Features Trent Reznor: “The Downward Spiral beat the shit out of me” A celebration of Nine Inch Nails’ masterpiece, The Downward Spiral, released on March 8, 1994.
Features South Of Heaven is the album where Slayer became truly evil On the anniversary of its release, we look at the album that earned Slayer their place in Hell…
Features Alice In Chains: The enigmatic power and inner torment of Layne Staley On July 3, 1996, Alice In Chains played their final show with Layne Staley. Here, Mörat trawls through the darkness of Layne’s life, and pays tribute to the man who “should be remembered for more than his addictions”.
Features 10 of the best independent American metal records of the 21st century In celebration of the United States’ Independence Day this weekend, we revisit 10 of the greatest heavy records dropped outside the major label system this century…
Features Now Hear This: Brady Deeprose on the best new sludge-metal, prog-doom and electro-punk Conjurer's Brady Deeprose introduces five bands you need to check out right now, including Heriot, DVNE and CLT DRP…
Features The 12 best albums released in June 2021 The best rock and metal records released last month – from Rise Against to Garbage to De'Wayne and beyond!
Features Death threats and dance moves: A salute to The Prodigy’s Music For The Jilted Generation How The Prodigy opened the minds of the rock scene with their 1994 classic, Music For The Jilted Generation…
Features WILLOW’s pop-punk revolution: “I’m in love with the weirdos and the people who don’t conform to conventional societal norms” With new album Lately I Feel EVERYTHING – featuring scene titans Travis Barker and Avril Lavigne – WILLOW joins a "new pop-punk revival" that's taking over. And while her sound may come as a surprise to some, she's always been a rock star…
Features How 1994 changed rock music forever From Green Day to Nine Inch Nails, we look back on the year – and the bands – that everything changed…
Features Alkaline Trio: Every album ranked from worst to best by Matt Skiba Frontman Matt Skiba ranks Alkaline Trio’s nine albums in order of greatness – from 1998’s Goddamnit to 2018’s Is This Thing Cursed?
Features 16 rock, metal and punk covers of pop songs that actually rule Pop songs? Not our business. Pop songs covered by rock artists? You’ve got our attention…
Features The 50 best albums from 2001 From Slipknot and Sum 41 to Tool and Tenacious D, we rank the greatest albums from the year 2001…
Features Employed To Serve are putting British metal back on top For the past decade, Justine Jones and Sammy Urwin of Employed To Serve have helped elevate British rock and metal both on and off the stage, from Album Of The Year releases to their championing of new bands. Now, with fourth full-length Conquering on the horizon, the pay-off is being felt across the entire scene...
Features Black Sabbath: Every album ranked from worst to best From the 1970 debut to the final bow of 13, this is the definitive ranking of Black Sabbath’s 19 studio albums.
Features System Of A Down: Every album ranked from worst to best System Of A Down’s bizarro-world legacy organised in order of greatness…
Features The 20 most metal video game characters – ranked Pirates, bounty hunters, free-runners, general absolute badasses of the highest order… Here we count down the most metal characters to ever grace a video game.
