
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

Video Breakdown: Foo Fighters – Low
By Simon Young last updated
Dave Grohl and Jack Black have a lovely time in a crap motel

Here's Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time as you've never heard it before
By Simon Young last updated
Thomas Zwijsen has recorded Maiden's classic 1986 album in its entirety on acoustic guitar

Watch Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain take on Sooty in a tense drum battle in 1988
By Simon Young last updated
Can you guess who won? The answer may surprise you.

The Colour And The Shape at 25: how Foo Fighters' second album took Dave Grohl out of Kurt Cobain's shadow
By Simon Young last updated
The inside story of the troubled birth of Foo Fighters' The Colour And The Shape, as it reaches its 25th anniversary

Here's what Eddie Munson would sound like if he hadn't practiced Master of Puppets
By Simon Young last updated
This is what most of us would sound like when confronted with Vecna and his mates, not gonna lie

A fan has trimmed the fat from Metallica's St. Anger and it sounds all the better for it
By Simon Young last updated
This thoughtful fan-edit will save you 23 minutes compared to the band's original, divisive 2003 studio release

11 things Metallica would rather do than finish their new album
By Simon Young last updated
Playing in igloos, hanging out with Hillary Clinton, THAT fashion shoot – Metallica would literally rather do anything at all than finish the follow up to Death Magnetic

13 Bassists Who Look Like They've Left The Oven On
By Simon Young last updated
Which bassists have gone and left their appliances switched on before playing a gig?

10 versions of The Star-Spangled Banner to celebrate Independence Day
By Simon Young last updated
It's Independence day, and to celebrate here's the United States Of America's national anthem performed with varying degrees of flair

Watch Bad News cause mayhem on a British chat show in 1987
By Simon Young published
See the late Terry Wogan effortlessly deal with a pyro accident, petty squabbling and a near punch-up on his iconic chat show

The first reaction to Metallica's new song Moth Into Flame
By Simon Young last updated
Metallica have released the second song from new album Hardwired… To Self-Destruct. Here’s our verdict.

Watch this man cover The Trooper on guitar and synth at the same time
By Simon Young last updated
Gabriel Guardian nails the 1983 Iron Maiden classic – all under the watchful eye of the Grim Reaper

Video breakdown: Iron Maiden’s Can I Play With Madness
By Simon Young last updated
Breaking down Maiden’s greatest video scene by scene

The 12 best Iron Maiden memes
By Simon Young last updated
All the greatest Maiden memes caught in a digital butterfly net and proudly put on display

Iron Maiden: The secrets of the Somewhere In Time album artwork revealed
By Simon Young last updated
Somewhere In Time: Iron Maiden's most intricate album cover explained in detail

7 Things We Learned During Red Hot Chili Peppers' Carpool Karaoke
By Simon Young last updated
Plus: watch James Corden wrestle Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kieidis on someone's lawn

11 drummers who look like they've remembered a sad film
By Simon Young last updated
This lot look like they're about to burst into tears – but which film has set them off?

10 toe-curling videos of Korn, Tool, NIN and more before they were famous
By Simon Young last updated
Enjoy these brilliantly embarrassing videos of your favourite rock stars before anyone knew who they were

David Lee Roth has shared a version of Van Halen's Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
By Simon Young published
Listen to this new take on the Van Halen classic taken from their 1978 self-titled debut

This animated video from Cannibal Corpse's vocalist goes from adorable to apocalyptic in seconds
By Simon Young published
Bottom Dweller is taken from George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher's self-titled solo debut album

Pearl Jam cancel second show this week after Eddie Vedder damages vocal cords at Lollapalooza Paris
By Simon Young published
"The effects on his throat from the last outdoor show are still just too brutal," band tell Prague fans

Get Back director Peter Jackson says there's a new Beatles film in the works
By Simon Young published
The Lord of the Rings director says it will be very different to the three-part 2021 documentary series

Look out! This Rick James and Dio mash-up is a slice of fried internet gold
By Simon Young published
YouTuber mash-up alchemist Bill McClintock has done it again, this time with Dio's Holy Diver and Rick James' Mary Jane
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