Emily Swingle
Full-time freelancer, part-time music festival gremlin, Emily first cut her journalistic teeth when she co-founded Bittersweet Press in 2019. After asserting herself as a home-grown, emo-loving, nu-metal apologist, Clash Magazine would eventually invite Emily to join their Editorial team in 2022. In the following year, she would pen her first piece for Metal Hammer - unfortunately for the team, Emily has since become a regular fixture. When she’s not blasting metal for Hammer, she also scribbles for Rock Sound, Why Now and Guitar and more.
Latest articles by Emily Swingle

By Emily Swingle Published
Produced by country connoisseur Dave Cobb, Halestorm’s sixth album will be sometimes eclectic, always energetic

By Metal Hammer Published
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024

By Emily Swingle Published
Slipknot celebrating their iconic debut album with a visceral - if sometimes slightly too clean - show at the Co Op Live

By Metal Hammer Published
We dive deep into the discography and lore behind masked metal entities Sleep Token

By Rich Hobson Published
From The Gloom In The Corner's cinematic metalcore to Sgáile's mountain-inspired doom, industrial goth of Black Satellite and brutal Belgian post-metallers Divided, these are the brilliant new bands you need to hear in November 2024

By Emily Swingle Published
We sit down with the Oceans Of Slumber frontwoman for a quick but entertaining catch-up

By Emily Swingle Published
Halsey's fifth studio album embodies the women who have been eaten up and spat out by Hollywood - and does so marvellously

By Matt Mills Published
“I think about it constantly – that movie is my ‘Roman Empire’”

By Emily Swingle Published
This Is Doom Trap represents a moment of realisation for nu gen star Mimi Barks

By Emily Swingle Published
Almost 30 years since Kittie were formed, Morgan Lander and co. are still as fired up and fierce as ever

By Emily Swingle Published
LA punks Fidlar grow up gracefully on fourth album Surviving The Dream

By Emily Swingle Published
Could Hanabie win over a crowd of muddy, drunk British rock fans? You bet

By Emily Swingle Published
After 22 years and eight studio albums with Epica, vocalist Simone Simons is spreading her wings as a solo artist

By Emily Swingle Published
From Bob Vylan's politicised grime-punk to Creeper's macabre theatrics, these are the bands that ruled over this year's epic 2000Trees

By Emily Swingle Published
Liam Gallagher swaggers back home for a trip back to 1994

By Emily Swingle Published
Kill The Lights drummer and former Bullet For My Valentine sticksman Michael "Moose" Thomas picks the ten songs that changed his life

By Emily Swingle Published
Even with guest stars including David Draiman and Eric V of I Prevail, Nothing More's seventh album falls short of its potential

By Emily Swingle Published
Hannah from Creeper talks theatre, life in the countryside and being a shy-ish rock star

By Emily Swingle Published
Bad Omens stretch their boundaries and produce gold with Concrete Jungle [The OST]

By Emily Swingle Published
Bring Me The Horizon's latest album is another dizzying evolution for a band that refuses to stand still

By Emily Swingle Published
There's no one in the metal scene quite like Paledusk right now

By Emily Swingle Published
Miley Cyrus, Paramore, Girl In Red and more pay homage to Talking Heads, with mixed results

By Emily Swingle Published
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
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