Features Alex Baker on the new music you need to hear now Kerrang! Radio host Alex Baker brings you the new artists you need to check out now, including Led By Lanterns, Endscape and Future Palace.
Features Remembering the worst-ever performance of Sweet Child O’ Mine, at the Super Bowl halftime show Eleven years ago, the world witnessed the worst performance of Sweet Child O’ Mine in history, courtesy of the Black Eyed Peas’ Super Bowl halftime show.
Features Neck Deep: “We’re proud of where we’ve come from and how we’ve got here – we’ve never rested on our laurels” Wrexham? It almost killed ’em. On a £250 budget flight to Florida, Neck Deep broke out of their Welsh hometown and found a place for themselves in the States. Now, having sold pop-punk back to America and become mates with blink-182, they’re about to return home for their biggest tour to date. Ben Barlow and Matt West recall their rise across the pond…
Culture Inside Tattoo Freeze: The heart of the UK’s tattoo community Kerrang! takes a trip to Telford for the annual Tattoo Freeze convention to find out why it’s such a vital part of the British tattoo community…
Features The 20 greatest Bring Me The Horizon songs – ranked From Count Your Blessings to Post Human, we chart Bring Me The Horizon’s biggest bangers…
The Cover Story Zeal & Ardor: “I just want to take people by surprise” Zeal & Ardor were only meant to be a one-time thing on the internet. Now, on the eve of their brilliant, self-titled third album, they’ve become celebrated as one of metal’s most forward-thinking bands. For mainman Manuel Gagneux, it’s a strange development to process. Here’s how he went from a teenage punk hanging out in Swiss squats, to the man lighting up heavy music…
Culture Tracking down the scariest crap movie in the world Traumatised by a horror B-movie as a child, one K! writer goes on a mission to track down the unknown gore-fest for a sense of closure and to find out if it’s actually that scary after all…
Features In pictures: Knocked Loose and Terror bring the mosh to London Hardcore heavyweights Knocked Loose and Terror were joined by Last Wishes and Static Dress on the opening night of their co-headline tour at London’s Electric Ballroom. As you’ll see, it was absolute carnage.
Features Frank Turner: “For the longest time I was the guy that toured, and that was it. I needed to become something more…” Wondering where to turn next during a “weird, middle-period” of his career, Frank Turner had to dig deep to find out who he really was going into brilliant ninth album FTHC. Now, he’s never been so certain.
Culture 13 things we want from Grand Theft Auto 6 As Rockstar Games confirm the sixth mainline entry in their iconic GTA series, we consider the features it needs to reach that next level…
Features Måneskin: “You have to be mentally prepared… not everybody is capable of living this kind of life” In 2021, Måneskin won Eurovision, took on America, and were streamed more times in one month than Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon and Biffy Clyro combined. Say hello to the rising Italian rock’n’roll stars getting ready to destroy 2022…
Features Jeris Johnson: The 10 songs that changed my life From AC/DC to Ashnikko, TikTok star Jeris Johnson’s musical tastes come from just about everywhere. Well, apart from karaoke…
Features Rolo Tomassi’s track-by-track guide to Where Myth Becomes Memory From glimmering ambience to blistering tech-metal, Rolo Tomassi vocalist/keyboardist James Spence and guitarist Chris Cayford peel back the layers of Where Myth Becomes Memory…
Features Knuckle Puck’s Joe Taylor: The 10 songs that changed my life Knuckle Puck frontman Joe Taylor takes a dive into his record collection – from AC/DC to blink-182…
Features Who are Turnstile’s fans? We head down to Turnstile’s London Roundhouse gig to find out who their fans are and why they love the Baltimore hardcore heroes so much…
Features “The invasion of our privacy was constant”: The real story behind Pam & Tommy As Pam & Tommy arrives on Disney+ this week, we look back at the real story of Pamela Anderson and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee’s whirlwind romance, and how the leaking of their sex tape raises serious questions about privacy and consent.
