Who are twenty one pilots’ fans?We head to Manchester to meet some of twenty one pilots’ biggest fans to find out what they love about the genre-bending twosome and why they always come back for more…
Damiano David: “I had to break down many layers… This album is me, 100 per cent”As Damiano David prepares to drop his debut solo album FUNNY little FEARS, the Måneskin frontman shares the unhappy place he was in when the creative process began, how much has changed since, and why the record is “the narration of me coming back to life”…
Propagandhi: “When we started this band, it felt like the possibilities were endless… Now we’re asking, ‘What was the point?’”Chris Hannah has spent his entire career raging against the machine with Canadian punk legends Propagandhi. On the band’s excellent eighth album At Peace, though, it’s all about searching for life’s deeper meaning…
Meet Knives, the brilliant Bristol punks cutting through with cathartic noiseThey just released one of the most banging debuts of 2025 – now get to know Knives and their raging music. As singer Jay Schottlander explains, “It’s a way for me to project how sh*tty things make me feel so I can move on from them…”
Unpacking Arcadia: Analysing the clues in Sleep Token’s new albumOn Friday, Sleep Token finally released their fourth album, Even In Arcadia. And with it, there arrived more lore to pick over. From opposing houses to significant colour schemes, we examine Vessel’s brave new world…
Parkway Drive: “Time is the one thing that you can’t get back in life, so be conscious of it”Almost three years after their brooding and brilliant album Darker Still, Byron Bay brawlers Parkway Drive are back with brand-new music in the form of Sacred, an all-out rager that encapsulates their entire career. Coming as the band look back on 20 years of raising hell across the world, Winston McCall reflects on the importance of time well spent and never wavering from that eternal forward motion…
The bands you need to see at Mad Cool 2025From Weezer to PVRIS to Refused and beyond... here are our picks of the bands you need to see at Mad Cool this year. It's gonna be a hot one!
Doom, death, the roots of metal, and a band of frogs: This month’s highlights from the undergroundWe round up the latest and greatest from heavy music’s underground. Here’s some returning legends, amphibious riffs, and genuinely obscure heaviness from the 1960s...
YUNGBLUD: “I needed to get my fight back. I’ve always been a fighter, and I’ve found it again”On 2022’s self-titled third album, YUNGBLUD felt “more lost than I’d ever been”. Since then, though, Dominic Harrison has been putting in some seriously hard work, and as the 27-year-old gears up to launch a determined and defiant new era, he reveals how he’s coming back swinging…
Martial arts, impulsiveness, and doing the unexpected: How Machine Head continue to fight and winThree decades in, Machine Head are bigger than ever. It hasn’t been an easy road. But that isn’t stopping Robb Flynn challenging fans and purposefully taking the hard road on new album UNATØNED…
Blood Incantation: “You don’t need to have drugs to take a trip with our music. But if you do, it’ll be even crazier”Mystical visions, magic mushrooms, space-rock freak-outs – all part of Blood Incantation’s DNA. As the death metal visionaries hit the UK on the back of their mind-bending Absolute Elsewhere album, they take Kerrang! into their weird universe, and explain how music can unlock your consciousness…
“It’s equal parts epic, great songwriting, and completely unhinged”: Inside Halestorm’s new album EverestIn what could be the peak of Halestorm’s already-stellar career, the Pennsylvania quartet are set to release sixth album Everest in August and take to some seriously big stages. Lzzy Hale tells Kerrang! about writing in new ways, beating depression, and hitting the road with Iron Maiden and Sabbath…
PUP: “I wasn’t even trying to write a record. I just wanted to let what came out happen”As Toronto punk heroes PUP gear up to release their typically candid fifth album Who Will Look After The Dogs?, Stefan Babcock unpacks the unique context from which it came – and how creating without an agenda for the first time resulted in a healthy, much-needed change of perspective…
Demons, hip-hop and redemption: Inside LANDMVRKS’ “painful” new albumMarseilles’ LANDMVRKS are set to explode. But when it came to making their new album, The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been, they struggled. As the band explain of the depression of writer’s block, “All the demons that are speaking to you become part of you, and so you become that creature…”
“You can never predict what we’re going to do next… this is our law now”: Inside WARGASM’s independent new eraAs WARGASM return with breakbeat-metal scorcher Vigilantes, Sam Matlock and Milkie Way tell Kerrang! about taking back control of the band, how smashing up LEGO sets embodies their new chapter, and the 30 new songs they’ve got in their locker…
twenty one pilots: “It’s full-circle. This was the first time I felt okay coming back to where we started”Almost a year on from its release, twenty one pilots are finally ready to peel back the curtain on their sensational seventh album, and The Clancy World Tour. Joining K! in Barcelona, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun reveal why their fans have been a guiding light, how they’ve brought this latest chapter to life, and if there’s even more to come…
