Stephen Hill

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"We’re the last ones standing from the scene." Employed To Serve are fostering the next generation of British metal talent

1 week ago | loudersound.com | Stephen Hill

Employed To Serve singer Justine Jones leans back in her chair and flashes her widest smile. “Don’t be fooled, everything we’re doing now is totally out of necessity,” she says with a laugh. “No one wanted to book us or wanted to take a chance on us. It’s just that you’ve got to make your own opportunities or just sit and sulk.
"I’d just want to tell Randy Rhoads how great he is and how much I love him." Zakk Wylde on shredders, movies and his favourite Ozzy Osbourne moment

2 weeks ago | loudersound.com | Stephen Hill

“So, what are we doing here? Sniffing glue and shooting heroin?” Zakk Wylde is in typically boisterous spirits after being led into the ‘I Am Anarchy’ suite in London’s swanky Chateau Denmark hotel, so called because it’s where punk legends the Sex Pistols lived and rehearsed during their infamous heyday.
Beast mode: how Beast In Black, Diablo IV and Berserk have created 2025's ultimate metal-gaming-manga team-up

2 weeks ago | loudersound.com | Stephen Hill

Calling all fantasy fans! For Diablo IV: Season 8, world-renowned videogame developers Blizzard have partnered with Berserk, the iconic manga and anime series set in a medieval Europe-inspired dark fantasy world. Plus, they’ve enlisted Finnish metallers Beast In Black to write a brand new song to soundtrack the mayhem. Since Diablo launched in 2005, metal fans have been heavily invested in the dungeon crawler role-playing series – and it’s easy to see why.
"Ozzy and I were like a couple of naughty schoolkids." Zakk Wylde shares his favourite (not so) wholesome memory of hanging out with The Prince Of Darkness

1 month ago | loudersound.com | Rich Hobson |Stephen Hill

When you've known someone like Ozzy Osbourne for over 30 years, it's safe to say you've probably got a few stories to tell. Longtime Ozz solo guitarist and metal icon in his own right Zakk Wylde certainly had a thing or two to say when asked by Metal Hammer readers what his favourite wholesome moment with The Prince Of Darkness was for this month's People Vs feature in the new issue of Metal Hammer. “I remember we played the Budokan [Arena] in Tokyo.
Mixing Sepultura groove with Gojira stomp, Alien Weaponry step up into the metal A-league with Te Rā

1 month ago | loudersound.com | Stephen Hill

New Zealand's Alien Weaponry are one of the most exciting metal bands to have emerged in the last decade. Brothers Lewis and Henry de Jong started playing together before they had even hit their teens, and their prodigious talents and chemistry, coupled with a desire to splice crushing groove metal with influences from indigenous Māori culture is certainly a unique USP.
"My dad smashed the tape of Number Of The Beast: ‘I’m forbidding Devil’s music in my house!’ That only made it more appealing.” How Jesse Leach went from "Flanders kid" to future metalcore icon

2 months ago | loudersound.com | Stephen Hill

There aren’t many vocalists in the worlds of metal and hardcore like Jesse Leach. The Killswitch Engage frontman couldn’t be further away from the stereotypical metalcore tough guy. For one thing, he’s calling Hammer via Zoom not from a big city apartment but from his new home, tucked away in the woodlands in the Catskill Mountains, upstate New York. “I can be alone here, in the middle of nowhere,” he says.
"A lot of people think it’s about Vikings, but it never was." We took Wardruna's Einar Selvik foraging in one of London's oldest graveyards

2 months ago | loudersound.com | Stephen Hill

"Come on, man!” barks Wardruna’s Einar Selvik.
"A lot of people think it’s about Vikings, but it never was." We took Wardruna's Einar Selvik foraging in one of London's oldest graveyards

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Stephen Hill

4 hours agoWhat's new on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Shudder, and more! Looking for something great to watch at home? Streaming subscribers are spoiled for choice between Hulu, Netflix, Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, Prime Video, Shudder, Paramount+, Peacock, and more. And that's before you even look at the vast …
"I get a kick out of pissing off the purists." From winding up death metal legend Glen Benton to chaotic live shows in their underpants, Chat Pile are one of metal's wildest new bands

2 months ago | loudersound.com | Stephen Hill

“It seems like the metal purists are a little… shy about claiming us,” Chat Pile guitarist Luther Manhole admits. He’s not wrong. Despite having a sound that crosses over into a variety of scenes – from hardcore to noise rock, alt metal and beyond – and releasing critically acclaimed albums in 2022’s God’s Country and 2024’s Cool World, the Oklahoma City quartet seem to do a pretty good job of pissing people off. Not least because they’re using the iconography of extreme metal.
"The vocals make David Vincent sound like Sabrina Carpenter." This Consequence is the heaviest Killswitch Engage album in over a decade. And it absolutely slaps

2 months ago | loudersound.com | Stephen Hill

It's been six years since Killswitch Engage released Atonement, marking their longest gap between albums by far. The pandemic during that period appears to have been on vocalist Jesse Leach’s mind during the crafting of the band’s ninth album. He’s spoken about his consequent mental struggles, his initial rage and frustration turning to sadness and despair at the fractured state of the world. That journey can be heard throughout This Consequence.

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Articles

"We’re the last ones standing from the scene." Employed To Serve are fostering the next generation of British metal talent

"I’d just want to tell Randy Rhoads how great he is and how much I love him." Zakk Wylde on shredders, movies and his favourite Ozzy Osbourne moment

Beast mode: how Beast In Black, Diablo IV and Berserk have created 2025's ultimate metal-gaming-manga team-up

"Ozzy and I were like a couple of naughty schoolkids." Zakk Wylde shares his favourite (not so) wholesome memory of hanging out with The Prince Of Darkness

Mixing Sepultura groove with Gojira stomp, Alien Weaponry step up into the metal A-league with Te Rā

"My dad smashed the tape of Number Of The Beast: ‘I’m forbidding Devil’s music in my house!’ That only made it more appealing.” How Jesse Leach went from "Flanders kid" to future metalcore icon

"A lot of people think it’s about Vikings, but it never was." We took Wardruna's Einar Selvik foraging in one of London's oldest graveyards

"A lot of people think it’s about Vikings, but it never was." We took Wardruna's Einar Selvik foraging in one of London's oldest graveyards

"I get a kick out of pissing off the purists." From winding up death metal legend Glen Benton to chaotic live shows in their underpants, Chat Pile are one of metal's wildest new bands

"The vocals make David Vincent sound like Sabrina Carpenter." This Consequence is the heaviest Killswitch Engage album in over a decade. And it absolutely slaps

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