Emily Swingle

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

A photo of Dani Filth performing and the poster for Cradle of Fear

“It is, ultimately, a ridiculous, vomit-smeared, gleefully violent good time”: Remembering the brilliantly daft Cradle Of Filth horror movie, Cradle Of Fear

By Emily Swingle published

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

Films & TV Shows
Scene Queen in 2023

"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

By Emily Swingle published

Pink, sparkly and packing sugar-sweet hooks and slamming riffs in equal measure, Scene Queen is unlike anything else in metal right now

Bands & Artists
Jesus Piece/Punk Rock Factory/Distant/Fvnerals

4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month

By Alex Deller published

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

Bands & Artists
Blackgold/Thotcrime/Euphrosyne/Ten56.

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

By Stephen Hill published

From masked nu metal revivialists Blackgold to 'cyber-grind' pioneers Thotcrime, you need to check out these brilliant new metal bands

Bands & Artists
Death Pill

Ukrainian hardcore band Death Pill were working on their debut album. Then Russia invaded and their worlds turned upside down

By Emily Swingle published

"We woke up in a nightmare": meet Death Pill, the Ukrainian hardcore band who refuse to let the war define them

Bands & Artists
Killer albums you need to hear in March 2023

7 killer metal albums you might have missed this month

By Rich Hobson published

From Kruelty and Demonstealer to Ad Infinitum, nothing,nowhere. and Lana Del Rabies, don't sleep on these brilliant new metal albums

Albums
She Must Burn/Gaupa/Kekht Arakh/I AM/Bizarrekult

5 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

By Emily Swingle published

From symphonic deathcore to neogothic Ukrainian black metal, these are the five bands you need to hear this month. Plus, vote for your favourite!

Bands & Artists
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