"We got on with Slipknot like a house on fire. We were like their naughty little brothers!" The story of the underground metal band helped by Charli XCX's future manager that almost became a household name

Raging Speedhorn on stage.

If any proof was needed that the late 90s and early 2000s were a wild time for heavy music, then look no further than the curious case of hard-drinking, chaos-causing, sludge metal crew Raging Speedhorn. In what other era could a violently ugly, underground metal band persuade Charli XCX’s future manager to get them signed to a subsidiary of the Universal Music major label machine, making them label mates with Tom Jones, All Saints and Lisa Stansfield?

“David Bianchi managed All Saints at the time and was best mates with one of our mutual friends and lived in Corby,” Speedhorn drummer Gordon Morison tells us. “We met up after rehearsal one day and he said, ‘If you can fix my car window, I’ll get you on some shows.’ Frank [Regan, vocals] was a mechanic so he fixed it. Weird!”