Remembering the time Nine Inch Nails advertised their unfinished album at the MTV AwardsThat time Nine Inch Nails issued a mysterious primetime TV ad for The Fragile – a release that wouldn’t come out for over a year…
Third Eye Open: How Ænima solidified Tool’s status as the weirdest, most singular force in mainstream metalSurging debut Undertow had established the Los Angeles outsiders as the strangest rock rebels of the ’90s. Little did we know it was just the jumping off point. With Ænima, Tool cut the strings altogether for a thrilling trip down the rabbit-hole…
How collective grief shaped Mastodon’s most grandiose, gut-wrenching album everThe passing of band manager and close friend Nick John in September 2018 was a deep wound for Mastodon. As astonishing double-album Hushed & Grim looms, the Atlanta metal masters explain how they’ve processed that pain into an epic reckoning on life and death, grief and the great hereafter...
Hot Milk’s Hannah Mee: The 10 songs that changed my lifeFrom Beach Boys to Green Day to The Prodigy, Hot Milk’s Hannah Mee takes us inside her record collection.
The 13 greatest uses of harmonica in rock and metalIt’s been a staple of blues, country and Americana for over a hundred years, but what are the trusty harmonica’s greatest appearances in heavy music?
10 lesser known Tool songs that everyone needs to hearWith only five full-length albums, Tool’s back-catalogue isn’t too hard to dig into. But even so, there’s some semi-hidden gems that are worthy of much more attention…
"The dictionary definition of a sellout…" Watch Metallica read real one-star Amazon reviews of The Black AlbumMetallica read out some brutal one-star reviews of The Black Album on Amazon during their recent Jimmy Kimmel appearance.
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine: “People don’t know me at all. They think they do, but they don’t”Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine talks Metallica, The Big Four and how he’s still “just getting started”.
How God Hates Us All made Slayer great againIn 2001 Slayer re-established themselves as kings of metal with their church-baiting warcry God Hates Us All.
The 164 songs that were banned from American radio after 9/11We look at the songs deemed too “lyrically questionable” to play on the radio after the 9/11 attacks.
Nirvana: The story behind Smells Like Teen SpiritSmells Like Teen Spirit: the story behind the single that made Nirvana global megastars…
Linkin Park’s A Thousand Suns changed the way we think about concept albumsLinkin Park stretched boundaries by thinking big on their “multi-concept” epic that still continues to divide and bewilder today.
“This is my purpose and why I’m still alive”: Dana Dentata reveals the pain behind PantychristOn debut album Pantychrist, Dana Dentata channels the trauma of her formative years into hyper-aggressive shock-horrorcore. But rather than wallowing in misery, it's a record of empowerment. Here, Dana shares her story and why she'll never compromise her art. Trigger warning: Sexual abuse.
Hole: The turbulent birth and misunderstood beauty of Celebrity SkinIn 1998, Hole released Celebrity Skin – a brilliant record born from a long, well-documented period of turmoil…
Amyl & The Sniffers: The untamed duality of Australia’s weirdo punk misfitsWith their 2019 self-titled debut album, Amyl & The Sniffers were poised to take over the world. Two years, a global pandemic, and one questionable shed later, the quartet are ready to do it all over again – now with some added strings to their bow…
“A revolution in noise”: Our original 2001 review of Converge’s Jane DoeOn September 4, 2001, Converge unleashed their fourth album Jane Doe – a “whirling, screaming assault of a record” that redefined hardcore…
