Features Arm’s Length get a grip on being emo Vocalist/guitarist Allen Steinberg on the rising Canadian stars avoiding a difficult second album, overcoming imposter syndrome, and why Arm’s Length getting this far is a “miracle”.
Features “The bigger your heart is, it’s a superpower”: How De’Wayne took the next step on his new album De’Wayne is bringing the heat this summer, with his third album june set to take us on a spiritual journey of self-celebration and submission to romance. Ahead of its release, he tells K! how surrendering to your softer side is the most rock’n’roll thing you can do…
The Cover Story Hot Milk: “Why shouldn’t we make England the home of music again?” This summer is lining up to be Hot Milk’s biggest ever. From headlining the Kerrang! Stage at Slam Dunk to a handful of dates supporting their heroes Green Day to the small matter of releasing second album Corporation P.O.P… it’s a miracle they’ve got time to even think. But in a rare spot of downtime, we meet Han Mee and Jim Shaw to get the skinny on their new record and why they’ll never compromise.
Features Who are twenty one pilots’ fans? We head to Manchester to meet some of twenty one pilots’ biggest fans to find out what they love about the genre-bending twosome and why they always come back for more…
Features Damiano David: “I had to break down many layers… This album is me, 100 per cent” As Damiano David prepares to drop his debut solo album FUNNY little FEARS, the Måneskin frontman shares the unhappy place he was in when the creative process began, how much has changed since, and why the record is “the narration of me coming back to life”…
Features Propagandhi: “When we started this band, it felt like the possibilities were endless… Now we’re asking, ‘What was the point?’” Chris Hannah has spent his entire career raging against the machine with Canadian punk legends Propagandhi. On the band’s excellent eighth album At Peace, though, it’s all about searching for life’s deeper meaning…
Features Meet Knives, the brilliant Bristol punks cutting through with cathartic noise They just released one of the most banging debuts of 2025 – now get to know Knives and their raging music. As singer Jay Schottlander explains, “It’s a way for me to project how sh*tty things make me feel so I can move on from them…”
Features Unpacking Arcadia: Analysing the clues in Sleep Token’s new album On Friday, Sleep Token finally released their fourth album, Even In Arcadia. And with it, there arrived more lore to pick over. From opposing houses to significant colour schemes, we examine Vessel’s brave new world…
The Cover Story Parkway Drive: “Time is the one thing that you can’t get back in life, so be conscious of it” Almost three years after their brooding and brilliant album Darker Still, Byron Bay brawlers Parkway Drive are back with brand-new music in the form of Sacred, an all-out rager that encapsulates their entire career. Coming as the band look back on 20 years of raising hell across the world, Winston McCall reflects on the importance of time well spent and never wavering from that eternal forward motion…
Features The bands you need to see at Mad Cool 2025 From Weezer to PVRIS to Refused and beyond... here are our picks of the bands you need to see at Mad Cool this year. It's gonna be a hot one!
What Lies Beneath Doom, death, the roots of metal, and a band of frogs: This month’s highlights from the underground We round up the latest and greatest from heavy music’s underground. Here’s some returning legends, amphibious riffs, and genuinely obscure heaviness from the 1960s...
The Cover Story YUNGBLUD: “I needed to get my fight back. I’ve always been a fighter, and I’ve found it again” On 2022’s self-titled third album, YUNGBLUD felt “more lost than I’d ever been”. Since then, though, Dominic Harrison has been putting in some seriously hard work, and as the 27-year-old gears up to launch a determined and defiant new era, he reveals how he’s coming back swinging…
Features Martial arts, impulsiveness, and doing the unexpected: How Machine Head continue to fight and win Three decades in, Machine Head are bigger than ever. It hasn’t been an easy road. But that isn’t stopping Robb Flynn challenging fans and purposefully taking the hard road on new album UNATØNED…
Features Blood Incantation: “You don’t need to have drugs to take a trip with our music. But if you do, it’ll be even crazier” Mystical visions, magic mushrooms, space-rock freak-outs – all part of Blood Incantation’s DNA. As the death metal visionaries hit the UK on the back of their mind-bending Absolute Elsewhere album, they take Kerrang! into their weird universe, and explain how music can unlock your consciousness…
Features “It’s equal parts epic, great songwriting, and completely unhinged”: Inside Halestorm’s new album Everest In what could be the peak of Halestorm’s already-stellar career, the Pennsylvania quartet are set to release sixth album Everest in August and take to some seriously big stages. Lzzy Hale tells Kerrang! about writing in new ways, beating depression, and hitting the road with Iron Maiden and Sabbath…
Features PUP: “I wasn’t even trying to write a record. I just wanted to let what came out happen” As Toronto punk heroes PUP gear up to release their typically candid fifth album Who Will Look After The Dogs?, Stefan Babcock unpacks the unique context from which it came – and how creating without an agenda for the first time resulted in a healthy, much-needed change of perspective…
