Kerrang!

Kerrang! is a magazine from the UK that focuses on rock music and is now published by Bauer Media Group, which is based in Hamburg. The magazine made its debut on June 6, 1981, as a special supplement in the Sounds newspaper. Its name comes from the sound produced when playing a power chord on a distorted electric guitar, which reflects its musical roots. Originally, Kerrang! highlighted the new wave of British heavy metal and the emergence of hard rock bands. By the early 2000s, it had become the top-selling music newspaper in Britain.

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Unpacking Arcadia: Analysing the clues in Sleep Token’s new album

2 days ago | kerrang.com | Emma Wilkes

May 12, 2025Words:Emma WilkesPhotos:Andy FordOnce again, we’ve been brought an offering. We’ve now had a few days to sit with Even In Arcadia and digest the rich smorgasbord of sounds that Sleep Token have glued together, and inevitably, there’ll be fans the world over coming together to pull its lyrics and themes apart. Of course, the path to the lush gardens of this new world has been paved with Easter eggs, references and lore – it wouldn’t be a Sleep Token album rollout without it.
Album review: Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia

1 week ago | kerrang.com | Emma Wilkes

What do you do after you’ve written yourself a once-in-a-generation success story? This is the question that Sleep Token have been facing, approaching their first album after the conclusion of their trilogy with a greater weight on their shoulders and minds than ever. Having conquered Wembley, The O2 (twice) and soon, Download, all with apparent ease, Vessel could well weep at an apparent lack of worlds left to conquer.
Album review: mclusky – The World Is Still Here And So Are We

1 week ago | kerrang.com | James Hickie

Given that the last time mclusky issued a full-length album, The Difference Between Me and You Is That I'm Not on Fire, was more than two decades ago, if you’re fired up for this new one, you likely wear some sort of knee support and talk about parking an inordinate amount.
Parkway Drive: “Time is the one thing that you can’t get back in…

1 week ago | 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.
HEALTH and Chelsea Wolfe team up on new single, MEAN

1 week ago | kerrang.com | Emily Garner |Mynxii White

HEALTH and Chelsea Wolfe have joined forces for a new single, MEAN. The collab follows HEALTH’s FREE TO DIE with Filter last October, and Chelsea’s 2024 album She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She – which landed at #13 in Kerrang!’s albums of the year round-up. “Chelsea Wolfe simply doesn't make bad music,” we wrote of the record. “But even so, She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She was an exceptional work.
Pupil Slicer have dropped two new tracks of "Trans Inclusive Radical…

1 week ago | kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell |Richard Mukuze

Ahead of their UK shows next week, Pupil Slicer have released a pair of new tracks, the raging Heather and Black Scrawl. It's the first new music from PS since 2023's 5/5-rated Blossom album, and the first peek at the band's recently-completed follow-up, featuring the debut appearance from new bassist Luke Booth.
The big review: Incineration 2025

1 week ago | kerrang.com | Sam Law |Nick Ruskell

May 5, 2025Words:Sam Law, Scott McEwan, Nick RuskellPhotos:Andy FordIncreasingly unmissable as a fixture right at the start of festival season, London’s Incineration is the celebration of all things extreme that sees thousands of underground devotees descending on Camden Town for a weekend of indoor debauchery before they spill out into muddy fields for the rest of the summer. In 2025, it's bigger than ever, having completely sold out.
Album review: PUP - Who Will Look After The Dogs

1 week ago | kerrang.com | Mischa Pearlman

Right from the off, the punishingly kinetic No Hope is a roar of cathartic energy that both carries and contradicts the bleakness of its self-deprecating lyrics. Production courtesy of John Congleton makes it – and the 11 songs that follow – more immediate, more vivid, more visceral.
Album review: Propagandhi - At Peace

1 week ago | kerrang.com | Mischa Pearlman

It’s a severe indictment of the times we live in that hyper-political punks Propagandhi – who will celebrate their 40th anniversary next year – remain as relevant as ever. Though hailing from Canada, since their inception they’ve been one of the foremost critics of American imperialism, capitalism and militarism, and the far-flung, negative effects of those things on the rest of the world.
Doom, death, the roots of metal, and a band of frogs: This month’s…

2 weeks ago | kerrang.com | Nick Ruskell

April 30, 2025Words:Nick RuskellEaster’s been and gone, and once again Jesus flaked out on coming back. Lazy. But if it’s returns you’re after, there were a couple of killer comebacks in the metal underground this month – most notably from legendary Spanish extremists Teitanblood who, along with probably not giving a shit about Easter, dropped their first new album in six years with very little forewarning, the stunning From The Visceral Abyss.