Articles by: Alexander Milas

Scorpions: 50 years of belief in rock and 50 years of proving their critics wrong

By Alexander Milas published 26 April 22

Amid muted celebrations of their 50th anniversary Scorpions released their nineteenth studio album – Rock Believer – more than a decade after their farewell tour. Will they ever stop?

Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters: The story of Robert Calvert’s comical concept album

By Alexander Milas published 22 August 21

Robert Calvert’s manic imagination was fuelled by bipolar disorder, but it helped him conceive one of the 70’s most outlandish concept albums

James Hetfield and Joey Jordison onstage

Download 2004: the night Joey Jordison saved Metallica

By Alexander Milas published 28 July 21

Metallica are late onstage, drummer Lars Ulrich has gone AWOL, and 100,000 fans are about to witness an unexpectedly historic show

Metallica’s Rob Trujillo: My Life Story

By Alexander Milas published 3 July 20

Suicidal Tendencies, Ozzy Osbourne, Jerry Cantrell and, of course, Metallica – Rob Trujillo has played for them all. This is the story of the man behind the bass

A close-up of Geezer Butler wearing sunglasses

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler: My Life Story

By Alexander Milas published 19 July 19

The man behind Black Sabbath's game-changing lyrics reveals all about his life and times

Type O Negative’s Peter Steele: ‘I’m an old man having his last fucking tantrum.’

By Alexander Milas published 13 March 19

In 2007, Metal Hammer talked to Peter Steele about Type O Negative’s new album Dead Again. No one knew it would be his swansong

Art for HIM live at The Roundhouse, London

HIM at The Roundhouse, London - live review

By Alexander Milas published 5 February 18

Ville Vallo’s love gods bow out in impeccable style

HIM is dead: Ville Valo's final interview ever

By Alexander Milas published 8 November 17

Here, for the first and only time, Ville Valo reveals why HIM have chosen to go out with a with a bang after 26 years, and why some things are best left to die

How the 90s dragged goth from the underground

By Alexander Milas published 6 September 17

As the 80s drew to an end, post-punk and goth rock were going overground, subverting the mainstream and turning everything but the water black…

How The Black Parade turned My Chemical Romance into superstars

By Alexander Milas published 23 October 16

Six months after The Black Parade made My Chemical Romance the biggest band on the planet, we tried to find out if that success had become a poisoned chalice...

What happened on the first day of Heavy Metal Truants 2016?

By Alexander Milas published 9 June 16

The Heavy Metal Truants are cycling to Download festival for charity once again

Opinion: Why Bruce Springsteen was right to boss North Carolina

By Alexander Milas published 11 April 16

The Boss isn't being "a bully" or a petulant millionaire rock star – he's making a genuine difference in highlighting an unfair law

What Mountain Taught Me About Moby Dick

By Alexander Milas published 26 December 15

How a classic rock song started a personal obsession

Louder Than Life: we get fried in Kentucky

By Alexander Milas published 20 October 15

It's Louisville's premier Bourbon and gourmet man-food festival... and a bunch of bands just happen to be playing

Slayer: Houses Of The Unholy

By Alexander Milas published 9 October 15

Kerry King isn’t just the face of Slayer. As he revealed one sunny day in LA back in 2006, he’s got more than just a few litres of Jägermeister beneath the surface.

It Takes A Pillage

By Alexander Milas published 1 September 15

Folk, metal, and history combine for a Norwegian Fjord Fiesta

Mastodon & Clutch: Minority Report

By Alexander Milas published 23 June 15

There are few certainties in life but death, taxes and Clutch and Mastodon putting on a show for the history books. We caught up with them in New York to talk new music and a metal bromance...