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10 of the best independent American metal records of the 21st century

In celebration of the United States’ Independence Day this weekend, we revisit 10 of the greatest heavy records dropped outside the major label system this century…

Now Hear This: Brady Deeprose on the best new sludge-metal, prog-doom and electro-punk

Conjurer's Brady Deeprose introduces five bands you need to check out right now, including Heriot, DVNE and CLT DRP…

The 12 best albums released in June 2021

The best rock and metal records released last month – from Rise Against to Garbage to De'Wayne and beyond!

Death threats and dance moves: A salute to The Prodigy’s Music For The Jilted Generation

How The Prodigy opened the minds of the rock scene with their 1994 classic, Music For The Jilted Generation…

WILLOW’s pop-punk revolution: “I’m in love with the weirdos and the people who don’t conform to conventional societal norms”

With new album Lately I Feel EVERYTHING – featuring scene titans Travis Barker and Avril Lavigne – WILLOW joins a "new pop-punk revival" that's taking over. And while her sound may come as a surprise to some, she's always been a rock star…

How 1994 changed rock music forever

From Green Day to Nine Inch Nails, we look back on the year – and the bands – that everything changed…

Alkaline Trio: Every album ranked from worst to best by Matt Skiba

Frontman 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 rule

Pop songs? Not our business. Pop songs covered by rock artists? You’ve got our attention…

The 50 best albums from 2001

From 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 top

For 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 best

From 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 best

System Of A Down’s bizarro-world legacy organised in order of greatness…

The 20 most metal video game characters – ranked

Pirates, 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 album

In 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 debut

Over 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 thieves

Max 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.

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