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Back 4 Blood: The Kerrang! Survival Guide

New zombie first-person shooter game Back 4 Blood offers up some of the most satisfyingly gore-strewn undead chaos we’ve ever experienced. Having played it to death, we present five golden rules to help survive the onslaught…

Blood Youth: Inside their new era and the “biomechanical f*cking darkness” of Visions Of Another Hell

Blood Youth’s Chris Pritchard and Harry Rule talk line-up changes, surprise album releases and their thrilling new record, Visions Of Another Hell.

Billy Talent’s Ben Kowalewicz: “Once I accepted that this is the voice that I have, it was very liberating”

Billy Talent vocalist Ben Kowalewicz on growing up, his unique voice, meeting Eddie Vedder and making the decision to carry on without Aaron Solowoniuk.

How Korn’s self-titled debut made me the metalhead I am today

Remembering just how dark, twisted and extreme one of the greatest nu-metal albums of all time truly was…

Now Hear This: Henry Cox on the best new post-punk, powerviolence and post-hardcore

Boston Manor’s Henry Cox shares the new bands you should check out right now, including Static Dress, Calva Louise and The Murder Capital…

“Sometimes I feel that it’s the most honest record I ever made…” The story of Green Day’s Insomniac

Following Dookie, the album that made them mainstream stars and put punk noses out of joint, Green Day used their hurt, anger and confusion, and channelled it into the music…

Trivium’s Matt Heafy: My life in 10 songs

From 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…

blanket's track-by-track guide to Modern Escapism

Guitarist/vocalist Simon Morgan and bassist Matthew Sheldon from blanket take us inside the creation of their new album Modern Escapism, one track at a time.

Slayer’s Reign In Blood is still the greatest thrash album of all time

Released on October 7, 1986, Slayer’s third album Reign In Blood is absolute perfection.

Meet NOAHFINNCE: The YouTuber bringing joyful chaos to pop-punk’s new wave

On Hopeless Records debut EP STUFF FROM MY BRAIN, Noah Adams – aka NOAHFINNCE – proves that you can spread a worthwhile message and have a damn good time while doing so…

Trench: The story of twenty one pilots’ most ambitious album ever

On October 5, 2018, twenty one pilots unveiled their breathtaking fifth album, Trench. And as Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun revealed to Kerrang! in this cover story at the time, it was their most ambitious and important release yet…

Meet Lemonade Shoelace: The "psychedelic sundae" coming out of Northern Ireland

Taking cues from Tame Impala, skate culture and the seaside, Lemonade Shoelace is surfing a multi-coloured wave of psychedelia

Wildest Dreams: Why The Velveteers’ time is now

A band since they were teenagers, retro revisionists The Velveteers held off recording anything until they knew they were ready. Now armed with debut album Nightmare Daydream, the future is bright…

“I don’t blame the average punk rock kid for calling me a sellout”: Kurt Cobain, in his own words

From success to fatherhood, these are candid revelations on the life and legacy of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain…

The 20 greatest Ghost songs – ranked

From Opus Eponymous to Prequelle, we rank the greatest compositions from Ghost.

“Should I get my genitals pierced?” Al Jourgensen solves the world’s problems

Ministry mainman Al Jourgensen has been on quite the journey and somehow lived to tell the tale. As someone whose seen and snorted it all, we tasked the industrial icon with solving the problems of K! readers. We don’t condone all of it…

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