Reviews The big review: Damnation Festival 2024What happened when Nails, Gatecreeper, Cradle Of Filth and a ton more brought the noise to Manchester for the biggest Damnation Festival yet.
Reviews Album review: The Body – The Crying Out Of ThingsRhode Island extreme experimentalists The Body make zero concessions on astonishing, apocalyptic eighth album.
Reviews Album review: Enforced – A Leap Into The DarkVirginia’s rising thrash kings Enforced keep pedal to the metal excellent new EP A Leap Into The Dark.
Features Paul Di’Anno: The raggedly talented wildman who helped Iron Maiden change the course of metalLegendary former Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno has died, aged 66. Kerrang! looks back at his life, and how a tearaway from East London helped give the band’s first two albums their bite…
Reviews Album review: Better Lovers – Highly IrresponsibleHeavy supergroup Better Lovers deliver the goods with a no-holds-barred debut that proves beyond doubt the chaotic beauty of being Highly Irresponsible…
Features The People Vs. Myles Kennedy: Alter Bridge’s singer on challenging songs, ’80s movies, and playing a guitar solo next to SlashRock’n’roll gent Myles Kennedy takes on the questions asked by you…
The Cover Story Amyl And The Sniffers: “This music is about my whole life, and where it will take me. I’m still figuring it all the f*ck out”Amyl And The Sniffers might’ve made their bones as a boozy Aussie bar band, but years of hard touring has broadened their horizons. Ready to unleash terrific third album Cartoon Darkness, Amy Taylor and Declan Martens explain how they’ve learned there’s nothing mutually exclusive about making your mark and having a rip-snorting good time...
Reviews Album review: Lowen – Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of MazandaranLondon prog-doomsters Lowen deliver on years of eastern promise with brilliant, bewitching second album…
Features Lowen: “It’s illegal to play metal in Iran. It’s illegal for women to sing. So this is defiance, it’s rebellion”Blending doom, death metal and prog with traditional Iranian music, London’s Lowen are a colourful pot of heavy sounds. For singer Nina Saeidi, it’s also a way to express and explore her heritage, as well as taking a stand…
Features “It’s time…” A Day To Remember talk Slam Dunk Festival 2025, new music, and three-hour showsWith A Day To Remember set to make their Slam Dunk debut next May, Jeremy McKinnon tells us about their UK return, this year’s mind-blowing headline dates in their home country, and where they’re at with new stuff…
The Cover Story Touché Amoré: “Hardcore deserves respect for the way it has helped people, and for the way that it continues to do”Earnest, intelligent and endlessly inspired by the world around him, Jeremy Bolm has grown into a figurehead for modern hardcore. Chronicling one of the most turbulent times of his life, however, Touché Amoré’s sixth album Spiral In A Straight Line is more a struggle to keep on and find beauty in the midst of unfolding chaos...
Reviews Album review: FEVER 333 – DARKER WHITEJason Aalon keeps fighting the good fight on FEVER 333’s overdue second album DARKER WHITE.
Reviews Album Review: Winterfylleth – The Imperious HorizonBrit black metal mainstays Winterfylleth hold their standards high as the contiune marching towards The Imperious Horizon
Features Boston Manor: “It’s arrogant to think that you’re in control of everything, but lazy to think that you’re not in control of anything”When Boston Manor set out on a two-album journey chronicling the post-pandemic crawl from darkness into light as it unfolded, it was an audacious gamble on their ability to get back on track. Finally crossing the line with sublime second part Sundiver, frontman Henry Cox reflects on the non-linear nature of healing, and how, truly, there is no fate but what we make…
Reviews Album review: Mimi Barks – THIS IS DOOM TRAPDoom trap disruptor Mimi Barks paints her big picture in blood red and burnt black on definitive debut LP THIS IS DOOM TRAP.
Features The Black Dahlia Murder: “The grief is always there. You can sit and brew on it, or you keep going and do something new”Following the death of Trevor Strnad in 2022, there was a real chance that The Black Dahlia Murder would call it a day. Rather than shattering the Michigan melodic death metallers, however, that tragedy bound the surviving members closer together, and spurred them to make 10th album Servitude a crushing statement of their will to endure…