Alkaline Trio: Every album ranked from worst to best by Matt SkibaFrontman Matt Skiba ranks Alkaline Trio’s nine albums in order of greatness – from 1998’s Goddamnit to 2018’s Is This Thing Cursed?
16 rock, metal and punk covers of pop songs that actually rulePop songs? Not our business. Pop songs covered by rock artists? You’ve got our attention…
The 50 best albums from 2001From Slipknot and Sum 41 to Tool and Tenacious D, we rank the greatest albums from the year 2001…
Employed To Serve are putting British metal back on topFor the past decade, Justine Jones and Sammy Urwin of Employed To Serve have helped elevate British rock and metal both on and off the stage, from Album Of The Year releases to their championing of new bands. Now, with fourth full-length Conquering on the horizon, the pay-off is being felt across the entire scene...
Black Sabbath: Every album ranked from worst to bestFrom the 1970 debut to the final bow of 13, this is the definitive ranking of Black Sabbath’s 19 studio albums.
System Of A Down: Every album ranked from worst to bestSystem Of A Down’s bizarro-world legacy organised in order of greatness…
The 20 most metal video game characters – rankedPirates, bounty hunters, free-runners, general absolute badasses of the highest order… Here we count down the most metal characters to ever grace a video game.
“Thoroughly unpleasant and truly unforgettable”: Our original 1999 review of Slipknot’s debut albumIn the summer of 1999, Slipknot crashed into our lives with a debut album that terrified the world. This is the original Kerrang! review from the time…
“That album is the sound of war”: The story of Slipknot’s 1999 debutOver two decades ago, nine masked maniacs from backwater America unleashed their debut album and changed metal’s history. Paul Brannigan, the first UK music journalist to witness their chaos, journeys back to that most dangerous of summers, where the story of Slipknot began…
I was kidnapped in Jamaica by armed thievesMax Cavalera was expecting sun, sea, sand and maybe a bit of reggae from his vacation to Jamaica... what he got instead was the holiday from hell.
NOFX's Fat Mike on the disgusting, immortal legacy Of GG AllinOn the anniversary of GG Allin's death, NOFX's Fat Mike remembers punk rock's most repulsive icon.
Now Hear This: Serena Cherry on the best new power metal, post-rock and metalcoreSvalbard and Noctule singer/guitarist Serena Cherry on the new bands to check out now, including Fellowship, Pupil Slicer and Bearpit…
“We were anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-corporate”: A brief history of queercoreFrom a basement idea in the ’80s to a full-blown movement in the three decades since, this is the story of queercore: one of punk's most vital subcultures.
The 10 greatest Fenriz momentsRaise your fist to the northern sky as we salute the wonderful metal memelord that is Darkthrone’s Fenriz…
12 bands who succeeded by never selling outHere are 12 bands who conquered the world by refusing to sacrifice what they believe in.
“No-one wants to listen to a bunch of white dudes complaining about the same sh*t”: Pinkshift and the new wave of pop-punkThere’s a sea change going on in pop-punk right now. We catch up with Pinkshift vocalist Ashrita Kumar to talk about how and why the genre is changing for the better…
