Mörat
A veteran of rock, punk and metal journalism for almost three decades, across his career Mörat has interviewed countless music legends for the likes of Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Kerrang! and more. He's also an accomplished photographer and author whose first novel, The Road To Ferocity, was published in 2014. Famously, it was none other than Motörhead icon and dear friend Lemmy who christened Mörat with his moniker.
Latest articles by Mörat

The controversial dance band who lit a fire under the 90s metal scene
By Mörat published
How The Prodigy’s The Fat Of The Land bought aggro to dance music and rave culture to metal

The wild, unapologetic life of punk rock's forgotten hellraiser, Casey Chaos
By Mörat published
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
By Mörat published
War, liberty, controversy – Five Finger Death Punch face it all down

Inside the booze-soaked 35-year friendship between Lemmy and Ozzy Osbourne
By Mörat published
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
By Mörat published
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
By Mörat published
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
By Mörat published
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
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Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf on comic books, psychedelia and near death experiences

How a reunited and rebooted Korn put religious differences aside to make The Paradigm Shift
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In 2013, former Korn guitarist Head rejoined his ex-bandmates to make The Path Of Totality - this is how it happened

The epic story of Kyuss, the stoner metal visionaries who blazed brightly and burnt out
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An epic interview with Lemmy about fame, money and driving on LSD
By Mörat published
Even nine years after his death, Motörhead frontman Lemmy remains one of rock’s greatest and funniest icons

The story of Dave Grohl and Corey Taylor’s forgotten punk-metal supergroup Teenage Time Killers
By Mörat published
Formed by members of Corrosion Of Conformity and My Ruin, Teenage Time Killers were the ultimate 2010s punk-metal supergroup

"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
By Mörat published
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
By Mörat published
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)
By MÖRAT last updated
This is what happens when the worlds of punk and metal collide

The 10 best Motörhead B-sides
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They're not singles, but they're still stone-cold Motorhead classics

The Top 10 best Ministry songs
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The best songs from Al Jourgensen's industrial metal crew

Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell: “Our music will be around longer than me”
By Mörat published
The Alice In Chains man on his rollercoaster career, his biggest influences and the dreaded ‘g’ word.

10 Philthy Animal Taylor classics
By MÖRAT last updated
Ten tracks that made Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor utterly unique

System Of A Down’s Toxicity: how four freaks made the 21st century’s first masterpiece
By Mörat published
Toxicity was System Of A Down’s big breakthrough. Yet its release was dogged by riots, media attacks and the spectre of 9/11

How a full-blown riot sent System Of A Down’s Toxicity into the stratosphere
By MÖRAT published

’You’re a control freak’: Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody and Zoltan Bathory square off
By MÖRAT published
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
By MÖRAT published
The Biohazard frontman makes a solo run at the barricades with Feed The Fire
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