Steffan Chirazi

Steffan Chirazi

Having started rock'n'roll writing at the age of 15, Steffan Chirazi's career could almost look like an old Batman cartoon speech bubble! Sounds, Kerrang!, Bam, Rip and Spin are just a few of the publications he has contributed to over the years, and for the last 14 years he has been the editor of Metallica's own in-house publication, So What! magazine. He lives in San Francisco, CA with his family.

Articles by: Steffan Chirazi

David COverdale of Whitesnake in suit and tie in 1990

“Tony Iommi was calling me a lot. Sabbath are amazing at what they do, but it wasn’t something that I wanted to do’”: an epic interview with Whitesnake’s David Coverdale

By Steffan Chirazi published

From Deep Purple to Whitesnake, via his solo career, a union with Jimmy Page and a near miss with Black Sabbath, this is the life and times of David Coverdale

Motorhead’s Lemmy, Brian Robertson and Philthy Animal Taylor in 1983

“We came up very fast and we went down fast. We were carried away on that wave of euphoria”: how Motörhead made their two most controversial early 80s albums

By Steffan Chirazi published

The story of Motorhead’s divisive Iron Fist and Another Perfect Day albums and the chaos that surrounded them

Metallica onstage on the Monsters Of Rock tour

"Van Halen could do nothing, night after night, to stem the charge of this Godzilla": How 1988's Monsters Of Rock tour was the making of Metallica

By Steffan Chirazi published

In 1988 Metallica released ...And Justice For All. Then they went out on the road to claim the throne of modern metal

King Diamond: "My Apartment Was Haunted - Ask The Guys From Metallica"

By Steffan Chirazi published

Mercyful Fate were always unique, marrying theatre and horror with music with a progressive bent. No wonder so many bands took notice, not least a band from the Bay Area called Metallica...

Slayer: "We could never do any thing like Some Kind Of Monster..."

By Steffan Chirazi published

Do Slayer deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Sabbath, Maiden and Metallica? Or are they too intense and outright evil to join the metal élite? Classic Rock thinks the former...

Whitesnake live at Manchester Apollo

The Growing Pains Of Whitesnake's David Coverdale

By Steffan Chirazi published

The Deep Purple and Whitesnake singer on Jimmy Page, love and loathing, his own Hollywood Babylon, losing everything and then winning it all back again...

Ministry: Act Of Faith

By Steffan Chirazi published

Having kicked heroin, Ministry ringleader Al Jourgensen has a new addiction: politics. The sober, self-confessed ‘grumpy old man’ now gets his kicks from conspiracy theories and CNN.