Features “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.
Features “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…
Features The 20 greatest Nightwish songs – ranked From Angels Fall First to Human. :||: Nature., we rank symphonic metal icons Nightwish’s most epic compositions…
Features 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.
Features 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...
Features 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…
Features 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…
Features “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…
Features Friends: The one where Phoebe revealed she was a Carcass fan Could Friends’ Phoebe Buffay be any more of a metalhead?!
Features Believe The Hype: Spiritbox are the hottest band in the world They're the band that every rock and metal fan can't stop talking about. And now, the most anticipated debut album of 2021 is nearly here. In a world-exclusive interview, vocalist Courtney LaPlante reveals the full story of Spiritbox, and the emotional journey of Eternal Blue that will make everyone question the meaning of 'heavy'...
Features “It was about smashing down walls”: How adidas invaded nu-metal Arriving like a subculture from outer space, nu-metal shook up not just the sound, but also the style of heavy music. We sat down with Korn’s Jonathan Davis to look back on how sportswear infiltrated our traditionally denim-and-leather clad scene…
Features The 20 greatest BABYMETAL songs – ranked From 2014’s self-titled debut to 2019’s METAL GALAXY and beyond, we rank BABYMETAL’s most brilliantly bonkers tunes…
Features My friend Paul, by Corey Taylor Corey Taylor pays tribute to his late friend and Slipknot bandmate, Paul Gray.
Features Drugs, violence and social decay: The making of New York hardcore Against a backdrop of social inequality, New York became the standard-bearer for a form of musical rebellion that endures four decades later. We talk to the people who were there to find out why and how it happened…
Features Remembering when Lordi won Eurovision and took monsters to the mainstream In 2006, Finland’s monster-metallers Lordi won Eurovision. This is the story of how it happened, the impact it had on the band, and what it meant for the world’s biggest music show…
Features Foo Fighters: The inside story of The Colour And The Shape Foo Fighters’ second album The Colour And The Shape cemented them as one of rock’s great white hopes…
