Features 13 essential Japanese rock and metal albums you need to know From X Japan to Dir en Grey to BABYMETAL and beyond, these are the Japanese rock and metal albums that everyone needs in their record collection…
Features “The beauty of not understanding it is letting it stay alive”: The untold story of Tool’s Lateralus It’s an album that continues to captivate and confuse fans the world over. Two decades on from its release, Kerrang! and Tool bassist Justin Chancellor search for answers to the enigma that is Lateralus…
Features Holding Absence’s Lucas Woodland: We must stop telling guys to ‘man up’ Lucas Woodland has boldly opened up through Holding Absence’s music – and he encourages male listeners in particular to be honest with their struggles, too…
Features Iron Maiden: The story of Fear Of The Dark and Bruce Dickinson’s departure Iron Maiden welcomed in the 1990s with their first-ever Number One single and two albums that soundtracked the strife that would split a band on top of the world…
Features The 20 greatest Soundgarden songs – ranked From Ultramega OK to King Animal, we rank grunge titans Soundgarden’s weirdest, wildest and best offerings…
Features Sleeping With Sirens albums ranked from worst to best by Kellin Quinn From With Ears To See And Eyes To Hear to How It Feels To Be Lost, Sleeping With Sirens frontman Kellin Quinn ranks each of the band’s records from worst to best…
Features The 20 greatest Metallica songs – ranked From Kill ’Em All to Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, we chart the best of the best from Metallica...
Features 10 lesser known Motörhead songs that everyone needs to know A chronological countdown of Motörhead’s finest tunes that flew under the radar but still deserve to be blasted at deafening volume…
Features twenty one pilots return: The world-exclusive comeback interview After their most daringly ambitious chapter yet with 2018’s Trench, twenty one pilots took a minute to step back and reflect. Now, with “shiny and colourful” album Scaled And Icy on the way, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun lift the lid on a new era that finds them enjoying more creative freedom than ever before…
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Features Black Sabbath: Bill Ward’s 12 best performances We chart drummer Bill Ward’s all-time greatest contributions to Black Sabbath.
Features 10 indie albums that influenced heavy metal Metal artists don’t sit around listening to metal all day – inspiration comes in many forms. Here are just some of the indie records to influence the realm of heavy music…
Features How From Under The Cork Tree made Fall Out Boy emo kings Producer Neal Avron tells Kerrang! all about the making of Fall Out Boy’s breakthrough second LP, From Under The Cork Tree.
Features Royal Blood reborn: “It was obvious I would lose everything” With Number One albums and huge arena shows to their name, Royal Blood stood at the top of the rock world. Behind the scenes, though, Mike Kerr was falling apart. He and bandmate Ben Thatcher talk pulling back from the brink, the power of friendship, and reinvention of the self and sound on new album Typhoons…
Features The 20 greatest The Offspring songs – ranked From 1989’s self-titled LP to Ixnay On The Hombre and beyond, we rank the Californian punk-rock legends’ biggest tunes…
Features The story of British punk in 23 songs From the filth and fury of the Sex Pistols through the extremity of Discharge to the snot-nosed chaos of Gallows, this is the story of British punk in (almost) chronological order…
