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1 week ago | 
kerrang.com | Emma Wilkes |Paul Harries
June 19, 2025Words:Emma WilkesPhoto:Paul HarriesRADAR is the young, hungry upstart of the rock and metal festival calendar. As it reaches its fifth year, it’s already made an electrifying impact, outgrowing its former home in Guildford after just two editions (and surviving a couple of years off due to the pandemic).
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kerrang.com | Steve Beebee |Paul Harries
June 18, 2025Words:Steve BeebeePhotos:Paul HarriesBoth hail from hard-working communities in South Wales. Both have ended up scaling impressive heights. Headlining festivals and bothering the top of the charts is all in a typical year’s work for Skindred frontman Benji Webbe, and now also for Those Damn Crows frontman Shane Greenhall, whose fourth album God Shaped Hole entered the UK Album Chart at Number One in April. And they’ve headlined Cardiff’s Utilita Arena – twice.
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2 weeks ago | 
kerrang.com | James Hickie |Paul Harries |Ashley Maile
June 13, 2025Words:James HickiePhotos:Paul Harries, Ashley MaileWhile 2013’s Infestissumam wasn’t necessarily a ‘difficult’ second record, it found Ghost experiencing growing pains as they established their place in a world where, though loved by many, they stood out like a cadaver’s thumb. Despite Opus Eponymous’ success for Rise Above Records, Lee Dorrian, who’d signed a three-album deal with the band, came to a realisation. “We couldn’t really facilitate [Tobias Forge’s] ambitions,” admits Lee.
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3 weeks 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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4 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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Mar 18, 2025 | 
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...
