Latest articles by Matt Mills
How Emperor wrote the grandiose anthem that became black metal’s first ‘hit’
Emperor’s most famous song can make grown men cry
As one of the UK’s leading bands stop touring, we need to talk about the toxic effect a ruined music industry is having on heavy metal
Metalcore stars While She Sleeps are taking a hiatus from the road – if things don’t change, more artists will follow
Paleface Swiss vocalist is happy he offends people by kissing his bandmates
The deathcore band’s members take a stand against toxic masculinity by sharing a snog onstage
Riley Pinkerton explains how her death anxiety is at the core of Castle Rat’s shows
The band’s performances are styled after fantasy imagery – but they’re also based on singer/guitarist Riley Pinkerton’s personal fears
Ghost’s Tobias Forge says it was a relief when he lost his anonymity: “I can’t eclipse what Ghost is. I’m not interesting enough.”
Forge was revealed to be the man behind the band when he was sued by four former members in 2017
How Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter became Iron Maiden’s only UK number-one single
Despite a BBC ban, winning a “Worst Original Song” award and being pulled from the band’s setlist, Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter remains one of Iron Maiden’s biggest tunes
Maynard James Keenan thinks people have relegated Puscifer to the “third side-project category”
The singer believes the band have been “marginalised” due to the greater commercial success of his other two projects, Tool and A Perfect Circle
A lounge cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was “the creepiest thing” Ozzy Osbourne ever heard
Pop-rockers The Cardigans put a chilled-out spin on the Black Sabbath song in 1994, and singer Nina Persson says the Prince Of Darkness was freaked out by it
President vocalist blasts comparisons to Sleep Token as “lazy”
Mr President doesn’t see the similarities between his band and the other masked, anonymous, pop-metal sensations dominating heavy music discourse
Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson’s next album features Sepultura members and is being recorded at Dave Grohl’s studio
Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser lets some big details slip in a new social media post
How the death of a loved one, pig squeals and TikTok helped crown a modern metal classic
It also officially introduced the world to one of the best vocalists in metal today
Sharon Osbourne is in talks about bringing Ozzfest back
She’s hoping for a return next year, with a lineup that goes beyond rock and metal
Ice-T explains why he changed lyrics from Body Count’s Cop Killer to ‘ICE Killer’ last year
United States Immigration And Custom Enforcement agents have fatally shot two people on the streets of Minneapolis this month
Dave Mustaine doesn’t want to reunite with certain former Megadeth members because they bad-mouthed him in interviews
It doesn’t help that other ex-members have apparently given up their instruments, as well
Watch the trailer for Paul Di’Anno documentary Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer, featuring Metallica, Slayer and Kiss members
Written and directed by Lemmy’s Wes Orshoski, the rock doc is due to come out later this year
Every solo album by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson ranked from worst to best
Even if you take The Beast out of the equation, Bruce Dickinson has had a magical career. Here are his seven albums in reverse-order of excellence.
Basketball fan goes viral after suggesting their team lost because a Ghost concert cursed the arena
One Reddit user implies that the Charlotte Hornets embarrassed Orlando Magic on the court last week thanks to a recent show filled with “Devil imagery”
Ghost frontman Tobias Forge reveals what the band have in common with Lady Gaga
The singer also sheds more light on the issues his masks have given him over the years
Lamb Of God, Converge and other leading metal bands speak out following fatal ICE shootings in Minneapolis
Lamb Of God singer Randy Blythe lambasts the “open moral collapse” of the US government, joining the chorus of voices criticising Immigration And Customs Enforcement’s actions in Minnesota
The story of the post-hardcore takeover that didn’t quite happen
As nu metal’s commercial power began to wane, major labels desperately signed a bunch of bands with hardcore backgrounds, from My Chemical Romance to Cave In. A lot of them didn’t work out.
The guy who just climbed that skyscraper live on Netflix listened to a lot of Tool on the way up
Alex Honnold made a playlist of his favourite rock songs for his free solo climb up the 11th-tallest building on Earth last weekend
Awards and no-shows: inside the depressing night Metallica split with Jason Newsted
By the time Jason took to the stage with Metallica near the end of 2000, it was so clearly already over
Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk takes aim at the term “female-fronted band”
The progressive metal singer is sick and tired of being pitted against other women in the scene
