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MOTHICA: How trauma and addiction shaped rock’s inspiring new voice

McKenzie Ellis hasn’t had things easy. The musician behind the dark alt.pop of MOTHICA shares how her recovery and love of rock’s great innovators informed her excellent new album, Nocturnal…

Songs Of Praise: Blood Command’s Nikki Brumen on finding new beginnings after your world ends

After losing her band and parents in 2020, ex-Pagan singer Nikki Brumen found an unlikely home in Norway with turbo-punk heroes Blood Command. Their new album, Praise Armageddonism, is the sound of a band and performer reborn…

Bartees Strange: “Hardcore and punk was a refuge for me. It was the only place I could be myself”

Multi-talented songwriter Bartees Strange embraces just about every genre on his brilliant new album Farm To Table. But, as he tells Kerrang!, he’ll never lose his love for the guitar…

The Kerrang! Awards 2022: “It’s an exciting time for heavy f*ckin’ music!”

Last week, the Kerrang! Awards returned to deliver 14 coveted trophies to the scene’s best and brightest stars. More than just a massive drunken party, though, the evening was a vital reminder that – from politics to pushing boundaries – the future is in very good hands…

“Having no internet would remind you how precious life really is”: 13 Questions with Shinedown’s Brent Smith

Keanu Reeves, dogs and turning off the internet: it’s Shinedown vocalist Brent Smith’s turn to face Kerrang!’s 13 Questions!

Why we should be looking at mental health under the social model of disability

In a society that disables people through barriers rather than their impairments, we must not only shift our framework to the social model of disability but ensure that it encompasses mental health.

“Politics are essential to hardcore”: Candy dissect scathing second album Heaven Is Here

When continent-spanning noisecore crew Candy emerged at the outset of the United States’ Trump era, it didn’t seem like things could get much worse. Having watched their country spiral over the half-decade since, however, they’ve mercilessly upped the extremity for genre-obliterating second album Heaven Is Here...

In pictures: All the highlights from Glastonbury 2022

From Skunk Anansie to Turnstile and IDLES to Phoebe Bridgers, here’s the very best of the alternative scene from this weekend’s massive Glastonbury…

Pale Waves: “We’re trying to be who we truly are, and that encourages other people to do the same”

Ahead of the release of their third album Unwanted, Pale Waves get real on their new sound, LGBTQ+ rights and queer baiting in the music industry…

“Abortion bans are an all-out war on women and anyone with a uterus”

Petrol Girls vocalist Ren Aldridge weighs in on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and why the world needs to address its abortion laws.

In pictures: Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer’s Hella Mega Tour hits London

We head to the London Stadium to catch Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer and Amyl And The Sniffers crush it in front of 75,000 fans…

From industrial goth-pop to noise-punk: Alex Baker on the new bands you need right now

Kerrang! Radio host Alex Baker brings you the new noise, including Death By Romy, Creature and My Only Solution…

In pictures: All the action from the Kerrang! Awards 2022

Check out our packed gallery from another incredibly special Kerrang! Awards ceremony!

In pictures: The Kerrang! Awards 2022 red carpet

From Frank Carter to Fall Out Boy and WARGASM to Weezer, here’s all the arrivals at Shoreditch Town Hall for the Kerrang! Awards 2022!

5 reasons why you need to check out ONI

Led by the multi-talented Jake Oni, they bring both brutality and sensitivity to the metalcore table. Here’s what you need to know…

The Wonder Years’ Dan Campbell: “I wanted these songs to exist, so I made them. You should make art that you f*cking love”

As The Wonder Years officially announce their highly-anticipated seventh album The Hum Goes On Forever, we talk nerdy songwriting, fatherhood, and being the very best with frontman Dan Campbell.

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