Reviews The big review: Wacken Open Air 2025The Mud! The Sweat! The Beers! Papa Roach, Machine Head, Gojira and Guns N’ Roses lead the charge at a wet and wild edition of Europe’s biggest heavy metal party...
Reviews Album review: Car Bomb – Tiles Whispers DreamsNew York mathcore mentalists Car Bomb roar back with brain-battering new collection, Tiles Whispers Dreams.
The Cover Story Good Charlotte: “We’re hungrier than ever… This story is still unfinished”Seven years since Good Charlotte were last on the cover of Kerrang!, much has changed for Benji and Joel Madden. Older, wiser and consumed with work on the other side of the music business, it seemed their band had taken a backseat. But cranking the volume once again, imminent eighth album Motel Du Cap is proof they’ll never stray far from the sounds that made them…
Reviews Album review: The Armed – The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be DestroyedMercurial hardcore collective The Armed get serious on scintillating sixth album The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed.
Features Ghost: How Tobias Forge created a genre-redefining monsterTobias Forge didn’t transform into Papa Emeritus overnight. Materialising from the frontman’s imagination after more than a decade making myriad noises in the Swedish underground, Ghost is the culmination of a journey that’s taken in everything from nightmarish black metal to sleazy glam rock. Here, we chart every musical step…
News Pendulum drop new single, Cannibal, featuring WARGASMTaken from August’s album Inertia – their first in 15 years – Pendulum have unleashed the unsurprisingly explosive Cannibal…
Features Scar Power: How Daron Malakian learned to let goHaving made “peace” with the fact that there’s no new System Of A Down record on the cards right now, Daron Malakian is back with Scars On Broadway’s superb third album Addicted To The Violence. During a midnight chat with the guitarist at home in LA, we find a musician enjoying true creative freedom…
Features 13 essential Ghost songs you need to knowAcross six albums, numerous frontman and many different styles, Ghost have taken over metal in spooky, spectacular style. This is how they’ve done it, through 13 dead-good tracks…
News WARGASM drop new single Small World Syndrome, announce London headline gig“Do you ever feel like there’s a bit less magic in the world?” Watch the surreal video for WARGASM’s new single Small World Syndrome…
Features Cwfen: “I have no interest in being some ‘sexy’ frontperson. I’d much rather be seen as horrifying”Cwfen have quickly established themselves as one of the UK’s most excitingly atmospheric new bands. The Glasgow doomgaze collective explain how they’re reconnecting with the forgotten past to conjure a brighter future, the magic of imperfection, and how they’d have once been burned at the stake…
Features Breaking The Lore: The ultimate guide to Ghost’s majestic worldPantomime pageantry and Satanic provocation is all well and good, but there’s deeper, more subversive purpose in Ghost’s never-ending lore. Kneeling at their unholy altar, we slip beneath those bedazzled vestments to chart all the dark humour, razorblade social commentary and righteous purpose on the path of the Papas...
Features Simple Plan: “We focused on our fans and took care of them, and they took care of us”Twenty-five years into their career, Simple Plan are the biggest and most successful they’ve ever been. As they celebrate their latest band milestone with new Amazon Prime doc The Kids In The Crowd, frontman Pierre Bouvier talks support systems, social media, and forever sticking to their guns…
Reviews Live review: Back To The Beginning, Villa ParkSabbath and Ozzy bid farewell to nearly six decades of heavy metal with a star-studded all-day salute featuring Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Tool and so much more...
Reviews Live review: Slayer, Cardiff Blackweir FieldsBread Of Heaven? Nah, it’s just bangers from hell as Slayer make their spectacular UK return in Cardiff…
Features “Whenever we’re together, I feel like I’m home”: Inside the meaningful return of Good CharlotteLast week, Good Charlotte made their long-awaited comeback with Rejects from their forthcoming eighth album Motel Du Cap. Joel Madden reflects on the record becoming the pop-punk icons’ “creative, obsessive project”, why working with bands at MDDN inspired him, and how good it feels to put out music again…
Reviews Film review: Jurassic World RebirthOne big pile of sh*t: Jurassic Park producers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could make a sixth sequel that they didn’t stop to wonder if they should.