Latest articles by Eleanor Goodman
Nightwish's Floor Jansen quashes After Forever reunion: "It’s good to leave things in the past"
Nightwish's Floor Jansen looks back on a youth spent indulging in cigarettes and symphonic metal with After Forever and collaborating with Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel
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
Health: The Trent Reznor-approved industrial band angering hipsters
How Health went from LA's vibrant noise scene to collaborations with some of the most experimental names in metal
Gojira: six things you need to know
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
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
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
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
Wardruna may have soundtracked the TV show Vikings, but their music goes deeper than battleaxes and longships
“We tore them apart with chainsaws”: how Tool changed metal forever
Twisted, provocative and downright weird - this is how Tool began the journey that would turn them into the modern metal’s most influential band
If you’ve ever danced to Disturbed’s The Sickness as a teenager, you’ll know how brilliant it is
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
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
Jacinda Ardern-approved Kiwi trio Alien Weaponry are heading up a wave of new global metal. And things are only going to get heavier…
Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström: 10 albums that changed my life
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
Fuelled by drugs and internal friction, and bristling against nu metal, Deftones served up a 21st century masterpiece with their third album White Pony
Papa Roach’s Infest: Jacoby Shaddix looks back at a nu metal classic
Jacoby Shaddix’s track by track breakdown of Papa Roach’s breakthrough album Infest
Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan: “What are you gonna do? Lay around and whimper?”
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”
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
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”
Mastodon’s Brann Dailor and Bill Kelliher talk us through Medium Rarities and 20 years of prog-metal madness
We played Pat Sharp from Fun House metal’s most fun songs and these are his thoughts
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”
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
“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
Indian mavericks Bloodywood are the missing link between metal and Bollywood. And now they’re out to take over the world
