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Black Sabbath: Bill Ward’s 12 best performancesWe chart drummer Bill Ward’s all-time greatest contributions to Black Sabbath.
10 indie albums that influenced heavy metalMetal artists don’t sit around listening to metal all day – inspiration comes in many forms. Here are just some of the indie records to influence the realm of heavy music…
14 rock and metal songs influenced by Star WarsThese are not the droids you’re looking for, these are rock and metal songs inspired by Star Wars.
How From Under The Cork Tree made Fall Out Boy emo kingsProducer Neal Avron tells Kerrang! all about the making of Fall Out Boy’s breakthrough second LP, From Under The Cork Tree.
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Now Hear This: Sophie K on the best new metal, punk and hardcoreKerrang! Radio host Sophie K brings you the artists you need to check out right now, including Vexed, 99% Cobra and Izzy Gazelle…
The 13 best rock and metal albums released in April 2021From returning metal titans to brilliant young stars in the making, these were the very best album releases of April 2021…
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Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey: “I’m only a few bad decisions away from turning back into the savage that I was”Dropkick Murphys vocalist Ken Casey reflects on the band’s longevity, sobriety, growing up and why getting emotional is punk as fuck…
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Frank Carter: “The impending doom was always in me… I was like, ‘Sh*t, I gotta find something to smile about here!’”As The Rattlesnakes return with new single My Town (featuring IDLES' Joe Talbot), Frank Carter and Dean Richardson talk lockdown life, mental health, and trying to keep things light-hearted…
The 20 greatest The Offspring songs – rankedFrom 1989’s self-titled LP to Ixnay On The Hombre and beyond, we rank the Californian punk-rock legends’ biggest tunes…
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11 movements in rock that everyone should have seen comingWe look back over 11 cultural shifts in rock music that now seem pretty obvious in hindsight…
