Articles by: Matt Mills

Louder’s resident Cult Of Luna obsessive was still at uni when he joined the team in 2017. Since then, Matt’s become a regular in Prog and Metal Hammer, at his happiest when interviewing the most forward-thinking artists heavy music can muster. He’s got bylines in The Guardian, The Telegraph, NME, Guitar and many others, too. When he’s not writing, you’ll probably find him skydiving, scuba diving or coasteering.

Articles by: Matt Mills

Thrash, Demons & Cock Guitars: a love letter to Deathgasm, the maddest heavy metal movie ever made

By Matt Mills published 12 July 22

Evil Dead meets Spinal Tap – Deathgasm would have been Eddie Munson’s all-time favourite movie

The Story Behind The Song: Cradle Of Filth’s Her Ghost In The Fog

By Matt Mills published 7 July 22

How Cradle Of Filth wrote their breakthrough hit Her Ghost In The Fog with a little help some long-dead soldiers and a dose of magic mushrooms

Five Finger Death Punch's new album AfterLife has "a 60s/70s vibe, other things are almost futuristic"

By Matt Mills last updated 5 July 22

Think you know Five Finger Death Punch? Think again - Zoltan Bathory suggests " a lot of unexpected stuff" on the band's upcoming ninth album, AfterLife

(left to right from top) Black Void/Doodswens/Callous Daoboys/Come To Grief/Oni

5 new bands you need to hear this month

By Matt Mills, Alex Deller, Rich Hobson, Dave Everley, Christina Wenig published 29 June 22

From mathcore digit-snappers to the Cayman Island resident working with Iggy Pop and Randy Blythe, this is the best new noise around right now

Oceans Of Slumber's Cammie Gilbert: "My dad was the choir director for a cult"

By Matt Mills published 29 June 22

Oceans Of Slumber vocalist Cammie Gilbert talks capybaras, Black Lives Matter and run-ins with cults

Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons having words during a taped interview

Watch Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley bicker like an old couple during this awkward 1993 interview

By Matt Mills published 25 June 22

The Starchild and The Demon ruffle each other's feathers ahead of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special in 1993

James Hetfield, Anders Friden and Robb Flynn

10 metal bands who went heavy again - and were (mostly) better for it

By Matt Mills published 24 June 22

From Metallica to In Flames, many bands have returned to their heavy roots after years away

Jason Statham gets electrocuted by Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan

Watch Jason Statham get electrocuted by Maynard James Keenan in a wig

By Matt Mills published 14 June 22

The Tool frontman gave a charged performance in 2009 movie Crank: High Voltage

Maynard James Keenan interviewed in 1987

Prepare to cringe at this Maynard James Keenan interview years before he was famous

By Matt Mills published 12 June 22

Before Tool, there was Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty – and gladiator-style sandals

That time Rob Halford fell off his bike on stage (and barely missed a beat, because he's Rob freakin' Halford)

By Matt Mills published 8 June 22

Even Judas Priest's very own Metal God can make mistakes, but only he could still look badass doing it

Watch the amazing moment Korn played Blind with Joey Jordison

By Matt Mills last updated 21 September 22

See the late Slipknot drummer fill in for David Silveria at Germany's huge Rock am Ring festival in 2007

James Hetfield on stage earlier this year, plus the lucky young fan who played with Metallica in 2019

Watch the time Metallica replaced Lars Ulrich with a 13 year old

By Matt Mills last updated 20 September 22

Metallica swapped drummer Lars Ulrich for a young fan at one memorable and decidedly wholesome 2019 show

When Slipknot used to set themselves on fire all the time, because Slipknot

By Matt Mills last updated 21 September 22

Back in the day, Slipknot used to make a habit of setting themselves on fire

Amon Amarth tease "darker and more brutal" new album

By Matt Mills published 30 May 22

Amon Amarth are bringing metal songs about Vikings into arenas - but their new album could be their bloodiest yet

That bust-up between Slipknot and Limp Bizkit was one of the greatest feuds of the early 00s

By Matt Mills last updated 21 September 22

Watch Corey Taylor lay into Fred Durst in a vintage video clip

Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser: 10 Albums That Changed My Life

By Matt Mills published 29 May 22

Slayer, Metallica, Maiden and Queen – the records that shaped Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser

5 new bands you need to hear this month

By Matt Mills, Rich Hobson, Dave Everley, Will Marshall published 26 May 22

From nu-metal partystarters to Chinese prog-metal mavericks, this is the best new noise around right now

Ozzy Osbourne as an 80s TV preacher is still the greatest heavy metal horror movie cameo ever

By Matt Mills last updated 20 September 22

Remembering Ozzy Osbourne’s killer cameo as a TV preacher in a cult 80s comedy-horror movie Trick Or Treat

“I’m happy to be a metalhead”: when Mark Tremonti met Kreator’s Mille Petrozza

By Matt Mills published 23 May 22

Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti is a Kreator uber-fan. So we hooked him up with the German thrash icons’ frontman Mille Petrozza to talk war, politics and old school riffs

“One person’s head exploded next to me”: inside the weird world of Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman

By Matt Mills published 23 May 22

Up close and personal with Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman

Metallica at the MTV Europe Music Awards 1996

Watch Metallica troll the MTV Awards with their cover of So What?

By Matt Mills last updated 20 September 22

Metallica might have become the biggest metal band in the world, but that didn't stop them trolling the execs at MTV

10 new bands featuring the kids of famous rock stars

By Matt Mills last updated 19 May 22

How the offspring of famous musicians are taking over rock and metal

Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “My problem with Christianity is the ‘holier than thou’ bullsh*t”

By Matt Mills published 17 May 22

We grill Korn singer Jonathan Davis on cutting up dead bodies, the nu metal revival and his relationship with Fred Durst

These are all the bands Rammstein were in before Rammstein

By Matt Mills published 14 May 22

From experimental punk to folk rock, this is a pre-history of Rammstein

Watch Faith No More's Mike Patton refuse to lip-sync on Top Of The Pops in 1990

By Matt Mills published 12 May 22

Mike Patton was having none of it when Faith No More made a rare Top Of The Pops appearance

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