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6 days ago | 
kerrang.com | Luke Morton |Paul Harries |Adamross Williams
May 31, 2025Words:Luke MortonBABYMETAL and Bambie Thug photos:Paul HarriesPoppy photos:Adamross WilliamsIt’s been 11 years since BABYMETAL first touched down on these shores.
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1 week ago | 
kerrang.com | James Hickie |Paul Harries
When it came time to discuss Ghost’s fourth album, Prequelle, and its relationship to Meliora, Tobias Forge described it as “the hangover” to its predecessor. While Meliora had been a godless album, although one set in what he described as a “Utopian, Star Trek future”, Prequelle would deal with God visiting his wrath upon mankind in a despicable form.
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2 weeks ago | 
kerrang.com | Jake Richardson |Paul Harries
May 23, 2025Words:Jake RichardsonPhotos:Paul HarriesMouth Culture are basically a family at this point. The almost fraternal connection between the Leicester trio – vocalist Jack Voss, guitarist Mason Clifford and bassist Todd Groome – has been forged through years of living together while fine-tuning their sprightly brand of British alt.rock.
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3 weeks ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Paul Harries
“I still don’t know. I’m trying not to think about it.” Over the past year, more than once Kerrang! has asked Josh Franceschi the same question.
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2 months ago | 
kerrang.com | Emma Wilkes |Paul Harries
Knocked Loose are dominating right now – but you knew that already. They have the world of hardcore in the palm of their hands and their fingertips around the neck of the mainstream. To remind you of the dizzying heights they’ve reached since they released Kerrang!'s Album Of 2025, You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To, they now have a Grammy nomination and a slot on Jimmy Kimmel to their name, not to mention giving Slipknot something to worry about when they opened their recent U.S. tour.
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Feb 23, 2025 | 
kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Paul Harries
February 23, 2025 Words: Nick Ruskell Photos: Paul Harries At the start of This Heathen Land, Green Lung promised to take you “Beyond the cities and motorways of modern Britain,” to “An older, stranger country.” Tonight, in one of the most North London-looking bits of North London, with more traffic lights than trees and where it’s never dark enough to properly gaze upon the night sky, they conjure a folk world of magic, ancient gods, witches, stone circles, old lore, communing with nature...
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Paul Harries
February 10, 2025Words:Nick RuskellPhotos:Paul HarriesGreen Lung’s world is one of sorcery, folklore, ritual and fungal mind-expansion. And, apparently, a roadie who doesn’t wear pants.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
kerrang.com | Luke Morton |Paul Harries
This weekend, Linkin Park kicked off the 2025 iteration of their From Zero world tour in Mexico City at the Estadio GNP Seguros. Following a handful of shows last year in various major cities around the globe, the nu-metal legends are back in a big way with 50-plus shows at some of the most famous stadiums and arenas on the planet – including Wembley Stadium in London, the Olympiastadion in Berlin and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
kerrang.com | Emma Wilkes |Paul Harries
February 2, 2025Words:Emma WilkesPhotos:Paul HarriesHere are four words for any doubters from 2005 to choke upon: Bullet. Trivium. O2 Arena. Two decades on from the albums that made them – the former’s The Poison, the latter’s Ascendancy – these transatlantic peers are heroically double-heading their way into the world's biggest arenas. While the Poisoned Ascendancy tour could easily be seen as a nostalgia fest, when seeing it in action its significance shifts.
