Anthrax man Scott Ian becomes a Game Of Thrones White Walker

View video featuring Anthrax’s Scott Ian as he goes behind the scenes of Game Of Thrones - and is turned into a White Walker

A video featuring Anthrax mainman Scott Ian being shown how the special effects are created in HBO hit series Game Of Thrones has been released.

In the short filmed by Nerdist, Ian speaks with prosthetic makeup designer Barrie Gower, who leads the guitarist through the process of how they created the series’ iconic White Walkers, Wights and the Night King himself. View it below.

The film also shows Ian transformed into a White Walker – complete with blue eyes and a full set of armour.

In 2014, Anthrax contributed their track Soror Irrumator to The Game Of Thrones Mixtape: Catch The Throne. Ian has also appeared as a zombie in an episode of The Waking Dead.

Anthrax, who won the Inspiration Award at this week’s Metal Hammer Golden Gods, are currently on tour across Europe in support of latest album For All Kings.

Korn's chilling album closers ranked from worst to best

The darker recesses of Jonathan Davis’ psyche are explored in Korn’s emotionally raw album closers

There are few things more irritating than listening to a great album that suddenly falls flat at the end. Thankfully, metal stalwarts Korn have an almost unwritten rule that the album finale must be the ultimate climax. Lead singer Jonathan Davis screams, cries, kicks and claws on these emotionally draining tracks, and we are ranking them from worst to best.

11) When Will This End

Korn slightly detailed after the release of their brilliant UntouchablesLP, following it with an album that lacked focus, as evidenced by this average closer. However this bass-heavy number from one of the group’s weaker releases (Take A Look In The Mirror) still contains enough signature, dark moments to satisfy our inner morbidness.

https://youtu.be/DKfsSMsve78

10) Holding All These Lies

A sharp inhale by Davis at the beginning gives you a good idea of where this song is going. From Korn III: Remember Who You Are, closer Holding All These Lies attempts to rekindle the same emotional connection found on their first few records, pulling it off in some respects but sounding lethargic in others.
https://youtu.be/OMAltgsFPyI

9) Bleeding Out

Wrapping up the dubstep experiment Path Of Totality, Bleeding Outis more vicious than some of the band’s other album closers, while still retaining an ominous, dark aura courtesy of some trippy synths and a sinister guitar refrain. The troubled frontman sets the tone for the track, setting his unsettled vocal style to maximum creepiness.
https://youtu.be/jYDva7mYrq4

8) It's All Wrong

Speaking to HitFix about It’s All Wrong (from the band’s latest full-length, The Paradigm Shift), Davis says “there’s just something about those [end] songs… it’s like saying period, it’s done”, indicating the care the group still take with their album closers. Lines like 'how many times a day must I die' clearly show that Davis is still in an ongoing battle with his demons.
https://youtu.be/mVsuAlaEfJE

7) I Will Protect You

This bewitching finisher to the band’s Untitled album in 2007 is one of record's highlights, and features some of the darkest musical passages the group has ever concocted. Vocal echoes of 'I will protect you' on the outro is enough to disturb even the most hardened metal fan.
https://youtu.be/Y-y-VCBqbWk

6) Dirty

Slithering basslines and a cataclysmic drum workout are enough to send shivers up your spine on this one, not to mention an extremely desperate but powerful vocal performance from Davis. Lyrics such as 'ready to blow my head off' and 'you dirty little fuck' see Davis at his agitated peak, taking this expansive track into a black hole for the outro. Deeply unsettling.
https://youtu.be/GMOMxTS7cRk

5) No One's There

Korn needed something special to finish their 2002 releaseUntouchables, and they found it in the gloomy dramatics of No One’s There. This theatrical track utilises some beautiful orchestral touches in the chorus, punctuated by a defiant Davis crying out into the ether. This is the sound of Korn trying their hand at gothic metal and succeeding.
https://youtu.be/JISRXPEX5PE

4) Tearjerker

The icy atmosphere in this track is truly chilling; not to mention Davis’ delicate and vulnerable vocal delivery. They leave their trademark sound behind on Tearjerker, opting instead to utilise abstract sound flourishes and a spacious song structure, helping to create a really deep, mournful track – even for Korn. Stark, cold, desolate but utterly captivating.

https://youtu.be/sVRxmlft8Qg

3) Kill You

You can’t deny the powerful songwriting of early Korn, particularly when listening to this deep cut from Life Is Peachy. There’s not one pleasant note on this sadistic track. From the depressing instrumentals to the part-crying/part-screaming vocals, Kill You is easily one of Davis’ most chilling and impassioned lyrical confessionals.
https://youtu.be/oTkrxlacdpE

2) My Gift To You

Very close to the brilliance of our number one spot, My Gift To Youdiverts from the hyper hip-hop infused core of Follow The Leader to deliver a bone-chilling death march closer. When Davis decrepitly delivers lines like "your throat I take grasp" backed up by a slow but deliberate beat, further layered upon with subliminal mutterings of "can you feel the pain", you know the group are cranking up the intensity.
https://youtu.be/xkn0BZN-mNY

1) Daddy

Korn captured lightning in a bottle with their hugely influential 1994 debut album, closing it with the haunting nightmare Daddy. Much like Kill You, this track covers Davis’ troubled childhood with his family. Twenty years on and Daddy is still as disturbing now as the day it was released.
https://youtu.be/41SjwSdtQeo

Metallica's 10th album 'more diverse' than Death Magnetic

Lars Ulrich says Metallica's upcoming album expands sonics while being less frenetic than 2008 effort

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich says the band’s upcoming 10th studio album is “more of a diverse record” than 2008’s Death Magnetic.

The San Francisco group are currently mixing the project, which is expected to be released later this year.

Ulrich tells Citizens Of Humanity : “It definitely sounds like Metallica. It’s probably a little less frenetic than the last record.

"The last one Rick Rubin really encouraged us to, for the first time, be inspired by our past. It was the first time we sort of looked in the rearview mirror.

“This time around it’s a little bit of a different thing. We’re not working with Rick, we’re working with the engineer from the last record, who’s producing, Greg Fidelman.

"So there’s some of the same production elements at play, but we’re expanding a little bit on the sonics. It’s probably a bit more of a diverse record than the last one.”

Joey Jordison had to be carried onstage for his final Slipknot shows

Exclusive: Former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison opens up on his battle with transverse myelitis that robbed him of his ability to play drums

Joey Jordison has given more details on the illness that led to his departure from Slipknot.

Earlier this week, the drummer gave an emotional speech after being honoured at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards, where he revealed he was left unable to play drums in the months leading up to his departure from Slipknot because of transverse myelitis – a rare disease of the nervous system.

After the ceremony in London, Metal Hammer spoke with Jordison, who gave further details on his condition – and he says he was so ill at one point, he had to be carried to the stage to play live.

He says: “It was at the end of the memorial shows we did for Paul Gray. We were in Canada, at the end of my last run of shows with Slipknot, and something happened to me but I didn’t know what it was. I was super ill.

“You can be sick and still play, but this was something I’d never felt in my life before. We found out what I have is transverse myelitis – a neurological condition that hits your spinal cord, and it wiped my legs out completely. It’s like having your legs cut off, basically.

“I played those last couple of shows and it scared the living shit out of me. I didn’t know what it was.”

Bruce Dickinson says goodbye to Ed Force One

Iron Maiden singer bids farewell to piloting Ed Force One – but reveals plane will be heading to France for Euro football championship

Bruce Dickinson has said goodbye to Iron Maiden’s Boeing 747 jumbo Ed Force One.

The vocalist and pilot flew the customised plane around the world on the band’s The Book Of Souls world tour.

But Dickinson has revealed that his flight to Gothenburg for tonight’s show in the Swedish city would be his last – even though their mammoth trek still has 20 shows remaining.

Before the flight, Dickinson says: “This is my last flight on Ed Force One. Myself and Steve are going down to Gothenburg and when she gets there, she’s going to go back with the Icelandic flight crew onboard to Iceland.

“But she’s got one more mission – appropriately enough, it’s gonna go down to see a football match. They’re going to fly 350 people from Iceland down to Marseille to go and see a bit of what might be giant killing – Iceland v Hungary on Saturday.”

Dickinson says it feels “weird” saying goodbye to Ed Force One, and adds: “I’ll miss the big bird but you know what? The show must go on.”

After Maiden’s headline set at Download last weekend, bassist Steve Harris said he thought Dickinson was singing “better than ever". The Book Of Souls won Best Album at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods earlier this week.