King Diamond: "If there is a hell and I go there who cares? I've already faced it"Talking Metallica, the occult, nearly dying and creating scene classics with Danish icon King Diamond…
blink-182: How Take Off Your Pants And Jacket changed pop-punk foreverWhy blink-182’s fourth album, Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, matters more than you might think…
10 of the best (or worst?) innuendoes in rock historyThe annals of rock history is littered with smut, filth and generally seedy gags. Here we look back at some of the most ridiculous wordplay about the birds and the bees…
“It’s not big, it’s not clever, but it’ll make them very, very rich”: Our original 2001 review of blink-182’s Take Off Your Pants And JacketIn June 2001, Kerrang! reviewed blink-182’s fourth album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket… and said that it had “no challenging pursuit of fresh artistic goals”. Ouch.
“We got so sick of bands playing it safe the whole time”: The story of Linkin Park’s The Hunting PartyJust when you think you’ve got them figured out, another curveball: Linkin Park returned to riff-focused heaviness inspired by reflections on their past – and the help of a few famous friends, too – on The Hunting Party…
Garbage’s Shirley Manson: “Being human is to be messy. If you think you’re above all that you’re in deep, deep trouble”As Garbage unveil their first new album in five years, No Gods No Masters, Shirley Manson talks getting political, cancel culture, and why speaking up is more important than ever…
Now Hear This: Lucas Woodland on the best new pop-punk, Japanese metalcore and ugly popHolding Absence's Lucas Woodland brings you the new bands you need to check out now, including ZAND, Cherry and Paledusk…
The 20 greatest HIM songs – rankedFrom Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 to Tears On Tape, we rank HIM’s darkest, most delicious offerings…
10 bands from the ’90s who have kept their original line-up togetherSurprisingly few have managed it, but here are the bands who have maintained the same line-up since first forming in the 1990s…
Slipknot’s new album: Everything we know so farFrom “gnarly” masks to potentially “conceptual” music, the follow-up to Slipknot’s 2019 album We Are Not Your Kind is taking shape. Here’s what we know.
Meet KennyHoopla, the leader of pop-punk’s new generationRock music has always been there for KennyHoopla, even when it felt like nothing else was. As he prepares to release his thrilling mixtape, SURVIVORS GUILT, with collaborator Travis Barker, Kerrang! gets to know the shy star hell-bent on putting pop-punk back on top…
“A band with the potential to go deep and far”: Our original 2004 review of Three Cheers For Sweet RevengeIn June 2004, Kerrang! reviewed My Chemical Romance’s “awesome second album”, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge.
“We thrive on conflict, opposition… everything”: The story of MCR’s Three Cheers For Sweet RevengeThe story of Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge: the album that changed My Chemical Romance’s lives and the face of modern music forever…
Wolfgang Van Halen: “Playing music has been written in the stars for me since I was a little kid”Since he picked up the bass for the band bearing his family name, Wolfgang Van Halen has looked to the manor born. Striking out with solo debut Mammoth WVH, however, the second-generation superstar promises plenty of surprises…
“Some people think I’m a weirdo…” Rivers on Rivers: The Weezer frontman, in his own wordsThe wit, wisdom and unique worldview of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo…
Now Hear This: Sophie K on the best new metalcore, grunge and nu-metalKerrang! Radio host Sophie K brings you the new bands you need to check out now, including Zetra, Black Coast and Drown This City…
