Bad Rabbits’ track-by-track guide to new album Garden Of EdenFrom rebounds to rizz, vocalist Fredua Boakye reveals the meaning behind every song on Bad Rabbits’ new album Garden Of Eden…
In pictures: The Kerrang! x Within Temptation album launch partyOn the eve of release for new record Bleed Out, we teamed up with our pals in Within Temptation to throw the ultimate album launch party in London – here’s what went down…
How Korn and adidas are still reshaping the face of alternative fashionWhen Korn frontman Jonathan Davis first stepped onstage in his battered adidas tracksuit, little could he have known how he would irreversibly change the look and sound of alternative music. Decades later, the Bakersfield legends’ long-overdue collaboration with the iconic German sportswear brand is proof that they’re still amongst the most influential players in the game…
Dreamwell: “It’s all about interpretation – it’s about not having a literal answer”Providence screamers Dreamwell are about to release one of the heaviest – on every level – albums of the year: In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You. Here, Keziah ‘KZ’ Staska and Aki McCullough reveal everything that went into it…
Jazmin Bean, Deijuvhs and Cody Frost are redefining what it means to be alternativeGenre is dead. Punk fashion is mainstream. And even rock’s most esoteric bands are headlining arenas. But there is an alternative, a real alternative. Connected not by sound or style, but by community and attitude, a new generation of misfits are reinventing the alt. scene for those who are craving something to call their own – get on board…
The story of My Chemical Romance’s The Black Parade: “When it was done, I knew that we’d created a monster”As reluctant emo standard-bearers, in 2006 My Chemical Romance set out to make an album for the ages. Amid controversy, great suffering and obsession, they pulled it off. But it almost killed them…
“I almost burned off my thumb with a bottlerocket”: 13 Questions with Foo Fighters’ Chris ShiflettFoo Fighter Chris Shiflett tell us all about firework-based horseplay, witnessing metal history as it happened, and seafood that tastes “like rotting garbage…”
RØRY: The 10 songs that changed my lifeFrom ’00s pop-punk to alternative metal and pop classics, RØRY reveals the soundtrack to her life.
In pictures: Creeper’s Sanguivore album release show in a churchCreeper hit St John’s Church in Kingston to celebrate the release of new album Sanguivore, and it looked like this…
Twin Temple: “We’re carrying the torch for rock’n’roll’s main traditions: horniness and Satanism”Twin Temple are all about Satan, shagging and the swinging sounds of the ’60s. As they celebrate the light of Lucifer on their new album God Is Dead, they tell us about life on the Left Hand Path, sexual liberation, and offending right-wing loudmouths…
In pictures: blink-182’s joyous return to London with Tom DeLongeNine years on from their last visit with Tom DeLonge, blink-182 played two glorious sold-out nights at London’s The O2 – and it looked like this…
Dodgy parks, tropical storms and rating loos: Life on the road with Kids In Glass HousesWith Kids In Glass Houses hitting the road again for the first time in almost a decade, frontman Aled Phillips takes a trip down memory lane to their old tours – from the tropical to the “miserable”…
In pictures: The bands, fans and mayhem of the ’80s Swedish Råpunk movementTake a look at exclusive shots from new book Råpunk – The Birth Of Swedish Hardcore 1981-89, which captures the bands and the fans of the ’80s Swedish punk movement…
The Menzingers: “I don’t know many bands who are all best friends. It’s crazy how close we are after all these years”Pennsylvania quartet The Menzingers aren’t just one of punk rock’s modern success stories, they’re also one of its great survivors. On the eve of their seventh album, Some Of It Was True, vocalist Greg Barnett tells K! how they do it…
Within Temptation: “These are songs about society and how people accept each other, or don’t accept each other”Within Temptation have changed. On their new album Bleed Out, singer Sharon den Adel is discussing war, women’s rights and people’s lack of freedom. Here, she takes us into the heart of their most daring, outspoken offering to date...
Delilah Bon: “I was held back… Now, I’m unapologetic, and loud, and scary”Fresh from a support slot with the similarly-striking Scene Queen, Delilah Bon has unleashed a brand-new single, WITCH. And, as is the brat-punk’s way, it doesn’t pull any punches…
