Features Green Lung: The ultimate guide to their heathen universe Frontman Tom Templar invites us into his world, and shares the key ingredients that make Green Lung one of the most magical bands in the country right now…
News The best of Kerrang! In Conversation 2024 Before we say goodbye to 2024, we take a look back at some of our favourite moments from the podcast this year – featuring Trivium, RØRY, Black Veil Brides, Sum 41 and more!
Features “I wanted to write a song that felt like WAP for fans of heavy music”: Inside RedHook’s new album Mutation RedHook’s Emmy Mack breaks down every song on new album Mutation and how she learned to reclaim her own identity…
Culture From Y2K nostalgia to Hello Kitty streetwear: The best in alternative style this month In this month’s column, K!’s resident style expert Kitty dissects new collabs from Vans, DC Shoes, Fender and more. Get your Christmas lists ready…
News London’s Raven Records to host The Musicians Coven event “Come and find your future bandmates” at the sober social in Camden…
News Former Kerrang! Editor James McMahon has passed away James McMahon – Kerrang!’s second longest-serving Editor – has died following a short battle with cancer
News Listen to Black Veil Brides on a special live edition of the Kerrang! In Conversation podcast Kerrang! join Black Veil Brides and 30 of their most dedicated fans for a colourful conversation about everything from Sweeney Todd to new music to when we might see a BVB movie…
Features In pictures: The Kerrang! x Black Veil Brides VIP pop-up experience We teamed up with Black Veil Brides for a unique pop-up in London to mark the band’s Devil’s Night show at Wembley – complete with Andy’s old-school stage outfits, exclusive glow-in-the-dark merch, and plenty of blood…
Features Scowl: “This feels awfully vulnerable, but it’s a vulnerability that I’m ready to embrace” Scowl have just dropped a brand-new single, Special, along with a spooky music video. Vocalist Kat Moss tells us all about its stark lyrical themes, coming over a bit grunge, and being labelmates with Phoebe Bridgers now as part of Dead Oceans…
Features Sløtface: “There’s so many things that are sh*tty. Being happy and showing joy are the most punk things you can do” Sløtface are back and bigger than ever. Literally. What was once a typical band is now a collective of creatives. And with a brand-new adventurous album landing imminently, Haley Shea tells us more on the journey to its fruition – from unpacking internalised misogyny to how embracing your not-so-guilty pleasure can set you free…
Features 200 Stab Wounds: “We didn’t know how f*cked-up the album cover was going to be!” 200 Stab Wounds are awash with gore and gristle. They’re also one of the most exciting death metal bands on the planet. Singer/guitarist Steve Buhl gives us an autopsy of the horror and humour that make up their world, his surprising musical roots, and the optimum number of times one should get punctured…
News Hear Ice Nine Kills team up with Reel Big Fish for glorious Walking On Sunshine cover Ice Nine Kills have just unleashed a spectacularly fun cover of Katrina And The Waves’ ’80s banger Walking On Sunshine, featuring Reel Big Fish.
Features Body Count’s Ice-T: “I’m always going to be hardcore, I’m always going to push the line. It’s what I enjoy doing” Four years since COVID cut their Carnivore cycle cruelly short, Body Count are making up for lost time with Psychopath: the furious first single from their long-awaited eighth LP Merciless. We grabbed legendary frontman Ice-T for an exclusive interview to talk playing the villain, winning GRAMMYs, and how he wouldn’t be here if he wasn’t hitting harder than ever…
The Cover Story Zeal & Ardor: “The more music we put into this world, the more obvious it becomes who we really are” Over the last decade, Zeal & Ardor has grown from a niche experiment inspired by a bigoted shitpost into one of the most exciting and invigorating outfits in avant-garde metal. With fearless fourth album GREIF, Manuel Gagneux is still broadening horizons, thumbing his nose to genre convention and inviting his bandmates into the studio to make their boldest statement yet…
Features Sanguisugabogg: “Death metal doesn’t play into political agendas. It’s the anti-norm” From the slaughterhouse imagery of ultra-heavy second album Homicidal Ecstasy to beefing with Ronnie Radke online, Sanguisugabogg are masters of headline-grabbing provocation. According to Devin Swank, however, the Ohio death metallers are more interested in paying respect to their storied genre and standing up for their friends than blindly going for the throat…
Reviews Film review: The First Omen Cult horror prequel The First Omen more than justifies its existence by being hellishly good.
