Latest articles by Merlin Alderslade
My mum made me take my old CDs back from her house so I'm using Black Friday deals to find a new portable CD player to play them on
It's me, an elder millennial refusing to let go of physical product
I'm a horror nut and these are the Black Friday streaming deals that'll give you the biggest scares (in a good way!)
Wanting to watch a load of great horror but don't know which streaming service to use? I got you
I badly need a new portable speaker – here’s why I’m thinking hard about upgrading to Sonos in the Curry’s Black Friday Sonos sale
My speaker is no longer fit for purpose. It’s time for an upgrade, and this Sonos sale is seriously tempting me
I'm a lifelong metalhead and EMP's Black Friday sale has up to 70% off band merch. My wardrobe's about to get even blacker
Do I already have merch by all these bands? Yes. Do I want more? Also yes.
Lemmy's nearest and dearest on how the Motörhead man faced death "like a champ"
You might not be surprised to find that Lemmy faced his own mortality with the kind of no-nonsense attitude that defined his life
Watch Will Ramos nail a one-take of Lorna Shore's emotional metal anthem, Glenwood
Is someone cutting onions?
Vote: who are the Big 4 in all of metal?
Thrash's Big 4 has been settled for decades, but what if we push it out to the whole genre? Who gets in?
The story behind Ghost's Mary On A Cross - and what it really means
The story behind Ghost's viral mega-hit, and what its lyrics mean, in Tobias Forge's own words
How a punk rock hero helped Jimmy Cliff spark a late career peak
When Jimmy Cliff and Tim Armstrong teamed up, it continued a decades-long relationship between reggae and punk rock
Ex-American Head Charge singer Cameron Heacock has been found living on the streets
Cameron Heacock, whose band American Head Charge toured with Slipknot and Rammstein and worked with Rick Rubin, says he has been homeless for years
"This isn’t just a screening; it’s a full-scale adrenaline rush." Iconic sci-fi action sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day will be getting a live concert screening - and its premiere will take place in London
He told us he'd be back!
From drug hell to Stranger Things - the story behind Metallica's Master Of Puppets
Metallica's most celebrated song helped define a generation of thrash metal and found new meaning decades later with a certain TV show
Dave Mustaine wants Megadeth's final show to be in space
Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine has lofty ambitions for the band's final ever show. Like, seriously lofty
"I came in like, ‘Doc, I know you like Rush. I’m in a metal band, we’re flying out in a week to go do one of our biggest shows in a long time. Any way you can help me out?’" An interview with metal's busiest man, Matt Heafy
Trivium frontman, streamer, dad, jiu-jitsu black belt... Matt Heafy is a man of many talents
Here's who I'd put on my Mount Rushmore of nu metal (three spots were easy, one was excruciatingly hard)
Nu metal has produced some of heavy music's biggest bands - and here are the four artists I'd hold up as the genre's Big 4
"Lemmy goes and sees his doctor, and the doctor is like, ‘Holy ****! If you’d waited another week, you’d have died!'" How Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister shrugged off his health issues for years
Some of Lemmy's closest allies share warm stories of the typically bullish way Lemmy would deal with any health problems
The Osbournes speak out against liars, grifters and "nutters" taking advantage of Ozzy's death
Unsurprisingly, some people have used the death of Ozzy to spread nonsense - and toenails, apparently
Dogma have imploded amidst a ton of allegations. Here's everything we know
Various Dogma alumni have released statements about the way the band is run - and the statements keep coming
Every Predator movie ranked from worst to best, from the original classic to Badlands
With Predator: Badlands getting rave reviews and taking the franchise in a fun new direction, we rank every entry in the series so far from bore-some to awesome
The Osbournes share their emotional response to the world mourning Ozzy
Rock's First Family share their candid reactions to the "overwhelming' outpouring of grief following Ozzy Osbourne's death in July
How Public Enemy and Anthrax united to create a whole new genre
How thrash kingpins Anthrax and hip hop titans Public Enemy created the greatest rap-metal song of all
What happened when Avenged Sevenfold threw caution to the wind and made A Little Piece Of Heaven, an eight-minute necrophiliac symphony
From the lyrics to the saxophones and the Oingo Boingo collaboration, A Little Piece Of Heaven is an unabashedly zany classic
A video of New York fantasy metallers Castle Rat staging a live battle on stage has gone viral
It's Castle Rat's domain, we're just battling in it
