Reviews Album review: Great American Ghost – Tragedy Of The CommonsNew Hampshire brutalists Great American Ghost continue to boil over on thumping fourth album
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...
Features Who are Neck Deep’s fans?We meet the queue outside Neck Deep’s sold-out Manchester show to find out why pop-punk is alive and well in 2025...
Features “That spirit of playing fast and hard has been reinvigorated”: Deafheaven take us inside new album Lonely People With PowerCalifornian blackgaze overlords Deafheaven have returned with ear-smashing new single Magnolia to start the engines on imminent sixth album Lonely People With Power. We sat down with frontman George Clarke to find out how falling back in love with heavy music led to the most representative record yet of exactly who they are...
Features “Our music is about catharsis... I don’t gravitate to songwriting when everything is going well”: Inside the gothic darkness of Black SatelliteLarissa Vale loves the grit and grime of life in a band. Even as industrial-goth collective Black Satellite prepare to shoot for superstardom with long-overdue second album Aftermath, their inimitable vocalist promises they’ll never drop the darkness off which they’ve fed so far...
Reviews Album review: Mogwai – The Bad FireGlaswegian post-rock overlords Mogwai go to hell and back on eerie, enthralling, ultimately euphoric eleventh album
The Cover Story L.S. Dunes: “Making music together is an intimate relationship. We’re not f*cking, but we are giving each other all of our selves”L.S. Dunes was never supposed to be a ‘proper band’ but, even by the prolific standards of its esteemed personnel, the post-hardcore collective have gathered unheralded momentum. Ahead of sublime second album Violet, we join vocalist Anthony Green and guitarist Frank Iero to find how what started out “low stress” has grown into a towering monument to positivity and hope…
Reviews Album review: Paleface Swiss – CursedZurich deathcore upstarts Paleface Swiss blend unhinged brutality and nu-metal revivalism on uneven third album Cursed…
Features The Sound Of 2025: The new artists breaking the boundaries of alternative musicTearing up rulebooks and expanding minds, alternative music is more important than ever as we roll hard into 2025. To celebrate, we’re spotlighting the artists spearheading this new year’s revolution…
Features Gatecreeper, Enforced and 200 Stab Wounds are leading the extreme metal revolutionJoining forces for a mammoth, end-of-year European onslaught, Chase Mason, Knox Colby and Steve Buhl explain how a focus on ballsiness, brotherhood and bludgeoning riffs has seen them break free from the underground to boldly take on the world…
The Cover Story Slipknot: “Nothing was a certainty back then… It was us against everyone else. In our hearts, it still is”No band in history felt as confrontational, as dangerous, as downright frightening as Slipknot did when they first burst from the Iowan underground onto the world stage. Concluding 2024’s quarter-century celebrations for their incendiary debut, we join Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan to chart how the horror and beauty, pain and perseverance of that era shaped them…
Features The Kerrang! staff’s top albums of 2024You’ve seen the Kerrang! albums of 2024. Now check out what the staff were all listening to this year…
Reviews Album review: Heathen Deity – Satan’s KingdomBritish black metal maniacs Heathen Deity keep it evil as they career through the fire and brimstone of Satan’s Kingdom…
Reviews Album review: Godflesh – A World Lit Only By DubBrummie industrial legends Godflesh celebrate 10 years of A World Lit Only By Fire with a compelling reinvention via dub…
Reviews Album review: NECKBREAKKER – Within The VisceraRising Danish death metallers NECKBREAKKER get stuck into all sorts of nastiness on gleefully unhinged debut, Within The Viscera.