Dan Franklin

21st Century Birth Pains: Electric Wizard’s Come My Fanatics Revisited

Dan 'The Doom' Franklin speaks to Chief Wizard Jus Oborn and gets the low down on how eschatological panic, Sabbath and drum & bass influenced Britain's most heaviocious band to give birth to the new millennium in the form of Come My Fanatics...

Born To Rune: Enslaved On The History Of Enslaved

Enslaved founder Ivar Bjørnson speaks to Dan Franklin about the story of Enslaved, the information they take from ancient Norse culture, and what he thinks, two decades on, of Varg Vikernes and the violence that engulfed the black metal scene. Photos by Peter Beste, Ole Kristian Olsen, Mirjam Vikingstad

Dead Man Touring: Mikael Åkerfeldt Of Opeth Interviewed

Dan 'The Doom' Franklin talks to legendary death metal mainstay turned heavy progressive rocker, Mikael Åkerfeldt, about death, rebirth and creative regeneration

Smack Down: EYEHATEGOD Versus Iron Monkey & The Heaviest LP Of 1996

Twenty years ago New Orleans' EYEHATEGOD and Nottingham's Iron Monkey were locked into a race to produce the heaviest album ever. Dan Franklin revisits Iron Monkey's self-titled debut and Dopesick

Goatsnake

Black Age Blues

Portraying Psychological Angst: Dave McKean Interviewed

Artist and illustrator Dave McKean - who has created album artwork for Machinehead, Fear Factory, Michael Nyman and Front Line Assembly - speaks to Dan Franklin

At The Extremities: Barney Greenway Of Napalm Death Interviewed

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

Going To Hell: Electric Wizard’s Liz Buckingham Interviewed

Liz Buckingham of doom lords Electric Wizard speaks to Dan Franklin about a year of crisis that led to the Time To Die album

Hail The Acid Kings: Electric Wizard’s Time To Die Reviewed

Demonic Dan Franklin double drops, inverts the cross and turns off his mind. Legalize drugs and murder!

Pallbearer

Foundations Of Burden

Why Metallica Headlining Is Exactly What Glastonbury Needs

Fourth horseman Dan Franklin rides the lightning to Metallica's defence and compiles a top ten of songs he'd like to see them perform in order to level a crowd of millennials smashed on miaow miaow and entitlement

The Start Of The End: Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven Revisited

Dan Franklin turns the clock back twenty years to this turning point Pantera album

INTERVIEW: Electric Wizard Talk New LP

Dan Franklin talks to Jus Oborn about isolationism, individuality, the concentration camp-like qualities of Butlins, Minehead and the importance of standing "outside of space and time"

Rise Above Records Turns 25: From Electric Wizard To Iron Man

The Cathedral/Napalm Death man looks back at a quarter century of doom and esoteric metal

Can You Feel The Forceps: Carcass, Surgical Steel And Heartwork Revisited

On the release day of their new album, Surgical Steel, Dan Franklin serves up a reminder of why we're lucky to have Carcass back...

Will Book Publishing Follow Music Into The Void?

"The music industry's mistakes in this area are heads on spikes for the book industry" argues Dan Franklin in a piece (responding to Wyndham's BST two weeks ago) looking at an uncertain digital future for publishing.