Mental Health

After Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington tragically took his own life in 2017, alt. club night promoter Jack Davis founded the Uprawr Mental Health Foundation to provide counselling free of charge…

“We want to be the biggest private provider of counselling in the country”: Meet the alternative club promoter who founded a mental health charity

Features

The latest series of Stranger Things is another brilliant blend of horror, sci-fi fantasy and drama. But new villain Vecna is a reflection of something very real: post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and grief.

How Stranger Things’ Vecna is an allegory for mental health

In a society that disables people through barriers rather than their impairments, we must not only shift our framework to the social model of disability but ensure that it encompasses mental health.

Why we should be looking at mental health under the social model of disability

Overworked, overstressed and overtired, burnout is rife in today’s society. And even though we know it’s affecting our day-to-day lives, we still struggle to switch off, to the detriment of our health and wellbeing.

If we know burnout is bad, why can’t we stop?

Having been diagnosed with ADHD at a fairly young age, Kvelertak and Beachheads bassist Marvin Nygaard has been using his platform to help those struggling with the disorder. Here, he reflects on his journey and the “safe space” of art and music…

Marvin Nygaard on music and ADHD: “I believe it’s my job to inspire others like me to see that this is something they can do”

The worst of the pandemic might be over, but we’re still learning about the effects of lockdown on mental health, and how loneliness has hit young people the hardest…

How lockdown loneliness is still impacting our mental health

Today is Blue Monday, also known as the ‘most depressing day of the year’. But is there any truth to it? We investigate the day’s origins and why we might feel those winter blues…

Is Blue Monday a myth?

As the nights grow longer and the mercury plummets, it's important to look after our mental health. But what can someone who spends almost a quarter of the year in darkness teach us about seasonal mood shifts?

Seasonal Affective Disorder: What can we learn from people in the Arctic Circle about seasonal mood shifts?

Reviews

Melbourne party-starters Ocean Grove get weird in both good ways and bad on album number four…

Album review: Ocean Grove – ODDWORLD

Swedish prog metal overlords Opeth return with intense, beautifully delivered but ultimately baffling concept record.

Album review: Opeth – The Last Will & Testament

News

Watch the video for Thornhill’s new single nerv – a track that explores “themes of a dangerous relationship through conflicting and contrasting images, desire and danger”.

Watch the video for Thornhill’s new single, nerv

Ice-T’s crew Body Count return to reassert their radical rap-metal prowess.

Album review: Body Count – Merciless

Green Day, the original Misfits, Amyl And The Sniffers, GEL and more are coming to the California desert in 2025…

Green Day, The Prodigy, Amyl And The Sniffers, Speed and more for Coachella 2025

Six years on from 2019’s Atonement, Killswitch Engage will be releasing This Consequence in February: “It’s the exact record we needed to make…”

Killswitch Engage return with brand-new album, This Consequence

The Cover Story

Armed with barnstorming single Forever Aligned, Killswitch Engage are back at it again with new album This Consequence. In a world-exclusive first interview with Kerrang!, frontman Jesse Leach and guitarist Adam D lift the lid on their ninth LP, overcoming their personal struggles, the impossible power of love, and why division is never the answer…

Killswitch Engage: “We’ve got more in common than we do differences as human beings”

Listen to Coheed And Cambria’s new single Searching For Tomorrow, taken from next year’s 10th album The Father Of Make Believe.

Coheed And Cambria release new single, announce ﻿10th album The Father Of Make Believe

Against The Current’s Chrissy Costanza shares her thoughts on how social media and content creation is “the greatest thing that could happen for musicians…”

Chrissy Costanza: How social media has levelled the playing field for musicians to “take back the power and not have to sign your whole life away”

Knocked Loose will be wrapping up their incredible year with an outdoor mini-concert for Jimmy Kimmel…

Knocked Loose announce Jimmy Kimmel performance: “The heaviest band on live television”

Watch the video for Architects’ “truly ferocious” single Whiplash, taken from the band’s just-announced new studio album The Sky, The Earth & All Between.

Architects drop new single Whiplash from ﻿their 11th album The Sky, The Earth & All Between

Following the release of excellent new album Negative Spaces, Poppy is heading off on a big North American tour in the spring.

Poppy announces 28-city North American headline tour

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