🚨 NEW
@GUARDIAN
BYLINE ALERT! 🚨
With veterans like Iron Maiden continuing to cram arenas and such youngsters as Sleep Token making massive commercial dents, I wrote about why there has never been a better time to be a British metalhead than right now.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist but the idea that this was rigged so Sweden can host on the fiftieth anniversary of the Abba win makes lots of sense right now.
Metal Injection awarding Trivium a 5/10, deleting the review, giving the album to a different writer and then awarding a 9/10 is objectively hilarious.
The only impressive thing about Wargasm is that they've somehow convinced people Cara Delevingne's colleague and the son of a Sex Pistol are a grassroots outsider band.
@mattmillswrites
What are you gonna do about it? Punch me? 🤣
Also I don't even listen to Burzum that much, there's much better black metal out there... But I would def wear that shirt to this venue just to see how many scrawny ass soy boys would be pissed.
🚨 CAREER NEWS! 🚨
I'm super excited to share that I've been promoted to Contributing Editor at Metal Hammer Online! So proud to be part of an editorial team stacked with this much talent, and the past few weeks in the role have been incredibly fun.
Livin' the dream!
"You can't wear a band's t-shirt to their own gig."
Mate I've interviewed Gojira face-to-face while wearing a Gojira shirt, let people do what they want.
Normal bands: "Tonight's show is sold out."
Sleep Token: "All of the entrance passes for this evening's Ritual have vanished up the great deity's butthole. Worship."
S/O to the people replying to this with things like "Peste Noire, Deströyer 666 lol" like it's owning me and not just outing your horrendous music taste.
Here it is: my peak.
The Black Album was the first metal album I heard. Without
@Metallica
, my life would be much worse. So, telling its story with James Hetfield,
@KirkHammett
and Jason Newsted was an absolute joy.
Read the result in today's
@guardian
:
I'm elated to share my first article for The
@Guardian
!
I interviewed
@Ihsahn_official
,
@ULVEROFFICIAL
and
@EnslavedBand
about the maturation of black metal, and how it's still rebelling against the norm while rejecting its murderous past.
Sick of people going, "Saying an album's too long is NOT a valid criticism!"
Mate, if your band made a sixty-minute album but only has enough ideas to fill twenty, it's the most valid criticism of them all.
“Pantera were one of America’s most important metal bands. Now they’re little more than Phil Anselmo trying to whitewash his own legacy.”
My thoughts on the dismal, depressing state of a once-great metal band, for
@MetalHammer
:
So we all agree that the new
@Coheed
and Cambria album is ace, right?
Now that you've heard Vaxis II, check out my interview with
@TravStever
and
@claudioPsanchez
for
@guitar
, where we delve into its story – and how they wrote one of the '00s' best riffs.
Over the past year or so I've embraced the fact I was a victim of child abuse.
So, when The
@Guardian
started their Fandom That Made Me series, I knew I had to write about how discovering Metallica helped pull teen me out of trauma and anxiety.
Enjoy!
Childhood is loving nu metal because it's badass.
Adolescence is realising nu metal is ridiculous.
Adulthood is loving nu metal because it's ridiculous.
Incredibly honoured to say I interviewed my favourite band,
@GojiraMusic
, in today's
@Guardian
!
If you can't grab it in print, there's also a really cool extended version available online:
Thank you for all the love you gave my Guardian article today. It's been insane.
My favourites have been the person who told me their 2-year-old moshed to the playlist and the one who asked me to include Babymetal in an article of great British bands.
The cat's out of the bag...
In tomorrow's
@guardian
, I interview James Hetfield,
@KirkHammett
and Jason Newsted about thirty years of Metallica's Black Album!
Needless to say, I'm ecstatic to finally share this with the world!
Kinda confused how the Amon Amarth discourse is even discourse.
If you love them, you get four sick bands in the space of one evening. If you hate them, you get three sick bands and an early night.
Both of those things sound great.
This is my email signature and has been for months. (Censored phone number because Twitter.)
If you have an issue with it and/or won't work with me because of it, you need to take a long look in the mirror.
95% of you know this but y'all should REALLY be listening to the new
@greenlungband
this weekend. It's basically the missing link between classic Sabbath, 70s Martin Birch albums and modern-day Ghost.
If that's something you don't want in your life, I don't want you in my life.
In the past few weeks my mum has been to both Slam Dunk and Download, and now she's messaging me about "this lovely new band called Mastodon".
My mum is cooler than most of you.
I had a lovely time interviewing the queen of symphonic metal,
@tarjaofficial
, for Metal Hammer last year.
We spoke about Nightwish, her most famous fan-girl and how she bounced back from her stroke four years ago.
Interviewing Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt leader this evening was wall-to-wall brilliant.
My favourite quote was, "We play like Napalm Death, but much, much worse."
"How Rolo Tomassi have been so undervalued for so long is one of the great mysteries of modern rock."
I had a wonderful time watching
@rolotomassiband
at
@EBallroomCamden
last night.
Here's my review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for
@whynowworld
:
I think I can share this since I've just booked the flight…
This August, I'm moving to Canada. I'll be out there for at least two years.
Until then, I'm going to enjoy a summer of freelancing, festivals and chilling with mates. Let's meet up. Say hi. Exchange sick riffs.
🇨🇦❤️
There's nothing quite like getting an awesome, young metal band in the newspaper…
For The
@Guardian
, I had a revelatory discussion with
@AlienWeaponry
about racism in New Zealand: