Alice Pattillo
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Lust over these sexy AF bikinis fit for the queen of hell
By Alice Pattillo published
Swim away from negativity with KILLSTAR’s latest line of alternative and goth swimwear

The best deals on Sony WH-1000XM3 noise-cancelling headphones
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Get £100+ off the incredible Sony headphones that can "beat anything Bose has with both arms behind its back"

Nile's Karl Sanders: Top 10 Must-Read Inspirational Books
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Tech-death Egyptologists Nile are big on history, religion, art and H.P. Lovecraft, so we thought we'd ask founding member Karl Sanders to pick the books he's been most inspired by

My Dying Bride’s Aaron Stainthorpe's Top 10 books to get you through self-isolation
By Alice Pattillo last updated
If you are stuck what to do while hiding out at home to wait for this whole Coronavirus thing to blow over, My Dying Bride's Aaron Stainthorpe has you covered with ten books to

Black metal pioneers Emperor to play exclusive UK show at Incineration Festival 2022
By Alice Pattillo published
London’s premier extreme metal festival secure Emperor as headliners – plus Bloodbath, Dark Funeral and Tsjuder confirmed again for next year’s extreme metal all-dayer

10 incredible Hungarian metal bands you might not have heard
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Apocalyptic prog metallers Perihelion pick the greatest metal from their Central European homeland

Now's your chance to learn guitar with Fender Play's 50% off Black Friday offer
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Itching to give guitar a go? Fender Play are offering 50% off their online course this Black Friday – plus 10% off Fender gear!

10 awesome metal riffs with odd time signatures
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Mancunian metallers Prognosis love a proggy riff, so we asked them to pick their top 10 odd time signature metal songs

Dear Chuck: A letter to the late Death frontman from Possessed's Jeff Becerra
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Exclusive 18 years since Death mastermind Chuck Schuldiner tragically lost his battle with cancer, his friend and mentor Possessed's Jeff Becerra writes him this heartfelt message

More extreme metal bands need cheesy album covers
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Extremely Cheesily Drawn Extreme Metal Album Scenes and Extreme Memes is our new favourite Facebook page – it's as good as Simpsons pictures that I gone and done, we promise!

Top 10 current NOLA bands
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Exhorder vocalist and NOLA icon Kyle Thomas picks the very best bands to have emerged from his hometown

Hellhammer: the tortured black metal outcasts who created a monster
By Alice Pattillo published
In 1984, three Swiss misfits formed a band that was rawer and nastier than anything before. This is the story of Hellhammer and the painful birth of black metal

Vote for the greatest Rammstein song ever
By Alice Pattillo published
We need your help to compile the all-time best tracks from our favourite German industrial metallers!

Rammstein - Rammstein: your ultimate track-by-track guide
By Briony Edwards, Fraser Lewry, Alice Pattillo published
Everything you need to know about Rammstein's self-titled album in exhaustive detail

Top 10 essential sci-fi films to watch during lockdown
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Georgia metallers Irist pick the sci-fi flicks you absolutely need to watch during self-isolation

Meet These Wicked Rivers, the band the new wave of classic rock needs
By Alice Pattillo published
If you like Clutch, Black Stone Cherry and… tea, you’re going to love These Wicked Rivers

Playlist: Tom G Warrior's quarantine soundtrack
By Alice Pattillo published
Hellhammer and Celtic Frost mastermind Tom G Warrior shares the tracks that are seeing him through quarantine

Watch: Matt Heafy talks Tiger King, new Trivium and Ascendancy
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Exclusive Watch Matt Heafy talk to Hammer editor Merlin Alderslade about social distancing, Tiger King and Ascendancy

Save 45% on Venom's In Nomine Satanas limited edition vinyl boxset
By Alice Pattillo last updated
Bargain alert: The extensive 40th anniversary vinyl boxset In Nomine Satanas from black metal's forefathers Venom is now on sale and it's not even Black Friday yet!

10 Bands who create music against the odds
By Alice Pattillo published
Premiere Middle Eastern metallers Svengali introduce us to ten bands who experience lockdowns everyday, yet prevail against the odds to bring their metal to the masses

Listen to Death live in Montreal as Relapse launch series of unreleased live recordings
By Alice Pattillo published
Relapse unleash Death: Non Analog – On Stage Series, a series of previously-unreleased Death concerts released every other week across all digital platforms as long as live music is on hiatus

Lucifer: Nicke Andersson's track-by-track guide to Lucifer III
By Alice Pattillo published
Johanna Sadonis' partner in crime, Nicke Andersson, talks us through the retro occultists Lucifer's lastest album

This Slayer Raining Blood mash-up will brighten up your entire day
By Alice Pattillo published
The "SLAY-52s" Raining Lobsters is exactly what we needed to hear today
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