Articles by: Eleanor Goodman

Eleanor Goodman

Metal Hammer deputy editor El commissions the features section of the magazine and curates covermount CDs, as well as co-hosting the Metal Hammer podcast. Irrationally obsessed with sea creatures.

Articles by: Eleanor Goodman

Gojira: six things you need to know

By Eleanor Goodman

French metallers Gojira on their spooky house, the influence of Mike Oldfield, and inspiring people to change the world

Download Pilot as it happened: Music, moshing and a whole lotta rain

By Stephen Hill, Merlin Alderslade, Eleanor Goodman, Rich Hobson, Matt Mills, Elizabeth Scarlett

Updated! Here’s what happened as it happened at Download Pilot Festival – the return of bands, fans and some classic Download weather

“We like to melt faces”: how Gojira became the most important metal band of the decade

By Eleanor Goodman

With Fortitude, Gojira have delivered the year’s boldest metal album. Joe and Mario Duplantier look back on the 20-year journey that brought them here

“Extra-terrestrials are kind of a new religion”: a strange conversation with Maynard James Keenan

By Eleanor Goodman

Aliens, muppets and ‘manstruation’: inside the head of Puscifer’s enigma-in-chief Maynard James Keenan

Runes, ravens and sorcery: how pagan-folk mystics Wardruna are bringing the old ways back

By Eleanor Goodman

Wardruna may have soundtracked the TV show Vikings, but their music goes deeper than battleaxes and longships

If you’ve ever danced to Disturbed’s The Sickness as a teenager, you’ll know how brilliant it is

By Eleanor Goodman

Disturbed are the ultimate people’s band – and The Sickness is the multi-platinum nu-metal album that deserves way more love than it gets

Leprous perform Malina and Pitfalls live

By Eleanor Goodman

Our review of Norwegian proggers Leprous' latest live streams for Malina and Pitfalls

Alien Weaponry: the New Zealand metal heroes bringing Māori culture to the masses

By Eleanor Goodman

Jacinda Ardern-approved Kiwi trio Alien Weaponry are heading up a wave of new global metal. And things are only going to get heavier…

Living with tinnitus: "We all love music – why would we want to lose that?"

By Eleanor Goodman

Metal Hammer Deputy Editor Eleanor Goodman has been living with tinnitus since she was 16. Here, Eleanor reveals what it’s like to live with the condition and what she does to protect her hearing

Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan: “What are you gonna do? Lay around and whimper?”

By Eleanor Goodman

The world is crazier than ever right now – and Puscifer have the perfect soundtrack

Killer Be Killed’s Max Cavalera: “The Pope should listen to our new album”

By Eleanor Goodman

We got metal all-stars Killer Be Killed to do our job for us and interview each other. Cue tales of bus crashes, bar brawls and bacon binges

How trap metal anti-icon Ghostemane became the new king of the misfits

By Eleanor Goodman

He grew up on Korn and Nine Inch Nails, and has worked with Ross Robinson. Now Ghostemane wants to drag metal into the 2020s

Mastodon: “Fans think all we do is sit around and listen to heavy metal. We just don’t”

By Eleanor Goodman

Mastodon’s Brann Dailor and Bill Kelliher talk us through Medium Rarities and 20 years of prog-metal madness

A photograph of Pat Sharp throwing the horns

We played Pat Sharp from Fun House metal’s most fun songs and these are his thoughts

By Eleanor Goodman

We got former Fun House star and 90s TV legend Pat Sharp to give us his thoughts on some of metal's most fun songs. You're welcome.

Puscifer: “We can get swallowed in the burning hellfire of social media or we can take a step back”

By Eleanor Goodman

Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan and Carina Round reveal all about their new album, Existential Reckoning

Therapy, rebirth and the ghosts of the past: the inside story of Deftones’ Ohms

By Eleanor Goodman

“We had to bring it back to life”: how Deftones rediscovered their sweet spot to make Ohms

Bloodywood: the Indian metal stars who broke the internet

By Eleanor Goodman

Indian mavericks Bloodywood are the missing link between metal and Bollywood. And now they’re out to take over the world

First reaction: Linkin Park's Pictureboard, the song fans waited 20 years to hear

By Eleanor Goodman

First reaction Linkin Park have finally released their long-lost song Pictureboard – after 20 years, was it worth the wait?

Blue is the new black: inside the otherworldly universe of A.A. Williams

By Eleanor Goodman

AA Williams is the death-gospel singer-songwriter bewitching metal’s underground

How Oceans Of Slumber went to the edge and back to make the most vital prog metal record of 2020

By Eleanor Goodman

Oceans Of Slumber are redefining what it means to be a prog metal band in 2020. But the future remains uncertain for them

The planet is f**ked and Avatar are seriously pissed about it

By Eleanor Goodman

Think Avatar are just about loud costumes and OTT gimmicks? Wrong. And now it’s time to get serious

Oceans Of Slumber - Oceans Of Slumber review

By Eleanor Goodman

Not yet rated

Texan prog metallers rebuild themselves on album number four.

Lacuna Coil were the first metal band caught up in the pandemic. This is how they made it through

By Eleanor Goodman

When COVID-19 forced Lacuna Coil to cancel shows in March, little did they know what was coming next. Singer Cristina Scabbia looks back on the most disorientating year of her life

Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström: 10 albums that changed my life

By Eleanor Goodman

Avatar ringmaster Johannes Eckerström dives into his record collection and pulls out Marduk, Helloween and Beethoven

Deftones’ White Pony: the explosive story of a post-nu metal classic

By Eleanor Goodman

Fuelled by drugs and internal friction, and bristling against nu metal, Deftones served up a 21st century masterpiece with their third album White Pony

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