Kerrang! Magazine 13/06/12

Download Festival: The Ultimate Review!

All the bands! All the mayhem! All the mud!

Plus: The world exclusive comeback interview with Biffy Clyro!

Features: A massive 18 page pull-out review of Download 2012!

On stage with Metallica!

Backstage with You Me At Six and Bring Me The Horizon!

On fire with The Prodigy!

Black Sabbath speak!

Plus: Skindred: The Graphic Novel...

... and Aled Phillips of Kids In Glass Houses takes The Ultimate Rockstar Test!

News: The Kerrang! Awards Fuelled By Relentless Energy Drink was amazing!

The brightest stars of British rock leave their mark at the biggest party of the year!

Plus: The full list of winners from the evening's rock 'n' roll shenanigans!

Kerrang!'s The Black Album: Covered is coming! Check out which bands are taking part in our ultimate Metallica tribute CD!

Win the chance to play the UK Vans Warped Tour show!

Muse's The 2nd Law - dissected!

We Introduce metallers Brotherhood Of The Lake!

Henry Rollins wrestles a gator!

Plus: an all-new Grohl Cats!

Lives: A full review of Download Festival just days after it's finished? Amazing!

Featuring: Machine Head, Billy Talent, The Prodigy, Axewound, While She Sleeps, Gallows, Cancer Bats, Slash, Biffy Clyro, Metallica, Corey Taylor, You Me At Six and many, many, many, many more!

Albums: The latest releases from Smashing Pumpkins, The Ghost Inside, A Place To Bury Strangers, Arcane Roots, Ihsahn and more!

Gigs: Less Than Jake and OFF! prepare for their UK invasions!

Plus: There's also hundreds of shows to add to your weekly rock schedule!

Win! Some Slipknot Orange guitar gear!

Plus: Complete this week's K! Krossword for a chance to get your hands on a K! Swag bag.

That's this week's Kerrang! in a nutshell, on sale Wednesday, June 13.

Posted by Katie P at 10:51AM | June 12, 2012

Fucking YM@6 in Kerrang ... a-fucking-gain?!

They get more and more over-rated every fucking week, give it a rest Kerrang!

Posted by stu | June 12, 2012 2:08 PM | Reply to this

No posters? :(

Posted by Dan | June 12, 2012 4:02 PM | Reply to this

oooh a local band

Posted by Nathan | June 12, 2012 8:05 PM | Reply to this

Ahh feels good not to see my band My Chemical Romance in there :) weve done fuck all for quite a while now and you always find a way to throw us in kerrang

Posted by Gerard Way | June 12, 2012 10:08 PM | Reply to this

what are the posters this week?

Posted by jack | June 12, 2012 10:34 PM | Reply to this

Why can't Download be every week? Nice to see decent coverage on bands that deserve it!! Not saying that ym@6, bvb and all that lot don't .. just not EVERY FUCKIN' CUNTING WEEK!

Posted by Hairy Fanny | June 12, 2012 11:04 PM | Reply to this

Everything apart from The Prodigy is cow pat.

Posted by The Messiah | June 12, 2012 11:13 PM | Reply to this

Dearest Kerrang, I thought it was most shitty of you to do a photo call for Olly Sykes and Josh at the signing tent when Black Veil Brides were meeting fans. There were loads of other places for a similar photo oppourtunity! dicks.... my daughter stood it that queue for almost 3 hours and you ruined her 2minutes in the tent with bvb by doing this!
Last year she queued for 3 hours in the pissn rain to be told theres too many waiting!

Posted by cath1509 | June 13, 2012 11:05 AM | Reply to this

Posted by cath1509 | June 13, 2012 11:06 AM | Reply to this

All bands have not been reviewed. Why is this?

Posted by Jim Cameron | June 13, 2012 12:34 PM | Reply to this

Cath what happened? Oli and Josh seem like total cunts tbh.. Why would they even go to the bvb signing tent? I totally respect the BVB guys now, k! awards and Download must been hard for them! Obvs, everyone is jealous of their speedy success! I hope they set all the haters on FIREEE!

Posted by Rex | June 13, 2012 4:13 PM | Reply to this

More journalism and less adverts next time...?

Posted by Sophie :D | June 13, 2012 4:22 PM | Reply to this

More journalism and less adverts next time...?

Posted by Sophie :D | June 13, 2012 4:25 PM | Reply to this

I used to buy Kerrang every week. I NEVER buy it anymore. There used to be so many interesting bands in the magazine. Now all I see is My Chemical Romance? I swear if I had continued buying Kerrang this last year I would have over 50 posters of MCR, BVB and BMTH and that kind of shit. What the heck is going on? I used to be so excited to go buy the mag every week. Get your shit together!

Posted by Lina | June 13, 2012 4:41 PM | Reply to this

But oh well, I can see the name "Henry Rollins" in this issue. That's the only good thing you've had for months.

Posted by Lina | June 13, 2012 4:42 PM | Reply to this

But oh well, I can see the name "Henry Rollins" in this issue. That's the only good thing you've had for months.

Posted by Lina | June 13, 2012 4:43 PM | Reply to this

I only just started buying this magazine, and I loved getting posters out of it.. I like bands like bvb, bmth, sleeping with sirens, paramore, aa and that kind of stuff.. and this week it was full of shitty advertisements..

Posted by courtney | June 13, 2012 8:54 PM | Reply to this

Are you kidding? BVB getting 5K's? Now, I'm not some whiny metalhead who's like, 'oh my god they wear make up, their music must be shit', I gave them a real chance at download with minimal expectations and they still didn't manage to even slightly impress me. They sounded god awful, like their sound just didn't flow correctly, you've clearly just gave them that rating based on their 'confrontation' with the crowd, that's not was a performance is about.

Posted by Paul Grainger | June 14, 2012 3:21 PM | Reply to this

Paul Grainger said it correct! How dare Kerrang give BVB 5 K's and Metallica only 4 K's. Were you people even WATCHING the performances? BVB got bottled for goodness sake, they sounded like trash. The singer looks like a skinny white boy who raided his mothers make up bag and bondage box. Metallica on the other hand, kicked some SERIOUS ass. I was completely blown away by their performance, everything was just amazing.

Posted by Lola Rosa | June 15, 2012 2:10 PM | Reply to this

Posted by Lola Rosa | June 15, 2012 2:11 PM | Reply to this

Why the hell did i see Skrillex on the cover once?!

Posted by Chris Tatton | June 15, 2012 3:14 PM | Reply to this

Glad to see a good review on The Ghost Inside's new album. Heard some of it already and it sounds incredible.

Posted by Josh | June 15, 2012 3:48 PM | Reply to this

Glad to see a good review on The Ghost Inside's new album. Heard some of it already and it sounds incredible.

Posted by Josh | June 15, 2012 3:49 PM | Reply to this

i want more my chem posters

Posted by Kate | June 17, 2012 7:49 PM | Reply to this

i want more my chem posters

Posted by Kate | June 17, 2012 7:49 PM | Reply to this

@Kate You can have mine.

Posted by Sonja | June 19, 2012 2:19 AM | Reply to this

Where was the Ray Toro poster? I don't care how many people are complaining about the MCR posters, I love them. I've got the other three and was waiting for this one! I was disappointed that it wasn't there really.

Posted by Shannon | June 19, 2012 5:07 PM | Reply to this

Posted by Shannon | June 19, 2012 5:08 PM | Reply to this

there were 5 posters in total (one with all of them together) Ray's was in the issue before this one

Posted by Emma | June 19, 2012 6:38 PM | Reply to this

Following last weeks advents at the download festival 2012 I wish to make a strong complaint about Olly Sykes hanging around the Black Veil Brides signing tent, My question to you Kerrang! is why the hell was he there in the first place when it was already known that he was a trouble maker for BVB!!! I too was one of the ones standing in that queue for nearly 3 hours and when i eventually did manage to go into meet the Brides i found the people on the door to be rather rude to me telling me harshly that you aren't aloud to take or have any personal pictures with any of the band memebers! yet out of the corner of my eye a blond girl had a photo with Andy Biersack ... now correct me if i'm wrong but you can't have one riule for one and another rule for another i was pretty angered at this, not to mention that when i did get to talk to Andy he seemed so frustrated about what had gone on with Olly Sykes that he didn't seem in a talking mood, Also Ashley Purdy wasn't anywhere to be seen! As it happens i was lucky enough to have had a convosation with CC , Jake & Jinxx but what the main issue here is that if OllY Sykes is going to be a nuisanence to BVB then i strongly suggest that in future signings you keep him well out of Bvb's way.

Posted by Jaide Coquelin | June 20, 2012 8:12 PM | Reply to this

woah! the amount of hate for this issue kinda makes me glad that I missed out on buying it. wow...

Posted by x | June 30, 2012 12:23 PM | Reply to this

Even though people complain about MCR, I still love them. I guess Kerrang! wanted to show bands that are of most interest to other people. Well perhaps, just in my opinion.

Posted by Elizabeth M. | July 25, 2012 3:58 AM | Reply to this