Articles by: Matt Mills

Fear Factory's Dino Cazares: “You can’t control how people are gonna twist your words around."

By Matt Mills

Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares talks us through his life lessons, from rule-breaking and bankruptcy to er, wrestling with Max Cavalera

The Story Behind The Song: Iron Maiden's Man On The Edge

By Matt Mills

When Bruce Dickinson left, NWOBHM titans Iron Maiden entered their darkest days. Then Blaze Bayley gave them their first light in the black

At The Gates' The Nightmare Of Being: the melodic death pioneers get weird

By Matt Mills

Sweden's At The Gates carve out new sonic territory on their seventh album

Download Pilot as it happened: Music, moshing and a whole lotta rain

By Stephen Hill, Merlin Alderslade, Eleanor Goodman, Rich Hobson, Matt Mills, Elizabeth Scarlett

Updated! Here’s what happened as it happened at Download Pilot Festival – the return of bands, fans and some classic Download weather

Evile: the return of the kings of British thrash

By Matt Mills

Reunited, reconfigured, reborn – this is how Brit speedmasters Evile learned to thrash again

“Just headbang and yell at people”: the world according to Cannibal Corpse’s Corpsegrinder Fisher

By Matt Mills

What life on death metal’s frontlines has taught Cannibal Corpse singer George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher

Perturbator’s Lustful Sacraments: synthwave guru takes a walk on the dark side

By Matt Mills

Goth hits the dancefloor on the new album from synthwave pioneer James ‘Perturbator’ Kent

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