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Alex Deller

Alex Deller is a freelance writer covering punk, heavy metal and more

October 2024

  • Ice-T

    The reader interview
    Ice-T: ‘Anybody that thinks controversy is a way to make money, it’s not. You need lawyers!’

    With a new Body Count album out next month, the hip-hop superstar turned actor answers your questions on Law & Order, the Cop Killer furore and working with ‘wild man’ Abel Ferrara

September 2024

  • ‘We want mindless mayhem along with an element of sophistication’ … The Jesus Lizard. L-R: Duane Denison, David Yow, David Wm Sims and Mac McNeilly.

    ‘I love it when things get out of hand’: the return of outrageous 90s rockers the Jesus Lizard

    Darkly comedic, frequently naked and with fans in Kurt Cobain and Henry Rollins, the quartet burned a bloodstained trail through the alt-rock scene. They explain how they’re staying dangerous after 26 years away

May 2024

  • Dicks at The Ritz in Austin, Texas in 1982.

    ‘My bandmates looked like escaped prisoners’: farewell to queer punk icon Gary Floyd

    In the final interview before his death last week, the frontman of the Dicks remembered how ‘defying anybody’ led to some of the best US punk of the 80s – and mayonnaise-filled condoms

September 2023

  • Zhema and Angel of Vulcano.

    ‘Our drummer used human tibia bones’: the hellish birth of Brazil’s heavy metal scene

    Responding to police brutality, hard labour and the threat of nuclear war, members of Sepultura, Holocausto and more explain their decidedly anti-tropical music

May 2023

  • Dave Lombardo

    ‘I worried it was self-indulgent!’ Dave Lombardo on Slayer, going solo and shaking his banana

    The drummer has long been curious about music beyond thrash metal, playing with everyone from Ice-T to John Zorn. Now his debut solo album is bringing it all together

April 2023

  • Understand.

    ‘In Southend, not being glassed was an achievement’: the might and misfortune of UK rockers Understand

    Signed as the ‘Backstreet Boys of emo’ in the 90s major-label boom, the band became hated by the scene they spawned. Two decades later, they explain why Covid and grief spurred them to finish their second album

November 2016

  • ‘A band can be havy without giant guitars’ … Neurosis, with Steve Von Till at far right.

    Music blog
    Neurosis: 'Crass were the mother of all bands'

    The Oakland metal band know their British anarcho punk – so singer/guitarist Steve Von Till picked five crucial tracks
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