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Terrorizer #218: Lamb Of God, reflections on 2011 and who to watch in 2012, is out now with our free CD Fear Candy 102!
Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe talks about how music saved him from prison, how he's eaten rats and snakes, how he's cleaned up on turning 40. He tells Terrorizer why he doesn't give a fuck about Grammys, and why the Earth won't put up with humanity much longer.
We bring you an in-depth look at who to watch in 2012 featuring Behemoth, Saint Vitus, Neurosis, Asphyx, Cannibal Corpse, Baroness, Testament, Periphery and many, many more. We bring you run-downs of what's coming from the worlds of black, death, doom, thrash, power and heavy metal and hardcore. There's also a preview of the festivals coming next year.
We look back on an amazing year in 2011, with the results of the reader's poll in full, the 40 records we judged the best of 2011 and chat to the people who made 2011 kick ass, with contributions from Watain, Kvelertak, Suicide Silence, Machine Head, Devin Townsend, Arch Enemy and more.
In the studio with Paradise Lost and Samoth's The Wretched End, find out why Sven de Caluwe thinks humanity is a piece of shit and what Savage Messiah's Dave Silver gets up to when he's not thrashing like a maniac.
We test Morbid Angel frontman David Vincent's music knowledge in our Hard Of Hearing test, Rob Miller of Amebix puts together this month's mixtape, and we darkly recollect Autopsy's seminal 'Mental Funeral', select and dissect albums from Landmine Marathon, Lacuna Coil, Nekromantheon, Racebannon and Vektor, and report on Cathedral's last ever show, Dimmu Borgir's 'An Evening With' show and Texture's technical ecstasy.
This month's Dominion pays homage to Rammstein, reviews the year with Combichrist, Fields Of The Nephilim and Ministry, and brings you the visions of the future in Dominion Style.
All this and more from:
Will Haven
Down
Biohazard
Gojira
Gallows
Burzum
Kreator
Black Breath
Municipal Waste
Enforcer
Job For A Cowboy
Your Demise
Crippled Black Phoneix
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As we tear through April, our first delivery after our new office move is this: Terrorizer #209, May 20 Holy shit, what a treat we have for you... As well as the mighty ARCH ENEMY, whose frontwoman Angela Gossow gives us her most revealing interview ever, we have Dominion 10 (Within Temptation, Gothminister, Leaves' Eyes...) an anarchic dose of Fear Candy (with the CD sleeve designed by Original Sin) and a giant poster of Angela to grace your living rooms, and an Amon Amarth poster from issue 208's artwork.
Terrorizer features Morbid Angel's David Vincent talking about their new album 'Illud Divinum Insanus', Suicide Silence, Corrosion of Conformity in the studio, Choice Cuts with In Solitude, Sonne Adam, Rabbits and others, Anaal Nathrakh talk passion and we have features on Primordial, Blood Ceremony, Septic Flesh, Pentagram, Xerath, Pestilence and more! And, of course, we'll have more extreme album reviews than you'll find anywhere else.
Dominion 10 features Within Temptation, Joe Black, You Shriek, Imperia, Drugzilla, Kommand + Kontrol, Leaves' Eyes, Gothminister, Heavenwood, Lords of Acid as well and Cuts from the Crypt that include And One, Blutengel, You Shriek, Esben and the Witch and Leaves' Eyes!
Get your copy NOW before the shops get even a whiff of it!
The summer is almost here, but the air is getting darker...MORBID ANGEL are back!
In Terrorizer #210, we chat to both David and Trey to get the low-down on why they finally decided to head back into the studio, and why 'Illud Divinum Insanus' is pushing the definition of “extreme” to its very limits.
Also in this issue, we talk to AUTOPSY about their amazing new and much-awaited opus, 'Macabre Eternal', IN FLAMES tell us why they will never conform to type, we bring you our ultimate guide to HELLFEST and our CRUST SPECIAL sees us get down and dirty with Amebix, Trap Them and Gallhammer.
Not only that, but we also have mighty features with a freshly-touring ULVER, a reunited HELL, an unstoppable AMORPHIS and a newly homed SHINING. Plus, ARCH ENEMY decimate Sick Sounds #6 and MY DYING BRIDE, ENFORCER, FUCKED UP and 40 WATT SUN weigh in to make this issue our most unforgiving yet.
Terrorizer #211 is here, and it's one dark motherfucker. In our special cover feature, we chat to SLIPKNOT's Joey Jordison about the death of his bandmate and best friend Paul Gray, how black metal has played a huge part in his personal recovery from that ordeal, and what the future holds for one of metal's biggest bands.
Also in #211, our special BIG 4 FACE-OFF sees Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax pitted against each other ahead of their history-making Sonisphere show. We ask some die-hard fans who'll come out top on the day - including Watain's Erik Danielsson and comedy legend Bill Bailey!
We also chat to undisputed genius DEVIN TOWNSEND as he looks ahead to middle-age and reflects on the completion of his epic, genre-spinning Devin Townsend Project, and melodeath godfathers IN FLAMES explain why they continue to do things their way, why they'll never take their critics seriously and why in the blue hell they collaborated with an arena-filling drum 'n' bass act.
After releasing what is proving to be SEPULTURA's strongest material in years with the back-to-basics 'Kairos', frontman Derrick Green reveals why it has taken him 14 years and six albums to finally allow himself to open up, and why he'll still always be "That guy at the door".
The ever-controversial Niklas Kvarforth exposes the heroin addicted that blighted - and even inspired - SHINING's latest opus, as well as ticking off all the usual extreme metal talking points - cannibalism, torture, you know the score. JESU mainman and Godflesh mastermind Justin K Broadrick explains why his thirst for life is as healthy as ever, while TOMBS reflect on their monster of a new album and frontman Mike Hill's obsession with death and all things dying.
Hazy deathsters CANNABIS CORPSE refuse to accept the label of "novelty act" as they celebrate the release of their third studio album in typically smokin' style, while Massachusetts mob CAVE IN outline their war of a career and KARMA TO BURN reaffirm that 3 is definitely the magic number.
Plus, AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED dominate Mixtape Mayhem with some tasty grind cuts, rising British metallers MALEFICE get their dubstep on in Hard Of Hearing, the one and only Dave Mustaine looks back on classic MEGADETH opus 'Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?', and we finally give you our verdict on that bloody MORBID ANGEL album. Massive miss-step? Brave new world? Bit of both? Come find out what we thought.
Still want more? DOMINION #11 embraces the darkside with goth and industrial heavyweights The Sisters Of Mercy, Fields Of The Nephilim, Combichrist and Mortiis!
Terrorizer #212 is go! We sit down with Tom G Warrior at his home from home in Zurich, Switzerland for his most frank and revealing interview ever, as we discover the childhood that made him the man he is, the truth behind the fallout of Celtic Frost and why his death masks represent one of his most fascinating passions of all.
In #212 we also celebrate the triumphant return from tragedy of Decapitated, we go behind the scenes of one of Death's most seminal albums, Malefice explain why they've paid their dues and are ready to take on the world and we give you our immense Bloodstock preview!
Want more? Devin Townsend headlines our most deranged Sick Sounds yet, SSS pick some choice skateboarding tunes, Jamey Jasta reveals his excellent new solo project and Times Of Grace test their metal mettle.
All of that plus Unearth, Marduk, Mastodon, Suicide Silence, Toxic Holocaust and more!
Terrorizer #212. Come get some.
Terrorizer #213 has landed, and it's a fucking monster, baby! We're proud to reveal that the coverstar for our September issue is none other than Behemoth frontman and genuine living legend NERGAL!
Fresh from the battle of his life as he recovers from beating leukaemia earlier this year, the man born Adam Darski tells us of his incredible journey over the last 12 months as he has battled his way back to health and looks forward to the next chapter in the unbelievable Behemoth cannon.
Also in this issue, French goliaths GOJIRA reveal more details of their new album and that special EP that we've all been waiting for, we head to the studio with ABORTED for news of their next full-length, and we head back to Huddersfield with modern thrash titans EVILE to get the skinny on the town that made them, their brilliant new opus 'Five Serpents' Teeth' and their very own museum exhibition. Yeah, you heard.
ANTHRAX are about to put out one of the most eagerly-anticipated metal albums of the last few years, but is all as well in the camp as it seems? We talked to frontman Joey Belladonna at Sonisphere and found out why things are never easy in one of thrash's most turbulet mainstays.
We also chat to TODAY IS THE DAY mainman Steve Austin about living on the poverty line and why he has had to adapt to survive, and grind masters LOCK UP look forward to what will no doubt be a ball-bursting Bloodstock show. Want more? CHTHONIC bassist Doris Yeh talks sexism, being fearless and Taiwanese warrior instict, CEREBRAL BALLZY get well board (see what we did there?) and GHOST BRIGADE talk up the best album of their career.
Plus, Pagan warriors ARKONA get ready for battle, sludgy mo fos YOB reach for the stars, hardcore pioneers BURY YOUR DEAD return to wreak carnage and Italian death metal merchants FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE unleash hell.
All this plus FEAR FACTORY talking Prodigy, SKULL FIST talking Death, CANDLEMASS talking 'Epicus...'? AND DOMINION 12 featuring The march Violets, Combichrist, Mortiis and The Damned? Why aren't you grabbing your copy already?
"I'm liberated from the shackles of metal!" Announces Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt – speaking to Terrorizer as they prepare to release the most accomplished album of their career. This month's coverstar tells all about the Swedish titan's latest opus 'Heritage' and, of course, Terrorizer delivers its own critique to boot.
Elsewhere in the brand spanking new issue Bill Kelliher and Brann Dailor spill the beans on the making of the Mastodon's incredible new album 'The Hunter', from burn-out to Barbarella – read this no-holds-barred exclusive only in Terrorizer!
Elsewhere black metal kings Absu talk acid and magic, Wolves In The Throne Room call it quits and Brutal Truth get apocalyptic!
Issue 214 also features Sick Sounds – the only extreme metal guitar magazine – and this month Evile's Ol Drake rips through his techniques and dishes out his thrash remedies!
If you still want to know what else you can read about – try these bands for size: Onslaught, Gama Bomb, The Devil's Blood, Black Cobra, Lock Up, Textures, Sick of It All, All Pigs Must Die.
And then of course, there's reviews, FREE music, and a shit tonne more!
It doesn't get much more extreme!
Out NOW, Terrorizer's Secret History of Thrash Metal tells the story of how Venom, Hellhammer and a Danish tennis player helped bring about a whole new genre of heavy-as-fuck, fast-as-lightning, ballsy rock 'n' roll.
With a collection of features to have you dribbling radioactive drool, we lead you on a denim-clad journey through the beginning of thrash itself with Venom, look at the role of the Big 4 of Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax and Germany's own ass-kicking Big 3 of Sodom, Destruction and Kreator, as well as the gnarled beast that it black thrash metal. Plus, we take a brief sojurn to the wacky side, lifting the lid on Satan's trampolines, ridiculous covers, Bermuda shorts and why thrash wasn't always Armageddon and war. We get symbolic with DRI, COC, SSS and other three-letter bands that took punk and force-fed it speed, and we also look forward and tell you how thrash lives on with a new breed bringing the noise.
With metal-thrashing memoirs from Venom, Sabbat, Kreator, Max Cavalera, Metallica, Death Angel, Acid Reign, Nuclear Assault, Sepultura, Anthrax, S.O.D., Slayer, Overkill, Testament and more, we round things off with a genre-defining label-round-up, 20 defining moments, a look at the art of thrash, the definitive A-Z of thrash and our list of ultimate thrash albums. There's a megatonne and-a-half of fantastic reading matter here to feast your eyes on and stimulate your ears with, with a bonus 18-track CD including an EXCLUSIVE Evile track from their forthcoming album, 'Five Serpents' Teeth'.
Terrorizer's Secret History of Thrash is available from 23 June in newsagents or you can have this amazing publication delivered straight to your door for £5.99 plus postage and packaging.
In Terrorizer #215, maestro Devin Townsend talks to us about his explosion of creativity, the radical changes he has undergone since the end of Strapping Young Lad and his plans for the future.
We chat to Robb Flynn about Machine Head's continued evolution, discover Paradise Lost frontman Greg Mackintosh's new extreme project Vallenfyre and discuss the Devil with In Solitude.
We bring you the essential guide to Damnation Festival, introduce you to the evil Nine Covens and the elegant Imperial Vengeance, select and dissect new albums from Absu, Brutal Truth and Iced Earth, darkly recollect Monster Magnet's 'Dopes To Infinity', go and see TesseracT and Pig Destroyer play radically different shows in all ways.
If that were not enough to make you salivate over this issue, we also bring you:
Dimmu Borgir
Nightwish
Orange Goblin
Will Haven
Skeletonwitch
Textures
Solstafir
In Solitude
Hank3
The Defiled
Thulcandra
Hammers Of Misfortune
Nine Covens
Morbus Chron
Alcest
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In Terrorizer #216, Dimmu Borgir frontman Shagrath talks to us about doing things their way, playing shows both stripped down and with a huge orchestra and the man behind the make-up.
Celebrating its 100 edition, this month's amazing Fear Candy CD comes with a very special exclusive track from Devin Townsend, written in tribute to your favourite metal mag and titled 'Terrorizer'.
We talk magic, chaos and Satan with The Devil's Blood, discuss bringing down the curtain on Cathedral with Lee Dorian, run through back injuries, friendships and bible study with Megadeth and darkly recollect Slipknot's now-classic 'Iowa'.
We come face to face with Iced Earth's new frontman Stu Block, talk Ernest Shackleton with Black Cobra, and play everything from Mayhem to techno metal at Turisas and Finntroll.
We select and dissect albums from Venom, Cynic, Russian Circles and Animals As Leaders, check out Evile, Kyuss Lives! and Suicide Silence live and introduce you to Darkest Era, Root, Rising and Myrath.
If that's still not enough, this month's free Dominion supplement sees us talking to Fields Of The Nephilim legend Carl McCoy, Wednesday 13 and Amy Lee of Evanescence.
If you need any more reason to get your hand on this amazing issue, also appearing are:
Lamb Of God
The Haunted
Burzum
Dillinger Escape Plan
Machine Head
Insomnium
Black Face
Paul Catten
Krisiun
Savage Messiah
Fleshgod Apocalypse
The Rotted
This month, Burzum frontman Varg Vikernes gives us his most controversial interview yet, talking about SS helmets, why you should listen to Burzum records in bed, rerecording his first two albums and why we're (apparently) all racists.
We talk to Nightwish's creative force Tuomas Holopainen about imagination, and why he had the happiest childhood ever, to Niklas Kvarforth about life beyond Shining and why Shining will be the new Dimmu Borgir, and analyse both Swedish death metal's resurgence with Bastard Priest and the injection of dance music into extreme metal with The Browning.
Cronos takes us through a retrospective on Venom's hugely influential career, we discuss Lock Up and a life in metal with British drumming great Nick Barker and put The Rotted and Dripback head to head before crossing boundaries with progressive pair Alternative 4 and Cormorant.
We're in the studio with Woods Of Ypres and DragonForce, find out what tracks Chthonic's Doris Yeh puts on her Mix Tape Mayhem, test out Iced Earth's music knowledge in this month's Hard Of Hearing and bring you the low-down on the last hurrah of Nasum.
We select and dissect albums from My Dying Bride, Vildhjarta, Carnifex and Mournful Congregation, bring you the full run-down of everything that went on at Damnation, Live Evil and Supersonic Festivals and introduce you to Vektor, Steak Number Eight, Throne Of Katarsis and Conan.
If that's not enough, this month's free Sick Sounds supplement talks all things technical with modern guitar genius Tosin Abasi of Animals As Leaders, offers lessons in how to play like him and reviews the Yamaha THR10 guitar amp.
If you're not already convinced as to why you need this month's Terrorizer, also featuring are:
Meshuggah
Arch Enemy
Black Sabbath
Devin Townsend
Machine Head
Eyehategod
Wolvhammer
Deathstars
Uneven Structure
Evisorax
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Terrorizer #218: Lamb Of God, reflections on 2011 and who to watch in 2012, is out now with our free CD Fear Candy 102!
Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe talks about how music saved him from prison, how he's eaten rats and snakes, how he's cleaned up on turning 40. He tells Terrorizer why he doesn't give a fuck about Grammys, and why the Earth won't put up with humanity much longer.
We bring you an in-depth look at who to watch in 2012 featuring Behemoth, Saint Vitus, Neurosis, Asphyx, Cannibal Corpse, Baroness, Testament, Periphery and many, many more. We bring you run-downs of what's coming from the worlds of black, death, doom, thrash, power and heavy metal and hardcore. There's also a preview of the festivals coming next year.
We look back on an amazing year in 2011, with the results of the reader's poll in full, the 40 records we judged the best of 2011 and chat to the people who made 2011 kick ass, with contributions from Watain, Kvelertak, Suicide Silence, Machine Head, Devin Townsend, Arch Enemy and more.
In the studio with Paradise Lost and Samoth's The Wretched End, find out why Sven de Caluwe thinks humanity is a piece of shit and what Savage Messiah's Dave Silver gets up to when he's not thrashing like a maniac.
We test Morbid Angel frontman David Vincent's music knowledge in our Hard Of Hearing test, Rob Miller of Amebix puts together this month's mixtape, and we darkly recollect Autopsy's seminal 'Mental Funeral', select and dissect albums from Landmine Marathon, Lacuna Coil, Nekromantheon, Racebannon and Vektor, and report on Cathedral's last ever show, Dimmu Borgir's 'An Evening With' show and Texture's technical ecstasy.
This month's Dominion pays homage to Rammstein, reviews the year with Combichrist, Fields Of The Nephilim and Ministry, and brings you the visions of the future in Dominion Style.
All this and more from:
Will Haven
Down
Biohazard
Gojira
Gallows
Burzum
Kreator
Black Breath
Municipal Waste
Enforcer
Job For A Cowboy
Your Demise
Crippled Black Phoneix
Terrorizer 219 is available right now.
Cover star Christina Scabbia keeps her head while surrounded by death, gloom and the demise of relationships, our Wicked Women feature shows you who are the ballsiest women in metal. Orange Goblin talk meat and veg, we speak to Decapitated and Alcest, we have Woods of Ypres' David Gold's most harrowing interview and more goodies in the shape of Earth, Coldworker and Crippled Black Phoenix. We give retroaction love to Terrorizer's 'World Downfall' and, of course, we have the most authoritative and comprehensive reviews section in the history of metal.
Three years, 39 magazines, 39 Fear Candy CDs, 39 times you don't have to leave your house to get your hands on your favourite extreme music magazine.
'nuff said.
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It's March and that means the approach of spring in the grim, frostbitten northern hemisphere and even better Terrorizer 220 is here!
Our cover star David Vincent gives us an articulate run-down on how he lives his life by his own rules, fetish clubs and how he sees "music as like a 'borg on Star Trek." We also speak with Corrosion of Conformity, Napalm Death, Terrorizer (yes, that Terrorizer), Voivod, Autopsy, Dyscarnate, Goatwhore, Swallow the Sun, Sigh, Asphyx, Chimp Spanner and Lord Mantis. We hang around the studio with Baroness, Absu share a MixTape, we darkly recollect Saint Vitus's "Born too Late" and torment Black Dahlia Murder in Hard of Hearing.
We have reviews, reviews and more reviews to set you on the path of musical righteousness and recount our live show experiences. Dominion #15 has Epica, Emilie Autumn, Eden House and the Resistanz festival preview!
Issue 221 is here ladies and gentleman. Our coverstar Jens Kidman and the rest of his crew in Meshuggah explain why they needed to light a fire under their ass to write new opus ‘Koloss’, metal legend Max Cavalera explains why the new Soulfly album is their heaviest yet and we catch up with Mastodon in Norwich, of all places. Saint Vitus’ frontman Scott “Wino” Weinrich and find about their comeback album ‘Lilly: F65’, their first in 17 years.
Also featured are Ancient VVisdom, Aura Noir, Black Breath, Bolt Thrower, Cannibal Corpse, Hawk Eyes, Split Cranium and more.
Of course we are jam packed with album reviews including Anathema, 3 Inches Of Blood, Angel Witch, Borknagar, Hour Of Penance and many more.
What are you waiting for? It’s all here to read now!
Terrorizer 222 has arrived and you can grab your copy here.
As Winter fades, Spring brings rebirth, and pushing existential matters aside for a moment, May's issue of Terrorizer is ready for you to get your teeth into.
Age comes to us all, and we speak to the ever-optimistic Paradise Lost about getting old and getting fit. Anathema's Vincent Cavanagh contemplates life, love and the weather, and we chicken out of dancing round the fire with Huntress. We get invited to sit around the dinner table with Municipal Waste about their new album 'The Fatal Feast' and Cancer Bats' Liam Cormier gives us the facts of life.
We also enter the studio with Winterfylleth, Insomnium pick out a mix tape for us and In Solitude are given a rough time in Hard of Hearing.
And as usual, we have pages and pages and pages of reviews and check out our live section's new look, and of course we have the new Sick Sounds wherein we point you down the road of axe shredding with Dragonforce's mercurial Herman Li.
So, what are you waiting for? Grab your copy now!
Terrorizer has delved deep into the dark vaults of doom and traversed across its rich history to unearth the truth and tales told by some of the heaviest of riff wielders! From metal’s very nativity story, the birth of Black Sabbath, which changed rock music forever and created a genre deemed too dangerous and evil for the young and impressionable, to the heroes of stoner doom, funeral doom, drone and sludge. We revisit classic interviews with the likes of Sunn O))) and Electric Wizard, and look back in time with Paradise Lost and Matt Pike (Sleep, High On Fire). Plus no special would be complete without our very own Top 50 essential doom albums. Doom or be doomed!
Contents list:
THE BIRTH OF DOOM
We investigate how the psychedelic landscape of love, peace and hippies was invaded and usurped by something a little more real, dark and gritty…
BRITISH DOOM
It started with Black Sabbath – but Blighty has produced some of the most pure and diverse doom bands ever. We’re no one-trick pony
THE A-Z OF DOOM
W is for weed, but can you guess the other 25 letters of the alphabet stand for?
AMERICAN DOOM
There’s another Birmingham, folks. Kim Kelly investigates…
DRONE
The Earth/Melvins axis pushed doom to its bitter extreme
FUNERAL DOOM
Think Finland is all about Battle Metal and operatic warblers? Think again…
EPIC DOOM
Did NWOBHM and Manowar influence doom? We say ‘yes’!
HAIL HORROR!
Electric Wizard’s Jus Oborn reveals the horror films that inspired and shaped the music of one of England’s most influential doom bands.
ESSENTIAL ALBUMS
From Black Sabbath’s debut to Yob’s 2011 opus, we trace doom’s progression from 1970 to the present day
DARK ART
Where would doom be without some of the most inspired artwork in the world of heavy metal?
THEMES OF DOOM
From Christianity to heroin, doom has drawn on the depressing and the macabre since its humble beginnings… we delve into the mire
STONER/ SLUDGE
The drug use got messy and the riffs got distorted but the outcome was tremendous
BEYOND DOOM!
How can a 40-year-old genre survive in 2012? Terrorizer gazes through our crystal ball and predicts its future…
Iron Men
BLACK SABBATH
Tony Iommi joins in the celebrations and remembers how the four horseman of the apocalypse (or four blokes from Birmingham) created a genre that changed the world forever
CATHEDRAL
Lee Dorrian – Cathedral frontman and Rise Above Records founder remembers a time when no one cared
PENTAGRAM
From singing cover songs to Vietnam War Vets to fronting one of America’s most legendary doom bands Bobby Leibling tells us his amazing story
ORAL HISTORIES
Wino, Trouble’s Eric Wagner, John Perez, Victor Griffin and more look back on their doomed lives
SUNN 0))))
He played in Thorr’s Hammer, Goatsnake, Sunn 0))) and he founded Southern Lord Records. Greg Anderson tells us about it all
LORD VICAR
The revered, true doom legend Peter Vicar recalls the Bizarre times
PARADISE LOST
King of Northern bleakness Gregor Mackintosh talks punk rock, touring and side-projects
CANDLEMASS
Leif Edling, the founding bassist of Sweden behemoths Candlemass tells us how he’s still humble despite his band’s legendary status
ELECTRIC WIZARD
Blonde bombshell guitarist Liz Buckingham is the Queen of Riffs – we raise a toast to celebrate Doom’s First Lady
SLEEP
Now fronting High On Fire, former Sleep axeman Matt Pike remembers…
Doomed For All Time: Classic Features From The Archives
ELECTRIC WIZARD
PLACE OF SKULLS
SUNN 0)))
REVEREND BIZARRE
THE PEACEVILLE THREE
SOLSTICE
DOWN
So, whilst the May showers continue to pour we have lovingly crafted issue 223 for your rainy day.
Our coverstar Robb Flynn stands proud as he reflects on his life and the career he’s achieved over the last 18 years with his band Machine Head and the (thankfully still) living legend King Diamond talks to us about surviving open heart surgery and rediscovering his voice.
Norwegian metal maestro Ihsahn comes out from under his rock and tells us why an Emperor reuinion isn’t on the cards and the inspiration behind his fourth opus 'Eremita'. If that wasn't enough, we talk to Sabaton’s frontman Joakim Brodén at London’s Imperial War Museum, celebrate 13 years of Watain and find out exactly what has calmed down High On Fire’s Matt Pike.
We also help you decide if you should be going to Download or Hellfest, or maybe both! Plus there are plenty of album reviews to check out where you should spend your hard earned cash.
The sun has been scorching and Terrorizer #224 is the essential read you need when you're grabbing a tan.
We meet up with SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison a year after he last graced our cover, he's in a positive state of mind, but he's still as intense as ever in our revealing interview. We also chat to French pioneers GOJIRA about their savage new album and reflect on 27 years of KREATOR with frontman Mille Petrozza.
If that wasn't enough we speak to BARONESS about the colour of life, say farewell to CANDLEMASS, find out what makes RUSH's frontman Geddy Lee tick, plus many more interviews, and NACHTMYSTIUM, CONVERGE and ENSLAVED talk new albums.
If that wasn't enough, we are still jam packed with the latest album reviews and live reviews.
Plus, if you're one of our DIGITAL READERS, you can enjoy extra free app content with ULVER and UNLEASHED interviews and young MacBride's German adventures with TESTAMENT guitarist Eric Peterson.
