Michael poulsen

Cradle Of Filth’s corpsepainted frontman on his skate punk roots, exploding basketballs, and 11th-century ghosts

Chaos, blood, death, resurrection – Kerry King and Tom Araya look back on the tumultuous journey of the thrash icons who pushed metal to new extremes

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…

As Wacken fast approaches, we find out how a small gathering in Germany evolved into one of the world’s biggest metal fests

The genre-agnostic mastermind behind Zeal & Ardor gives us a tour of his quirky record collection

The Danish shrieker returns with “a horror show set to music”.