“It’s not rocket science, is it?” laughs Ben Ward. Amid frantically packing ahead of the band’s tour of Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Orange Goblin’s burly frontman is explaining all about the British metal legends’ freshly-announced 10th album, Science, Not Fiction. In particular, he’s referring to its lead track, the self-explanatory (Not) Rocket Science, a full-Motörhead-ahead bit of classic Goblin heaviness, all riffs and bellows, that charges like a herd of stampeding elephants and roars like a truck. The title partly takes in writing a no-frills heavy metal rager, of which Ben and his band are longtime experts. It could just as easily be about the band themselves. Almost 30 years in, in many ways the Goblin remain the same: a reliable heav...