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Our man from San Francisco Ned Raggett talks to the former Napalm Death Drummer and driving force behind Scorn about battling on against the odds and finally finding some peace and satisfaction. All portraits courtesy of Helen Harris
Grindcore emerged as a backlash to global capitalism, before Pig Destroyer did something much nastier with it. As they release an album that deals with our harrowing modern era, Dan Franklin examines whether this ferocious genre is actually being outstripped by a remorseless new reality. All Pig Destroyer pictures by Joey Wharton
This month sees the release of Napalm Death's 16th album, Apex Predator - Easy Meat. Dan Franklin sits down with lead singer Mark 'Barney' Greenway to pick over the remains of late capitalism, chew on the band's "queasy" new sound and explore the outlying regions of extremity
On their 30th anniversary - with an appearance at Oya Festival booked and a new album ready for release - John Doran looks beyond the murder, the suicide, the extremism and the immolation, and talks to Mayhem's founder Necrobutcher about their radical music and nothing else
Multi-disciplinary artist and renowned noise musician Russell Haswell has just released an excellent beat-driven record on Diagonal. So we dispatched the Quietus' own Russell to meet him to discuss his career to date, from the YBAs and ATP to sushi and Whitney Houston
Electronic producers but longtime punk, hardcore and metal heads, Blawan and Pariah take Patrick Clarke through the thirteen records that shaped their swerve into heavy music as Persher, from Meshuggah and Napalm Death to Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan
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