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10 of the best (or worst?) innuendoes in rock history

The annals of rock history is littered with smut, filth and generally seedy gags. Here we look back at some of the most ridiculous wordplay about the birds and the bees…

“It’s not big, it’s not clever, but it’ll make them very, very rich”: Our original 2001 review of blink-182’s Take Off Your Pants And Jacket

In June 2001, Kerrang! reviewed blink-182’s fourth album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket… and said that it had “no challenging pursuit of fresh artistic goals”. Ouch.

“We got so sick of bands playing it safe the whole time”: The story of Linkin Park’s The Hunting Party

Just when you think you’ve got them figured out, another curveball: Linkin Park returned to riff-focused heaviness inspired by reflections on their past – and the help of a few famous friends, too – on The Hunting Party…

Garbage’s Shirley Manson: “Being human is to be messy. If you think you’re above all that you’re in deep, deep trouble”

As Garbage unveil their first new album in five years, No Gods No Masters, Shirley Manson talks getting political, cancel culture, and why speaking up is more important than ever…

The 20 greatest HIM songs – ranked

From Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 to Tears On Tape, we rank HIM’s darkest, most delicious offerings…

10 bands from the ’90s who have kept their original line-up together

Surprisingly few have managed it, but here are the bands who have maintained the same line-up since first forming in the 1990s…

Meet KennyHoopla, the leader of pop-punk’s new generation

Rock music has always been there for KennyHoopla, even when it felt like nothing else was. As he prepares to release his thrilling mixtape, SURVIVORS GUILT, with collaborator Travis Barker, Kerrang! gets to know the shy star hell-bent on putting pop-punk back on top…

“A band with the potential to go deep and far”: Our original 2004 review of Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

In June 2004, Kerrang! reviewed My Chemical Romance’s “awesome second album”, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.

“We thrive on conflict, opposition… everything”: The story of MCR’s Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

The story of Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge: the album that changed My Chemical Romance’s lives and the face of modern music forever…

The 20 greatest Nightwish songs – ranked

From Angels Fall First to Human. :||: Nature., we rank symphonic metal icons Nightwish’s most epic compositions…

Ed Gamble: The 10 songs that changed my life

Comedian, podcaster and heavy metal fan Ed Gamble guides us through his musical history – from System Of A Down to Bell Witch.

Recovery and Redemption: The rise and rise of Trash Boat

The story of Trash Boat vocalist Tobi Duncan is one you couldn't make up – or wouldn't want to, anyway. With his band preparing to release their career-defining third album, Don't You Feel Amazing?, he charts the personal agony that has inspired him to seize his breakout moment with everything he has...

10 lesser known Slayer songs that everyone needs to hear

Raining Blood, South Of Heaven, Disciple… everyone knows the Slayer classics, but here we celebrate the bloodstained bangers that are criminally overlooked…

20 lesser-known heavy Canadian bands you need to know

Here are the 20 most essential heavy bands from Canada who deserve the spotlight, and are causing avalanches in the Great White North…

“Being thought of as a joke band is better than an ‘art band’”: The inside story of blink-182’s Enema Of The State

In summer 1999, no-one expected blink-182 to take the world by storm. But on third album Enema Of The State they triggered a pop-punk explosion…

Friends: The one where Phoebe revealed she was a Carcass fan

Could Friends’ Phoebe Buffay be any more of a metalhead?!

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