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Our Hollow, Our Home: Tobias Young’s track-by-track guide to new album, Burn In The Flood

Our Hollow, Our Home vocalist/guitarist Tobias Young takes us through the experiences that inspired every song on new album Burn In The Flood.

Friends: The one where Phoebe revealed she was a Carcass fan

Could Friends’ Phoebe Buffay be any more of a metalhead?!

The 29 greatest songs about vampires

In honour of World Dracula Day, we count down the 29 vampiric songs that suck the hardest

Believe The Hype: Spiritbox are the hottest band in the world

They're the band that every rock and metal fan can't stop talking about. And now, the most anticipated debut album of 2021 is nearly here. In a world-exclusive interview, vocalist Courtney LaPlante reveals the full story of Spiritbox, and the emotional journey of Eternal Blue that will make everyone question the meaning of 'heavy'...

“It was about smashing down walls”: How adidas invaded nu-metal

Arriving like a subculture from outer space, nu-metal shook up not just the sound, but also the style of heavy music. We sat down with Korn’s Jonathan Davis to look back on how sportswear infiltrated our traditionally denim-and-leather clad scene…

The 20 greatest BABYMETAL songs – ranked

From 2014’s self-titled debut to 2019’s METAL GALAXY and beyond, we rank BABYMETAL’s most brilliantly bonkers tunes…

Sullivan King: The DJ infiltrating rock by fusing riffs with electronica and dance

Having worked with members of Papa Roach, Underøath and Ice Nine Kills on his EDM-meets-metal tunes, Sullivan King is ready to take the rock world by storm…

A new movie and another real-life horror story: The truth behind The Conjuring Universe

With cinemas reopening right on time for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It to scare up a storm on May 26, K! celebrates the work of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.

My friend Paul, by Corey Taylor

Corey Taylor pays tribute to his late friend and Slipknot bandmate, Paul Gray.

The 16 essential goth albums you need to know

Goth can be many things – from a fashion trend to a way of life – but these are the bands the embody the sound all things gothic, whether they want to or not…

"It’s something to be proud of": Creeper's Will Gould on what it means to be goth

To mark World Goth Day (May 22), Creeper and Salem's Will Gould reflects on the importance of the subculture…

Now Hear This: Aaron Pauley on the best new post-hardcore, metal and emo

Of Mice & Men's Aaron Pauley brings you the new bands you need to check out now, including Caskets, Solence and Imminence…

Shout At The Devil: A brief history of Satan in rock music

As The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It hits cinemas on May 26, we look back at Satan’s on-again-off-again relationship with rock’n’roll, and how he inspired some all-time classics.

Waterparks’ Awsten Knight: “If your art’s not getting a reaction, then what are you doing?”

Awsten Knight opens up about the bold provocation and nightmarish vision at the heart of Waterparks’ new album, Greatest Hits…

Drugs, violence and social decay: The making of New York hardcore

Against a backdrop of social inequality, New York became the standard-bearer for a form of musical rebellion that endures four decades later. We talk to the people who were there to find out why and how it happened…

Remembering when Lordi won Eurovision and took monsters to the mainstream

Fifteen years ago, Finland’s monster-metallers Lordi won Eurovision. This is the story of how it happened, the impact it had on the band, and what it meant for the world’s biggest music show…

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