
Simon Young
Born in 1976 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Simon Young has been a music journalist for over twenty-six 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

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

Watch Paul McCartney and Rick Rubin "check out" Cannibal Corpse's Hammer Smashed Face in hilariously well-made parody video
By Simon Young published
Although this is a well-crafted parody video, God, we wish it was real

Jerry Cantrell shares video for Prism of Doubt and we honestly don't know what's happening anymore
By Simon Young published
Caution: this stop-motion animated video has apocalyptic and intergalactic erotic themes

Fever 333 vocalist Jason Aalon Butler shelves all touring activity until next spring
By Simon Young published
"You were promised a new and exciting era of Fever 333 and that is what you'll get," says frontman

Watch Billy Corgan casually snack on some tortilla chips during a drum solo at Smashing Pumpkins show
By Simon Young published
"A Smashing Pumpkin smashing Pringles," comments one fan on fan-shot YouTube clip
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