Latest articles by Emily Swingle
How Mimi Barks went from Berlin fetish clubs to nu gen star
This Is Doom Trap represents a moment of realisation for nu gen star Mimi Barks
Morgan Lander talks nu metal, pranks and the wildest tours Kittie have been on
Almost 30 years since Kittie were formed, Morgan Lander and co. are still as fired up and fierce as ever
Fidlar embrace adulthood and life's realities on Surviving The Dream
LA punks Fidlar grow up gracefully on fourth album Surviving The Dream
What happened when we accompanied Hanabie to the UK's biggest rock festival, Download
Could Hanabie win over a crowd of muddy, drunk British rock fans? You bet
Simone Simons spreads her wings on solo debut Vermillion: Album Review
After 22 years and eight studio albums with Epica, vocalist Simone Simons is spreading her wings as a solo artist
How Pisces turned Jinjer into a viral sensation - and one of metal's hottest new bands
Driven from their homes by war and with no money left to promote their album, Jinjer's live rehearsal turned them into viral metal stars
10 artists that defined 2000Trees festival 2024
From Bob Vylan's politicised grime-punk to Creeper's macabre theatrics, these are the bands that ruled over this year's epic 2000Trees
Liam Gallagher in Manchester: The King of the North returns home in glory
Liam Gallagher swaggers back home for a trip back to 1994
Kill The Lights/former Bullet For My Valentine drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas picks the songs that changed his life
Kill The Lights drummer and former Bullet For My Valentine sticksman Michael "Moose" Thomas picks the ten songs that changed his life
Nothing More Carnal Metal Hammer album review
Even with guest stars including David Draiman and Eric V of I Prevail, Nothing More's seventh album falls short of its potential
Five minutes with Creeper keyboardist/vocalist, Hannah Greenwood
Hannah from Creeper talks theatre, life in the countryside and being a shy-ish rock star
Bad Omens' Concrete Jungle [The OST] confirms their status as heavy music's next superstars
Bad Omens stretch their boundaries and produce gold with Concrete Jungle [The OST]
"Bring Me The Horizon don’t care about the expectations of metal – if anything, the guidelines are there to be ridiculed." Post Human: Nex Gen is long, chaotic and antagonistically weird
Bring Me The Horizon's latest album is another dizzying evolution for a band that refuses to stand still
Japan's genre-mixing Paledusk want to be their country's "first legendary metal band”
There's no one in the metal scene quite like Paledusk right now
Everyone’s Getting Involved: Talking Heads tribute album makes little sense
Miley Cyrus, Paramore, Girl In Red and more pay homage to Talking Heads, with mixed results
Bambie Thug on what it means to represent Ireland - and metal's nu gen - at Eurovision 2024
When Lordi won Eurovision in 2006, it opened the gates for other metal acts. Now Ireland's 2024 entry Bambie Thug is hoping to push boundaries even further
Volbeat/Asinhell frontman Michael Poulsen shares the lessons of his success
Volbeat and Asinhell's Michael Poulsen shares the secrets of his success and happiness
Everything you need to know about Slipknot's chaotic year - and what comes next
We take a deep dive into the wild last twelve months in the world of Slipknot
"It's a song for the losers!" How Halestorm's Here's To Us became the ultimate underdog anthem - and ended up being covered by everyone from Slash to the cast of Glee
Halestorm's classic power ballad made such an impact that it'd be rerecorded just a year later with Slash, David Draiman, Maria Brink and more getting involved
Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk admits the band's next album probably won't be with us in 2024
Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk says she has "99 problems I have to solve" before she can think of working on the band's next album
Take What You Want: How an unlikely collaboration with Post Malone helped revive Ozzy Osbourne’s career
Ozzy Osbourne had no idea who Post Malone was at the start of 2019. By the end of the year, the rap superstar had thrust the Prince Of Darkness into the US top 10.
"Half Living Things is a record that satisfies that mosh-hungry hardcore itch." Alpha Wolf mix rampaging heaviness with injections of vulnerability on album number three
This is textbook Alpha Wolf, and we are here for it
"Everything we're doing right now is way different." What happened the day Linkin Park played a set at Grand Central Station
On what would have been Chester Bennington's 48th birthday, watch him and his fellow nu metal stars entertain a bustling terminal at America's most famous train station
“I needed to destroy”: Watch video footage of the first-ever Tool concert in 1991
On October 7, 1991, Tool played their primal debut gig, and so began three decades of prog metal trailblazing
“We want to be a voice for those who don’t dare speak up." Dogma are a bunch of sexually-charged, corpsepainted, metal-playing nuns. And they're here to spread liberation and queer love in the rock scene.
Dogma aren't quite like anything you've seen in metal before. You might want to watch their videos away from the office, though
