The K! Pit

Everyone’s favourite mathy mind-manglers The Callous Daoboys flip The K! Pit on its head with a high-energy cocktail of pits, crowdsurfers, trance intros and Children Of Men mosh-calls…

Watch The Callous Daoboys run riot in The K! Pit

Welsh metal heroes bring the chaos and crowdsurfers to their hit-filled K! Pit set, with Dead Man’s Fingers Rum at Blondies.

Watch: Bullet For My Valentine create a crowdsurfing frenzy in The K! Pit

Newcastle psychedelic rifflords Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs transform The K! Pit with Dead Man’s Fingers into a kaleidoscopic vision of ever-expanding heaviness…

Watch Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs’ cataclysmic set in The K! Pit

Sheffield heavies Malevolence brought the fists and the fury to The K! Pit with Download Festival.

Watch Malevolence’s brutal performance in The K! Pit

Goth-punk renegades Creeper flipped The K! Pit with Dead Man’s Fingers Rum on its head with an epic spinny wheel setlist…

Watch Creeper’s sensational K! Pit performance – with a fan-chosen set

Riotous London punks Chubby And The Gang get things moving in The K! Pit with Dead Man’s Fingers Rum.

Watch Chubby And The Gang’s lairy K! Pit performance

See grit pop’s finest Cassyette absolutely rule in The K! Pit with Dead Man’s Fingers Rum.

Watch Cassyette’s commanding set in The K! Pit

Hot Milk head into The K! Pit, with Dead Man's Fingers Rum, to whip up some chaos!

Watch Hot Milk kick off the new season of The K! Pit with Dead Man's Fingers Rum

Electro-punx Wargasm celebrate the return of live music with the first post-lockdown K! Pit set in association with ALT+LDN, and announce new single, Salma Hayek.

Watch Wargasm hit The K! Pit: “It feels so good to be back!”

Post-hardcore crew Holding Absence reveal uplifting new music and K! Pit show, in association with Nordic Spirit.

Watch Holding Absence’s life-affirming performance in The K! Pit

Palm Reader bring Sleepless to life in The K! Pit, in association with Nordic Spirit

Watch Palm Reader round off 2020 with an explosive set in The K! Pit

Svalbard unleash a barrage of blackened brutality inside The K! Pit, in association with Nordic Spirit

Watch Svalbard bring the fury to The K! Pit

Nova Twins didn't come to play fair in this week's K! Pit…

Watch Nova Twins unleash a vortex in The K! Pit

Salem hit the new socially-distanced K! Pit for a half-hour jam of gothic party anthems

Watch Salem bring the goth-punk party to The K! Pit

Finally! The K! Pit is (safely) back, with Leeds crew Higher Power launching the new series in style…

Watch Higher Power kick off our socially distanced K! Pit series

In a pre-COVID age, Touché Amoré played our Brooklyn K! Pit. Here's that show in full…

Watch Touché Amoré remind us of the power of live music in The K! Pit

News

Six years on from 2019’s Atonement, Killswitch Engage will be releasing This Consequence in February: “It’s the exact record we needed to make…”

Killswitch Engage return with brand-new album, This Consequence

The Cover Story

Armed with barnstorming single Forever Aligned, Killswitch Engage are back at it again with new album This Consequence. In a world-exclusive first interview with Kerrang!, frontman Jesse Leach and guitarist Adam D lift the lid on their ninth LP, overcoming their personal struggles, the impossible power of love, and why division is never the answer…

Killswitch Engage: “We’ve got more in common than we do differences as human beings”

Listen to Coheed And Cambria’s new single Searching For Tomorrow, taken from next year’s 10th album The Father Of Make Believe.

Coheed And Cambria release new single, announce ﻿10th album The Father Of Make Believe

Features

Against The Current’s Chrissy Costanza shares her thoughts on how social media and content creation is “the greatest thing that could happen for musicians…”

Chrissy Costanza: How social media has levelled the playing field for musicians to “take back the power and not have to sign your whole life away”

Knocked Loose will be wrapping up their incredible year with an outdoor mini-concert for Jimmy Kimmel…

Knocked Loose announce Jimmy Kimmel performance: “The heaviest band on live television”

Watch the video for Architects’ “truly ferocious” single Whiplash, taken from the band’s just-announced new studio album The Sky, The Earth & All Between.

Architects drop new single Whiplash from ﻿their 11th album The Sky, The Earth & All Between

Following the release of excellent new album Negative Spaces, Poppy is heading off on a big North American tour in the spring.

Poppy announces 28-city North American headline tour

Celebrating 30 years of their self-titled second album, Clutch will be crossing the pond in just over a year’s time…

Clutch to play their 1995 second album in full on European tour

My Chemical Romance’s epic stadium run next year – which will take the band across North America for 11 huge dates – has sold out within hours…

My Chem have sold out their 2025 Black Parade stadium tour, with 365,000 tickets snapped up

Against The Current’s Chrissy Costanza stops by Kerrang! In Conversation for a feature-length chat about music, video games, social media, Greek mythology and much more…

Listen to Chrissy Costanza on the Kerrang! In Conversation podcast

Denzel Curry has got a packed year planned, announcing a whopping 57 shows for his global Mischievous South run.

Denzel Curry announces 2025 Mischievous South world tour

Funeral For A Friend – fronted by Holding Absence’s Lucas Woodland – will hit Leeds and Cardiff for their only UK dates of next year…

Funeral For A Friend announce two massive UK shows for 2025

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