/5/15 - 10/5/15
By Alec Chillingworth published
There's a ton of gigs happening this week, and here's some of the best!

Hammer's Gigs Of The Week: 27/4/15 - 3/5/15
By Alec Chillingworth published
There's a ton of gigs happening this week, and here's some of the best!

Skindred deliver classic set at Nottingham's Hit The Deck
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedPlus: While She Sleeps, Cancer Bats and more bring the ruckus to NG1

Hammer's Gigs Of The Week: 20/4/15 - 26/4/15
By Alec Chillingworth published
There's a ton of gigs happening this week, and here's some of the best!

Lindemann: The Odd Couple
By Alec Chillingworth published
Rammstein's frontman Till Lindemann and Hypocrisy/PAIN's Peter Tägtgren team up for new project

Wednesday 13, live in Reading
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedWe went to see Wednesday 13 the other day... but what did we learn?

Saxon and Hell, live in London
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedSupport: Beyond The Black

Fuck It All: In Celebration Of Sweary Metal
By Alec Chillingworth published
Sometimes it's good to swear. A lot. Loudly.

Sabaton, live in London
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedSupport: Delain, Battle Beast

Combichrist, live in London
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedCombichrist headline London's Koko in Camden

The Ten Most Metal Songs On Rocksmith 2014
By Alec Chillingworth published
Metal up your ass

Can You Learn Guitar By Playing Rocksmith?
By Alec Chillingworth published
One man's mission to learn guitar via his Xbox

Adam Ant, live in London
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedPop-star extraordinaire celebrates 35 years of Dirk Wears White Sox

Eluveitie, live in London
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedSupport: Arkona, Skálmöld

Pop Evil, live in London
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedSupport: In Search Of Sun, Beneath Dead Waves

Cannibal Corpse, live in London
By Alec Chillingworth published
Not yet ratedSupport: Revocation, Aeon
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