Toby Cook

Alex Webster Of Cannibal Corpse On Home Cooking

Hide your tender suckling children, Cannibal Corpse's Alex Webster is in the house & feeling hungry! But, as he tells Toby Cook, these days he's all about food processing and a balanced diet

Taking Communion With The Metal Monk: A Columnus Metallicus For May

Painting roofs and researching Monks who are devoted to thrash: it's been a busy month for our Toby Cook, but he also found time to give his verdict on the most vital metal releases currently doing the rounds

Satirical Concerns: Looking Back At Channel 4’s 10 O’Clock Live

As the supposed answer to the Daily Show approaches the end of its run, Toby Cook takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of this new wave of British satire

Rock Music Is Bad For Plants: A Columnus Metallicus For March

Toby Cook has discovered that magic mushrooms and Fawlty Towers don't mix, with disastrous results; fortunately, he's also been discovering the best metal releases out there right now, and is here to tell you exactly what you need to know...

Wheezing & Drinking Tea: A Columnus Metallicus For The New Year

No resolutions for our man Toby Cook; instead, he's looking back at the choicest metal that was overlooked at the end of 2010 and reviewing records by Electric Wizard, Pantera and more. Photo by Maria Jefferis of www.shot2bits.net

Fight For Your Right: Municipal Waste On Throwing The Perfect Party

Just because it's January doesn't mean Municipal Waste stop partying. Ryan Waste tells you exactly what you need for a great night of hedonism

Higher Frequencies: An Interview With Orange Goblin

Toby Cook talks to Orange Goblin singer Ben Ward about scant financial rewards and confronting neo-Nazis on tour

Why Black Metal Isn’t Our Cup Of Tea: Celeste Interviewed

_Morte(s) Nee(s)_ was one of the year's most bracing albums. Here, Toby Cook talks to its creator about being assaulted with chairs, fake autographs and striving to be more extreme

Libraries, Latin & Horoscopes: Ex Libras Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to Ex Libras about their new EP _Cut(s)_, being compared to Radiohead and their famous shed

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A Columnus Metallicus For The End Of Summer

Toby Cook now knows that you should never meet your heroes. He also knows the finest metal releases that you should currently be listening to...

Straight Edge & Confusing Pig Heads: Purified In Blood Interviewed

Norway's Purified In Blood talk to Toby Cook about splitting up, getting back together and having people threaten to piss on their graves

They’re Just Like Star Wars: Coheed & Cambria Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to Coheed & Cambria bassist Michael Todd about _The Amory Wars_, musical dictatorships and his suicide run. Photos by Davey Wilson

Metal Is In Bloom: Summer Columnus Metallicus

Someone may have pissed on his leg, but nothing can stop Toby Cook writing about metal. Here, he gives his opinions on releases from the Deftones and UFOMammut amongst others

Columnus Metallicus – Spend Spring Loaded With Toby’s Metal Reviews

This month, Toby gets angry with a volcano, blasts back some LSD-screwed weed when he should have been writing about tanks, and brings you the best and worst in metal and beyond

We’re Really Not That Positive: Cathedral Interviewed

Toby Cook sups beer with Cathedral singer Lee Dorrian and discusses anarchism, jolliness and what could have been for Napalm Death...

Up Axe! Polish Helmet! March’s Metal Reviews Column Is A Saxon Special

Toby Cook finds the latest set of a Saxon Reissues unsatisfying in a column that also features Neurosis, The Breathing Process, The Smoking Hearts, Nihill, XodiacK, Achilles and High On Fire

Slash Talks Gay Marriage & Why He’s Against Proposition 8

Big hat guitarist Mr Slash tells the Quietus about why he's an advocate of gay marriage... even if he doesn't entirely believe in the idea of getting hitched

Towering Inferno: High On Fire’s Matt Pike On Icke’s Purple Reign

On the release of their awesome new album Snakes For The Divine, Matt Pike talks to Toby Cook about David Icke, that vocal issue and getting back to Sleep...

Scott Kelly Of Neurosis On Boxing

Gravel voiced post metal icon, Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Shrinebuilder tells Toby Cook about his love of pugilism

A Metal Albums Column: Heavier Than An Osmium Elephant

Toby Cook casts a frosted and baleful eye over new releases from Lostprophets, Throats, Coalesce, Orphaned Land (pic below) and more

Karl Sanders Of Ithyphallic Death Metallers Nile On Ancient Egypt

85 Bears Versus The Bono Swine Flu Machine

Are Doppelgangers best left on desert islands? Are they Don Caballero’s natural heirs? Are U2 responsible for the swine flu outbreak? 85 Bears do their best to explain things to Toby Cook

Columnus Metallicus – November Is The Cruelest Month

Toby Cook really hates November - but luckily for us, he still loves his metal. He overcomes his calendar blues to tell us what he's been bursting his eardrums with this month.

Columnus Metallicus – Prising The Metal Out Of Your Cold, Dead Hands

Cut him - he bleeds metal. Well actually he doesn't, he goes 'Ow' and starts crying, but Toby Cook is still more metal than you. Unless you're Joey De Maio

Eagle Twin Interview: The Unkindness Of Crows

Gentry Densley of Iceburn and Ascend talks to Toby Cook about his new avant metal project

John Baizley Of Baroness On Illustration And Heavy Metal Art

Slayer’s World Painted Blood Track By Track Review

Stern jawed metal youth Toby Cook appraises the first mix of Slayer's new album _World Painted Blood_

Columnus Metallicus – Metal Up Your Ass In September

Summer’s nearly over, not that Toby Cook would have noticed – metalheads don’t care for sunlight, don’t you know. So, here’s what’s been scaring his neighbours this month.

The Ghost Of A Thousand: A Grand Racket

Rookie mistakes, Hardcore violence and day-to-day admin. Tom Lacey guides Toby Cook through the rise and rise of The Ghost Of A Thousand.

Shit And Shine

229-2299 Girls Against Shit!

Les Paul Dies Aged 94

Family and friends at bedside