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 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
By Mörat published
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
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
By MÖRAT last updated
They're not singles, but they're still stone-cold Motorhead classics

The Top 10 best Ministry songs
By MÖRAT last updated
The best songs from Al Jourgensen's industrial metal crew

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

How Keith Flint and the Prodigy lit a fire under metal
By MÖRAT published
By taking dance music into heavy new territories, The Prodigy started a fire under metal that burned so brightly, it couldn’t be ignored

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

The 10 best drinking songs
By MÖRAT published
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
By MÖRAT published
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
By MÖRAT published
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
By MÖRAT published
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
By MÖRAT published
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
By MÖRAT published
Five Finger Death Punch's Zoltán Báthory and Ivan Moody on booze, beatings, enteraining the troops and the American way
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