Features archive

October 2021

Filter

Year
Month

79 articles

October 31
- Six of the scariest horror directors reveal the soundtracks that totally creep them out
October 30
- 10 songs for Samhain to bring Satan to the celebration
- How Steve Hackett got his groove back with Out Of The Tunnel's Mouth
October 29
- The Muslims: "Being a person of colour in America is such a gaslighting experience"
- Imha Tarikat: The black metal band waging an exhilarating internal war
- Exodus’s Gary Holt: “We’d wipe all of the Big Four from the face of the earth!”
- 10 glam rock albums you should definitely own
October 28
- 10 genuinely scary albums guaranteed to put the dread into Halloween
- The 10 bloodiest, most brilliant songs about vampires
- The First Album I Ever Bought: Barney Greenway, Napalm Death
- Introducing Troy Redfern, the guitarist risking it all for rock‘n’roll
October 27
- Alex Canion's Track By Track guide to his new solo EP Birthmark
- Six things you need to know about Blacktop Mojo
- The 10cc albums you should definitely own
- K.K. Downing: the six most important Judas Priest songs
October 26
- Dee Snider: my stories of Jimmy Page, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Metallica and more
- Interview: Joe Satriani on mafia scams and the perils of the rock’n’roll lifestyle
- How Mr Big wrote To Be With You and scored a million-dollar drill sponsorship
October 25
- The Desert Sessions: how Dune became metal’s favourite sci-fi epic
- Remembering that time Vanilla Ice made a metal album
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Eric Gales, Dan Reed Network and more
October 22
- Laughing in the face of controversy: Uncle Watson’s Widow
- A tribute to Mountain's Leslie West
October 21
- How I discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd, by Al Kooper
- The story behind Been Caught Stealing by Jane's Addiction
- The Roger Waters albums you should definitely own
October 20
- The story behind the song: Orange Goblin's Beginner's Guide To Suicide
- The 10 most inspirational gothic artists according to goth metal masters, Unto Others
- Necrobutcher: "Mayhem are the Rolling Stones of metal"
- Why I ❤️ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, by Juliette Lewis
- Herman Rarebell would like to set the record straight
October 19
- What Charles Manson heard in The Beatles' White Album
- Rob Zombie's horror movies ranked from worst to best
- "I'm not scared of expectations": how Spiritbox became metal's brightest new hope
- Amyl And The Sniffers: "I always thought Led Zeppelin were not real"
- Highways to Hell: 10 streets named after rock bands
- Why I 🧡 AC/DC's Powerage, by Aerosmith's Joe Perry
October 18
- Every Cradle Of Filth album ranked from worst to best
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Crazy Lixx, Green Lung and more
October 16
- Gary Kemp: "Close To The Edge and Foxtrot were watershed moments."
October 15
- 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually that great
- "I got choked up": Mastodon's Brann Dailor reviews Metallica's Black Album set at Aftershock festival
October 14
- Watch Sumo Cyco’s Guide To Carving A Halloween Pumpkin
- Jinjer overcome a decade of war, trauma and uncertainty with Wallflowers
- How Metallica made the Black Album: an oral history
October 13
- Weezer Albums Ranked From Worst To Best
- The Paradox Twin talks us through new album Silence From Signals
- 31 things only Rush fanatics know about their album sleeves
October 12
- The Kate Bush albums you should definitely own
- The Story Behind The Song: Slipknot's Duality
- 10 obscure but brilliant Japanese psych rock bands - including the original Ghost
- Barenaked Ladies on longevity, Geddy Lee, and why Canadians are funny
- Samantha Fish: smashing guitars, hecklers, and the liberating power of not giving a f**k
- Why I ❤️ Kate Bush’s The Kick Inside, by Cronos from Venom
October 11
- Metallica take Aftershock festival back in time through The Black Album
- The 10 best Ministry Songs according to Al Jourgensen
- What happened when David Gilmour joined forces with The Orb
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Saint Agnes, Spiritworld and more
October 10
- Original horrorpunks the Misfits bring the Halloween spirit to Aftershock Festival
October 8
- Cypress Hill get high on life at Aftershock festival
- How Manic Street Preachers mined their youth and made The Ultra Vivid Lament
- Toby Jepson's track-by-track guide to Wayward Sons' Even Up The Score
October 7
- The 10 best Idles songs
- Slayer’s Reign In Blood: the epic oral history of thrash’s greatest album
- “It was one of those lightbulb moments”: How Press To MECO made their third album, Transmute
- KK Downing on quitting Priest, the trouble with Priest, and KK's Priest
October 6
- Eddie Van Halen: one year on, the metal world remembers
- We asked famous musicians about Metallica's Black Album - this is what they said
- Steve Stevens: 8 songs that changed my life
- Why I ❤️ My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, by Vernon Reid
October 5
- 10 concept albums that will challenge your concept of the concept album
- Brian Setzer has a lot to thank the euphonium for
- The Dead Deads are the 21st century rock'n'roll band you've been waiting for
- The Michael Schenker albums you should definitely own
October 4
- We got Trivium fans to give us their first reactions to In The Court Of The Dragon
- Every Trivium album ranked from worst to best
- Every Ministry album, ranked from worst to best
- Tracks of the Week: new music from Ghost, Mastodon and more
October 1
- Interview: Michael Schenker on God, brotherhood, and being punched by your singer