Latest articles by Merlin Alderslade
Inside Thailand's passionate but overlooked metal scene, from alley bars to open air festivals
We head inside the Thai metal scene via the country's biggest rock festival, Rock Alarm. Our hosts? Bangkok metalcore crew Defying Decay
Five Finger Death Punch announce UK tour with Lamb of God and Bleed From Within
Arena metal main eventers Five Finger Death Punch will be bringing some US and UK riff monsters with them for the ride when they hit the UK and Europe in 2027
"We're not a bunch of poodles." Why Iron Maiden stayed hands-off with their new film
You might assume that Iron Maiden wanted strict creative control over the definitive telling of their story. You'd be wrong
How Beast And The Harlot transformed Avenged Sevenfold from metalcore upstarts into rock’n’roll stars
How Avenged Sevenfold wrote their 2005 banger Beast and The Harlot
How Wicked 2 ruined one key plan for new Foo Fighters album Your Favorite Toy
Dave Grohl reveals a surprising fact about the new Foos record - and it's all down to last year's Wicked sequel
Ville Valo reveals some of the surprising influences behind Him
From beloved pets to a definitely not metal US singer-songwriter, Ville opens up on what helped Him find their identity
How Benji Webbe became a British metal icon
Benji Webbe has faced his share of hardships - and come out as a resilient force of positivity in British metal
How Twin Temple bewitched the metal scene - without playing a single note of metal
Twin Temple are one of the most unlikely breakouts of the 2020s metal scene. This is their story
Why Amy Lee is embracing having a platform in an increasingly dangerous world
Evanescence's leader is keenly aware that the world is going to hell, but she sees a light at the end of the tunnel
Every metal album to get to number one in the UK - and the story behind them all
From Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden to Skindred and Sleep Token, here's every single time metal topped the album charts in the UK
“Metallica have tried some crazy things, some which have worked better than others. That’s a part of being an artist”: Twenty thousand people, an 80-piece symphony and the world’s biggest metal band – the epic story behind rock’s greatest orchestral gig
Metallica’s S&M2 remains the ultimate meeting of metal and classical music
Watch a tearful Yungblud pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne in Birmingham last night
Yungblud made the most of playing Ozzy's home city
Bruce Dickinson opens up on what it was like joining Iron Maiden just as they were blowing up
Bruce Dickinson joined Maiden at a crucial point in their career. We all know what happened next
A guide to every Poppy album so far
From debut Poppy.Computer to this year's Empty Hands, here's what you need to know about the discography of one of modern metal's most unique creatives
What it was like seeing Metallica in their early days, according to Death Angel frontman Mark Osegueda
Mark knew that Metallica were destined for great things from the very start
7 metal songs from the year 2000 that were way ahead of their time
Metal was in a time of serious evolution as the New Millennium dawned, and these seven bands were already getting ahead of the pack
Bring Me The Horizon will play Count Your Blessings in full at a special UK show this summer
Bring Me The Horizon doing Count Your Blessings in full in Manchester this July? There's a sentence we didn't expect to be writing today
How metal became a lifelong passion for WWE Women's World Champion Stephanie Vaquer
From her love of Iron Maiden and Megadeth to her fiery entrance, Stephanie Vaquer is one of WWE's most metal superstars ever
"People were throwing coins!" What it's like playing to a hostile Iron Maiden crowd, according to Atreyu
Atreyu might be one of metalcore's most celebrated bands, but they had a hard time winning over a rowdy Maiden crowd in Mexico
Gwar received death threats over their Donald Trump and Elon Musk routines
The veteran comedy-thrashers were surprised that people were kicking off over the kinds of routines they've been doing for decades
Watch fantasy metallers Castle Rat slay their up close and personal new live show
It's the Rat Queen's world, we're just living in it now
Harm's Way guitarist Bo Lueders dead at 38
Bo was also co-host of the hugely popular HardLore Podcast
Lordi are the face of a new recycling campaign in Sweden (yes, really!)
In one of the strangest stories we've heard this year, Lordi will be the face of a new recycling campaign in Sweden
