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…
Features “A revolution in noise”: Our original 2001 review of Converge’s Jane Doe On September 4, 2001, Converge unleashed their fourth album Jane Doe – a “whirling, screaming assault of a record” that redefined hardcore…
Features How Toxicity turned System Of A Down into the biggest metal band of the early ’00s This is the story of System Of A Down’s iconic second studio album, Toxicity.
Features Metallica: The untold story of the album that changed everything After four albums of world-beating thrash, Metallica looked to push things to the limit and become the biggest metal band on the planet with 1991’s colossal ‘Black’ album. As the record turns 30 and the band celebrate with the triumphant Metallica Blacklist, Jason Newsted and Kirk Hammett look back at how it all happened…
Features “If we were worried about being famous, we should have quit a long time ago!” Why The Bronx will never die Now six albums deep, The Bronx are still, somehow, at the top of their game. We sit down with frontman Matt Caughthran to find out the secrets of their survival and why they’ll never give up the fight…
Features “This is one beautifully crafted labour of hate”: Our original 2001 review of Slipknot’s Iowa On August 28, 2001, Slipknot more than lived up to the hype with their second studio album on Roadrunner Records, Iowa…
Features Slipknot: Every song on Iowa, ranked from worst to best Every song on Slipknot’s second album is pretty damn great, but which of Iowa’s 14 tracks is the greatest of all?
Reviews Album review: Halsey – If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power Halsey teams up with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for the most daring album of their career.
