Matt Mills
Louder’s resident Gojira obsessive was still at uni when he joined the team in 2017. Since then, Matt’s become a regular in Metal Hammer and Prog, at his happiest when interviewing the most forward-thinking artists heavy music can muster. He’s got bylines in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, NME and many others, too. James Hetfield once told him to stop smiling.
Latest articles by Matt Mills

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As the heavy metal juggernauts continue their 50th birthday celebrations, we look back on how The Soundhouse Tapes started it all

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The J-metal idols admit that some of the responses to their 2014 hit were “frightening”

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The furious track is taken from the metalcore quintet’s upcoming album Decades

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The band will give their first performance with their new, two-vocalist lineup at US festival Welcome To Rockville this weekend

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The rapper-turned-rocker insists he merely “punched back” at the metal star, even though the spat stemmed from comments he made lambasting the heavy music scene

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The veteran bassist says that the metal giants’ refusal to slow down and let him seek help played a part in his 2001 departure

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As Metallica prepare to reissue 1997’s Reload, we look back on the calamitous free gig that launched the album 29 years ago

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Norwegian chameleon rejected the nation’s controversial black metal scene, then rejected his record label, and recently rejected synthpop. Now he’s rejected the tragedy of the band’s past – and partying too – to embrace freedom instead

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The Dune, Skyfall and No Country For Old Men star appears in the British heavy metal band’s new documentary, Burning Ambition

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The US metal titans gave 1996’s Load a similar treatment last summer

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Iron Maiden's much-heralded Burning Ambition film will hit cinemas on May 7

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Members of Korn, The Smashing Pumpkins and Scorpions will also be on the 19-song set

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They’re arguably the heaviest and most technical band of all time, but they’re also extraordinarily easy to listen to

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Who knew that nine masked, bodysuit-wearing, baseball bat-wielding hooligans were so synonymous with fashion?

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The frontman sang the traditional prayer Der Voghormia, one day after Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day was recognised on April 24

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It’s the first new music from the nu metal superstars since 2022 album Requiem

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The singer looks back on writing Piece Of Mind, Powerslave and Somewhere In Time in a hotel on the Channel Islands

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Lizzy Rain joins the likes of Rhea Ripley and Seth Rollins in bringing heavy metal to wrestling fans’ screens

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Two symphonic celebrations of the Gothenburg Sound will be held in Sweden on December 4 and 5, in tribute to late At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg

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The vocalist, who was a member of The Beast from 1994 to 1999, has been sober since June 2019

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Cannibal Corpse, the Cavaleras and Crowbar are among the support acts for the gigs in Minnesota and California

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Adrian Erlandsson admits he hasn’t yet read the lyrics of the Gothenburg innovators’ upcoming record, The Ghost Of A Future Dead

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The Straight Edge Superstar battled Roman Reigns at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium on Sunday
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