
David McLaughlin
Senior Writer and Editor at Freelance
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kerrang.com | David McLaughlin
June 9, 2025Words:David McLaughlinLorna Shore are back in a big way this year with long-awaited fifth full-length, I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me. Will Ramos and Adam De Micco open up on the darkness at the heart of the deathcore stars’ daring new direction…Will: “In the past, I have generally written fictional stories, just focusing on trying to be deathcore and heavy. For this album, I tried to take inspiration from my own personal experiences.
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kerrang.com | David McLaughlin |Paul Harries
May 15, 2025Words:David McLaughlinPhoto:Paul HarriesIn 1994, the line that metal was dead, killed by the explosion of grunge at the start of the decade, was given an almighty middle finger. Some of the greatest excesses of the flamboyant ’80s had been knocked out by the rise of Nirvana and Soundgarden, but from Oakland, California, there came a band who took the starting point of thrash, and recalibrated the aggression, heaviness and nose-punch attitude into a devastating new beast.
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kerrang.com | David McLaughlin
May 7, 2025Words:David McLaughlinPhotography:Third Eye VisualsWinston McCall appears just about ready to explode. Generously carving out time to talk to Kerrang! at the end of his day and the start of ours, he sits behind the desk of his home office in Byron Bay, all biz about the prospect of the stacked calendar ahead.
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2 months ago |
kerrang.com | David McLaughlin |Ashlea Bea
March 27, 2025Words:David McLaughlinPhoto:Ashlea BeaMore people could do with admitting that they don’t really know what they’re doing. Take Split Chain vocalist Bert Martinez-Cowles, for example, a man at peace with the fact that he and his fellow Bristolians are pretty much winging it, trusting in their guts to lead the way on what feels good and what feels right. So far, it’s worked a charm.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
kerrang.com | David McLaughlin |Josiah Van Dien
November 6, 2024Words:David McLaughlinPhotography:Josiah Van Dien“Adult life is fucking scary!” Derek DiScanio matter-of-factly asserts as we start to get into the really good stuff. Having recently celebrated turning the big-boy age of 32, the State Champs frontman has found himself ruminating on how almost half his time on this earth so far has been spent singing in the band.
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