We get the lowdown on @bloodywood's dream three headliners for a facemelting festival lineup 🔥📢: @slipknot @kublaikhantx @officialalterbridge🎥: @rishi.shah2
“There’s so many notes on the album, and they all have to be written down in exactly the way that they were played, whether it was a slide, pinch harmonic or regular harmonic, a bend or a whammy,” Tim explains. “Any kind of craziness happening to a note has to be documented exactly the way it was....
Clayface is out today! To celebrate, we challenged director James Watkins and stars Tom Rhys Harries and Max Minghella to see if they knew their Metallos from their Metallicas. How will they fare in DC Villain or Metal Band...?📢: @tomrhysharries, @maxminghella, @jameswatkinsfilmfor @clayfacemovie...
"These Killing Times has more of an outward focus than an inward one. There’s no way to be reflective or introspective, or make work that’s about my past, when the present is so pressing, and creating such intense feelings..."Read our full interview with Emma Ruth Rundle at the link in bio 🔗✍️:...
Castle Rat are a band built on magical fantasy, home-brewed lore, and righteous metal, so we asked them the most important question that dives deep into the unexplored nooks of their mythology. Finally, your prayers are answered...These are @castle.rat's favourite rats 🐀 🎥: @ashmillmann
blink-182, Iron Maiden and Korn will be performing at Sonic Temple 2027, joined by over a hundred other rock and metal artists.Check out the full list of announcements for the Sonic Temple 2027 lineup at the link in bio 🔗📷: JENN FIVE 📸✌🏻
To celebrate 20 years of My Chemical Romance's masterpiece, The Black Parade, we dive into the Kerrang! archives to tell the full, incredible story in the band's own words. Presented as a limited-edition 20-page A5 zine, complete with exclusive rare and unseen photography from the time,...
Kerrang! Presents… Crawlers 💙Having returned with two brilliant EPs, TURN OFF THE TV and LIVE WITH THIS, the mighty Crawlers are ending the year in style by headlining the third Kerrang! Presents… show at The Barfly in Camden on December 7. Get your tickets from the link in bio now 🔗"After selling...
Kerrang! Cover Story: Why Tony Iommi will never say die“I can’t stop doing this stuff, it's embedded in there”Read our in-depth interview with Tony Iommi about his new album, Back To The Beginning and more now at the link in bio 🔗✍️: Nick Ruskell📷: Tina K 📸🎨: Jamie Abbott
Maryland's Boardwalk Rock is returning for a second year next spring, with a huge bill headlined by Iron Maiden, Korn and Bad Omens, and loads of other great names...https://www.kerrang.com/iron-maiden-korn-and-bad-omens-are-…
Lambrini Girls have shared two very different singles, The Basement and Spilt, one of which deals with the manosphere and the other with alcohol dependency...https://www.kerrang.com/lambrini-girls-drop-two-contrasting…
Mirrortalk are going full grungegaze on new single, Calm On The Surface, focusing on "the constant desire to seem okay, the front we put on, and the vulnerability we hide."https://www.kerrang.com/mirrortalk-release-atmospheric-new-…
We chatted with Sharon Osbourne ahead of an early screening of Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning last night, where she celebrated the love of the metal community and Ozzy's lasting legacy 🖤📢: @sharonosbourne on @ozzyosbourne and @backtothebeginningofficial 🎥: @ashmillmann
One Step Closer are gearing up to release a new album, Zero, with two new singles called Blue Hour and Was It Ever Enough? that share a music video directed by the band themselves...https://www.kerrang.com/one-step-closer-announce-new-album-…
"Prepare your office attire and prepare for the Birdsong Property Development first quarter company review!” Exploring Birdsong have got some more shows in the diary for early next year, including in their hometown of Liverpool...https://www.kerrang.com/exploring-birdsong-announce-uk-tour…
As they wrap up the UNATØNED era, Machine Head have one last surprise in the form of a new single, SUTURES...https://www.kerrang.com/machine-head-drop-surprise-new-sing…
blink-182's European takeover next summer is very much on, given they've now been announced as Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium's first headliner next year. Does Download beckon?https://www.kerrang.com/blink-182-are-headlining-graspop-in…
After Iron Maiden were confirmed as a headliner last week, the line-up for Sonic Temple 2027 has quickly started taking shape, with PRESIDENT, A Perfect Circle, Primus and more all set to play...https://www.kerrang.com/sonic-temple-announces-more-bands-f…
Learning to love oneself again is easier said than done. Bonnie Fraser would agree with that. Stand Atlantic’s singer-guitarist has chronicled that journey on GODBREATH, the Sydney quartet’s fifth album, giving it a narrative arc and a depth that has real...
Could there be posthumous Ozzy Osbourne music coming? Andrew Watt, who produced his last two albums, says they listened to the unreleased songs together the night before Back To The Beginning...https://www.kerrang.com/producer-andrew-watt-reveals-he-sti…
After 15 years and two reunions, She Wants Revenge are back with new album, The Loved, new single, BLACK WAX/OUR LOVE, and UK and European tour dates for next year...https://www.kerrang.com/she-wants-revenge-announce-first-al…
After mysterious teasers popped up around Los Angeles over the weekend, System Of A Down have announced they are playing Pasasdena's Rose Bowl next summer.https://www.kerrang.com/system-of-a-down-announce-rose-bowl…
NOAHFINNCE will get excited about his upcoming shows eventually. The excitement doesn’t usually hit him until the day of the gig, or once he’s finished rehearsals. Until that point, he’ll be wobbly with anxiety.“Even for Slam Dunk last year, I was like, ‘Oh shit, what if I flop? What if I’ve...
Harpy has announced her debut headline tour, the VOYEUR TOUR, taking in four dates in February...https://www.kerrang.com/harpy-announces-voyeur-tour-debut-h…
Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande has offered some insights on the band's upcoming eighth album: "We are making real music; we are not thinking about business. We are not thinking about if the people are gonna like it or not."https://www.kerrang.com/we-are-doing-a-lot-of-songs-eloy-ca…
State Champs on the venue that made them beloved big boys 🏆📢: @statechampsny shout-out @roundhouseldn🎥: @rishi.shah2
Travis Barker stopped by Billy Corgan's The Magnificent Others last week, on which Billy told Travis: "You have influenced more popular drummers in the last thirty years than any drummer I can think of."https://www.kerrang.com/billy-corgan-says-travis-barker-is-…
Be Not Afraid narrows focus on a darker, synthy, almost dubstep-inflected sound; these 12 tracks feel less like four of the best players you’ve ever heard simply showing off than a cohesive band inhabiting a world of their own making...https://www.kerrang.com/album-review-polyphia-be-not-afraid
Here's what went down both on and off stage when Taking Back Sunday took Red Rocks for a 20th anniversary celebration of Louder Now! Cheers to two decades soundtracked by these incredible emo bangers, and to many more to come 🎟️📢: Taking Back Sunday at Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre📷: Salma
Since their last full album in 2021, Frontierer have been working away on album five. Now we’re within touching distance of Ultraviolet Parasite, and for the uninitiated there must be a word of warning. Frontierer do not make music to be easily consumed, or put on as background...
"There’s nothing quite like the energy of a UK crowd": Bon Jovi are coming back to London, 14 years after headlining the first ever BST Hyde Park...https://www.kerrang.com/bon-jovi-announced-for-bst-hyde-par…
BMTH's Oli Sykes and Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante brought their Valorant collab with Grabbitz, If The Sun Burns Out Tonight, live for the first time at the Champions event in Shanghai - check it out below...https://www.kerrang.com/watch-bring-me-the-horizon-oli-syke…
Before they top the bill at Sick New World next weekend, several new System Of A Down teasers have gone up in Los Angeles…https://www.kerrang.com/system-of-a-down-teasing-2027-serj-…
K! Autumn Issue 2026: PRESIDENTAfter a landslide victory with their debut EP last year, PRESIDENT unexpectedly found themselves with a devoted electorate willing to follow their leader wherever he goes. Now as they release Blood Of Your Empire, we meet the enigmatic frontman for an afternoon of...
Desertfest has announced more names set to join headliners Melvins at next year's event, including YOB, Lowen and the long-awaited return of Kylesa...https://www.kerrang.com/desertfest-announce-more-bands-for-…
Opening with Goner! Isle Of Flightless Birds in full for the first time since 2014! The live debut of At The Risk Of Feeling Dumb! twenty one pilots pulled out all the stops for their hometown spectacular…https://www.kerrang.com/twenty-one-pilots-ohio-stadium-colu…
"There’s a song on this record called Favorite Flavor, and I think that was the turning point. That was the first song I wrote since WAS HERE and I was so relieved. I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can write again.’ After that, it just snowballed," says Bonnie...Read The K! Cover Story with stand atlantic...
The Pretty Reckless have teamed up with Dave Grohl for new bonus version of About You.Taken from this year’s 4/5-rated fifth album Dear God, the track now comes with added vocals from the Foo Fighters icon, making it feel even more rockin’ than the original.Speaking to Kerrang! over the summer...
The Smashing Pumpkins have released a new single, Black Stars, for The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping (The Album).The track arrives just over a month before the movie’s arrival in cinemas on November 20, and hears the trio – vocalist/guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer...
Iron Maiden have announced a surprise 16-date North American tour.The metal legends’ epic Run For Your Lives jaunt will cross the pond next spring, taking in arenas and amphitheatres before wrapping up with headline slots at Columbus, Ohio’s Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival on May 14, and Ocean...
It’s been a huge year for System Of A Down , but the nu-metal icons are already teasing something for 2027.Before they headline Texas’ Sick New World next weekend, out west in the U.S. a whole bunch of logos have gone up at various Los Angeles landmarks, including near the Capitol building and off...
twenty one pilots are almost ready to close the book on their fantastic Breach touring cycle, and last night they played their longest show ever to celebrate headlining their hometown’s Ohio Stadium.Packing out the Columbus mega-venue with tens of thousands of fans, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun...
Trash Boat's Tobi shares what's always been the most special part of making music to him, ahead of celebrating ten years of Nothing I Write You Can Change What You've Been Through in a special one-off KOKO show 🤞📢: @tobi_duncan of @trashboatuk at @kokocamden🎥: @ashmillmann
“The joy of performing has been taken away from me”: Architects frontman Sam Carter has shared a painfully honest post about the cruel comments and online discourse surrounding his vocals...https://www.kerrang.com/architects-frontman-sam-carter-anxi…
Check out Enter Shikari's Live From The Golden Age session, which they recorded in an abandoned manor in August and sees them play their new song Higher Ground for the first time...https://www.kerrang.com/we-broke-into-an-abandoned-manor-in…
Musician, YouTuber and now a speaker at Oxford University - Chrissy Costanza is stopping by the Oxford Union to give a talk ahead of the band's new album and UK/Europe tour...https://www.kerrang.com/against-the-currents-chrissy-costan…
GWAR and Joe Bob Briggs have joined forces for a horror-tastic vinyl, The Last Drive-In-Stein - check out the new song, Splatter-Fu, below...https://www.kerrang.com/a-match-made-in-hell-gwar-and-joe-b…
American Football have covered The Cure's Boys Don't Cry, which Robert Smith himself said was “one of the most heartfelt and beautiful Cure covers I have ever heard."https://www.kerrang.com/american-football-cover-the-cure-bo…
Taken from the deluxe album, ALL IS BEAUTIFUL... BECAUSE WE'RE DOOMED: CIRCULARITY, We Came As Romans have reworked its song where did you go alongside Aussie newcomers Headwreck...https://www.kerrang.com/we-came-as-romans-join-forces-with-…
Poppy's going to be part of the Fortnite universe for a month, starting from October 23, with a special in-game experience called Poppy Secret Run that features her song Time Will Tell...https://www.kerrang.com/poppy-announces-her-own-in-game-for…