Venom Prison have re-recorded a bunch of old tracks and they sound even more brutal than before By Dave Everley 26 June 2020 Venom Prison unleash a brand new version of early track Defy The Tyrant – and it slays
Listen to Bring Me The Horizon’s head-spinning new “survival horror” single Parasite Eve By Dave Everley 25 June 2020 “Parasite Eve is our message of hope, wrapped in sadness and anger,” says Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon’s surprise new single Parasite Eve
Black metal jazz made by people in weird masks is what the world needs right now By Dave Everley 25 June 2020 New York’s Imperial Triumphant are upping metal’s avant garde game. Mr Bungle and Meshuggah have got onboard. So should you
Vader: the unsung heroes who dragged death metal out from behind the Iron Curtain By Dave Everley 23 June 2020 Forget Behemoth – 80s pioneers Vader are the true godfathers of Polish metal
Listen to Machine Head and Jesse Leach’s blistering new collaboration Stop The Bleeding By Dave Everley 17 June 2020 Machine Head and Killswitch Engage singer team up for George Floyd-inspired rager Stop The Bleeding from new two-track single Civil Unrest
Peter Gabriel - Rated PG Review By Dave Everley 12 June 2020 Not yet rated Peter Goes To Hollywood on movie soundtrack compilation
Feel The Noize: the tragic and triumphant rise of glam revivalists Giuda By Dave Everley 12 June 2020 Putting a reinvigorating modern spin on a style of music that was all about simply having fun, Giuda are, as glam-rock connoisseur Joe Elliott puts it, “making this totally unfashionable music fashionable again”
Watch Tallah bring the nu-metal back on twisted new song The Silo By Dave Everley 05 June 2020 Nu-core band Tallah, featuring Dream Theater drum legend Mike Portnoy’s son Max and YouTuber Justin Bonitz, party like it’s 1999 on The Silo
“I’m covered in piss!”: Trivium’s Matt Heafy opens up his photo scrapbook By Dave Everley 29 May 2020 Hanging with Metallica, getting drenched at Download, rocking regrettable haircuts – this is Trivium frontman Matt Heafy’s life in pictures
The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant bands By Dom Lawson, Paul Elliott, Dave Everley, Stephen Hill 29 May 2020 Step into a world of WTF, as we round up the biggest turkeys from metal’s greatest bands
Aerosmith: a guide to their best albums By Dave Everley 27 May 2020 Aerosmith know that rock’n’roll’s a dirty job, but no one does it better and their best albums are swaggering, charismatic proof
Listen to Nergal cover Venom’s Satanachist By Dave Everley 25 May 2020 Behemoth frontman Nergal’s lockdown cover of Satanachist features original Venom guitarist Mantas
Killswitch Engage singer Jesse Leach’s punk band The Weapon release debut album for charity By Dave Everley 25 May 2020 Jesse Leach puts out A Repugnant Turn Of Events via Bandcamp to help struggling venues
Corey Taylor: my solo album is finished By Dave Everley 25 May 2020 Slipknot/Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor reveals that he recorded his debut solo album “in secret”
What happened when goth went metal: an oral history By Dave Everley 22 May 2020 A look at the rise of goth metal, which saw some early goths elbowed into the margins or disappearing completely, their thunder stolen by the arrival of goth-leaning bands from the metal world
What we do in the shadows: an oral history of 80s goth By Dave Everley 22 May 2020 As punk’s light faded, something new began to stir in the darkness. And after goth’s early days as a look/fashion/scene rather than a music genre came some of the greatest music of the 80s
Metallica: how we made Ride The Lightning By Dave Everley 20 May 2020 Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett talk us through Metallica’s classic second album Ride The Lightning, track by track
Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott: the day I kidnapped David Bowie By Dave Everley 19 May 2020 The story of Joe Elliott, David Bowie, Bono, and the most unlikely version of Happy Birthday ever
Misfits’ Jerry Only: I partied with Sid Vicious the night he died By Dave Everley 15 May 2020 Misfits founder Jerry Only on the night he hung out with a drug-addled Sid Vicious hours before he died
Listen to Killswitch Engage’s acoustic lockdown version of We Carry On By Dave Everley 14 May 2020 Metalcore titans Killswitch Engage rework 2016’s We Carry On as an acoustic quarantine jam
Listen to Behemoth’s twisted cover of The Cure’s goth classic A Forest By Dave Everley 14 May 2020 Behemoth enlist Shining’s Niklas Kvarforth for atmospheric black metal cover of The Cure’s 80s goth landmark A Forest from new EP
That time all of Metallica dressed up as Lemmy to play his 50th birthday gig By Dave Everley 08 May 2020 In 1995 Lemmy celebrated his 50th with a special Motörhead club gig in LA. The support act: The Lemmys… aka Metallica
Rammstein cancel 2020 European Stadium tour By Dave Everley 08 May 2020 Rammstein announce that their 2020 stadium tour “can unfortunately not take place”
Dave Mustaine is recording vocals for the new Megadeth album By Dave Everley 08 May 2020 Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine holes up in Nashville home studio to record vocals for new album
Watch a dancing Maynard James Keenan in surreal video for new Puscifer song Apocalyptical By Dave Everley 08 May 2020 Puscifer release brand new song Apocalyptical – their first material in five years
