Features 13 times Joey Jordison proved he was the best of the best In memory of the great Joey Jordison, we revisit 13 of the defining moments from his brilliant, boundary-pushing career…
Features Joey Jordison loved metal, and metal loved Joey Jordison As a founding member of Slipknot, Joey Jordison found fame, fortune and adulation beyond his wildest dreams. But in his heart, the finest metal drummer of his generation remained simply the same music-obsessed superfan. As the world mourns his untimely and devastating passing, Kerrang! pays tribute to the true #1.
Features Out Of The Shadows: The story of Avenged Sevenfold’s Nightmare With the release of Nightmare – their first album since the death of The Rev in December 2009 – Avenged Sevenfold were slowly starting to get back into business. In a July 2010 issue of Kerrang!, we found out if the four friends were ready to be “under the microscope” so soon…
Features “I thought I’d be dead before I turned 20”: How Kid Brunswick went from self-destruction to collaborating with Mike Shinoda As he prepares to unleash new mixtape XFOREVER, Kid Brunswick details how going straight edge saved his life and inspired one of 2021’s deepest, darkest and most confessional records…
Features “Their brother must be immensely proud”: Our original 2010 review of Avenged Sevenfold’s Nightmare On July 27, 2010, Avenged Sevenfold unleashed Nightmare – their first album following the death of drummer Jimmy ‘The Rev’ Sullivan in December 2009.
Features Every song on AC/DC’s Highway To Hell, ranked from worst to best We rank every track on AC/DC’s classic Highway To Hell…
Features The 10 greatest Paramore videos – ranked We count down the 10 best Paramore videos of all time – it’s harder than it sounds!
Features The 20 greatest Queens Of The Stone Age songs – ranked From 1998’s self-titled debut to Era Vulgaris and beyond, we rank Queens Of The Stone Age’s finest tunes.
Features Now Hear This: Patrick Kindlon on the best new hardcore, punk-rock and powerviolence Drug Church frontman Patrick Klindon brings you the new bands to check out now, including Cosmic Joke, Soul Blind and Regulate.
Features “They kicked party politics out of town”: Spending the day with the punk rock mayor of Frome Andy Wrintmore won a landslide vote to become mayor of Frome. We travel to Somerset to find out how he became the ‘punk rock mayor’, and what he’s doing to change the town he grew up in…
Features Slash: “Guns N’ Roses were a gang that walked into a room like, ‘You don’t want to f*ck with us’” Guns N’ Roses legend Slash revisits the early days, Donington, Michael Jackson and the power of rock’n’roll…
Features The 12 best metal songs for karaoke Have to perform in front of a small room of tipsy friends? Here are 12 surefire metal songs that will slay at karaoke…
Features Why I’ll be a metalhead until the day I die In planning for his own demise, one Kerrang! writer determines he’ll never grow out of the ridiculous music he loves to death.
Features 10 bands who wouldn’t be here without System Of A Down From political fury to ‘quacky’ nu-metal elements, System Of A Down were a huge gateway band for these 10 artists.
Features 13 of the best rock one-hit wonders From Crazy Town to Drowning Pool and beyond – these are some of rock’s biggest one-hit wonders.
Features Guns N’ Roses: Every song on Appetite For Destruction, ranked from worst to best Each song on Guns N’ Roses’ iconic Appetite For Destruction album ranked in order of greatness…