<![CDATA[ Latest from Louder in Biographies ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies Tue, 19 May 2026 01:34:36 +0000 en <![CDATA[ "A raw and lethal mix of razor-saw metal and a punky punch." The story of Leather Angel, the "female Mötley Crüe" with the Nikki Sixx-designed logo ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/leather-angel Rxst3Bb2cYvLS26CQeXyqU Tue, 19 May 2026 01:34:36 +0000 Tue, 19 May 2026 01:38:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ "It looked like somebody had been sliced to bits with a chainsaw." Beavis And Butt-Head, Pantera and TiKTok - how sludge metal legends Crowbar have suddenly become bigger than ever ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/how-crowbar-got-an-unlikely-late-career-boost-from-tiktok oe8sJhMmFiF8JQ4DfFcWn6 Fri, 01 May 2026 13:10:59 +0000 Fri, 01 May 2026 13:58:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We were a bunch of Black kids whose parents had passed away and we were feral." From falling out with Manic Street Preachers and writing songs for Ozzy to a number one album, how Skindred's Benji Webbe became a British metal icon ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/how-skindreds-benji-webbe-became-a-metal-icon edFgaNYgdhB4yVzXLBiCpM Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:30:46 +0000 Fri, 01 May 2026 10:22:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I jumped through a window and hit one. Someone started choking me; I was basically blue by the time I was rescued." Russian Nazis, emotional encounters with Dio and rumours about Tom Hanks: Shane Embury on almost 40 years of Napalm Death and beyond ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/interviews/shane-embury-on-life-in-napalm-death-and-beyond R3HEgNCsfLcpMkujicQ8ki Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:24:10 +0000 <![CDATA[ "He was in chainmail, said he needed it for protection." From communist Hungary to joining metal's most murderous band and working with Slipknot's Joey Jordison, Attila Csihar is an extreme metal pioneer ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/mayhem-attila-csihar-interview-2026 jkpaWS4GrDGEZ4mGomQapf Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "On our first tour one of the venues burned down, and the cops would shut things down." Police raids, venue fires and murderous rednecks: the story of Converge, the band who defined metalcore for a generation ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/how-converge-redefined-metalcore-for-a-generation hdwhotUEub9AvfKZY6Dg5i Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:31:59 +0000 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:43:27 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I could feel his heart through his chest and he passed away right there." Childhood tragedy, unlikely success and emotional reunions: Max Cavalera on how he reshaped metal with Sepultura and Soulfly ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/max-cavalera-interview-metal-hammer-2026 UrZUAsmaGXEKmv6pwcjfCR Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:56:17 +0000 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:06:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Linkin Park helped me survive." Anti-war protests, hidden identities and split personalities: Meet N0trixx, the Russian-born trap metal artist exploring mental health ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/meet-n0trixx-the-russian-born-trap-metaller-exploring-dissociative-identity-disorder zJoVr7DnxkhiWLoD8GaCAg Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:16:35 +0000 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:21:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ Pentangle drummer Terry Cox, who also played on David Bowie's Space Oddity, has died, aged 89 ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/pentangle-drummer-terry-cox-who-also-played-on-david-bowies-space-oddity-has-died-aged-89 7EXh4nbHPKNuQrngop5xsh Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:58:34 +0000 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:59:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ They were bottled off stage by Alice Cooper's audience, derailed by a death in The Pretenders and made U2's producer cry: How Big Country made one of the biggest albums of the 80s ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/big-country-the-crossing 98jJqw5VcdW7H2xvowthtb Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:19:39 +0000 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:19:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We were like, ‘What if we take speed? Maybe we can play even faster!’ We were definitely better without the drugs." How Europe's biggest thrash band went from getting their mum to sign deals to satanic metal mastery ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/how-kreator Dq3YGE8NomyBupMKA6FjGQ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0000 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:22:27 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I was like, ‘I think it’d be cool if I die and spit up blood but I need to play another show the next night.’” How Black Sabbath and ‘major death anxiety’ inspired metal’s new fantasy sensation, Castle Rat ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/castle-rat-metal-hammer-cover-2026 284Cz2dPKF3hD4Canheer5 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "There are people who are almost tainted by their knowledge of music. It's almost like they know too much": How we got over ourselves and learned to love The Darkness ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/the-darkness-one-way-ticket-to-hell-and-back-interview aE4NiGp4qQ6Qry98BRnaKM Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:45:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Eric Clapton wrote Wonderful Tonight at ours, sitting on a wheelbarrow": What happened when the bassist with one of the UK's biggest bands quit rock'n'roll for life on the farm and a travelling musical carnival ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/ronnie-lane-slim-chance Jmys9DGa3MM73RPDr66vEL Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:13:35 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Yelling, fighting, drugs, alcohol… everything always went on. At the very end, he took me to his house and gave me a sword." Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, by those who knew him best ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/the-life-and-legacy-of-lemmy-kilmister WDMpueXL2eMZZEStGRC2ng Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We often felt like the strange duck on the festival bill because there was a woman in the band." How two modern metal icons united for a collaboration over a decade in the making ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/the-story-behind-within-temptation-paradise-tarja-turunen PZLfkCVBbNk9pkfnfxcx5 Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:58:05 +0000 <![CDATA[ Big Big Train announce new Woodcut – The Making And The Meaning book ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/big-big-train-announce-new-woodcut-the-making-and-the-meaning-book Hg8CNoEw24zZXFUdVrg7iH Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:15:18 +0000 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:10:52 +0000 <![CDATA[ Swallow The Sun's best-selling official biography to be translated into English ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/swallow-the-suns-best-selling-official-biography-to-be-translated-into-english DTzNEU7Nujr5sCmwKsGHyd Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:24:58 +0000 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:39:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Crucially it succeeds in nailing the driven personality of a self-starter motivated by a steely self-belief”: Unofficial Peter Hammill biography Rock And Role is perfect companion to recent box set ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/peter-hammill-rock-and-role-biography ijC2DTiUvNsZAfxSMCy74n Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:05:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He’s full of warmth for those they befriended on their rise, and full of ire for those who crossed them”: Derek Shulman takes aim at Syd Barrett, the Beach Boys, the Eagles and others in his not-very-gentle memoir Giant Steps ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/derek-shulman-giant-steps xdSi7raDyxzCZyKyZpsiJS Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:02:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ Alan Parsons Project story to be told for first time in official book ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/alan-parsons-project-official-book-signup hJnnfin4twC3UjReVXQh9X Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000 Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:31:11 +0000 <![CDATA[ A new Tony Banks biography is to be published in February ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/a-new-tony-banks-biography-is-to-be-published-in-february huBrexi2b84dRQweDQ3eH Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:11:53 +0000 Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:18:50 +0000 <![CDATA[ Martin Barre announces UK book tour dates for November and December ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/martin-barre-announces-uk-book-tour-dates-for-november-and-december t2ifWPm8sTWmHEt5NiS6wE Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:50:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Part supernatural, part primal, part aggressive adolescent, he’s a super anti-hero." How Iron Maiden's Eddie went from a blood-spewing mask on a drumkit to metal's most iconic mascot ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/an-oral-history-of-iron-maidens-eddie YvepwCtdueQrHcnaPd8HBM Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:33:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre to release autobiography in November ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/former-jethro-tull-guitarist-martin-barre-to-release-autobiography-in-november SM22SwwTabpEfu9PwBqdRU Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:51:38 +0000 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:52:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ New book puts Canadian prog metal pioneers Voivod in the spotlight ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/new-book-puts-canadian-prog-metal-pioneers-voivod-in-the-spotlight yixnq5KFit3jYdX5a4AvoZ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:23:13 +0000 <![CDATA[ Mike Oldfield producer Tom Newman to release his autobiography, Fine Old Tales ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/mike-oldfield-producer-tom-newman-to-release-his-autobiography-fine-old-tales obVCBRzR4SWazfocVvGHui Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:59:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ Life on the precipice: How Audioslave gave Chris Cornell hope ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/audioslave-out-of-exile-interview XUtdoUwpcWtf3Z4f2sH5fB Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:04:09 +0000 Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:04:13 +0000 <![CDATA[ New Peter Hammill biography to be published in November ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/new-peter-hammill-biography-to-be-published-in-november Vn3jQpouiZmee96rRmfWyd Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:19:39 +0000 Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:24:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Steve Hogarth bursts into the studio, holding a gun": What happened when Marillion allowed a journalist to play on their new album ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/marillion-happiness-is-a-road-tambourine vWNfNW3xHTFWXTRDrZEvVG Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:06:05 +0000 Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:56:19 +0000 <![CDATA[ "She pulls out these two long steel pins and I start screaming and she plunges them into her eyes": The acid-dazed adventures of the band that became Blue Öyster Cult ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/soft-white-underbelly-blue-oyster-cult 9twM9KFpCaeqUGubPqYgEa Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:25:47 +0000 Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:33:08 +0000 <![CDATA[ The book that Axl Rose doesn't want you to read: Alan Niven’s incredible book takes you inside peak Guns N’ Roses like no other ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/the-book-that-axl-rose-doesnt-want-you-to-read-alan-nivens-incredible-book-takes-you-inside-peak-guns-n-roses-like-no-other fPYpVcf4ZfPQsNk95YsrhW Sun, 13 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:33:15 +0000 <![CDATA[ Gentle Giant's Derek Shulman to publish career-spanning memoir, Giant Steps, in October ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/gentle-giants-derek-shulman-to-publish-career-spanning-memoir-giant-steps-in-october 2uuT5RQVY3PFacPBg69BAn Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:59:13 +0000 Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:59:45 +0000 <![CDATA[ "They could be on the brink of becoming the next big shock success story in heavy music." Malevolence have put together another absolute crusher of a record with Where Only The Truth Is Spoken ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/they-could-be-on-the-brink-of-becoming-the-next-big-shock-success-story-in-heavy-music-malevolence-have-put-together-another-absolute-crusher-of-a-record-with-where-only-the-truth-is-spoken ZPF7kVBbiwsmSkkHqwUry9 Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:34:12 +0000 Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:34:47 +0000 <![CDATA[ "How many times do you say you're gonna give something up and you don't?": Aggression and anger on the road with Thin Lizzy across America and Europe ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/thin-lizzy-tour-1977-1979 xuym3ZoLDMdiYkJa5R9PoR Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:24:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ New Pink Floyd book celebrates the band's career with unpublished interviews and Syd Barrett's letters of the time ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/new-pink-floyd-book-celebrates-the-bands-career-with-unpublished-interviews-and-syd-barretts-letters-of-the-time J8gCWWVQNBmsAbJ6Zck2vi Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:54:46 +0000 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:27:45 +0000 <![CDATA[ Fistfights with John Lydon, sword fights with the Sisters of Mercy, gangsters, goth and Ferris Bueller: The epic story of Flesh For Lulu ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/the-epic-story-of-flesh-for-lulu RwcQp2TXiyx4cxj4A8srKd Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:00:00 +0000 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:12:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ On the road with America's loudest survivors: Aerosmith, Kiss, and the making of Honkin' On Bobo ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/on-the-road-with-americas-loudest-survivors-aerosmith-kiss-and-the-making-of-honkin-on-bobo 3fNtE2cnBV2BwsQBia6nND Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:30:00 +0000 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:48:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Some people say it's too personal but I owe my fans the truth": Michael Schenker and the appetite for self-destruction ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/michael-schenker-appetite-for-self-destruction-clone RtBdNojHGaWnXHchkkt4mS Thu, 22 May 2025 04:29:36 +0000 <![CDATA[ “When asked about his family, Jim would often explain that his parents – still very much alive – were dead”: How The Doors’ Jim Morrison went from from drunken teen rebel to leather-clad 60s rock god ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/jim-morrison-doors-early-years-birth-of-lizard-king CnRR7jytRiyo9RHNnGtHhZ Tue, 20 May 2025 15:30:00 +0000 Tue, 27 May 2025 07:57:23 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I was doing a ton of crack. And I took pills to try and calm down": The growing pains and artistic rebirth of Billy Idol ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/billy-idol-devils-playground U67GtCTC9yVEMaadBxJWa5 Mon, 19 May 2025 19:44:04 +0000 Tue, 20 May 2025 11:18:07 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I saved the world from Saddam Hussein." Blink-182's Mark Hoppus reveals his role in the US military's capture of authoritarian Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/news/i-saved-the-world-from-saddam-hussein-says-blink-182s-mark-hoppus zQp5myxbKQVfy3im7S5WAT Mon, 19 May 2025 15:50:20 +0000 Tue, 20 May 2025 11:18:05 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I see this lump in the bed, and I go, Oh God, who's this?" The day Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher woke up to find British light entertainment legend Alan Partridge in his hotel bed ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-day-liam-gallagher-woke-up-to-find-alan-partridge-in-his-bed VQ7djsGs4Cr2PHaNbvWpdE Fri, 16 May 2025 17:14:11 +0000 Tue, 20 May 2025 11:17:34 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I was on the floor, and he had his boot on my throat. I was like, That's great Elvis, that's great." The surreal story of the night Alice Cooper met Elvis Presley ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-night-alice-cooper-met-elvis-presley TDHcSwERzPSGZWYrzJpqp8 Fri, 16 May 2025 14:59:41 +0000 Tue, 20 May 2025 11:17:56 +0000 <![CDATA[ "Nobody has ever sung a heavy metal song better than Ronnie did": A tribute to Ronnie James Dio ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/ronnie-james-dio-2010-tribute q6HniTZ6t8tQwcrEv9EzTS Fri, 16 May 2025 07:15:00 +0000 Tue, 20 May 2025 11:17:30 +0000 <![CDATA[ "John made himself out to be the big working-class hero: he was the least working-class in the group." In 1984, revisiting his work with The Beatles, Paul McCartney shed new light on his relationship with John Lennon in his most revealing interviews ever ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/paul-mccartney-john-lennon-working-class-relationship aswwGyFpumPtGG4aVR5LqW Sat, 10 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000 Tue, 20 May 2025 11:16:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I don’t know how anyone can be in that band for more than a couple hours”: The story of Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s short but whirlwind stint in Megadeth ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/slayer-kerry-king-megadeth-story CdKpZpbrjcWaxvVHocUDSd Fri, 09 May 2025 06:03:40 +0000 Tue, 20 May 2025 11:16:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I remember wondering how many people could get into this progressive, extreme violin metal”: How Ne Obliviscaris became the first band to successfully crowdfund a world tour ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/ne-obliviscaris-crowdfunded-world-tour QL8yPW6WCXePEFkRBN3VSU Wed, 07 May 2025 07:31:20 +0000 Tue, 20 May 2025 11:16:47 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I chased him down the hall with my d**k in my hand." How an epic fistfight with racist skinheads turned hip-hop superstar Ice Cube and Ministry's Al Jourgensen into unlikely allies ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/racist-skinheads-ice-cube-ministry-al-jourgensen 9vJsKthCkXeqc52ZG8ZLJ9 Tue, 06 May 2025 12:09:33 +0000 Tue, 06 May 2025 12:15:29 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’ve heard Robert Fripp say no to everybody. David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, you name it, he always has an excuse not to play… He’s a wonderful husband but professionally it’s done me no favours”: Toyah Wilcox is more than just Mrs King Crimson ]]> https://www.loudersound.com/features/toyah-willcox-prog-credentials 7FjRUAYZ5cAC5GQbFz9FsE Tue, 06 May 2025 05:34:00 +0000 Thu, 08 May 2025 18:25:38 +0000