Reviews Album review: beabadoobee – This Is How Tomorrow Movesbeabadoobee embraces the sweet sound of self-acceptance on futureproof third LP This Is How Tomorrow Moves.
Features Who are Green Day’s fans?We head to Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester for the first UK date of Green Day’s epic tour celebrating Dookie and American Idiot (and new album Saviors) to find out who their fans are and why they keep coming back for more…
Reviews The big review: Rock for People 2024Are you ready to rock… for people?! From Bring Me The Horizon and Parkway Drive to Avril Lavigne and YUNGBLUD, this year’s Czechia alt. mega-fest is bigger and bolder than ever.
Reviews The big review: Download Festival 2024Download Festival 2024 is go! As is the annual Kerrang! rolling review, featuring all the best, can’t-be-missed stuff from the home of metal this weekend…
The Cover Story Gatecreeper: “Death metal is sacred, and you’re passing it from generation to generation… a lot of genres don’t have that”A decade ago, Gatecreeper were a bunch of misfit metal maniacs from Arizona. Now, they’re being hailed as death metal’s new leaders. On the eve of their excellent third album, Dark Superstition, the Sonoran Desert crew explain how they’re seizing the moment, the importance of preserving the scene, and the peace-giving qualities of music’s goriest movement…
Reviews Album review: Wristmeetrazor – DegenerationMetalcore misanthropes Wristmeetrazor blast back into the abyss with bludgeoning third album Degeneration.
Features Wristmeetrazor: “Good art needs to have a bit of pain behind it”On their new album Degeneration, Wristmeetrazor examine misanthropy, hypocrisy and abuse of power. Justin Fornof explains how they got it all out, via a trip to a cabin in the woods…
Features “The cops caught me on a stolen snowmobile”: 13 Questions with Blind Channel’s Joel HokkaBlind Channel man Joel faces K!’s 13 Questions, and tells tales of grand theft snowmobile, rancid fish, and his short, terrifying career as a taxi driver…
Features The Chisel are the UK punk band you need right nowArmed with riotous new album What A Fucking Nightmare, London mob The Chisel are taking punk back to its no-frills, in-your-face roots. Look out...
Features “I got stabbed by a mail cart”: 13 Questions with The Callous Daoboys’ Carson PaceCarson Pace loves energy drink, hates bad John Mayer covers, and got a gnarly injury in the least likely job for it. Join The Callous Daoboys frontman as he faces K!’s 13 Questions…
Features Sleep Token: “Our identity is represented through the art itself”Millions of listeners. Sold-out arenas. No identity. Sleep Token’s unstoppable rise has been breathtaking to behold, doing it all on their terms, giving the briefest of glimpses into the multiverse they’ve created. Ahead of their biggest-ever headline show at Wembley Arena, we search through past interactions for the meaning behind the mystery and find real beauty in anonymity…
News From My Chem to Metallica: Get iconic photos of all your favourite bands from the Ashley Maile print shopCheck out Ashley Maile’s incredible, iconic work – featuring everyone from My Chemical Romance to blink-182 to Linkin Park to Pearl Jam to Metallica – at the newly-relaunched website, and see how you can be in with a chance of winning his photo book.
Branded Content How Korn and adidas are still reshaping the face of alternative fashionWhen 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…
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 Pure Noise artists to cover Slipknot, Elton John, Nirvana and more on new Dead Formats Vol. 2 compilationPure Noise have teamed up with Pabst Blue Ribbon for a new compilation album of covers – hear Less Than Jake, Knuckle Puck and Lalalove offer their fresh takes now…
Features Ithaca: “When I was younger, it felt like I was fighting everyone. Now, where I get my energy from isn’t that dark place anymore”After years of disrespect, self-loathing and “fighting our audience”, Ithaca are fast becoming one of British metal’s leading lights. And with it, singer Djamila Boden Azzouz an unintended icon. We met up with her to learn who she is, and found that she’s not as scary as we first thought…
