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Meet Me @ The Altar: “It’s important that we love this. If we do, then everything else will come”

It’s been a hell of a ride for Meet Me @ The Altar. There’s been the release of their killer debut, Past // Present // Future, as well as being one of the bands of the weekend at last year’s Slam Dunk and Download. Now they’re coming back – so long as their hay fever holds off…

The Gaslight Anthem: “We’re happy. Whatever happens, it’s just good to be doing this again”

From tracks about vampire murderers to “the most Gaslight Anthem song ever”, History Books is here – and it’s been worth the wait. Brian Fallon takes Kerrang! inside the New Jersey heroes’ superb sixth album…

Ice Nine Kills: “Horror has always been in my blood and it always will be”

Horror isn’t just a hobby for Spencer Charnas, it’s a way of life. Growing up on a steady diet of slasher flicks and heavy music, it was inevitable he’d find an outlet for his twin passions, but few could have predicted the runaway ghost train of Ice Nine Kills. As Halloween approaches, the violence-loving visionary takes us inside his own personal creepshow…

END: “I’m glad people think we’re super, but I want this to have its own identity”

Guitarist and super-producer of all things heavy Will Putney is a busy man. Somehow, he’s got time to do yet another band, furious supergroup END. He takes us inside his most aggressive project as they prepare to drop their second album, The Sin Of Human Frailty.

Myrkur: “Out of anything I’ve ever done, this was the most healing. I went through the album’s journey and came up hopeful”

When Amalie Bruun’s son was born, suddenly everything else seemed unimportant. Even her approach to art changed radically, as tales of Scandinavian folklore paled in significance to the new life she had created. Now she has channelled her experience of motherhood into one of the most powerful albums of the year…

Bad Rabbits’ track-by-track guide to new album Garden Of Eden

From rebounds to rizz, vocalist Fredua Boakye reveals the meaning behind every song on Bad Rabbits’ new album Garden Of Eden…

In pictures: The Kerrang! x Within Temptation album launch party

On the eve of release for new record Bleed Out, we teamed up with our pals in Within Temptation to throw the ultimate album launch party in London – here’s what went down…

How Korn and adidas are still reshaping the face of alternative fashion

When Korn frontman Jonathan Davis first stepped onstage in his battered adidas tracksuit, little could he have known how he would irreversibly change the look and sound of alternative music. Decades later, the Bakersfield legends’ long-overdue collaboration with the iconic German sportswear brand is proof that they’re still amongst the most influential players in the game…

Dreamwell: “It’s all about interpretation – it’s about not having a literal answer”

Providence screamers Dreamwell are about to release one of the heaviest – on every level – albums of the year: In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You. Here, Keziah ‘KZ’ Staska and Aki McCullough reveal everything that went into it…

Jazmin Bean, Deijuvhs and Cody Frost are redefining what it means to be alternative

Genre is dead. Punk fashion is mainstream. And even rock’s most esoteric bands are headlining arenas. But there is an alternative, a real alternative. Connected not by sound or style, but by community and attitude, a new generation of misfits are reinventing the alt. scene for those who are craving something to call their own – get on board…

The story of My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade: “When it was done, I knew that we’d created a monster”

As reluctant emo standard-bearers, in 2006 My Chemical Romance set out to make an album for the ages. Amid controversy, great suffering and obsession, they pulled it off. But it almost killed them…

“I almost burned off my thumb with a bottlerocket”: 13 Questions with Foo Fighters’ Chris Shiflett

Foo Fighter Chris Shiflett tell us all about firework-based horseplay, witnessing metal history as it happened, and seafood that tastes “like rotting garbage…”

RØRY: The 10 songs that changed my life

From ’00s pop-punk to alternative metal and pop classics, RØRY reveals the soundtrack to her life.

In pictures: Creeper’s Sanguivore album release show in a church

Creeper hit St John’s Church in Kingston to celebrate the release of new album Sanguivore, and it looked like this…

Twin Temple: “We’re carrying the torch for rock’n’roll’s main traditions: horniness and Satanism”

Twin Temple are all about Satan, shagging and the swinging sounds of the ’60s. As they celebrate the light of Lucifer on their new album God Is Dead, they tell us about life on the Left Hand Path, sexual liberation, and offending right-wing loudmouths…

In pictures: blink-182’s joyous return to London with Tom DeLonge

Nine years on from their last visit with Tom DeLonge, blink-182 played two glorious sold-out nights at London’s The O2 – and it looked like this…

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