News Listen to Wisp’s “vulnerable” new single, Save me nowWisp has dropped another new single, Save me now, and it’s the perfect soundtrack for her stadium support slots with Deftones and System of A Down in a few months’ time…
Reviews The big review: Fortress Festival 2025Oh, we do like to blaspheme beside the seaside! It’s darkness over Yorkshire as two days of black metal hits Scarborough for Fortress Festival…
The Cover Story grandson: “It’s so disappointing when artists feel they need to pick between their morals and their ambitions”Struggling with substance abuse and mental health, Jordan Benjamin has been through the wringer these past few years. But seeing a world on the slide and fans desperate for righteous, dissenting voices rattled the artist known as grandson out of soul-searching introspection, and galvanised the desire to make third album INERTIA a battle cry fit to wake the world…
The Cover Story Hot Milk: “Why shouldn’t we make England the home of music again?”This summer is lining up to be Hot Milk’s biggest ever. From headlining the Kerrang! Stage at Slam Dunk to a handful of dates supporting their heroes Green Day to the small matter of releasing second album Corporation P.O.P… it’s a miracle they’ve got time to even think. But in a rare spot of downtime, we meet Han Mee and Jim Shaw to get the skinny on their new record and why they’ll never compromise.
News The Callous Daoboys unleash band “love letter”, Distracted By The Mona LisaWith just over a month to go until their new album, The Callous Daoboys have revealed latest single Distracted By The Mona Lisa…
Reviews Album review: Teen Mortgage – Devil Ultrasonic DreamTeen Mortgage go full Beavis and Butt-Head rock on their devilishly handsome debut.
The Cover Story Deafheaven: “If power is influence, we have a responsibility to be as understanding, empathetic and knowledgeable as possible”Deafheaven frontman George Clarke has grappled with the self-examination through music for years now. Where his Californian pioneers’ icy blackgaze has often felt like an exercise in abstract deflection, however, awesome sixth album Lonely People With Power finds healing fire in its complex interrogation of human relationships and the art of influence over one another...
What Lies Beneath From Brazilian speed metal to Italian doom: This month’s highlights from the undergroundWe round up the latest and greatest from heavy music’s underground. This month: sludge, death metal, plenty of doom, and some weirdness…
Features Under Cover: How Sleep Token took masks in music to a whole new levelFrom KISS to Ghost, there’s been a long history of ambiguous imagery in music. No band has used masks quite like Sleep Token, though. Looking further back to the relationship between face decoration and themes of anonymity and identity, comedy and tragedy, theatre and ritual, one can uncover a whole world going on beneath their surface, going all the way to the beginning of humanity itself…
Features Who are Motionless In White’s fans?We head to Motionless In White’s sold-out Manchester show to find out what draws people to the band’s gothic brand of metalcore, and what keeps them coming back for more…
Reviews Live review: Motionless In White, Manchester O2 Victoria WarehouseMotionless In White’s gothic party in Manchester is part dazzling arena spectacular, part pantomime – and it’s outrageously good fun.
The Cover Story Lambrini Girls: “It’s time for the genre of ‘women in music’ to be put to bed”As their exuberant debut Who Let The Dogs Out arrives this week, Brighton punks Lambrini Girls dive into the message behind the mayhem, why they want to drop the riot grrrl label, and how they’re navigating the demands of punk rock’s next big thing…
Features 12 essential Sleep Token songs you need to knowFrom early 2017 highlight Nazareth to viral singles Chokehold and The Summoning from Take Me Back To Eden, here’s your ultimate round-up of Sleep Token’s most significant songs…
Features The live shows that defined Slipknot, as told by Corey and ClownFrom unhinged performances in Des Moines’ smallest sweatboxes to the controlled chaos of their arena-conquering present day, the story of Slipknot is one that has been written on the stage. Corey Taylor and Clown look back on the defining shows of The Nine’s lives…
Features Knocked Loose have been awarded the Kerrang! album of the yearThe best record of 2024? Beating everyone from Bring Me The Horizon to Bob Vylan, Green Day to Gatecreeper, it’s You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To by Knocked Loose…