Matt Mills

Can’t get enough of Ghost? Here are five new bands to check out

Looking for a fix of Slipknot-inspired savagery? These five new bands will instantly give your ’Knot fix

Butchers Hook? The Virus Of Life? Adderall? We’re hoping Slipknot drop one of these unplayed deep cuts on this summer’s tour

LAPD, SexArt… the original Steel Panther?! This what Jonathan Davis and co did pre-Korn

British metallers Malevolence went viral in January 2023 for their wild mosh pits, but the band want to know: where have you been?

Everyone knows metal’s evilest genre for the arson and murder, but the music’s been transgressing boundaries for four decades

You haven't lived until you've seen 16 thousand Parisians screaming along to Gojira

Post-hardcore idols Thrice recently revisited The Artist In The Ambulance – so we’re revisiting their entire back catalogue.

They're one of the biggest and greatest metal bands of all time, but every member to have come through Maiden's ranks has some prior history

These lesser celebrated tracks by Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Slayer and more have even outshined some of their biggest hits

Power metal's premier war dogs Sabaton have amassed a mighty back catalogue. So we've ranked it

They may be one of the 21st century's biggest metal bands, but Avenged Sevenfold's various members have certainly spent time elsewhere

Death-doom, goth metal and electro-rock are all part of Paradise Lost's repertoire – but which soundscape do they do best?

These ten tracks are all cornerstones of metal, but their definitive versions are undoubtedly when played live

From the striking to the bizarre, here are the stories behind all eight of Avenged Sevenfold's album covers

Reinventing the guitar hero for 21st century metal, these are the 10 riffs that have defined Avenged Sevenfold's career

Check out Moundrag, EBB, Cabiria, Wizrd and Shell Beach – five great new up and coming prog artists

When Donald Tardy isn't drumming for death metal legends Obituary, he runs a cat rescue charity called the Metal Meowlisha

From attempts at a Guinness World Record to, ahem, 'intimate relations' in the middle of a death metal crowd, here are 10 times moshing was taken to a whole new level

Electric chairs, toilet bowl stabbings and, erm, semen – the Four Horsemen have had quite the eclectic visual journey

From James Hetfield kicking it in Phantom Lord to Dave Mustaine writing Mechanix while in Panic, here's everything each Metallica member was up to prior to being part of the Four Horsemen

From Escuela Grind's progressive grindcore to tongue-in-cheek nu metal from Chuggaboom, these are the bands you need to hear this month