Features Missing links: 12 rock and metal albums that never were In an alternate universe you could be listening to these lost and unreleased projects – from Slipknot and Green Day to Deftones and Metallica.
Features “There’s no safety net, so your songs better be good”: Jerry Cantrell remembers Alice In Chains’ MTV Unplugged Twenty-five years after it was released, Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell looks back on the band’s incredible MTV Unplugged.
Features Hetfield On Hetfield: The Metallica legend, in his own words From sobriety to nature, this is the world according to Metallica’s iconic leader James Hetfield.
Features 10 lesser known Judas Priest songs that everyone needs to hear For every Painkiller, Breaking The Law or Hell Bent For Leather, there are some killer Judas Priest deep cuts that deserve to be far more popular…
Features “This is not the sound of a band treading water”: Our original 2011 review of Trivium’s In Waves On August 2, 2011, Florida metal titans followed up 2008’s Shogun with In Waves – an album that Kerrang! said found the band “finally sounding comfortable in their own skin again”.
Features Joey Jordison: “Every time I go onstage and get behind the kit, it’s a gift” In November 2017, Kerrang! ran a career-spanning feature with Joey Jordison ahead of the release of Vimic’s Open Your Omens album – our last ‘major’ interview with the drum legend. In light of his devastating death, we revisit that conversation…
Features Collaborations, classic rock and Clint Eastwood: Inside Jerry Cantrell’s first solo album in 19 years Jerry Cantrell gives Kerrang! an exclusive insight into his new solo album Brighten, and what we can expect from a record that has been – at points – decades in the making…
Features 7 things you probably didn’t know about Bullet For My Valentine’s Matt Tuck Bullet For My Valentine frontman Matt Tuck on his potential rugby career, idolising James Hetfield and more…
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 “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 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 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.
