Reviews Live review: Ice Nine Kills, London OVO Arena WembleyThe horror! The horror! Ice Nine Kills slay in the capital, with a little help from Creeper, The Devil Wears Prada and TX2.
What Lies Beneath Chthonic hallucinations, sci-fi dystopia and devastating doom: End-of-year highlights from the undergroundA festive round-up of the death metal, psych and doom noises coming from the subterranean depths, Master’s Hammer, QRIXKUOR, Bell Witch and more…
Features Remembering the biggest shows of BABYMETAL’s lives: “We want to do new things that no other Japanese band has done”By 2016, the BABYMETAL prophecies were already beginning to come true. As K! joined them in Japan for a set of enormous shows at Tokyo Dome, we witnessed in real-time a giant standing up before us. After that year’s METAL RESISTANCE album made them one of the biggest bands in the universe, things looked perfect. But the golden path would eventually be beset with difficulty…
Reviews Even in America! What happened when Sleep Token brought Vesselmania to Louder Than LifeSleep Token master their stunning Even In Arcadia show as they dominate their first U.S. festival headliner.
Features Who are Ghost’s fans?As Ghost begin their phenomenal Skeletour, we head to the sold-out AO Arena in Manchester to meet their fans and find out why they love the band, if they’ve ever seen a real-life ghost, and which Papa has “a bit of sauce…”
Reviews The big review: Knotfest SydneySlipknot’s mega-fest goes down under, with a little help from A Day To Remember, Enter Shikari, BABYMETAL and more…
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...
News Architects drop new single Whiplash from their 11th album The Sky, The Earth & All BetweenWatch the video for Architects’ “truly ferocious” single Whiplash, taken from the band’s just-announced new studio album The Sky, The Earth & All Between.
Features Who are Korn’s fans?We take a trip to Gunnersbury Park for Korn’s biggest-ever UK headline show to find out who their fans are, what they love about the adidas-sporting heavyweights, and why nu-metal will never die…
Branded Content From thrash superstars to grunge legends: Kerrang!’s top picks from Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums listWith Apple Music publishing their 100 Best Albums list – which takes in everything from The Beatles to Wu-Tang Clan – we take a look at the five best heavy and alt. records that made the cut…
Reviews Album review: Ray Noir – ScorpioLondon alt. goth trailblazer Ray Noir continues his rise from sleazy street-corners to shady superstardom with scintillating seven-track mixtape Scorpio…
The Cover Story The Armed: “This was always supposed to be magical and bizarre, but never just f*cking pretend”After years as the slipperiest enigma in alternative music, The Armed are finally setting the story straight. Well, kinda. Strapping ourselves to the anarchic collective as they kick off celebrations for fifth LP Perfect Saviors, K! finds there’s still no easy way out once you’ve fallen into their intoxicating tangle of politics and philosophy, muscle and mayhem…
News Rammstein’s Christoph Schneider: Till Lindemann allegations “have deeply shaken us as a band”Following the news that Till Lindemann is under investigation by German police, Rammstein drummer Christoph ‘Doom’ Schneider has posted an extensive statement sharing his “personal emotions and thoughts”.
News Police investigating sexual offence allegations against Rammstein’s Till LindemannFollowing allegations of sexual offences, Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann is reportedly under investigation by police in his native Germany.
The Cover Story Avenged Sevenfold: “Just say your message and put the art out there. Artists should do what they want and explore deeper rabbit-holes”Avenged Sevenfold have become one of modern metal’s biggest bands by forever doing things their own unique way. In a world-exclusive interview, frontman M. Shadows and guitarist Synyster Gates lift the lid on new album Life Is But A Dream… and the band’s fearless, fantastic latest chapter.
Reviews What happened on the first night of Metallica’s M72 World TourK! was there for the first night at Amsterdam’s vast Johann Cruyff Arena to witness the kicking-off of Metallica’s career-spanning, globe-trotting M72 Tour…