
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

Billy Idol is to be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
By Simon Young published
If you're ever outside the Amoeba Music shop, be sure to look down on the pavement and check it out

Watch this 10-year-old totally own this drum cover of Metallica's Lux Æterna
By Simon Young published
While you were stuffing your face with chocolate over the holidays, this kid was thrashing his kit like a boss

Tony Iommi is about to start work on a new album
By Simon Young published
The Black Sabbath guitarist also hints at a possible tour in New Year's Day video message to fans

Two Minutes to Late Night host Gwarsenio Hall has added the Seinfeld intro to Black Sabbath's N.I.B. and won the internet, just like that
By Simon Young published
Two Minutes to Late Night have also released a festive EP featuring a King Diamond cover

Here are those naked Blink-182 Funko Pop! figures you've always wanted
By Simon Young published
This trio of What's My Age Again? toys have pixelated genitals, just like the video. Lovely stuff.

Ex-Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato will release his debut solo live album on December 20
By Simon Young published
Check out the video for Deep Set, taken from the forthcoming 11/11/22 Los Angeles

Watch Mike Patton try to destroy a drone during Mr. Bungle's set at Knotfest Chile
By Simon Young published
The Faith No More vocalist had recently made his return to the stage for the first time in almost two years

Tim Commerford says he had prostate cancer surgery shortly before Rage Against The Machine's summer tour
By Simon Young published
"It’s a brutal psychological journey," says bassist

A YouTuber has mixed Rage Against The Machine and Megadeth tracks together and the results are predictably explosive
By Simon Young published
Check out this Bombtrack x Youthanasia mashup and brace yourself for riffular impact

Someone has covered Meshuggah’s Bleed on a computer mouse
By Simon Young published
Watch someone destroy their PC mouse by tapping away to this notoriously difficult Meshuggah drum pattern

Slipknot announce details of Knotfest 2023 show in Italy
By Simon Young published
Architects, Amon Amarth and I Prevail will join the Iowa metallers in Bologna

Someone’s added that Peanut Butter Jelly song to Turnstile’s Holiday and we can’t get it out of our head
By Simon Young published
Enjoy this Buckwheat Boyz novelty single mashed up with the Baltimore hardcore band’s bouncy single

Watch this YouTuber switch Metallica and Pink Floyd guitar solos with jaw-dropping results
By Simon Young published
Bradley Hall plays Metallica’s Fade To Black and Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb solos like some sort of alchemist

John Corabi: "I don't totally believe Mick's reasons for leaving Mötley"
By Simon Young published
Ex-Crüe vocalist John Corabi adds that Mick Mars may not have recorded guitar on Motley Crue's later albums

Scientists have found that bats use "death metal growls" to talk to each other
By Simon Young published
University of Southern Denmark researchers have discovered how bats use their larynx just like death metal vocalists

Amon Amarth announce details of a graphic novel and board game
By Simon Young published
Perfect, then, for those nights when it’s just too chilly to go marauding

Here's what happened when GWAR appeared on The Joan Rivers Show in 1990
By Simon Young published
Oderus Urungus and Beefcake the Mighty presented the legendary comic with a gruesome gift on the set of her chat show

It seems that thrash legends Nuclear Assault have split up (again)
By Simon Young published
The band's social media accounts are all but dust and suggest that it's finally over for the New York four-piece

Here's how you can stream Metallica's Helping Hands show into your eyes and ears this December
By Simon Young published
The band will broadcast their third All Within My Hands benefit show from December 16

Former members of Every Time I Die are in the studio and we are here for it
By Simon Young published
The Buffalo band are recording new music without vocalist Keith Buckley, though

Watch Metallica rip their way through classic Ride The Lightning track in Florida
By Simon Young published
The Call Of Ktulu was part of the band's recent tribute show honouring their former manager

This Muse bass cover will inspire you to donate your instrument to the nearest fire
By Simon Young published
Charles Berthoud performs Hysteria's iconic bass line, vocal melodies and guitar parts with just two hands

Here's that Curb Your Enthusiasm and Metallica mash-up you didn't know you needed
By Simon Young published
This new version of Enter Sandman is pretty, pretty, pretty good
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