As frontman with Mayhem, Tormentor, Sunn O))) and more, Attila Csihar has been the enigma at the heart of extreme metal for 40 years – and he’s seen the best and worst of it

After five relentless years, indie-rock sensation Lindsey Jordan finally found the stillness she needed. Leaving New York behind for a sunlit house in North Carolina, the soul-baring SNAIL MAIL songwriter broke old superstitions, escaped the heartbreak loop and quietly rebuilt her sound. “I didn’t want to have this sad girl thing tattooed on my chest,” she tells Brian Howe. “There’s a quality to getting older where not everything is the end of the world.”

…For Randy’s friends to ask him whatever they hell they want. We sat the Lamb Of God frontman down for an all-star grilling

Mortician. Meshuggah. Morbid Angel. What does Igorrr’s mastermind love? Why, extreme metal of course!

CENTURY MEDIA Scotland’s goat-worshipping speed metal prodigy shows his trve colours

What’s it like to be in a band at the very beginning of their career – only to leave before things take off? We ask early members of Deftones, Papa Roach, Trivium and more