Reviews Album review: RILE – PessimistSalt Lake City’s morose metalcore mob RILE strip skin from bone to reveal the misery inside on excoriating debut Pessimist.
Introducing Going Off: Meet the Manchester hardcore crew upholding the ideas of community, doing it yourself, and going hard all the timeAs they prepare to head out on tour this week, it’s time to say hello to one of the most exciting new bands in British noise. Here’s five reasons to be pumped about Going Off, in their own words…
News Watch Skindred’s brilliant performance of Gimme That Boom on Later… With Jools HollandSee Skindred make their Later… With Jools Holland debut with a fantastic, ferocious performance of Smile single Gimme That Boom.
News Ho99o9 drop new mixtape featuring HEALTH, WARGASM and moreHo99o9 have come out of nowhere with a brand-new friend-filled mixtape ahead of their European tour.
Branded Content How Korn and adidas are still reshaping the face of alternative fashionWhen Korn frontman Jonathan Davis first stepped onstage in his battered adidas tracksuit, little could he have known how he would irreversibly change the look and sound of alternative music. Decades later, the Bakersfield legends’ long-overdue collaboration with the iconic German sportswear brand is proof that they’re still amongst the most influential players in the game…
Features Dreamwell: “It’s all about interpretation – it’s about not having a literal answer”Providence screamers Dreamwell are about to release one of the heaviest – on every level – albums of the year: In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You. Here, Keziah ‘KZ’ Staska and Aki McCullough reveal everything that went into it…
The Cover Story Jazmin Bean, Deijuvhs and Cody Frost are redefining what it means to be alternativeGenre is dead. Punk fashion is mainstream. And even rock’s most esoteric bands are headlining arenas. But there is an alternative, a real alternative. Connected not by sound or style, but by community and attitude, a new generation of misfits are reinventing the alt. scene for those who are craving something to call their own – get on board…
News Jamie Campbell Bower announces new single, Heaven In Your EyesFollowing 2022 single I Am, Jamie Campbell Bower is teasing a new track featuring Skindred’s Mikey Demus, and Tom Yankton.
Reviews Album review: Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter – SAVED!The artist formerly known as Lingua Ignota leaves the past behind and steps forward toward the light on brilliant, haunting first outing as the Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter.
Features Saint Agnes’ Kitty A. Austen: The 10 songs that changed my lifeFrom listening to music as a “weirdly serious kid” to obsessing over Nine Inch Nails in the present, Saint Agnes’ Kitty A. Austen reveals the most important tracks in her life.
News Here’s the unbelievable line-up for Sick New World 2024System Of A Down and Slipknot are headlining next year’s Sick New World, while the one-day mega-fest also features Bring Me The Horizon, Alice In Chains, Bad Omens, Sleep Token, BABYMETAL, A Perfect Circle and so many more.
The Cover Story Creeper: “It’s harder to take left turns the more you do it… this had to be darker and more grandiose”Since their 2014 formation, Southampton goth-punk heroes Creeper have been the undefeated masters of defying fan expectations. And third album Sanguivore – the band’s “big vampire record” – is no exception. Allow the newly-christened William von Ghould to reveal all…
News SNAYX announce new EP, Better Days, and release title-trackListen to SNAYX’s new single Better Days, which is “a statement of intent to get rid of the leeches in your life…”
News See Skindred’s Benji Webbe on the latest episode of Never Mind The BuzzcocksWatch Skindred frontman Benji Webbe appear as a guest panellist – where he talks about, um, badgers and dragons – on this week’s episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
News From mysterious cult to a multiversal sensation: Inside Sleep Token’s phenomenal rise – only in the new issue of Kerrang!In the new issue of Kerrang!, we explore the past, present and future of the mighty Sleep Token, with a brand-new photoshoot and long-lost communications with the faceless entities themselves…
Mental Health “We want to be the biggest private provider of counselling in the country”: Meet the alternative club promoter who founded a mental health charityAfter Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington tragically took his own life in 2017, alt. club night promoter Jack Davis founded the Uprawr Mental Health Foundation to provide counselling free of charge…