Simon Young
Born in 1976 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Simon Young has been a music journalist for twenty-seven 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 was published in 2020 through Jawbone.
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Check out the video for Deep Set, taken from the forthcoming 11/11/22 Los Angeles

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The Faith No More vocalist had recently made his return to the stage for the first time in almost two years

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"It’s a brutal psychological journey," says bassist

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Check out this Bombtrack x Youthanasia mashup and brace yourself for riffular impact

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Watch someone destroy their PC mouse by tapping away to this notoriously difficult Meshuggah drum pattern

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Architects, Amon Amarth and I Prevail will join the Iowa metallers in Bologna

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Enjoy this Buckwheat Boyz novelty single mashed up with the Baltimore hardcore band’s bouncy single

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Bradley Hall plays Metallica’s Fade To Black and Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb solos like some sort of alchemist

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Ex-Crüe vocalist John Corabi adds that Mick Mars may not have recorded guitar on Motley Crue's later albums

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University of Southern Denmark researchers have discovered how bats use their larynx just like death metal vocalists

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Perfect, then, for those nights when it’s just too chilly to go marauding

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Oderus Urungus and Beefcake the Mighty presented the legendary comic with a gruesome gift on the set of her chat show

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The band's social media accounts are all but dust and suggest that it's finally over for the New York four-piece

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The band will broadcast their third All Within My Hands benefit show from December 16

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The Buffalo band are recording new music without vocalist Keith Buckley, though

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The Call Of Ktulu was part of the band's recent tribute show honouring their former manager

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Charles Berthoud performs Hysteria's iconic bass line, vocal melodies and guitar parts with just two hands

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This new version of Enter Sandman is pretty, pretty, pretty good

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Although this is a well-crafted parody video, God, we wish it was real

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Caution: this stop-motion animated video has apocalyptic and intergalactic erotic themes

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"You were promised a new and exciting era of Fever 333 and that is what you'll get," says frontman

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"A Smashing Pumpkin smashing Pringles," comments one fan on fan-shot YouTube clip

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And what did Corey Taylor dress up as this year?
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