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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Paul Harries
January 29, 2025Words:Nick RuskellPhotography:Paul HarriesIf you’re going to get a bollocking, it may as well be from the best, and you may as well make it worth it. So it was that in the summer of 2001, Jacoby Shaddix found himself on the business end of a furious, sweary dressing down from Sharon Osbourne. “She was fucking screaming at me, dude.
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2 months ago | 
kerrang.com | Luke Morton |Paul Harries
Frank Carter and the Sex Pistols will headline London's iconic Royal Albert Hall as part of this year's Teenage Cancer Trust series of shows. Joined by Kid Kapichi and The Molotovs, the re-energised version of the Pistols will be ripping through their seminal punk classic Never Mind The Bollocks in its entirety. Yes, that means we can have a right old time belting out God Save The Queen in the Royal Albert Hall.
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2 months ago | 
kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Paul Harries
The UK leg of Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium's long-awaited The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour kicked off in Cardiff last night, the first of two home shows for Bullet at the Welsh Capital's Ultilita Arena. The tour sees the two metal titans celebrating two decades of their respective The Poison and Ascendancy debut albums.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
kerrang.com | Luke Morton |Paul Harries
Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande has revealed the meaning and behind his mask. Speaking to the Modern Drummer podcast, recent recruit to The Nine Eloy shared the story behind his creepy monochrome mask with bloodied headshot bullet wound, which acts not just as a nod to Slipknot's history but also Brazilian culture and a moment that could have spelled the end for the sticksman. "The mask was something I did with Clown," he says.
