Perran Helyes

Perran Helyes

Writer

Beginning contributing to Metal Hammer in 2023, Perran has been a regular writer for Knotfest since 2020 interviewing icons like King Diamond, Winston McCall, and K.K. Downing, but specialising in the dark, doomed, and dingy. After joining the show in 2018, he took over the running of the That’s Not Metal podcast in 2020 bringing open, anti-gatekeeping coverage of the best heavy bands to as many who will listen, and as the natural bedfellow of extreme and dark music devotes most remaining brain-space to gothic and splatter horror and the places where those things entwine. 

Articles by: Perran Helyes

Cattle Decaptiation Travis Ryan

"People aren’t used to hearing vocal melody over a wall of ‘blackened progressive deathgrind’ or whatever the hell you call it." Cattle Decapitation might be playing arenas, but they're still one of metal's most extreme bands

By Perran Helyes published

Cattle Decapitation's Travis Ryan talks bugs, betrayal by Metallica and how it feels playing arenas with Amon Amarth

Lost Society/Signs of The Swarm/Caskets/Plaguemace

4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

By Rich Hobson published

From former thrashers turned modern metal hopefuls Lost Society to lizard-brain Danish death metallers Plaguemace, Yorkshire metalcore mob Caskets and US deathcore brutes Signs Of The Swarm, these are the bands you need to hear in March 2024

Dave from Anaal Nathrakh

“We were name-checked on American Dad!" We chat to Dave Hunt, frontman of beloved British extreme metallers Anaal Nathrakh, about filthy music, cartoons and "unapologetically juvenile" album covers

By Perran Helyes published

Anaal Nathrakh's singer opens up on the road ahead for the beloved British metal veterans

Dave from Anaal Nathrakh

“We were name-checked on American Dad!" We chat to Dave Hunt, frontman of beloved British extreme metallers Anaal Nathrakh, about filthy music, cartoons and "unapologetically juvenile" album covers

By Perran Helyes published

Anaal Nathrakh's singer opens up on the road ahead for the beloved British metal veterans