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Kerrang! Magazine 19/06/13

The Monster Download Review! - The world's greatest festival... in a magazine!

All the interviews, backstage insanity, signing tent secrets straight from Download Festival 2013... plus the ultimate reviews of Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, 30 Seconds To Mars, Limp Bizkit, Ghost B.C, A Day To Remember, Stone Sour, Enter Shikari, Kvelertak, Jimmy Eat World, Queens Of The Stone Age, Asking Alexandria, Young Guns, Mastodon, Motorhead, Escape The Fate, Bullet For My Valentine, Converge, Airbourne, Motionless In White, Papa Roach and so, SO many more! \m/

Posters: This week we've got a huge Green Day poster special featuring SIX brand new shots of Billie Joe and co tearing up the Emirates Stadium at their huge London show!

Feedback: You send in your letters, drawings, and photos with rockstars. Plus win the chance to go bowling with Bowling For Soup!

News: The results are in from the most rock'n'roll night of the year; The Relentless Kerrang! Awards 2013 - but what happened when the likes of Slipknot, Biffy Clyro, Queen, Bring Me The Horizon, Slayer, Young Guns and You Me At Six took to the stage?

Want to hangout backstage at Vans Warped Tour Europe 2013 and meet the likes of Enter Shikari and Parkway Drive?! Yeah you do! Find out how as we sit down with Parkway's Winston McCall and ES's Rou Reynolds to talk about November's hottest festival.

What else? There's the Kerrang! Official Rock Chart (who's number one this week?!), find out what happened when Kerrang! met Avril Lavigne (yes, you read that correctly!), plus this week's gripping instalment of Grohl Cats!

Features: The number one greatest rockstar in the world today, Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil, tells us the secrets behind his band's success, Jimmy Eat World talk sitting on the emo throne, and we introduce you to British rockers The Family Rain. Also Rob Zombie goes up against the ultimate rockstar test and talks super gluing himself back together after shows. Ow.

Reviews: K! tries to decide if Falling In Reverse's new album is genius or guff (to be honest we're still not sure!) as well as reviewing the likes of Middle Class Rut, Forever The Sickest Kids, Taking Back Sunday, Bosnian Rainbows, Serj Tankian and Mixtapes. Plus we find out why Sleeping With Sirens' Kellin Quinn can't live without, er ...sunglasses!

Gigs: All the latest gigs and tours listed - plan your summer nights now! Oh yeah and we chat to Funeral For A Friend and The Wildhearts, find out about Yashin's Relentless house party and talk to Deftones' Chino Moreno about the first gig he ever watched!

All of this and more has been lovingly rammed into this week's packed issue of Kerrang!, on sale June 19.

Posted by JLB at 12:55PM | June 18, 2013 | 0 Comments
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