Latest articles by Emily Swingle
“I have 40 incomplete songs on the go”: We met the busiest solo artist in American metal, and he’s a one-man NWOBHM revival
Under the pseudonym Haunt, singer/multi-instrumentalist Trevor Church is releasing old-school metal bangers at an unbelievable pace
4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month
French pagan-folksters Skáld, Danish hardcore rabble-rousers Eyes, Aussie animal rights activisits To The Grave and synthwave-laden black metal from Nighted: these are the bands you need to hear in August 2023
“It is, ultimately, a ridiculous, vomit-smeared, gleefully violent good time”: Remembering the brilliantly daft Cradle Of Filth horror movie, Cradle Of Fear
This long-forgotten horror, starring Cradle Of Filth leader Dani Filth, is “the most successful underground British film of recent years” – according to Dani Filth
"Some people will be like, ‘That’s not what metal is’. I know. That’s the point." Meet Scene Queen: innovator of 'bimbocore' and the artist calling out predators in the metal scene
Pink, sparkly and packing sugar-sweet hooks and slamming riffs in equal measure, Scene Queen is unlike anything else in metal right now
4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month
From the brutal hardcore of Jesus Piece to Distant's sci-fi deathcore, Fvnerals' nihilistic drone-metal and Punk Rock Factory's fun covers, you need to check out these brilliant new bands
4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
From masked nu metal revivialists Blackgold to 'cyber-grind' pioneers Thotcrime, you need to check out these brilliant new metal bands
Ukrainian hardcore band Death Pill were working on their debut album. Then Russia invaded and their worlds turned upside down
"We woke up in a nightmare": meet Death Pill, the Ukrainian hardcore band who refuse to let the war define them
