Features Chuck Ragan: My life in 10 songsHot Water Music frontman Chuck Ragan talks family, survival, brotherhood and “crummy homemade tattoos” as he looks back over almost 30 years of punk rock brilliance.
The Cover Story Drug Church: “I don’t think I’m pessimistic at all, I think I’m actually almost foolishly optimistic”Is an artist really who we think they are, or are we merely projecting our own ideas onto imperfect creators? It’s something Drug Church frontman Patrick Kindlon reckons with regularly, and ahead of new album Hygiene, he explores in-depth just why we need to find and maintain space between art and artist.
Features Chris Carrabba: My life in 10 songsDashboard Confessional visionary Chris Carrabba reflects on the 10 songs that symbolise the ever-changing landscape of his creativity…
Features Neck Deep: “We’re proud of where we’ve come from and how we’ve got here – we’ve never rested on our laurels”Wrexham? It almost killed ’em. On a £250 budget flight to Florida, Neck Deep broke out of their Welsh hometown and found a place for themselves in the States. Now, having sold pop-punk back to America and become mates with blink-182, they’re about to return home for their biggest tour to date. Ben Barlow and Matt West recall their rise across the pond…
The Cover Story Ho99o9: “No-one sounds like us. No-one will ever be us”Since forming 10 years ago, the diabolical duo of Yeti Bones and theOGM have only done things their way, marking Ho99o9 out as genuine alternatives to the mainstream. Feared and respected in equal measure, we sit down with the two rap-punks to find out what they’re really all about…
Reviews The big review: Underøath – VoyeuristUnderøath rage on ambitious, epic ninth full-length Voyeurist…
Features The Kerrang! staff’s top albums of 2021There have been plenty of absolutely incredible albums released in 2021. Here are all the records that have rocked our individual years…
Features The 50 best albums of 2021It’s here: the Kerrang! verdict on the 50 albums that shaped 2021…
Reviews Album review: Of Mice & Men – EchoCalifornia metalcore merchants Of Mice & Men offer something old, something new, and something very unexpected on final, composite part of EP trilogy…
The Cover Story Static Dress: “This genre has so much to be explored, but no-one wants to do it because everyone’s too scared of not being cool for 10 minutes”In a world where so many artists are afraid to stray from the norm, Static Dress stand as one of the most inventive and inspiring acts in the burgeoning new wave of post-hardcore, unafraid to push what it means to be a band. Dive into the Technicolor rabbit hole...
Features Inside Vagrant Records: The label that accidentally took emo to the mainstreamFrom a family-funded Get Up Kids album to becoming a lynchpin of 2000s emo, we look back on Vagrant Records’ reluctant rise…
Features Connie Sgarbossa and the brutally honest pain behind SeeYouSpaceCowboySeeYouSpaceCowboy's Connie Sgarbossa has turned darkness and self-destruction into one of the year's most overwhelming raw heavy albums. Now, she's focussed on trying to heal… (Trigger warnings: suicide, addiction, mental health)
Reviews Album review: Save Face – Another Kill For The Highlight ReelNew Jersey emo-types Save Face reinvent themselves as rock opera wannabes with mixed results on Another Kill For The Highlight Reel.
Reviews Album review: Dooms Children – Dooms ChildrenAlexisonfire / Gallows man Wade MacNeil returns with a surprising retro reinvention, Dooms Children…
Reviews Album review: Tom Morello – The Atlas Underground FireRage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello enlists some heavy hitters for his second collaborative solo record, The Atlas Underground Fire.
Features Trivium’s Matt Heafy: My life in 10 songsFrom scrappy teenage Metallica covers to Trivium’s monster of a 10th album In The Court Of The Dragon, Matt Heafy looks back at over two decades of metal…