Stephen Hill
Stephen joined the Louder team as a co-host of the Metal Hammer Podcast in late 2011, eventually becoming a regular contributor to the magazine. He has since written hundreds of articles for Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Louder, specialising in punk, hardcore and 90s metal. He also presents the Trve. Cvlt. Pop! podcast with Gaz Jones and makes regular appearances on the Bangers And Most podcast.
Latest articles by Stephen Hill

By Stephen Hill Published
Band founder Michael Amott spills the secrets of Arch Enemy’s highly anticipated new album

By Stephen Hill Published
Trivium’s Ascendancy, Bullet For My Valentine’s The Poison and Avenged Sevenfold’s City Of Evil are 20 years old now, and your knees aren’t what they used to be

By Classic Rock Magazine Published
In which Talking Heads seamlessly merged funk, afrobeat and early hip-hop rhythms with their more abrasive art-rock ideas

By Metal Hammer Published
From a Slipknot buried treasure to the long-overlooked Korn rarity, these are the overlooked classics in the nu metal canon

By Metal Hammer Published
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024

By Stephen Hill Published
Inspired in part by recurring nightmares and visions of heaven, Higher cemented Creed as one of the most successul rock bands of the new millennium

By Stephen Hill Published
From Los Angeles to London, Belfast to Tampa, the hip-hop world has thrown up some of 2024's most thrilling, imaginative and essential releases

By Stephen Hill Published
On what would have been Mark Lanegan's 60th birthday, friends and peers salute a much-missed musical maverick

By Stephen Hill Published
The 2022 passing of Trevor Strnad could easily have spelled the end for The Black Dahlia Murder. Instead, they rallied to create an album worthy of his legacy

By Stephen Hill Published
Celebrating their seminal classics and modern material alike, Sepultura bow out in impeccable form at London’s Hammersmith Apollo

By Stephen Hill Published
The wheels were already beginning to come off Rage Against The Machine by 1998. Luckily, they managed to get into the studio together and prove they had one last statement to give the world

By Stephen Hill Published
On October 11 1994, five misfits from Bakersfield, California would release an album that would change metal forever

By Stephen Hill Published
Almost 20 years since his last ful-length album, Shavo Odadjian is roaring back with his heaviest band to date

By Stephen Hill Published
Jason Aalon Butler reignites the sparks of inspiration with an all-new lineup for Fever 333

By Stephen Hill Published
Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothing to f’ wit, and here's why

By Stephen Hill Published
Even tragedy can't stop The Black Dahlia Murder being one of extreme metal's most reliably brilliant bands

By Stephen Hill Published
Released on September 21, 1999, Nine Inch Nails third studio album, The Fragile, remains a fascinating piece of outsider art

By Stephen Hill Published
Mixing metalcore, groove metal and hip hop, Sweden's Thrown have become unlikely poster boys for a new subgenre

By Stephen Hill Published
London post-punks Crows evoke the spirit of Joy Division, PiL and ghosts of the past on album three

By Stephen Hill Published
The complete studio output of Mark Hollis' groundbreaking, hugely influential band, re-reviewed and ranked

By Stephen Hill Published
Bummed at missing out on Oasis tickets? Us too. The Verve, Supergrass, Elastica, Super Furries... we need you back now, please

By Stephen Hill Published
Released on August 30, 1994, the Manic Street Preachers' third album The Holy Bible remains one of the most unique, singular albums in history.

By Stephen Hill Published
Twenty years old this year, Ashes Of The Wake remains a classic of 21st century metal
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