Svalbard’s Serena Cherry: “Metal’s not a utopia. If your face doesn’t fit, it’s hard to get attention” By Matt Mills The gospel according to Svalbard/Noctule frontwoman Serena Cherry
10 metal bands who went ‘soft’ – and were better off for it By Matt Mills Selling out or upping their game? These are the bands who took it to new levels after dialling back the aggro
Wheel - Resident Human reivew By Matt Mills Not yet rated Nineties-inspired prog metallers keep spinning.
That time the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became the worst rock band of all time By Matt Mills When the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set their sights on international rock stardom, not even $29 million and a song about the joy of pizza could save them
Where to start with… Cult Of Luna By Matt Mills Epic noise and claustrophobic cityscapes? Cult Of Luna have got it covered
5 underground labels shaping the sound of metal in 2021 By Matt Mills Five vital metal labels to bookmark this year
10 new bands you need to watch out for in 2021 By Matt Mills From Spiritbox and Wargasm to Pupil Slicer and Mercury Circle, these are the heavy bands who will carry metal and rock forwards in 2021
These orchestral covers of Death songs are almost as good as the originals By Matt Mills If you ever wondered what Florida death metal icons Death‘s music would sound like with an orchestra, here‘s your answer
Pothamus have given this crazy year the epic post-sludge soundtrack it deserves By Matt Mills If Cult Of Luna and Amenra got stoned at an Om show, the result would sound like Belgium’s Pothamus
What the hell is going on with Slipknot’s unreleased Look Outside Your Window album? By Matt Mills In 2008, Slipknot recorded Radiohead-inspired ‘secret’ album, Look Outside Your Window. Twelve years on, we're still waiting for it to be released
Dark Tranquility’s Moment: melodeath veterans step up to the big league By Matt Mills Melodic death metal underdogs Dark Tranquility make their case for superstardom on new album Moments
Raging hardcore with violins is the headspinningly brilliant sound of music’s future By Matt Mills Canadian mavericks Respire are ripping up the post-hardcore map on upcoming album Black Line
Who needs Satan when you can have proto-feminist demon worship with your death metal? By Matt Mills Dapper Icelandic mavericks Cult Of Lilith are ditching death metal’s demonic clichés for a totally different occult deity
The Story Behind The Song: In Flames’ Only For The Weak By Matt Mills How In Flames frontman Anders Fridén’s crumbling personal life inspired melodeath’s greatest anthem
This f**king insane year has just got the perfect soundtrack By Matt Mills Anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-cop – blackened deathsters Ancst are making a stand against the madness of 2020 on new uncompromising new album Summits Of Despondency
John Petrucci’s Terminal Velocity: prog metal defiance in the face of COVID By Matt Mills John Petrucci reunites with ex-Dream Theatre bandmate Mike Portnoy on pandemic-busting new album Terminal Velocity
Svalbard’s When I Die, Will I Get Better? is the most important British metal record of 2020 By Matt Mills Post-hardcore dissidents Svalbard cement themselves as an essential voice with new album When I Die, Will I Get Better?
The Ocean’s Phanerozoic II: the conclusion to an epic journey four billion years in the making By Matt Mills Prog metal doesn’t get any more ambitious than the final part of The Ocean’s history of the Earth
If Limp Bizkit and Carpenter Brut had a baby, it would sound like Mimi Barks By Matt Mills Genre-mashing star-in-waiting Mimi Barks is kicking trap-metal to the next level
Beggar: the blackened sludge ragers whose riffs were forged in a war zone By Matt Mills Beggar are what Black Sabbath would sound like if they hung out in some of the world’s harshest war zones
Zakk Sabbath’s Vertigo: Zakk Wylde recreates Sabbath’s debut album. But why? By Matt Mills Zakk Wylde goes full fanboy on fun but pointless rerun of Black Sabbath’s debut album
Watch Iron Maiden gatecrash a Polish wedding on the Powerslave tour By Matt Mills That time Iron Maiden became the world’s most unlikely wedding band
Watch Bruce Dickinson being ‘killed’ onstage at his last gig before leaving Iron Maiden By Matt Mills On August 28, 1993, Iron Maiden and singer Bruce Dickinson parted company in spectacular style
The Top 10 best orchestral metal albums By Matt Mills When metal and symphony orchestras come together, this is what happens
2020’s essential upcoming metal albums By Matt Mills 2020 has been a crazy year, but these upcoming albums prove there are some bright spots on the horizon
