Reviews Album review: Kaonashi – I Want To Go Home.Philadelphia’s weirdest metalcore outfit, Kaonashi, keep things wonderfully bizarre on excellent third album.
Features Poppy: “I want to get closer to understanding myself. I think that’s my only responsibility”Who is the real Poppy? As she brings last year’s excellent Negative Spaces album to the UK, we try to get to know the shadowy musical shape-shifter. She tells us all about getting bigger, playing on American telly with Knocked Loose and going to the GRAMMYs. But can we figure out the person behind the enigma?
Features “This isn’t a rebirth. It’s training for your f*cking life”: Inside Rico Nasty’s bold new eraAfter breakout success caught up with her and things started to go down a dark path, Rico Nasty took some time out to find herself again. Now, on third album LETHAL, the Maryland-born star is all about freedom, openness and whole-heartedly fighting back…
Features Damiano David: “I had to break down many layers… This album is me, 100 per cent”As Damiano David prepares to drop his debut solo album FUNNY little FEARS, the Måneskin frontman shares the unhappy place he was in when the creative process began, how much has changed since, and why the record is “the narration of me coming back to life”…
Reviews Album review: PUP – Who Will Look After The DogsEmotionally tortured and self-deprecating Canadian punks PUP let their sadness shine on marvellous fifth album.
Reviews Album review: Propagandhi – At PeaceCanadian politipunks Propagandhi rage against the system and the dying light on superb eighth album.
Reviews Album review: Heart Attack Man – Joyride The Pale HorseOhio pop-punks Heart Attack Man deliver a curate’s egg of a fourth full-length.
Reviews Album review: Momma – Welcome To My Blue SkyCalifornia alt-rockers Momma try to live up to the hype of their breakthrough record on fourth outing.
Features Underoath: “We’re happier and healthier than we’ve ever been, but you always have to wonder what’s next”What exactly is The Place After This One? It’s the brand-new Underoath album, sure, but for vocalist Spencer Chamberlain it’s so much more: an overwhelmingly uncertain concept that has been weighing heavy on his mind…
Reviews Album review: Backxwash – Only Dust RemainsBackxwash’s Ashanti Mutinta returns with a morbid, bleak and brilliant post-trilogy album.
Features Sobriety, knick-knacks and pooping on porcelain: Life on the road with Shavo OdadjianStarting up again in an “old-school” way with Seven Hours After Violet, and with some huge System Of A Down gigs also on the horizon, Shavo Odadjian talks all things touring…
Features How Anxious finally discovered who they really areOn the eve of new album Bambi, Anxious’ Grady Allen and Dante Melucci reflect on how the follow-up to their sensational debut wasn’t written in the stars, but now everything has aligned for one of the most progressive hardcore records of the year…
Reviews Album review: Winona Fighter – My Apologies To The ChefNashville alt.punk trio Winona Fighter assert themselves right out of the gates with brilliant debut album.
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…
The Cover Story The Home Team: “Be true to yourself and your tastes. If you hone your art as much as possible, you will create something that is unique”They say that hard work pays off, and for Seattle’s purveyors of heavy pop The Home Team, they’re finally reaping the rewards after more than a decade toiling away. With a career-best album in their arsenal and a sold-out UK tour on the horizon, we sit down with mainman Brian Butcher to reflect on how they got here and why they had to keep on pushing – even when all felt lost…