Megadeth’s David Ellefson: “I was a heroin addict and playing the biggest shows of my life” By Rich Hobson Megadeth bassist David Ellefson on drugs, broken bones and mortality
Here are 8 things Metallica could be working on with Miley Cyrus and Elton John By Rich Hobson What are Miley Cyrus, Elton John and Metallica cooking up together? We investigate the possibilities
Devin Townsend’s Devolution Series #1: Acoustically Inclined: prog metal’s mad scientist up close and personal By Rich Hobson Devin Townsend is in intimate mode on new lockdown-busting live album Acoustically Inclined
Every Lamb Of God album ranked from worst to best By Rich Hobson Where to start with Lamb Of God’s crushing back catalogue
Lamb Of God’s Live In Richmond, VA is the sound of a band raging in the face of the pandemic By Rich Hobson Lamb Of God capture their onstage glory on COVID-busting live-in-lockdown album
The Story Behind The Song: Metallica’s Enter Sandman By Rich Hobson How a grunge band inadvertently inspired the song that would turn Metallica into the world’s biggest metal band
10 essential folk metal albums By Rich Hobson From the forests of Scandinavia to the steppes on Mongolia, these are 10 must-hear folk metal albums
Sólstafir’s Addi Tryggvason: The Mixtape Of My Life By Rich Hobson Sólstafir frontman Addi Tryggvason reveals the 10 songs that made him who he is, from Autopsy to Duran Duran
The Top 10 best Matt Heafy cover versions By Rich Hobson From Cannibal Corpse to Queen, these are the best covers Trivium’s Matt Heafy has delivered over the years
Judas Priest’s Ian Hill: My Life In 10 Songs By Rich Hobson The only man to have been with Judas Priest since the very beginning looks back over his band’s epic career…
The 50 most anticipated metal albums of 2021 By Rich Hobson Let’s put 2020 behind us and get stuck into the good stuff 2021 has to offer
How metal survived the epic clusterf**k that was 2020 By Rich Hobson In 2020 the world was turned upside down. But amid the chaos, there was cause for hope for metal
The Story Behind The Song: Hearts On Fire by Hammerfall By Rich Hobson How Hammerfall wrote the anthem that kept heavy metal’s flag flying in the early 2000s
Evile: the kings of UK thrash come back from the dead By Rich Hobson Thrash lunatics Evile have been MIA for seven years. We join them in the studio as they work on their comeback album
Gama Bomb’s Sea Savage: unrepentant thrash with a side order of cheese By Rich Hobson Madcap thrashers Gama Bomb are in hilariously juvenile form on seventh album Sea Savage
The Story Behind The Song: Sepultura’s Choke By Rich Hobson Derrick Green looks back on the song that reinvented Sepultura and the enormous task of stepping into Max Cavalera’s shoes
Hjelvik’s Welcome To Hel: ex-Kvelertak singer kneels before the gods of heavy metal By Rich Hobson Erlend Hjelvik swaps Kvelertak’s blackened rock’n’roll for full metal racket with his new band’s debut album Welcome To Hel
Raging Speedhorn’s Hard To Kill: come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough By Rich Hobson Brit-metal lunatics Raging Speedhorn prove what doesn’t kill them makes them sludgier
Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith: “When we hit America things kicked in with booze and drugs, using it as a crutch” By Rich Hobson Legendary Iron Maiden guitarist and avid angler Adrian Smith shares the lessons he’s learned from 40 years on the roads and rivers around the world
Pallbearer’s Forgotten Days is the sound of doom metal marching into the future By Rich Hobson Arena-sized ambition with prog twists: Forgotten Days proves no one does doom like Pallbearer
Pallbearer: “We’d build a campfire, talk over beers, listen to gunfire” By Rich Hobson Pallbearer frontman Brett Campbell reveals what we can expect from the doom visionaries’ “cathartic” new album Forgotten Days
Mastodon’s Medium Rarities is a celebration of one of metal’s most deranged and brilliant bands By Rich Hobson Prog-metal, unhinged fuzz punk and left-field covers collide on Mastodon’s sprawling new compilation Medium Rarities
Jesse Leach's ultimate hardcore (and metal, and trip-hop) playlist By Rich Hobson Playlist! Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks us through the music that's essential to his life – and he goes big on the ’core, throwing in some healthy slabs of metal (and trip-hop) for good measure
Aversions Crown’s Mick Jeffrey: “Musicians sacrifice a lot of things to make other people happy” By Rich Hobson Aversions Crown guitarist Mick Jeffrey on drugs, European crime show addiction and the trials of being in a deathcore band
The Story Behind The Song: Alestorm’s Captain Morgan’s Revenge By Rich Hobson Avast, ye landlubbers! Alestorm’s swashbucklingly ridiculous breakthrough hit Captain Morgan’s Revenge ushered in a new era of pirate metal
