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

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

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

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 published
Exclusive Watch Matt Heafy talk to Hammer editor Merlin Alderslade about social distancing, Tiger King and Ascendancy

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

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

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

The beginners guide to heavy metal yoga: 11 yoga poses to get you started
By Alice Pattillo published
We've teamed up with (heavy) metal yoga to bring you 11 poses that'll get you started with yoga – and a metal AF playlist to motivate your practice

16 must-see metal rockumentaries to stream right now
By Alice Pattillo published
Who needs school? We've scrolled Netflix, Prime and YouTube to find you the best metal documentaries for the only education you'll ever need

Watch this synth lord master heavy metal on synthesizers
By Alice Pattillo published
One Moog master has attempted to nail heavy metal on his synth – and the results are... interesting

Video Nasties' top 10 horror flicks for surviving self-isolation
By Alice Pattillo published
Horror-inspired death metallers Video Nasties recommend ten scary movies that'll make your isolation anxiety feel a little less frightening

My Dying Bride’s Aaron Stainthorpe's Top 10 books to get you through self-isolation
By Alice Pattillo published
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

Occult rockers Lucifer get macabre in video for new single Leather Demon
By Alice Pattillo published
Premiere Johanna Sadonis visits the graveyard in the video for Lucifer's latest single Leather Demon

Watch this epic metal cover of Billie Eilish's James Bond theme
By Alice Pattillo published
Billie Eilish's theme song for the forthcoming James Bond film No Time To Die has had a metal makeover

10 of the greatest women in heavy metal chosen by Burning Witches
By Alice Pattillo published
In celebration of International Women's Day, Lala Frischknecht of Burning Witches picks ten inspiring women from the world of metal
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