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3 days ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee |Jenn Five
June 24, 2025Words:Steve BeebeePhoto:Jenn FiveHalestorm leader, guitar hero, all-round cool customer – Lzzy Hale is iconic. But who does she look up to? Australian punks, a man in a mask, and the greatest heavy metal singer who ever lived, of course. These are Lzzy’s biggest inspirations…“When I was going through a depressive, imposter syndrome state I was introduced to Amyl And The Sniffers. Amy’s music, her words – it’s almost a stream of consciousness poetry – really impacted me and saved me.
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4 days ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee
There are signs of the band’s enlarging scope everywhere. Swallow This introduces itself via electronics familiar to NIN or Starset fans, before hitting hard with rough-as-sandpaper riffs and throat-busting vocals from Han.
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1 week ago | 
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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1 week ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee |Emily Garner |Sam Law |Luke Morton
June 15, 2025Words:Steve Beebee, Emily Garner, Sam Law, Luke Morton, Nick Ruskell, Emma WilkesPhotos:Jenn Five, Andy Ford, Bethan MillerSome bands simply will not accept a destiny out of their own hands. Last time Power Trip played Download's massive main stage, the world was a very different place.
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1 week ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee |Emily Garner |Sam Law |Luke Morton
June 14, 2025Words:Steve Beebee, Emily Garner, Sam Law, Luke Morton, Nick Ruskell, Emma WilkesPhotos:Jenn Five, Andy Ford, Bethan MillerDownload Festival 2025 is go! Stay tuned to Kerrang.com and our socials for reviews from each day of the fest (here’s Friday) and much more – let’s get stuck into all things Saturday…BEX might still be a fresh new name, but already, she's leagues ahead as a performer.
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2 weeks ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee |Emily Garner |Sam Law |Luke Morton
June 13, 2025Words:Steve Beebee, Emily Garner, Sam Law, Luke Morton, Nick Ruskell, Emma WilkesPhotos:Jenn Five, Andy Ford, Bethan MillerDownload Festival 2025 is go! Stay tuned to Kerrang.com for our reviews from each day of the fest and much more – let’s get stuck into all things Friday…It's a tall order being the first artist of the whole festival to step onstage, but Karen Dió was a perfect choice to cut the ribbon on this year's Download.
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2 weeks ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee
The problem for Buckcherry is that they’re damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. The Californians are pretty much the last men standing from that whole bourbon-and-bandanas sleaze metal thing, and precisely nobody wants or expects anything else from them. They’re still good at what they do, but the trouble is, what they do isn’t much fun anymore. It certainly has little place in modern life, no more so than Steel Panther, who are, you will note, taking the piss.
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3 weeks ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee
That’s given us the ludicrously titled but intriguingly dark In The Barn Of The Goat Giving Birth To Satan's Spawn In A Dying World Of Doom, the type of broody shapeshifter that an earlier Volbeat would have smiled at before quietly abandoning. It’s also delivered album highlight Better Be Fueled Than Tamed, which kicks off mid-stream and continues to captivate with flashy melodies and creative verve.
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4 weeks ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee
Recorded in the wake of Shirley’s lengthy and painful recovery from a hip replacement operation, it’s also a set that looks for hope. She documents her tramadol-laced comeback in unflinching manner on The Day That I Met God, while the massively contoured, beautifully melodic Love To Give offers the bursts of optimism she struggled to find during that phase. As always, Garbage cannot resist lashing out at the madness of a society that has placed borderline pyschopaths in control of superpowers.
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1 month ago | 
kerrang.com | Steve Beebee
You face a dilemma when most people know you for music created three decades ago. While proud of your legacy, like any normal human being you’ve changed since then. Perhaps this – the compromise of meeting expectation with representing who you actually are – is the reason Skunk Anansie haven’t released an album for nine years. In the end, Skin and her loyal cohorts have simply taken the plunge.
