
Simon Young
Born in 1976 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Simon Young has been a music journalist for over twenty years. His fanzine, Hit A Guy With Glasses, enjoyed a one-issue run before he secured a job at Kerrang! in 1999. His writing has also appeared in Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Prog, and Planet Rock. His first book, So Much For The 30 Year Plan: Therapy? — The Authorised Biography is available via Jawbone Press.
Latest articles by Simon Young

The 10 best metal cover versions of TV show themes
By Simon Young published
From Game of Thrones to Stranger Things, all theme tunes sounds better when put through a distortion pedal and cranked up to 11

9 surprising artists who have sampled Slayer
By Simon Young published
From hip hop legends Public Enemy to Essex rave punks The Prodigy, here are some of the musicians who've sprinkled the Devil's music in amongst their own delicious chaos

Watch Spinal Tap go toe-to-toe with Jonathan Ross on British prime-time TV
By Simon Young published
See the band tell Mick Fleetwood to his face why he wasn't good enough to be their 13th drummer

Before Eddie Munson, Alice Cooper played Dungeons & Dragons on TV once and here’s what happened
By Simon Young published
Alice Cooper appeared in That 70s Show as Mandar, a dragon-slaying gamer

The 50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever
By Simon Young published
Forensically examining a cursed selection of artwork which are heinous crimes against the eye

Sum 41 to call it a day and reveal plans for global farewell tour
By Simon Young published
The band will announce details of their final studio album in the near future

Celebrating the ridiculous moment Megadeth's Dave Mustaine appeared on Daffy Duck spin-off, Duck Dodgers
By Simon Young published
Remembering the time the world's state-of-the-art speed metal band rocked the outer reaches of the universe with the help of a duck

10 metal covers of Disney songs that are actually great (no, really!)
By Simon Young published
From Korn dabbling with The Nightmare Before Christmas to death metal takes on Let It Go, here's some proof that even Disney can be metal

10 surprising artists who have sampled Metallica
By Simon Young published
From hip hop icon Eminem to drum 'n' bass heavyweights Chase & Status, these are some of the artists to have reimagined classic Metallica moments for their own songs

The 10 most viewed Linkin Park videos on YouTube
By Simon Young published
Here are 10 reasons why Linkin Park have racked up over 12 billion views on the popular streaming platform

The 10 most-viewed Slipknot videos ever
By Simon Young published
Slipknot have featured a goat in one of these videos. Sure, but do you know which one has a Scottish Terrier in it?

Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro has a new extreme metal project, and it just tore London to shreds
By Simon Young published
Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil's extreme metal side-band Empire State Bastard unleash hell at debut London gig, their third show ever

The 10 most viewed System Of A Down videos on YouTube
By Simon Young published
System Of A Down's videos and audio clips have been streamed 4.7 billion times on YouTube alone. But which song is responsible for a quarter of that number?

The 10 most viewed Iron Maiden videos on YouTube
By Simon Young published
Which of Maiden's most popular videos shares a link with Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit?

The 10 most viewed Metallica videos on YouTube
By Simon Young published
Of all the clips on Metallica's official YouTube channel, which promo has been viewed 1.2 billion times?

Here are the astonishing US sales stats for every Metallica album
By Simon Young published
We broke out the calculators for this forensic analysis of every unit Metallica have shifted in the United States since 1983. As it turns out, they've done quite well for themselves

Here are the 20 longest-charting albums in the history of the Billboard 200
By Simon Young published
Pink Floyd, Metallica, AC/DC and Nirvana classics are just some of the albums to have spent hundreds of weeks in the charts

Here's everything we know about Metallica’s new album 72 Seasons so far
By Simon Young published
From latest single If Darkness Had a Son to the details of that striking cover, here’s all the essential info you need on Metallica’s new album 72 Seasons

Biffy Clyro and Vennart side-project Empire State Bastard announce intimate UK tour
By Simon Young published
Former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo will join Simon Neil and Mike Vennart for the dates which take place in March

Modern Life Is War drummer Luke Rauch has been diagnosed with cancer
By Simon Young published
A GoFundMe has been set up to financially assist his family as he undergoes treatment

Metallica to release If Darkness Had a Son on March 1
By Simon Young published
You can watch the band perform a short clip of the song now as a TikTok Duet

Metallica tease new 72 Seasons track through series of TikTok duet videos
By Simon Young published
See Rob Trujillo's French Bulldog try to get in on some riff action

Here's what Slayer would sound like playing Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer
By Simon Young published
Finnish YouTuber Otu has delivered an apocalyptic reimagining of Bon Jovi's 1986 anthem
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