Toby Cook

Horns Up Ya Shitters! The Best Recent Metal Reviewed

Riffs, riffs and more bloody, bludgeoning, groove-laden riffs? That's right, it's that time again - Toby Cook returns to drag you kicking and screaming through the best metal of the last few months

‘The Music, The Trip & The Beyond’: 11Paranoias Interviewed

Toby Cook raises a claw to the magisterially heavy 11 Paranoias, formed from the embers of the dearly departed Ramesses, and speaks with the band's Adam Richardson about "being paranoid in all planes, spheres and dimensions simultaneously"

Diabolical Intent: Erik Danielsson Of Watain Interviewed

Magickal, transcendental and Satanic. Toby Cook talks to Erik Danielsson about raising hell and "murdering" dogs

Horns Up Ya Shitters! July’s Best Metal Reviewed

'Like having your limbs ripped off and being beaten to death with the soggy ends'? Yes, it can mean only one thing - Toby Cook returns to take you by the hand and lead you through the month's best heavy metal

Watain’s The Wild Hunt: A Track By Track Review

Toby Cook fires up the life pipe and reclines on a chaise lounge made from human thigh bones to give you his first listen impressions of the new Watain album

Bring Out Your Dead: Cathedral’s Lee Dorrian Interviewed

Toby Cook speaks to Lee Dorrian and mourns the passing of the mighty Cathedral

Thirsty, Pummelling Noise: An Interview With Wölfbait

Self-described 'kraut violence' crew Wolfbait stormed the Quietus office earlier this year with their self-titled debut album, which hit with all the unstoppable momentum of a wrecking ball. We assigned Toby Cook to find out more about this mysterious gang of demolition artistes

Horns Up Ya Shitters! June’s Best Heavy Metal Reviewed

Toby Cook takes you on a riff-splattered tour through the month's best metal - from Shining and Autopsy to Power Trip and Death Trip - all the while subliminally commanding you to stop what you're doing and listen to more Bongripper

Conditioned To Death: An Interview With Power Trip

Power Trip's Manifest Decimation has just landed in the Quietus' list of favourite albums of 2013 so far. Toby Cook catches up with the band to discuss DIY culture, touring injuries that'll put your teeth on edge and just what on earth the French existentialists have to do with thrash metal

Horns Up Ya Shitters! A Columnus Metallicus For May

Toby Cook dissects this month's metal releases and ponders which go best with a weed-free lifestyle

Masked Balls And Papal Bull: Ghost B.C. Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to a Nameless Ghoul from the none-more-entertaining Ghost B.C.

Horns Up Ya Shitters! Best New Metal LPs Reviewed By Toby Cook

Toby Cook is back to wail at a McDonald's ad and review new LPs from Darkthrone, Humanfly, Baptists, Pombagira, From The Bogs Of Aughiska, Phil Anselmo & Warbeast, Blood Tsunami, Rotting Christ, Intronaut and Holly Hunt

‘Raised By Owls’: An Interview With Kvelertak

Toby Cook catches up with the six-headed punk-metal hydra on the eve of the release of second album Meir, to talk writing catchy tracks, black metal and their home country of Norway

Underground Attitude: Fenriz Of Darkthrone Interviewed

Toby Cook speaks Fenriz about keeping it real after all these years

Redemption Song: Bobby Liebling Of Pentagram Interviewed

Toby Cook speaks to the voice of rock & roll resilience, Bobby Liebling. Photograph by Jeff Lee

Horns Up Ya Shitters! February’s Best Metal Reviewed

He's never early, he's always late, we're just waiting for Toby Cook's Columnus Metallicus...

Horns Up Ya Shitters! A Look Back At 2012 In Metal

It's a Columnus Metallicus special as Toby Cook not only reviews the best recent Metal albums, but picks his highlights from 350-odd days under the horns

Really Heavy Things: Devin Townsend’s Favourite Albums

…well, apart from Enya. The Strapping Young Lad man offers up his top albums

LIVE REPORT: Neurosis & Godflesh

Two of the most formidable names in heavy music teamed up for a "malicious & supremely oppressive" recent billing in London that largely lived up to the weight of expectation, reports Toby Cook; live photographs courtesy of Valerio Berdini

LIVE REPORT: Turbonegro

Our man of metal Toby Cook sees a ribald and rowdy Turbonegro at London's Electric Ballroom. Picture thanks to Katja Ogrin

Horns Up Ya Shitters! October’s Best Metal Reviewed

After narrowly escaping murder at the hands of boozing bastards in his native Norfolk, Toby Cook is back with reviews of De Magia Veterum, Neurosis, Krisiun, Von, Weapon, Ichabod, Converge, Anaal Nathrakh and Pig Destroyer

Horns Up Ya Shitters! Last Month’s Best Metal Reviewed

Tony Cook has been stuck in some kind of vortex of loo roll and beans, so the Columnus is a little late this month. No matter, for metal endures for eternity, and these are some of the best albums in the genre from last month

Supersonic 2012: Nic Bullen Interviewed

From grindcore to field recording, Nic Bullen's sound art exists on a continuum. Toby Cook talks to the Napalm Death pioneer ahead of this weekend's Supersonic festival in Birmingham

Supersonic 2012: Dizzy Nausea – Grey Hairs Interviewed

Ahead of their performance at this month's Supersonic Festival, Toby Cook catches up with Nottingham quartet Grey Hairs to discuss peanut-butter Kitkats and why there's nothing wrong with citing Nirvana as an influence

Supersonic 2012: Hey Colossus Q & A

The Gospel According To Luke: Al Cisneros Of Om Interviewed

Ahead of Sunday's gig, Toby Cook speaks to the stoner rock legend about God, one's path in life and the future of Sleep

Elemental Absolution: Old Man Gloom’s Aaron Turner Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to the former Isis frontman about the reuniting of avant-metal behemoths Old Man Gloom for the first time in eight years, and the story behind new album No

Horns Up Ya Shitters! August’s Best Metal Reviewed

What is as good as Behemoth, asks Toby Cook. Not much, but anything close is reviewed in Columnus Metallicus this month

Screaming For Vengeance: Rob Halford Of Judas Priest Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to defender of the faith and all round good guy Rob Halford about Judas Priest's biggest album

Things I Have Learned: Jarkko Aaltonen Of Korpiklaani On Drinking

Finland's answer to the Pogues are lords of the grape and the grain, Toby Cook takes notes...

Neurosis: New Album Details

Honor Found In Decay due for release in October

‘Yeah, Rock & Roll!’: Metallic Taste Of Blood’s Eraldo Bernocchi Interviewed

Quietus metal correspondent Toby Cook sits down with Eraldo Bernocchi, of the mighty Obake and more recently Metallic Taste Of Blood, and valiantly attempts to match him espresso-for-espresso