Latest articles by Mörat
The wild, unapologetic life of punk rock's forgotten hellraiser, Casey Chaos
How Casey Chaos became a punk rock icon for the nu metal generation
How Five Finger Death Punch silenced the haters with The Wrong Side Of Heaven Volumes 1 and 2
War, liberty, controversy – Five Finger Death Punch face it all down
Inside the booze-soaked 35-year friendship between Lemmy and Ozzy Osbourne
Drink, drugs, urinating up unsuspecting keyboard players’ legs – fellow hellraisers Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy were partners in crime for decades
The dark and twisted history of Korn, the band who invented nu metal
In 2016, all five members of Korn looked back on the ups, downs and madness of their rollercoaster career
How Soundgarden returned from the wilderness with King Animal
Soundgarden’s 2012 comeback album King Animal was their first in 16 years – and it found the grunge pioneers finally comfortable with their legacy
How stoner rock enigmas Clutch became metal’s favourite weirdbeards
Straight out of Maryland, Clutch have spent 30 years following their own path and no one else’s
How Monster Magnet became metal’s ultimate space lords
Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf on comic books, psychedelia and near death experiences
"Craziness, drugs, alcohol, chicks – you name it, I did it." How Korn's most chaotic and hedonistic era birthed a nu metal classic in Follow The Leader
Follow The Leader officially confirmed Korn as nu metal superstars. It also sent the band flying off the rails.
"My dad listened to nu metal a lot." We spent two days in Las Vegas at the world's biggest nu metal festival, and it was an eye-opener
With headliners System Of A Down alongside new bands Turnstile, Spiritbox and Loathe, Sick New World was supposed to be the ultimate nu metal celebration. But could it live up to hype?
The 9 best metal covers of old school punk songs (plus one absolute f**king stinker)
This is what happens when the worlds of punk and metal collide
The 10 best Motörhead B-sides
They're not singles, but they're still stone-cold Motorhead classics
The Top 10 best Ministry songs
The best songs from Al Jourgensen's industrial metal crew
10 Philthy Animal Taylor classics
Ten tracks that made Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor utterly unique
How Keith Flint and the Prodigy lit a fire under metal
By taking dance music into heavy new territories, The Prodigy started a fire under metal that burned so brightly, it couldn’t be ignored
’You’re a control freak’: Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody and Zoltan Bathory square off
We asked 5FDP’s Zoltan Bathory and Ivan Moody to interview each other – then stood back to watch the fireworks
Billybio: Feed The Fire album review
The Biohazard frontman makes a solo run at the barricades with Feed The Fire
The 10 best drinking songs
From AC/DC to Dead Kennedys, these are the very best songs about getting getting those drinks in
Remembering Vinnie Paul: A true metal hero
Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul died one year ago at the age of 54. Here, Hammer writer Mörat pays tribute to his late friend
Five Finger Death Punch: We're not going to be defeated
Five Finger Death Punch looked in dire straits in 2017, as a lawsuit stalled their album release and Ivan went back to rehab. Here's what happened when we caught up with a defiant Ivan and a thoughtful Zoltan
Kyuss’ Blues For The Red Sun: the cult 90s masterpiece that sparked the stoner rock revolution
Kyuss came from out of the Californian desert in a fog of weed smoke to make one of the greatest cult albums of the 90s
'You have to think of the good times': Remembering Lemmy one year on
The year began with the world still reeling from losing one of metal’s greats, but Lemmy’s legacy shines bright
Mouth For War - Five Finger Death Punch Come Out Fighting
Five Finger Death Punch's Zoltán Báthory and Ivan Moody on booze, beatings, enteraining the troops and the American way
