Features The Kerrang! staff’s top albums of 2021There have been plenty of absolutely incredible albums released in 2021. Here are all the records that have rocked our individual years…
Features The 50 best albums of 2021It’s here: the Kerrang! verdict on the 50 albums that shaped 2021…
Reviews Album review: Of Mice & Men – EchoCalifornia metalcore merchants Of Mice & Men offer something old, something new, and something very unexpected on final, composite part of EP trilogy…
The Cover Story Static Dress: “This genre has so much to be explored, but no-one wants to do it because everyone’s too scared of not being cool for 10 minutes”In a world where so many artists are afraid to stray from the norm, Static Dress stand as one of the most inventive and inspiring acts in the burgeoning new wave of post-hardcore, unafraid to push what it means to be a band. Dive into the Technicolor rabbit hole...
Features 25 Years Of Vagrant Records: The label that accidentally took emo to the mainstreamFrom a family-funded Get Up Kids album to becoming a lynchpin of 2000s emo, we look back on Vagrant Records’ reluctant rise…
Features Connie Sgarbossa and the brutally honest pain behind SeeYouSpaceCowboySeeYouSpaceCowboy's Connie Sgarbossa has turned darkness and self-destruction into one of the year's most overwhelming raw heavy albums. Now, she's focussed on trying to heal… (Trigger warnings: suicide, addiction, mental health)
Reviews Album review: Save Face – Another Kill For The Highlight ReelNew Jersey emo-types Save Face reinvent themselves as rock opera wannabes with mixed results on Another Kill For The Highlight Reel.
Reviews Album review: Dooms Children – Dooms ChildrenAlexisonfire / Gallows man Wade MacNeil returns with a surprising retro reinvention, Dooms Children…
Reviews Album review: Tom Morello – The Atlas Underground FireRage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello enlists some heavy hitters for his second collaborative solo record, The Atlas Underground Fire.
Features Trivium’s Matt Heafy: My life in 10 songsFrom scrappy teenage Metallica covers to Trivium’s monster of a 10th album In The Court Of The Dragon, Matt Heafy looks back at over two decades of metal…
Reviews Album review: The Muslims – Fuck These Fuckin FascistsA ferocious helping of scrappy, no-prisoners political punk from North Carolina outfit The Muslims…
Features Tom DeLonge: My life in 10 songsblink-182 and Angels & Airwaves frontman Tom DeLonge takes us through the 10 most monumental songs of his lengthy career…
Features Hole: The turbulent birth and misunderstood beauty of Celebrity SkinIn 1998, Hole released Celebrity Skin – a brilliant record born from a long, well-documented period of turmoil…
Reviews EP review: Haggard Cat – Cheer UpBlisteringly loud and powerful new EP from killer Nottingham duo Haggard Cat…
Reviews EP review: Insurgent – SentientRising Birmingham metallers Insurgent unleash a powerful opening statement with Sentient
Reviews EP review: Young Culture – GodspeedAlbany trio Young Culture continue to put the 'pop' into pop-punk on Godspeed.