Latest articles by Chris Chantler
Abbath’s Dread Reaver: black metal icon hits the sweet spot between Motörhead, Bathory and Kiss
Album review: ex-Immortal man and black metal survivor pulls back from the edge of ruin with Dread Reaver
Epica's Simone Simons: "We felt burnt out after The Holographic Principle"
Simone Simons looks back on the album that made Epica take a five-year break and a near-disastrous run-in with pyro
Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel: "The Silent Force was inspired by the Gladiator and Braveheart soundtracks"
Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel looks back on the band's 2004 symphonic metal breakthrough album The Silent Force
The 25 best symphonic metal albums
From Delain and Devin Townsend to Celtic Frost, Nightwish and Cradle Of Filth, these are the 25 best symphonic metal releases that saw metal embrace its grandiose side
The 10 bloodiest, most brilliant songs about vampires
Ten deep cuts and and immortal entreaties to make your blood pulse over Halloween
Every Cradle Of Filth album ranked from worst to best
A journey from the lowest to the highest realms of Suffolk's masters of the macabre, Cradle Of Filth
KK's Priest's Sermons Of The Sinner: Top-tier power metal from a reborn KK Downing
Ex-Judas Priest legend KK Downing returns to familiar heavy metal territory
Unto Other's Strength: the underground's next breakout band go for gothic glory
Goth/metal fusionists Unto Others undergo a triumphant resurrection with Strength
Helloween: the story behind their glorious reunion
How Germany's power metal legends Helloween reconciled their warring factions
10 power metal bands that time forgot
We bring you 10 of the most unfairly overlooked and clandestinely brilliant power metal bands
The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant extreme metal bands
The albums made by reputable bands where the most extreme thing about them is the extremity of their crappiness
10 essential Viking metal albums
Raise your flagons of mead to Valhalla! These are the 10 greatest Viking metal albums known to man and valkyrie
The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant 70s bands
The 1970s may have been a golden decade for rock, but even the best bands out there made a few turkeys
10 obscure doom bands that should be huge
A deep dive on 30 years of doom history to winkle out the hidden gems
Moonspell’s Hermitage: where goth metal meets Pink Floyd
Gothic metal standard bearers Moonspell turn up the progressive dial on new album Hermitage
Nile’s Black Seeds Of Vengeance: the death metal classic that fought off nu metal – and won
How Nile married Ancient Egypt and modern death metal to create the first great death metal album of the 21st century with Black Seeds Of Vengeance
Spinal Who?! How Bad News became the original spoof metal band
Stand aside Spinal Tap and tell Steel Panther to put a sock in it – ‘Vampire Spunk Merchants From Hell’ Bad News were the original spoof metal band
Opium Warlords’ Nembutal: mind-bending transmissions from an alternative doom universe
One-man doom metal maverick Opium Warlords journeys further beyond the looking glass on new album Nembutal
If you only listen to one Christian trad metal album this week, make it Wytch Hazel’s III: Pentecost
Wytch Hazel serve up songs of faith and devotion on instant-classic new album III: Pentecost
The 10 heaviest Queen songs ever
Forget Bohemian Rhapsody - these are the 10 heaviest Queen songs ever
A brief history of pyromaniacs in rock
From Arthur Brown to Rammstein, rock and incendiary devices have always gone hand in hand
Iron Maiden’s Book Of Souls reviewed
Iron Maiden return from the brink of tragey with their biggest and boldest album ever
The Story Behind The Song: Judas Priest’s Painkiller
Heavy metal doesn’t come any more perfect that Judas Priest’s career saving anthem Painkiller
