News August Burns Red announce new album, Season Of SurrenderAugust Burns Red will release Season Of Surrender in June – but first, check out new single The Nameless…
Reviews Album review: Sylosis – The New FleshRecalibrated, re-energised and ripping it up, Sylosis go for a (slightly) more straightforward punch and deliver a knockout on explosive seventh album, The New Flesh.
Features The 50 best albums of 2025Counting down the 50 albums that shaped 2025, and crowning one Kerrang!’s Album Of The Year...
Features LANDMVRKS: “We had to prove we belong here. We’re gonna show you”As LANDMVRKS gear up for their biggest headline tour yet, K! join the French metalcore stars for a trip around their hometown to find out about the ‘Marseille touch’ that’s got them here, why they still feel like underdogs despite their success, and how they’re only just getting started…
News “Illumination is imminent”: Download post cryptic teaser videoDownload Festival are continuing to hype their forthcoming 2026 announcement – but does their latest teaser contain any concrete clues?!
Reviews Album review: Orbit Culture – Death Above LifeBigger, heavier, more ambitious: Orbit Culture bulk up and make a bid for greatness on fifth album.
Features Agriculture: “As artists, we’re interested in finding the profound and the divine in everyday life”Agriculture are one of the boldest bands in American black metal, but their grandstanding music is founded in the simple beauty of the world around them. On second album The Spiritual Sound, they’re digging deep through the spectrum of beauty and horror, stress and serenity swirling within…
Features Who are Busted and McFly’s fans?“It never became nostalgic because it was always there…” As Busted and McFly go head-to-head on tour, we meet their fans at London’s OVO Arena Wembley and find out why the two bands are bigger than they’ve ever been.
The Cover Story PRESIDENT: “I’ve sat with these feelings for a long f*cking time… Writing these songs takes a lot out of me”A true whirlwind success story for heavy music this year, PRESIDENT are about to firmly cement themselves with debut EP King Of Terrors. From the absolute DIY nature of the project to it becoming an important vehicle to ask deep and uncomfortable questions, we meet their masked leader to find out how he’s built a breathtaking band worth believing in…
Features “When you’re young, you want to shock everyone, but as you grow up you realise that life feels more beautiful”: How Paleface Swiss found themselvesEvolving rapidly from schlock-obsessed deathcore upstarts to florally-decorated scene leaders, Paleface Swiss are brutalists unlike any others. Meeting singer Marc ‘Zelli’ Zellweger in the mountains outside Zurich, we find out how isolation from the broader scene, no-holds-barred creativity and love for the great outdoors have shaped heavy music’s unexpected new heroes…
Features Fit For A King are ready to rule once againHaving come out the other side of an incredibly difficult few years, Fit For A King’s Ryan Kirby threw his all into the band’s eighth album Lonely God. On the eve of its release, the frontman talks fortitude, family, faith and taking things further than ever before…
The Cover Story Ozzy Osbourne: No ordinary manOnce he’d entered his 70s, Ozzy Osbourne told us that he wanted to “live life to the full”. Now, following the devastating loss of metal’s greatest-ever icon, we look back over exactly that: an incredible lifetime of changing heavy music forever, influencing more bands than anyone can possibly count, and of course causing some memorable mischief along the way…
Features Bleed From Within: “If anyone is qualified to talk about getting f*cked over and coming back, it’s us!”From UK metal’s underground to the world’s biggest stages, Bleed From Within are finally reaping overdue rewards. But strident seventh album Zenith is just the next upward step from a gang of old buddies who always give their best…
Reviews Album review: Bleed From Within – ZenithScottish brutalists Bleed From Within continue their ascent with armour-plated seventh album, Zenith.
Reviews The big review: Knotfest SydneySlipknot’s mega-fest goes down under, with a little help from A Day To Remember, Enter Shikari, BABYMETAL and more…
The Cover Story Papa Roach: “Music can move culture, can inspire and shift momentum in society, and can lift people up from a dark place”A quarter of a century since Infest made them superstars, Papa Roach are still breaking new ground. As they prepare for their biggest ever UK tour, in which they'll become Wembley headliners, we caught up with Jacoby Shaddix and the boys in Germany to hear about the hard road they've walked, and how it's only made them stronger...