In this issue

CHESTER FRIENDS, FAMILY AND BANDMATES SHINE A LIGHT ON THE UNTIL NOW LITTLE-KNOWN EARLY AND FORMATIVE YEARS OF HIS LIFE.

ALKALINE TRIO DAN ANDRIANO LIFTS THE LID ON THEIR SURPRISE RETURN.

MILK TEETH HOW BECKY BLOMFIELD PULLED HER BAND BACK FROM THE BRINK..

Don't Stop Believing

Chicago’s own FALL OUT BOY’s shapeshifting second chapter captured on their latest Best Of…

3 mins

Like Phantoms Forever…

Six-and-a-half years after MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE stunned the world and called time on their inimitable career, the New Jersey quartet have announced a comeback show. Killjoys, make some noise…

7 mins

K! Investigates When The Music's Over

One day you’re on top of the world and feeling indestructible. The next, you’re on the scrapheap and lost. But what happens to rock stars who fall on hard times? Addiction and mental health issues are rife, but in an industry slowly waking up to its duty of care there is hope and outlets for support…

7 mins

Follow The Leader

As BRING ME THE HORIZON drop epic single LUDENS on the DEATH STRANDING: TIMEFALL soundtrack, OLI SYKES reflects on the song’s inspiring message – and how the world needs a hero…

10 mins

Back From The Dead

One year on from their very public onstage demise, the resurrection of CREEPER begins now. And as WILL GOULD and IAN MILES reveal, the journey to see this day has been a challenge that none of them could ever have imagined…

10+ mins

Screaming For Change

STRAY FROM THE PATH fight for the future on angry, but positive, ninth album…

2 mins

The Inside Track - Black Magic

When CRISTINA SCABBIA found herself enfulged in darkness, one thing helped pull her through. The result is the most important album of the LACUNA COIL vocalist’s life...

6 mins

The Big Story-Out For Blood

How do you celebrate your 20th anniversary as a festival? If you’re BLOODSTOCK, you announce two legendary bands – BEHEMOTH and JUDAS PRIEST – to headline, of course. Brace yourselves…

8 mins

On The Road-American Dreams

They’ve broken through to the big time on home turf, but that’s just the first step towards world domination for DON BROCO. As a rapturously received first U.S. headline run comes to its close, frontman ROB DAMIANI gives us a picture-postcard recap of horizons expanding with each passing show...

8 mins

Die Another Day

Every song tells a tale. And the 13 songs that comprise FALL OUT BOY’s upcoming GREATEST HITS album tell the story not only of one of rock’s most “improbable” reunions, but of an unparalleled reinvention, too. PETE WENTZ, PATRICK STUMP, JOE TROHMAN and ANDY HURLEY reflect on the past six years’ journey, track by track...

10+ mins

Bang Your 'Head

MOTÖRHEAD mark 40 years of noise with a look back at the year that made them…

2 mins

Take The Power Back

The wait for new music from TWIN ATLANTIC is over! And with fifth LP POWER, the Glasgow rockers have not only reinvented themselves – they’ve also done so entirely on their own terms…

8 mins

Of The Highest Order

Following the release of recent 4K-rated album ORDER IN DECLINE, Canadian pop-punk superstars SUM 41 are keeping the good news coming as they join SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL as co-headliners! And that’s not all that’s been announced for the epic 2020 bill…

6 mins

House Of Gold

GOLD KEY isolate themselves in a Welsh cottage to record their new album

1 min

The Man Behind The Myths

The legend of MOTÖRHEAD is one that was first forged 40 years ago with the release of their timeless albums OVERKILL and BOMBER. No one embodied that reputation more, though, than the band’s leader, LEMMY. A friend of the man born Ian Fraser Kilmister for the best part of three decades, Kerrang!’s Mörat celebrates the wit, charm and humour of a rock’n’roll lifer...

10+ mins

'I Used To Do A Lot Fucking Drugs… I Believed The Bullshit Myth Of Live Fast And Die Young'

Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins And The Coattail Riders

10+ mins

SPIRITED AWAY

It began with a childhood vision of heaven. After a lifetime’s exploration, it encompasses self-doubt, superlative sounds and, er, emotional yoga sessions. Gallic post-metal duo ALCEST‘s story is very much one-of-a-kind. Frontman NEIGE gets spiritual…

7 mins

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

Sixteen months on from their Best British Breakthrough triumph at the 2018 Kerrang! Awards, debut album PRIMROSE PATH marks DREAM STATE’s first bid for global success. Having survived the worst that life has to offer, they show us around streets of their native South Wales to relive their mission of escape…

7 mins

IT'S STILL NOTHING PERSONAL

Ten years on from the release of their career-defining record NOTHING PERSONAL, ALL TIME LOW are getting lost in stereo all over again by re-recording the album’s 12 songs for a very special anniversary edition…

8 mins

DESERT TRACKS

Point your car east, drive 150 miles or so out of Los Angeles and, soon enough, with a little help navigating the nothingness from the locals, you might just stumble across Rancho De La Luna. It is here that JOSH HOMME has assembled possibly his most ambitious, weirdest DESERT SESSIONS project ever – and reconnected with his true self…

10+ mins

#MeToo is symptomatic of a culture of women feeling repressed but the music INDUSTRY WAS ALWAYS SEXIST

KIM GORDON SONIC YOUTH

10+ mins

Brave New World…

Despite a huge crossover in their fan bases, EVANESCENCE and WITHIN TEMPTATION hadn’t even met until last year. Now, though, the pair are gearing up for the epic joint WORLDS COLLIDE TOUR!

9 mins

'I'm At An Age Where I Indulge My Influences And Let My Freak Flag Fly. I Don't Really Give A Damn Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan is not a man given to sitting around idly letting life pass him by. When Kerrang! catches up with him, his sublime new album Somebody’s Knocking is still a few weeks away from release, and yet he’s just pulled an allnighter working on another record.

10+ mins

Out Of This World…

BABYMETAL power up as they head for the stars on their most OTT album to date…

4 mins

Loose Cannons

KNOCKED LOOSE and friends send Tokyo Bay loco at Japan’s BLOODAXE FESTIVAL…

4 mins

Bow Before Your Papa

Their Kerrang! Award-winning fourth album PREQUELLE took GHOST from cult concern to global superstars. But the arena-filling congregation of fans is growing restless for clues as to what’s next for Cardinal Copia, Papa Nihil and the ministry. Let TOBIAS FORGE, then, take you behind the mask and into the making of – and future plans for – a band like no other…

10+ mins

Living Forever?

Brit grime-metaller SCARLXRD returns sooner than expected. Yep, he’s still really aggro…

2 mins

The Party's Not Over…

THE MENZINGERS contemplate life, punk and death as they continue to get older and wiser…

3 mins

Action Men…

DON BROCO easily charm the Big Apple as they take on America

1 min

The Real Thing

MUSE continue to challenge reality as they bring Simulation Theory back to the capital…

2 mins

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