Being a heavy metal journalist is the best job in the world, but there are only so many times you can wring a headline out of whatever Metallica did this week before you go insane. People enter this line of work for various reasons and, for me, it was finding new, exciting, brutal shit and screaming about it from the rooftops. So now I’m going to do just that.
Below, you’ll find 11 mind-bending acts that I’ve long wanted to write about despite never getting a decent-enough excuse. From clamouring thrash obsessed with pizza to power metal made by monks, these free-thinkers need to be heard to be believed. Have a read before my boss turns back around and asks why that piece ranking Slipknot’s masks in reverse-order of sexiness isn’t on his desk yet.
