Features 10 lesser known Korn songs that everyone needs to hear Korn are no strangers to rarities and B-sides, lending their names to various projects over the years. Here are just 10 of their greatest unknown hits that probably passed you by…
Features Remembering the time Nine Inch Nails advertised their unfinished album at the MTV Awards That time Nine Inch Nails issued a mysterious primetime TV ad for The Fragile – a release that wouldn’t come out for over a year…
Features Third Eye Open: How Ænima solidified Tool’s status as the weirdest, most singular force in mainstream metal Surging 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…
The Cover Story How collective grief shaped Mastodon’s most grandiose, gut-wrenching album ever The 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...
Features Hot Milk’s Hannah Mee: The 10 songs that changed my life From Beach Boys to Green Day to The Prodigy, Hot Milk’s Hannah Mee takes us inside her record collection.
Features The 13 greatest uses of harmonica in rock and metal It’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?
Features 10 lesser known Tool songs that everyone needs to hear With 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…
News "The dictionary definition of a sellout…" Watch Metallica read real one-star Amazon reviews of The Black Album Metallica read out some brutal one-star reviews of The Black Album on Amazon during their recent Jimmy Kimmel appearance.
Features 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”.
Features How God Hates Us All made Slayer great again In 2001 Slayer re-established themselves as kings of metal with their church-baiting warcry God Hates Us All.
Features The 164 songs that were banned from American radio after 9/11 We look at the songs deemed too “lyrically questionable” to play on the radio after the 9/11 attacks.
Features Nirvana: The story behind Smells Like Teen Spirit Smells Like Teen Spirit: the story behind the single that made Nirvana global megastars…
Features Linkin Park’s A Thousand Suns changed the way we think about concept albums Linkin Park stretched boundaries by thinking big on their “multi-concept” epic that still continues to divide and bewilder today.
The Cover Story “This is my purpose and why I’m still alive”: Dana Dentata reveals the pain behind Pantychrist On 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.
Features Hole: The turbulent birth and misunderstood beauty of Celebrity Skin In 1998, Hole released Celebrity Skin – a brilliant record born from a long, well-documented period of turmoil…
Features Amyl & The Sniffers: The untamed duality of Australia’s weirdo punk misfits With 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…
