Latest articles by Emily Swingle
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
"Formidable hard rock confidence, yet would benefit from that fearless unpredictability of their youth": New Years Day don't quite find their way on Half Black Heart
Five albums in and New Years Day are maturing - but losing of the charm of their youth on new album Half Black Heart
"Gothic, brooding poignancy offset by a sense of wonder and grace": why Depeche Mode are at the top of their game in 2024
Depeche Mode weave darkness and light into a mesmerising, magical soundtrack to life, love and loss at Manchester's AO Arena
"I wanted to be Aaliyah so bad": Escuela Grind's Katerina Economou picks the ten records that changed their life
From Aaliyah and Minnie Riperton to Gorguts and Trapped Under Ice, Escuela Grind vocalist Katerina Economou shares the songs that put them on the path to music
“We were all saying, ‘We’re gonna make this something they can never follow up.’” How Linkin Park and Jay-Z united for the ultimate metal and hip hop crossover, Collision Course
Nu metal’s leading lights were supposed to collaborate with the world’s biggest rapper for just one episode of TV. In the end, they made a blockbuster EP and dazzled an entire generation of hard rock and hip-hop fans.
10 metal bands’ first-ever concerts caught on film
Want to see Ghost, Rage Against The Machine and Spiritbox’s first times on a stage? These clips have got you covered!
"Change is good - and bold transformation is exactly what has allowed the metalcore collective to stay relevant over the years." Bring Me The Horizon show Manchester AO Arena why they're this metal generation's top dogs
If Jordan Fish's exit has shaken the band, they show no signs of it with an immense, retina-singeing headline show in Manchester
"Without Black culture, hardcore wouldn’t even exist": Zulu are calling for unity and cultural recognition in the modern alternative scene
Zulu's debut A New Tomorrow mixed hardcore with the likes of Nina Simone, Bob Marley and Curtis Mayfield, but the band are planning even bigger things in future
4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
From Newcastle nu-metalcore bruisers Creak to Asinhell, the death metal project from Volbeat's frontman, Cavalera-endorsed death metallers Celestial Sanctuary and New England industrial doomsters Body Void, these are the bands you need to hear in January 2024
Sophie Lloyd: 10 records that changed my life
From Van Halen and Iron Maiden to Disturbed and Bring Me The Horizon, these are the bands that helped Sophie Lloyd become a shred goddess
