Kerrang!
Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music. It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off supplement in Sounds, then appearing fortnightly and now appearing weekly. Initially devoted to heavy metal, it subsequently widened its coverage to include grunge and other genres.
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Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, September 1981
"Young Americans listen when I say/There's people putting us down/I know they say we've gone lazy/To tell you the truth we've seen better days/Don't need ...
Profile and Interview by Ian Ravendale, Kerrang!, September 1981
"WE DID this gig for the Hell's Angels once. Ended up playing 'Born To Be Wild' five times. Or else!" ...
Interview by Ian Ravendale, Kerrang!, September 1981
CORRECT ME if I'm wrong, but I do believe it was that well known heavy metal entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren who gave "Don't let the public ...
Journey to the Centre of the AORth
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, October 1981
by Sylvie Simmons in San Francisco ...
Krokus, Magnum: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Kerrang!, 11 March 1982
LONG STICK GOES KERRANG! ...
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1 July 1982
Sylvie Simmons goes strictly Texas in Las Vegas. ZZ Top are in town... ...
Motorhead, Saxon: Hackney Stadium, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Kerrang!, 12 August 1982
"I DON'T know if it's possible, but there is a fellow over here who wants it turned up." Lemmy has a great sense of humour. ...
Steve Miller Band: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Kerrang!, 12 August 1982
STEVE MILLER'S career has been long and varied. The Texan-born guitarist surfaced in 1967 on the first wave of West Coast psychedelia and he has ...
Ozzy Osbourne: Sharon Osbourne: The Power Behind The Throne
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Kerrang!, 13 January 1983
Before she linked up with, and subsequently married, Ozzy, Sharon Osbourne was better known as the daughter of Don Arden, proprietor of Jet Records and ...
Pat Benatar: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Kerrang!, 10 February 1983
INSIDE THE kovers of Kerrang! the kontroversy kontinues: is she a bona-fide heavy rocker or merely an elaborate American fake? Some say her albums beg ...
Def Leppard, Rock Goddess: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Kerrang!, 24 March 1983
A WILD and ferocious Def Leppard leapt at the throats of its audience and claimed another killing on the first major Lep safari in many ...
Bonnie Tyler: Total Eclipse of the Chart
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Kerrang!, 5 May 1983
... but BONNIE TYLER'S a rocker at heart, sez CHAS DE WHALLEY ...
Hanoi Rocks: Mystery Boys From Mystery City
Report by Pete Makowski, Kerrang!, 19 May 1983
A heart-to-heart on the art of falling apart. PETE MAKOWSKI meets HANOI ROCKS. ...
The Tubes: Lude-icrous Tales From The Tubes' Fee Waybill
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Kerrang!, 17 June 1983
ASTOUNDING THOUGH it may seem, The Tubes have never seen Twisted Sister, much less rubbed shoulders with the outrageous Dee Snider. In fact, before they ...
M, Mötley Crüe: Mötley Crüe: Shout At The Devil (Elektra)
Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 6 October 1983
"THOSE WHO have the youth have the future". Unknowingly, unwittingly even, Mötley Crüe have succinctly summarised the task that lies ahead of them in their ...
Ian Anderson: Time Laird: Ian Anderson
Profile and Interview by Chris Welch, Kerrang!, December 1983
"WHAT A GREAT view!" My eyes ranged appreciatively over the wooded valley with its cottages nestling near the village pub. ...
Interview by David Sinclair, Kerrang!, 15 December 1983
DAVID SINCLAIR takes it from the Top with Messrs. Hill and Beard ...
Interview by Geoff Barton, Kerrang!, 3 May 1984
RUSH guitarist ALEX LIFESON has the good grace to talk to GEOFF BARTON ...
Venom: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Geoff Barton, Kerrang!, 14 June 1984
"AAROOGAH! AAROOGAH!! F**KIN' AAROOGAH!!!" ...
Billy Idol: Rebel Without a Cause
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 12 July 1984
An eyeball to IDOL interview by HOWARD JOHNSON ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 18 April 1985
HOWARD JOHNSON climbs to the top of the Thrash Heap and contracts a lethal dose of Power Metallurgists ANTHRAX ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 8 August 1985
HOWARD JOHNSON goes beyond the Pain barrier with MÖTLEY CRÜE. ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 8 August 1985
HOWARD JOHNSON travels to Spain to get the loudness lowdown on SAXON's plans to recapture the spirit of their Wheels Of Steel heyday ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 26 December 1985
HOWARD 'Never Mind The Bullocks' JOHNSON hoofs it over to the States and gets ahead off the Thrash Metal herd with ANTHRAX. ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 6 February 1986
SYLVIE SIMMONS travels to Frankfurt in Germany and gets Sixx of the best from gutter-level gürus MÖTLEY CRÜE. ...
Profile and Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 20 February 1986
WHAT WERE YOU doing ten years ago, huh? Kicking coke cans in the street? Working in a factory? Going to university? Putting on a blazer ...
Twisted Sister: Kemper Arena, Kansas City MO
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 6 March 1986
SOUND OF THE SUBURBS ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, April 1986
HOWARD JOHNSON was once a fan of TED NUGENT, but no longer. In a hard-hitting, no-nonsense feature, our stone-hearted scribe claims that the Motor City ...
Van Halen: 5150 (Warner Brothers W 5150) KKK
Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 17 April 1986
VAPID VAN HALEN ...
W.A.S.P.: The Lore Of The Lawless
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 15 May 1986
Is BLACKIE still tacky? Have W.A.S.P. s new-found stadiarock sensibilities caused 'em to abandon their old 'wild, funny and outrageous' ways? SYLVIE SIMMONS asks the ...
Emerson, Lake & Powell: Emerson Lake & Powell: Victims of the Future
Profile and Interview by Chris Welch, Kerrang!, August 1986
"WE'RE GONNA WORK hard and make the new ELP a success, whatever the critics say about us!" Those are the fighting words of the P ...
The Scorpions: Scorpions get set to scorch
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 7 August 1986
THE SOUND remains the same! The clipped Teutonic tones winging their way across the wire from Germany herald the return of Germany's biggest, the Scorpions, ...
Samantha Fox: Touch Me (Jive Records HIP 39) KK¼
Review by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 21 August 1986
TWO-AND-a-quarter 'K's — the minimum I can give the thing. One 'K' and the Kerrang! boyz would start tittering about yeah, they'd like to give ...
Iron Maiden: When It's Time To Rock...
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 2 October 1986
Somewhere in Yugoslavia, IRON MAIDEN are gearing themselves up for a mammoth assault on the planet's concert stages. SYLVIE SIMMONS braves bolshy Eastern European bureaucrats ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 16 October 1986
Are STRYPER the genuine article or is this Christian Rock Band Peace, Love & Understanding stuff just so much holy smoke? After meeting up with ...
Bon Jovi: No Slip Till Hammersmith
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 30 October 1986
HOWARD JOHNSON talks to JON BON JOVI on the eve of the band's UK tour ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 30 October 1986
The new GIRLSCHOOL album, Nightmare At Maple Cross, may have a tongue-in-cheek terror title, but the record itself, according to HOWARD JOHNSON, is anything but ...
Megadeth: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? (Capitol EST 2022) kkk
Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 30 October 1986
ALONGSIDE SLAYER, it's Megadeth who've been tipped as the next Thrash outfit to break out of the Underground and join the elite, rubbing shoulders with ...
Megadeth, Motörhead: Motörhead, Megadeth: Kaiser Centre, Oakland
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 13 November 1986
'Head Over Heels! ...
The Enid, Twelth Night: The Enid, Twelfth Night: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Kerrang!, 13 November 1986
TRUST THE Enid to create one of the weirdest, most spectacular and at times chaotic concerts ever to startle the patrons of the Hammersmith Odeon. ...
Slayer: The Stone, San Francisco
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 27 November 1986
Slatanic Slaughter ...
Metallica: Master Of Puppets (Music For Nations MFN 60 DM) KKKKK
Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 22 January 1987
DIRECT KURRENTS ...
Anthrax: Slammers on the Shore
Report and Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 19 March 1987
HOWARD JOHNSON gets among the living Dredd in the Bahamas and discovers ANTHRAX whipping up a sounds-storm with legendary rock producer Eddie Kramer at Nassau's ...
The Beastie Boys: Beast Fiends
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 19 March 1987
STEFFAN CHIRAZI goes in for the ill with Metal/rap crossover crazies the BEASTIE BOYS ...
The Cult: All You Need Is Love Rock!
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 2 April 1987
HOWARD JOHNSON tries very hard not to say 'I told you so' (and fails) as THE CULT cast aside any 'Gothic' or 'Alternative' tags that ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 16 April 1987
Last year an LA indie album hit the streets called Look What The Cat Dragged In. It took 12 days and $23,000 to record. A ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 11 June 1987
"KNOW WHAT I want to do? Really want to do? Go over to Japan and pollute it. I'm not talking about drugs, I'm talking about ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 25 June 1987
THOSE JOLLY nice chaps from Manowar gave me a credit on their spanking new Fighting The World album as one of 'the faithful', which is ...
Anthrax, Testament: Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Live Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 14 November 1987
IT'S A MADSCOUSE... ...
Great White: Mississippi Nights, St Louis, Missouri, and Newport Music Hall, Columbus Ohio
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 28 November 1987
FIRST NIGHT a club the size of a bootbox, tiny lung cancerous place by the side of the river (backstage's the top step of an ...
Heart: Joe Louis Arena, Detroit MI
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 28 November 1987
HEART OF THE MATTER ...
Tesla: The Spectrum, Philadelphia
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 28 November 1987
TESLA, IN two years time, will be enormous. That isn't a comment born of prejudice or payola, it's one born of fact; facts that I ...
Megadeth: So Far, So Good... So Fast
Interview by Chris Welch, Kerrang!, 12 December 1987
Quaking journo CHRIS WELCH risks life and limb all in the cause of rock n' roll... no, not just merely interviewing MEGADETH, but driving DAVE ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 23 January 1988
EUROPE have a new single on release called 'Cherokee' — the fourth to be lifted from the mega-successful Final Countdown LP — accompanied by a ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 30 April 1988
Cliff 'Em All, the low-key, bootleg-style home video from those METALLICA scumbags, has shifted an astonishing 90,000 copies in the States. Now it's finally made ...
Supertramp: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Kerrang!, 7 May 1988
THE SIGHT of serried rows of well-heeled fans rocking silently back and forth in their seats was one of the more eerie spectacles during two ...
Anthrax: State Of Euphoria (Island ILPS9916) kkkkkk
Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 10 September 1988
STATE OF THE ART ...
W.A.S.P.: Never Mind the Buttocks
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 18 February 1989
...At least that's W.A.S.P. mainman BLACKIE LAWLESS' stinging new philosophy on life after a good few years in the prickly nest of outrageous lyrics, potentially ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 11 March 1989
At the Manchester Apollo on March 8, ANTHRAX kicked off their headlining State Of Euphoria world tour, having already opened for Ozzy in the States, and won a ...
Metallica: For Whom the Bell Tulls
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 18 March 1989
You just can't get the staff these days. Ask the people who run the Grammy Awards — they can't tell Jethro Tull from Heavy Metal. ...
Metallica: For Whom The Bell Tulls #2
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 25 March 1989
In the second part of our special feecher on Grammy loozers extraordinaire METALLICA, STEFFAN CHIRAZI probes the conception and production off the 'One' single and video, yet ...
Danzig: Ask a Stupid Question...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 April 1989
...and GLENN DANZIG will hang, draw and quarter you, or at least hang up on you. Fearsome and blunt, the "learned, warm individual" touches on ...
The Beastie Boys: Beastie Boys: Rap Like a Beast
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 19 August 1989
After their anarchic and antiheroic debut Licenced To Ill debut, the BEASTIE BOYS laid low and the sensible world breathed a sigh of relief. But ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 19 August 1989
Are not what latest American Metal sensations SKID ROW use when doing their tour bus washing up — nor when they're cranking out their particularly ...
Vixen: Girls Just Wanna Help Bon
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 19 August 1989
"Bon Jovi would just be the best band in the world to play with," says VIXEN bassist SHARE PEDERSEN. Assuming she's talking about gigging and ...
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 26 August 1989
Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Neighbours, Rolf Harris (and his Stylophone), Skippy, Rupert Murdoch... these days, there's no escaping the ongoing onslaught of dodgy Australian 'culture'. ...
Faster Pussycat: Wake Me Up When It's Over (Elektra EKT64) ****
Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 2 September 1989
FASTER PUSSYCAT have always meant just two things to me. First off, vocalist Taime Downe (sic) was the geezer who figured he'd get the choice ...
Mötley Crüe: Putt at the Devil
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 9 September 1989
At a Los Angeles Valley golf club MÖTLEY CRÜE singer VINCE NEIL is about to mutter something to his caddy, STEFFAN CHIRAZI... "Steff, dude," he ...
Faster Pussycat: Let Sleeping Pussycats Lie
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 7 October 1989
First, the good news: 70 per cent of the people in Troy, Michigan like LA sleazeballs FASTER PUSSYCAT. The bad news? The rest of them ...
Dan Reed Network: Slam (Polygram 838-868) kkkk
Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 21 October 1989
REED ALL ABOUT IT! ...
Faith No More, Metallica: Metallica, Faith No More: Kalifornia Kreamin'
Report and Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 21 October 1989
In a power-package guaranteed to lay waste to most of the Free World, never mind the state of California, METALLICA signed up their Bay Area ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 4 November 1989
A strange but true FACT from the hitherto unpublished memoirs off YNGWIE MALMSTEEN. HOWARD JOHNSON — who barely gets recognised in his own house these ...
Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe: Jon Bon Jovi: Cosa Glasnostra
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 11 November 1989
After all the dirt dished out by Mötley Crüe about Moscow, Doc McGhee and the New Jersey Syndicate Jon Bon Jovi has at last decided ...
Joe Satriani: Still Flyin', Still Dreamin'
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 25 November 1989
When he was just a little-biddy boy, ace widdlist JOE SATRIANI used to have weird dreams, dreams where he was flying around in "this blue colour" which ...
Winger: 'I Want The Cover Of Kerrang!'
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 16 December 1989
At the end of a 190 date world tour, WINGER retired to Australia to crack a few tubes, catch a few rays, and laze around ...
Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe: Motley Crüe : Moscow Festival – Crüe Still Peace-d off with Bon Jovi
Report and Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 13 January 1990
The feud goes on: Nikki Sixx brands JBJ a 'lying asshole' and challenges him to a fist-fight! ...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Milk Men
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 10 February 1990
Spicy US quartet the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS are currently deliverin' vitamin-packed daily doses of their latest album, Mother's Milk, to the troops up and ...
The Melvins: Melvins: Ozma (Boner advance tape, import) KKKK
Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 3 March 1990
I WAS recently discussing, with Bill Ward, how sad it is that everything recorded these days is stuffed choc full of gizmotry and is often ...
Faster Pussycat, Mötley Crüe: Mötley Crüe, Faster Pussycat: Oakland Coliseum, California
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 10 March 1990
Crüe-sin' for a brüe-sin' ...
Metallica: D'ya Wanna Sandwich?
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 26 May 1990
JAMES HETFIELD'S huge truck is parked outside STEFFAN CHIRAZI's San Francisco abode. Its owner is inside the house, stepping over our scribe's carpet off half-eaten ...
Report and Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 16 June 1990
In the inauspicious surroundings of small town America it sounds like a storm is brewing. It's the eve of the new KISS world tour and ...
Dan Reed Network: To Baldly Go…
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 14 July 1990
Where no King Of Funk Metal has gone before. That's DAN REED's avowed intention, and who would bet against him achieving this otherwordly aim? With ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 14 July 1990
MEGADETH's next album will be called Rust In Peace. Produced by MIKE CLINK at LA's Rumbo Studios, it's the first Mega-LP to feature the talents ...
Yngwie Malmsteen: Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Live Review by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 4 August 1990
Techno wizard of Ox ...
Def Leppard, Diamond Head, Iron Maiden, Saxon: NWOBHM: Wave from the Grave
Retrospective and Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 1 September 1990
For those off us old enough to remember, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was the start off the greatest period ever for Metal ...
Testament: Last Will and Testament
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 29 September 1990
TESTAMENT are back with a bang. Their new LP Souls Of Black is their fiercest output yet, full of the heavy riffs and gritty vocals we've come ...
Steve Earle: Town And Country Club, London ****
Live Review by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 29 September 1990
Duke of Earle ...
Vinnie Vincent: Confessions Of A Dictatorial Megalomaniac
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 15 December 1990
Since he left Kiss, and the Vinnie Vincent Invasion split, life has been tough for VINNIE VINCENT, but in the New Year he will return ...
GBH, Haircut 100, Judas Priest, Metallica, Musical Youth: Metallica: Taking the Mick
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 December 1990
He's very large, he's very hairy, he's got a massive... motorbike — and he's been soundman to some of the greatest acts in Metal. GBH, ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 26 January 1991
"A cuddly bear-cum-Santa Claus", "the Vesuvius of entertainment" and a man with an unfeasibly pronounced Texan drawl who 'really doesn't care a whole lot in ...
Slayer: Kaiser Centre, Oakland CA
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 2 February 1991
SATURDAY JANUARY 12, 1991. History is made. Seriously. You had to be there to fully understand, and I'll do my best, but mere printed adjectives ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 23 February 1991
SLAYER guitarist JEFF HANNEMAN is into war, the hardware and the psychology, plain and simple. But since January 15, and the commencement of hostilities in ...
Tad: Mad, Tad and Dangerous to Know!!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 23 March 1991
With a new LP 8-Way Santa ready to shred your eardrums at any moment, TAD are back with a vengeance. It might be a dangerous ...
Helmet, Tad: Tad, Helmet: Kennel Klub, San Francisco
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 30 March 1991
HONESTLY, THEY looked like nerds up there. White boys not unlike those little Beasties in appearance, yet from their instruments came a hellishly heavy din. ...
AC/DC: Donington Ain't No Bad Place To Be
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 17 August 1991
AC/DC headline Donington for a record-breaking third time this weekend. When they do, the song you most want to hear, predicts PAUL ELLIOTT, is the ...
Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion 1/Use Your Illusion 2 (Geffen GED24415/GED24420) kkkkk
Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 21 September 1991
Illusions of grandeur ...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rick Rubin: The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Now That's Blood Sugar Sex Magic!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 21 September 1991
After a long series of wrangles with their former record company EMI, the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS are back! They're back with a new Rick ...
The Black Crowes: Rock 'N' Roll Dilemmas, the Acid Test of Heavy Metal Morals: The Black Crowes
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 10 October 1991
The Rock 'N' Roll Dilemmas are cunningly contrived queries designed to probe the immoral depths to which rock stars will stoop. Or not, as the ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 31 October 1991
With their devils, of more accurately CC DeVille, exorcised, POISON are ready to add thoroughbred musicianship to mass popularity. With a new guitarist, Richie Kotzen, ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 16 November 1991
The giant leap from New Jersey street punks to international HM stars seemed but a small step for the mighty SKID ROW — but in ...
Nirvana: Smells like... Bullshit
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 February 1992
Nevermind has been at Number One on the Kerrang! Album Chart for a month. Stateside it's the same plus Double Platinum, and worldwide the video ...
Faith No More: Testing Your Faith
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 February 1992
Recording their third studio LP — currently in the mixing stage and titled Angel Dust — was always going to be a trying time for ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 April 1992
Life for Seattle grungemeisters SOUNDGARDEN has changed dramatically in the last 12 months. Going from self-confessed underdogs to playing arenas to crowd hysteria while supporting Guns N' ...
Report and Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 April 1992
LIFE FOR SEATTLE grungemeisters Soundgarden has changed dramatically in the last 12 months. Going from self-confessed underdogs to playing arenas to crowd hysteria while supporting ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 18 April 1992
Oh, won't you please welcome Canadian legends RUSH — back in the UK for the sold-out Roll The Bones tour. After nearly 20 years together, ...
Spinal Tap: It's an Ill Wind...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 25 April 1992
...that brings East End boys made good SPINAL TAP back to the place of their roots. With the release of their first album in 10 years, Break ...
ZZ Top: Heaven, Hell... or Vegas!
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 25 April 1992
With their new single 'Viva Las Vegas' — a cover of an old Elvis Presley number — crashing into the UK Top 10 and a ...
Mötley Crüe, Vince Neil: Crüe Love Don't Last
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 9 May 1992
When the news broke in February that VINCE NEIL had 'parted ways' with seminal LA rockers MÖTLEY CRÜE, many thought it was a publicity stunt. ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 30 May 1992
Available on import now — on Zoo through RCA/BMG — is a ferocious little mini album called Opiate by hate- and anger-inspired quartet TOOL. Opiate ...
Soundgarden: "I Get It A Lot, That Paranoid Feeling"
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 20 June 1992
And SOUNDGARDEN'S charismatic singer CHRIS CORNELL ain't talking about those ever-present Black Sabbath comparisons either. He might not be the new Ozzy Osbourne, argues PAUL ...
Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam: Pump up the 'Jam
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 27 June 1992
12 months ago PEARL JAM were just another Seattle band. Singer EDDIE VEDDER had arrived from San Diego, guitarist STONE GOSSARD and bassist JEFF AMENT ...
Overview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 July 1992
STEFFAN CHIRAZI charts the history of all those supposedly Satanic bands — anyone out there remember VENOM and their 1982 classic Black Metal, or the ...
W.A.S.P.: A Day in the Life of Blackie Lawless
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 4 July 1992
He's spent the last two years closeted away, writing and recording his just released 'rock opera', The Crimson Idol. Now, with a slot on the ...
Kyuss: "We don't wear tight Spandex!"
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 10 July 1992
... claim Palm Springs-based KYUSS, a band who cause STEFFAN CHIRAZI to turn from a reasonable human being (?!) into a "pant-shitting, dribbling wreck"! With ...
Metallica: "Metallica Is Our Life..."
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 1 August 1992
Admits its reluctant frontman JAMES HETFIELD, "but it's not the only thing we enjoy doing." While drummer LARS ULRICH enjoys playing the party animal till ...
Report by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 August 1992
The LOLLAPALOOZA II festival winds its way around America with a bill as exotic as its name. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry and Pearl Jam ...
Metallica: The Rise of an Egotist
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 August 1992
METALLICA started out as renegade Thrash bandits, but they've sold almost 10 million copies of their self-titled fifth album. They are now touring American stadiums ...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot 'n' Blue
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 August 1992
The last few months have been pretty hard to swallow for the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS. They've had to cope with the rising tide of ...
The Black Crowes: G Rose Lord Park, Toronto, Canada; Shea's, Buffalo, USA
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 12 September 1992
THE FIRST of these dates was a free open air concert; a gift to Toronto rock radio station Q-107, who've supported the Black Crowes since ...
Duff McKagan, Guns N' Roses: Guns N’ Roses: Duff McKagan talks
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1993
"SO, WHEN WE got back from the Appetite tour, I bought this big house, bought all this furniture, I was by myself, I was divorced, ...
Kyuss: "Basically, We're Four Nerds..."
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 6 February 1993
Claims KYUSS guitarist JOSH HOMME. The band's sound is impossible to categorise — although Sabbath comparisons abound — their bass player is shoeless with "a ...
Primus: Pork Soda (Interscope 7567922572) KKK
Review by Neil Perry, Kerrang!, 1 May 1993
THREE Ks, BUT a warning; hardened fans of what we shall call Traditional Metal would rather feed their family pets to Glen Benton than sit ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 15 May 1993
Alice In Chains are exploding! With two killer new tracks in the can and a major slot on the upcoming Lollapalooza tour lined up, the ...
Manic Street Preachers: Gold Against The Soul (Columbia 4740622)
Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 19 June 1993
ROCK 'N' SOUL AIN'T NOISE POLLUTION... ...
Metallica: Achiel Eeckloo Rockweide, Torhout, Belgium
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 24 July 1993
NOWHERE LEFT TO ROAM... The Big K!'s STEFFAN CHIRAZI gets all doe-eyed as METALLICA round off their current world tour, and files this final live report... ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 24 July 1993
METALLICA, the biggest Heavy Metal band on the planet, have just finished a tour that has seem 'em play to an estimated 4.3 million people ...
Ted Nugent: Out Of Control (Epic/Legacy import E2K 47039) KKKKK
Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 14 August 1993
THE NUGE IS HUGE! ...
Burzum, Mayhem: Euronymous Murdered!
Report by Paul Elliott, Tore Øien, Kerrang!, 21 August 1993
Black Metal 'Godfather' stabbed to death; rival Swedish Satanists suspected! ...
Report by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 18 September 1993
When they do it in LA, they sure know how to do it properly!... Even when it comes to the funeral of a miserable bleedin' ...
Emperor: Second Black Metal Murder!
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, 18 September 1993
Emperor drummer killed homosexual and burned chapel! ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 18 September 1993
With the promise of a new studio album by Christmas, SLAYER will be one of the first Metal acts to emerge on RICK RUBIN'S re-christened ...
Screaming Trees, Soul Asylum: Soul Asylum, Screaming Trees: Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 18 September 1993
Seeking Asylum... ...
W.A.S.P.: First Blood... Last Cuts (Capitol advance tape) KK
Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 23 October 1993
'I'LL DO whatever I want to you/I'll nail your ass to the sheets'. Blackie Lawless slobbers on W.A.S.P.'s controversial first single. 'Animal (F**k Like A ...
The Germs, Nirvana: Nirvana: Lounge Act!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 11 December 1993
Forget all the bullshit! Forget the scandal! This is the real NIRVANA! Mellow! Happy! And capable of lounging Stateside arenas without baulking! In a Big K! exclusive, ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 8 January 1994
They're buddies of Kiss' Gene Simmons, and Kurt Cobain! They're fans of Venom and Judas Priest! And they rock hard! They are MELVINS! STEFFAN CHIRAZI worships the new Metal Gods! ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, April 1994
Violence! Paranoia! Misery! Welcome to the nightmare world of NINE INCH NAILS! STEFFAN CHIRAZI gets inside the head of mainman TRENT REZNOR to discover the ...
Aerosmith: Sex'n'Drugs'n'Rock'n'Roll!
Memoir by Pete Makowski, Kerrang!, 6 April 1994
Up until the early '80s, Aerosmith indulged in every rock 'n'roll excess! "It's a miracle they survived!" says Dr. Pete Makowski, who met Steven Tyler ...
Burzum, Emperor, Mayhem: Black Metal Murderer Gets 14 Years!
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, 9 April 1994
Emperor drummer confesses: "I kept on stabbing… then I went back and kicked him in the head" ...
Burzum, Mayhem: Black Metal Court Report: Blood, Fire, Death
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, 7 May 1994
Heavy Metal has seen nothing like it before. In Norway's infamous Black Metal scene, murder and arson are rife. Emperor drummer Bard Eithun is already ...
Burzum, Mayhem: Black Metal Court Report: The Killer Cracks!
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, 14 May 1994
Norwegian Black Metal star Varg Vikernes — aka Count Grishnackh — is charged with the murder of rival musician and Satanist Oystein Aarseth. Kerrang!'s exclusive ...
Burzum, Mayhem: Black Metal Court Report: Mass Slaughter!
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, 21 May 1994
Black Metal star Varg Vikernes (aka Count Grishnackh) stands accused of the murder of rival Oystein Aarseth — but incredibly, he was planning a worse ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 21 May 1994
There's a new vibe about MEGADETH in 1994 — they're happy, mellow, positive. They actually like each other, goddammit! What the hell's gotten into 'em?! ...
Burzum, Mayhem: Black Metal Court Report: Guilty As Hell!
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, 28 May 1994
The verdict is in — and Black Metal star Varg Vikernes, aka Count Grishnackh, has been found guilty of murdering rival Oystein Aarseth. The sentence ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 28 May 1994
Right now, MEGADETH are as strong and happy as they've ever been — yet incredibly, they were close to splitting up just a few months ...
Pantera: In a Darkened Room...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 28 May 1994
...is where PANTERA frontman PHIL ANSELMO gets his head together — away from the pressures that come with a US Number One album. What is ...
Hole, Mother Love Bone, Nirvana: Rock 'N' Roll Suicide?
Report by Paul Elliott, Pete Makowski, Kerrang!, 9 July 1994
Seattle's heroin nightmare continues. First ANDY WOOD of the seminal MOTHER LOVE BONE overdosed and died. Then KURT COBAIN ended his desperate addiction by committing ...
Mötley Crüe: Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, Tennessee
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 30 July 1994
SPARE A thought for poor ol' Nikki Sixx, will ya? Suffering for years in limousines and jets planes the world over, enduring the tortures of ...
Pantera, Prong, Sepultura: Pantera, Sepultura, Prong: Irvine Meadows, Irvine CA
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 30 July 1994
FAR BEYOND HEAVY! The mightiest Metal package tour of the year rumbles through California on World Cup Final day — will PANTERA be victorious, or can ...
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 24 September 1994
Death Metal kings Napalm Death and Obituary slay LA! Monstrous Machine Head march on! ...
Metallica: Don't Tread On Me! Metallica Sue 'Em All In Court Case Spectacular!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 October 1994
Gloves off as Metal masters take on record company in legal scrapof the decade! Lars tells all! ...
Report and Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, Spring 1994
IT'S BEEN A LONG time coming, but finally Glenn Danzig has received his first Gold albums, for Danzig's 1988 eponymous Def American debut album and ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1995
Incredible but true facts about ZZ Top. 1. Jimi Hendrix gave Billy Gibbons a guitar. 2. Dusty Hill wrote 'Tush' in ten minutes during a ...
Guns N' Roses: "I Never Liked Our New Guitarist!" Slash Stabbed in the Back as Axl Hires New Gun!
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 14 January 1995
Rucks! Law-suits! The future of GN'R! Slash tells all in a killer Kerrang! world exclusive! ...
Biohazard, Machine Head, Slayer: Slayer, Biohazard, Machine Head: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 February 1995
EXPENDABLE YOUTH! 'Dead' LA crowd spoils Slayer live spectacular! ...
Megadeth: "Are You Trying To Get Me To Say I'm Mad?!"
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 18 March 1995
Anarchist! Politician! Spiritualist! Is MEGADETH mainman DAVE MUSTAINE a Metal messiah — or is he just a loony ex-junkie?! We strip away the bullshit for ...
Reef: Camden Underworld, London
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 17 June 1995
REEF ENCOUNTER! They're Pop stars now! Reef keep the fans hanging' on, then unleash a fiery set of classic new British Rock! It's official — ...
The Black Crowes: Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 24 June 1995
STONED FREE! ...
Guns N' Roses, Slash: In Bed With... Slash
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, July 1995
WHEN WERE you first aware of the birds and the bees? ...
Report and Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 12 August 1995
Gangs! Drugs! Guns! You name 'em! You'll find 'em all in Oakland, California, MACHINE HEAD'S hometown! It ain't a pretty place, as STEFFAN CHIRAZI finds ...
Be gentle with me! Reading & Donington — The Kerrang! Survival Guide
Guide by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 26 August 1995
Are you a festival virgin? Is it your first time? Don't end up face down in a muddy puddle — read the Big K! survival ...
Sepultura: Roots Radicals! Sepultura — New Album World Exclusive!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 23 September 1995
Brazilian pounders SEPULTURA are holed up in a red-hot rehearsal studio, thrashing out new material for Roots — their eagerly-awaited sixth LP. Naturally, it's going ...
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 7 October 1995
DOUBLE-O HEAVEN! Ozzy Osbourne proves he's right back on form with a storming South American extravaganza! Alice Cooper, Megadeth, Paradise Lost and Therapy? also blast ...
Reef: A Night Out with Reef: Emphatically Pissed
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 28 October 1995
REEF are the coolest, fastest-rising rock band in Britain. They're on Kerrang!'s free Rare tape. And they like a drink or two, as PAUL ELLIOTT ...
Therapy? Smooth, Smart, Selfish
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 18 November 1995
How has Therapy? bassist Michael McKeegan kept his head as the band have gone from smalltown heroes to international stars? Paul Elliott hears his story... ...
Soul Asylum: The Man Who Souled The World
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 25 November 1995
Soul Asylum singer Dave Pirner has made a packet out of one big hit. And if he ever gets short, he can borrow a few ...
Garbage: The Last Word: Shirley Manson
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, December 1995
LAST MAN YOU FANTASISED ABOUT? ...
Guns N' Roses: Guns N’ Roses: Together Again?
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
GUNS N’Roses is back from the dead. Five years after the release of their last new material — the epic Use Your Illusion I and ...
Lemmy, Motorhead: In Bed With Lemmy
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
When were you first aware of the birds and the bees? ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
KISS MY ASS, they're thinking of calling the KISS tribute album . "If people think I'm smug about any of this stuff", says Gene Simmons, ...
Mötley Crüe: Motley Update: Mayhem!
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
MOTLEY CRUE go in the studio in November straight from their US club tour to start work on their new album, tentatively titled Personality Number ...
Guns N' Roses, Slash: Q&A with Slash
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
YOU HAVE a house in the Hollywood Hills, you have a wife, you have housepets, you're the most unpunk I've ever seen you. A fine ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Mellow, Jolly and the Infinite Madness
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 4 May 1996
It's all gone weird in Amsterdam — the Smashing Pumpkins are eating hash cakes, visiting gay bars, getting chatted up by lesbians and generally having ...
Slayer: Confessions of a Teenage Punk Rocker
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 25 May 1996
He dumped a cheerleader for punk rock, and he spent his teens boozing, brawling and smashing up cars. He's Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, and he's ...
Report by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 June 1996
It's a scorching hot day in California, and Metallica — the world's biggest rock band — have just announced on the radio that they'll be ...
The Jesus Lizard, Ministry: Ministry, The Jesus Lizard: The Warfield, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 22 June 1996
SATAN'S CIRCUS SIDESHOW ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 13 July 1996
The hottest superbabe in rock is here! She's Gwen Stefani, she fronts million-selling US sensations No Doubt, and once she's had her eyebrows plucked, she'll ...
Pearl Jam: No Code (Epic ET067500) kkkk
Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 17 August 1996
WHAT BAND would not want to be in Pearl Jam's position right now? Still one of the biggest rock acts in the world, grunge's leading ...
Guns N' Roses: Neurotic Outsiders: Duff and Matt talk records
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, September 1996
The first record you ever bought Matt: 1966, A Hard Day’s Night. I saw The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show — I was ...
Marilyn Manson: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 5 October 1996
He has shocked America with his sick, sadistic and Satanic music — now MARILYN MANSON is coming to the UK. "Masturbation, hardcore pornography and sleep ...
Report by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 26 October 1996
Used tampons, crap beer and blokes' naked arses. That'll be FLUFFY on the road, then. A debauched and filthy tale of backstage scuzz and stinking ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 11 January 1997
To celebrate the New Year, KORN singer Jonathan Davis has invited Kerrang! onto his gleaming tour bus. Here, he is first going to whip out ...
Korn, Metallica: Metallica, Korn: Arco Arena, Sacramento, CA 5/5
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 18 January 1997
EXPLOSIVE! METALLICA AND KORN DOUBLE DETONATION ...
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 29 March 1997
HEDONISTIC! BIRMINGHAM GETS A SKINFUL OF SKUNK ...
Report and Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 12 June 1997
The greatest show on earth has FEAR FACTORY, MANSON, TYPE O, MACHINE HEAD and COAL CHAMBER on one bill — and it's just destroyed America. This ...
The Prodigy: The Fat Of The Land (XL Recordings XLMC 121) KKKKK
Review by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 28 June 1997
LAND OF HOPE & GLORY ...
Megadeth: The Last Word: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 5 July 1997
The ultimate questions on life, sex and making a prick of yourself. This week, MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine compares notes with Paul Elliott... ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 2 August 1997
Punks in the '90s are supposed to be straight-edge, ultra-PC and humour-free. Evidently, no one told THE OFFSPRING'S meat-eating, beer-drinking, scary chick-loving top geezer, Dexter ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 23 August 1997
On the eve of their headlining appearance at Reading '97, METALLICA have one more battle to fight with Load. In the blue corner, Planet Rock's ...
The Prodigy: Anarchy In The US!
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 23 August 1997
With a Number One album and a headlining spot on Lollapalooza '97, THE PRODIGY are America's most wanted right now. Which means mainman Liam Howlett ...
Metallica: Souls of a New Machine
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 30 August 1997
The Plant Studios, Sausalito: METALLICA are holding their final inquest into the Load album and working on its successor. Time to find out exactly how ...
Report and Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 8 November 1997
Gavin Rossdale has spent a mere 11 days at home in the last two years. No wonder BUSH have driven back to London after every ...
Insane Clown Posse: Anarchy In The UK!
Interview by Neil Perry, Kerrang!, 29 November 1997
Straight outta Detroit — the most violent city in America — the INSANE CLOWN POSSE are coming to Britain. Prepare to be drowned in fizzy ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1998
20 YEARS ago in San Francisco, a young man from the South London suburbs made one of the biggest-selling rock ‘n’ roll records of all ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 10 January 1998
Best Band, Best Album, Best Single, Best Live Gig — METALLICA swept the board in this year's Readers' Poll. At home in California. James Hetfield ...
Interview by Neil Perry, Kerrang!, 24 January 1998
These days, when Billie Joe Armstrong's band do a hometown show, it's a triumphant, equipment-trashing affair for which all of San Francisco and its dog ...
3 Colours Red: Kerrang! Confidential: Pete Vuckovic, 3 Colours Red
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 7 February 1998
WHAT IS your nickname and why? ...
Feeder: The Empire Strikes Back
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 7 February 1998
Ever since Bush sold their first few million records, we've been waiting for the next globe-conquering Britrock band. Enter FEEDER, three men who've come through ...
Coal Chamber, Human Waste Project: Human Waste Project, Coal Chambers: Sister Act
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 14 February 1998
"God, you guys just want dirt!" exclaimed HUMAN WASTE PROJECT'S Aimee Echo when she and COAL CHAMBER'S Rayna saw our frankly filthy Valentine's Day questionnaire. ...
The Deftones: The Accidental Hero
Interview by Neil Perry, Kerrang!, 14 February 1998
Chino Moreno isn't your typical rock star. The DEFTONES frontman didn't have a dysfunctional childhood, hasn't cultivated a heroin habit, and he still gets scared ...
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 28 February 1998
Five years ago, Antony Langdon couldn't play an instrument or write any songs. This didn't stop him moving from Yorkshire to New York, forming a ...
Cradle of Filth: The Lust Highway
Interview by Paul Elliott, Neil Perry, Kerrang!, 2 May 1998
Experimental sex, necrophilia, decadence, fetishism, three-day clubbing binges, pornography, occultism, misanthropy and vampirism. Welcome to the world of CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani Filth… ...
Retrospective by Steffan Chirazi, Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 9 May 1998
On April 20, FAITH NO MORE announced that they had split up. This is the story — and the last words — of the band ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 16 May 1998
The world of SLAYER is a bleak, gore-drenched place populated by deviants, lunatics, mass murderers and war criminals. You'd expect nothing less from men who've ...
Pantera: The Great Southern Trendkiller
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 20 June 1998
Racist, junkie, violent thug — PANTERA singer Phil Anselmo has been called all these things and more in recent years. Today, in New Orleans, it's ...
Sepultura, Soulfly: Sepultura: Greene Machine
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 25 July 1998
In December '96, Andreas Kisser, Paulo Pinto and Igor Cavalera contemplated breaking up SEPULTURA after their bitter split with Max Cavalera. This is the story ...
Feeder: "I'm The King Of The World"
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 15 August 1998
We join Grant Nicholas at a party on board a boat sailing around Seattle harbour. After six months of incendiary gigs, broken bones, nervous exhaustion and ...
Marilyn Manson: The Man Who Fell To Earth
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, September 1998
THE ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR is no more. ...
Ash: The New, Clear Sounds of Ash
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, September 1998
TUCKED AWAY behind a careworn inner city church on a quiet residential street in Highbury, North London, lies an outwardly unremarkable red brick building. This ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 19 September 1998
Six months in the making, ASH's eagerly-awaited second album, Nu-Clear Sounds, is finally upon us. Today, the band look back on 16 weeks of tap-dancing ...
Aerosmith: This Way to Insanity
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, October 1998
"WHEN THE moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore." A rich and fruity baritone croons impressively from room 523 of the ...
Rammstein: Nude Power Generation
Report and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 21 November 1998
Last month, German shock metallers RAMMSTEIN were branded Nazis by the British press. We have flown to America to uncover the truth. We will subsequently ...
Marilyn Manson: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 19 December 1998
The season of goodwill may be upon us, but one man has come to vomit on your festive cheer. Fresh from wrecking his hotel room, ...
Marilyn Manson: Spooky Pop Star
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, Winter 1998
On plotting to kill a girlfriend, joining the Church Of Satan and exactly why he's like Monica Lewinsky ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, January 1999
THE UTILITARIAN confines of the cavernous Manchester Apollo are abuzz with a veritable army of well-disciplined tour troopers. It's 3.30 on a particularly inhospitable Mancunian ...
Green Day, Offspring: California Über Alles: US '90s Punk part1
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 30 January 1999
In 1994, GREEN DAY and THE OFFSPRING released two albums which changed the face of American music. From Dookie and Smash to 'Pretty Fly (For ...
Monster Magnet: Life After Mood-Altering: Monster Magnet
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, February 1999
SIT A SPELL in the stark and featureless foyer of the current temple of the Monster Magnet dreams, a half-built Sunset Strip hotel of rare ...
Green Day, Offspring, Rancid: California Über Alles: US '90s Punk part 2
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 6 February 1999
After the huge success of GREEN DAY, THE OFFSPRING and RANCID came the inevitable wave of copy-cat bands and the backlash. Here, US punk's movers ...
Stereophonics: Three Local Boys Go Global
Report and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, April 1999
THERE'S A GAGGLE of giggling girls in the hotel lobby. There's even more outside the venue, huddled under blankets or sitting smoking cigarettes in doorways. ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 10 April 1999
Mullet-spotting, interviews with idiotic Euro-hacks and close encounters with transvestites in restaurant toilets – REEF's bid for global domination is only 24 hours old and ...
Marilyn Manson Blamed For Tragic High School Murders
Report by uncredited writer, Kerrang!, 1 May 1999
Manson speaks out over the tragedy as the world's media condemns him ...
The Donnas: Hot Style: The Donnas
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 29 May 1999
ALL THE best bands look great. Whether it was the Sex Pistols in their safety pins or Kurt Cobain throwing on a plaid shirt and ...
Feeder: Truth Or Dare — "How good are you in bed?"
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 5 June 1999
Do not be fooled by first impressions. Take FEEDER: on the surface they're three serious gentlemen in love with their art. Ask them the right ...
Goo Goo Dolls: The Unlikely Lads
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 17 July 1999
In America, the GOO GOO DOLLS are award-winning rock stars who out-sell Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie. But then, they have spent 10 years playing ...
The Offspring: Come Out & Spray
Report and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 31 July 1999
July 1999, Orange County, California — THE OFFSPRING are about to play the two biggest gigs of their career in front of 14,000 rabid fans. ...
Retrospective by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 7 August 1999
Thirty years ago this week, followers of CHARLES MANSON committed a series of brutal murders that changed US culture forever. On the anniversary of the ...
Foo Fighters: I'm Still Standing
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, September 1999
This year Dave Grohl has split from his record company, seen long-time friend Franz Stahl walk out on his band and endured far too much ...
Blink 182, Polythene: Blink 182/Polythene: The Roadhouse, Manchester ****
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 25 September 1999
Buoyant! Blink 182 bounce into Manchster ...
Mortiis: Islington Slimelight, London *
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 25 September 1999
Everyone's favourite demonic troll brings his ambient spook-fest to London. ...
Def Leppard: On The Road: Again….
Report and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, October 1999
"RIGHT," SAYS Joe Elliot. "I think it's time for a few drinks." ...
Report and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 9 October 1999
When it comes to smut, filth and all-round seedy behaviour, no one can touch San Diego oiks BLINK 182. This is, after all, a band ...
Rage Against the Machine: Hello, Hello...It's Good To Be Back: Rage Against the Machine
Report and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 16 October 1999
Humourless revolutionaries. Po-faced militants. Volatile insurrectionists permanently on the verge of splitting. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE have been called all of these and more. Which ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 16 October 1999
Currently America's hottest property, KID ROCK has spent the last 12 months shagging porn stars, witnessing depraved sex acts and earning more money than he ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 23 October 1999
You would give your left arm to have a celebrity girlfriend, holidays in the Caribbean, several million in the bank and a reputation as Britain's ...
Tommy Lee, Methods of Mayhem, Mötley Crüe: Tommy Lee Talks!
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, November 1999
STUDIO CITY, situated on the outskirts of the sprawling Twentieth Century Babylon that is Los Angeles, is a singularly bizarre locale. In amongst its statuesque ...
System Of A Down: It's The End Of The World As We Know It…
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 18 December 1999
…and SYSTEM OF A DOWN feel fine. But then, this is the band who will celebrate the new millennium by attempting to drug the Backstreet ...
Blink 182 have arrived! Watch out Britain!
Interview by John Robb, Kerrang!, 2000
Blink 182 are taking no prisoners. We compare tattoos with America's finest ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 8 January 2000
"IT'S MADE ME realise the value of life, and it's a strong part of me," says Daryl Palumbo, frontman with rising New York crew Glassjaw. ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, February 2000
HIS REPUTATION most definitely precedes him. The press's perception of Henry Rollins has always been somewhat fractious. Journalists have always been suspicious, and on occasion ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Dominion Theatre, London Saturday,
Live Review by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 5 February 2000
Billy Corgan said rock was dead. Now the Pumpkins have dug up the corpse. ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 15 February 2000
For some bands, Kerrang!'s legendary Truth Or Dare grilling provides the opportunity to delve into their respective psyches. For Machine Head it's an excuse to ...
Slipknot: There Goes The Neighbourhood…
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 11 March 2000
Last week, Slipknot flew into Britain for their first full UK jaunt. Over the next seven days, they will contemplate suicide, get thrown out of ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, May 2000
AS DIMEBAG Darrell spins the cap from an already dented litre bottle of Crown Royal whiskey in the trashed-out confines of Pantera’s booze-reeking Manchester Apollo ...
New York Dolls: The New York Dolls
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, July 2000
WHILE IT was the Rolling Stones who pretty much defined and trail-blazed the cavalier pursuit of decadence and debauchery in rock 'n' roll, it was ...
Monster Magnet: Prince of Darkness: Monster Magnet's Dave Wyndorf
Profile and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 19 November 2000
"I"VE GOTTA be out there." A warm New Jersey dusk is gradually falling on a idyllic sixties suburbia that still believes whole-heartedly in the concept ...
Snake River Conspiracy: Tobey Torres: Celebrity Skin
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 25 November 2000
Snake River Conspiracy singer Tobey Torres is a self-confessed attention seeker who loves life in the spotlight. But then a career in "exotic dancing" will ...
Iggy Pop: Lusts of a Legend: Iggy Pop
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 2001
THE ICON flexes his implausibly limber, scar-studded torso and un-focuses his piercing blue eyes for a few seconds as he casts his mind back over ...
Silverchair: From Despair To Here
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 10 February 2001
NOTE: This is the original "director's cut" version of the piece that ran in the Kerrang! ...
John Frusciante, The Red Hot Chili Peppers: An Interview with John Frusciante
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, March 2001
WHEN FRESH-FACED, 18-year old New Yorker John Frusciante was originally recruited as guitarist by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, following the heroin-related death of original ...
Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 24 March 2001
Just Push Eject: Boston's Stadium rock legends slip up ...
Papa Roach: Oi! We want a word…
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 14 April 2001
With album sales of three million behind them, life is peachy for Papa Roach right now. Or it would be if they hadn't just got ...
The Nomads: The Garage, London
Review by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 24 November 2001
Scandinavian garage rock legends make rare UK assault Saturday, November 3 Support: The X-Rays ...
The Dirtbombs: Highbury Garage, London
Live Review by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 15 December 2001
Motor City demons show a whole lotta soul. ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 12 January 2002
Making music to take drugs to… ...
Bad Religion: The Process of Belief
Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 19 January 2002
Bad Religion reform for belief-affirming 12th album ...
Killing Joke: Jaz Coleman: Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark
Interview by Pat Long, Kerrang!, 19 January 2002
For the past 20 years, Jaz Coleman has caused mayhem with industrial-punk legends Killing Joke. Now he's about to turn the world of classical music ...
Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 19 January 2002
The Nu Testament: P.O.D. convert London town ...
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 19 January 2002
On the long, straight drive from Los Angeles airport, down a curving freeway, past oil wells and gas stations, diners and office supply stores, onto ...
Profile and Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 26 January 2002
Four men from northern Sweden are giving The Hives a run for their money in the incendiary rock 'n' roll stakes. But selling records is ...
Profile and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 26 January 2002
Eight years, in fact, since Staind formed in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 2001, they made the second biggest selling album of the year. This is their ...
The Hives: "One, two, three, four…"
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 2 February 2002
They're the most stylish band on the planet. They're also one of the most exciting. This is the rise and rise of THE HIVES… ...
Profile and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 23 February 2002
Not every young British band gets the opportunity to relocate to Hollywood to record their debut album Hell Is For Heroes have. And they're having ...
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 2 March 2002
They've been banned from every venue in their hometown, alienated the alt-rock underground by signing to a major label, and confused audiences the world over ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 16 March 2002
Looking for a genre-splicing, cop-car-driving, multi-media musical experience? Six-foot eight New Yorker Custom is your man. ...
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 23 March 2002
Forget the hype, the haircuts and the priviliged backgrounds. New York heroes have one thing on their mind: the music... ...
Foo Fighters: Overdoses. Courtney Love. The Pressure of recording a new album.
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 30 March 2002
The last 12 months haven't been easy. But Foo Fighters mainman Dave Grohl says that he's happier than ever… ...
The Bellrays: Notting Hill Arts Club, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 30 March 2002
Poptones present your new new favourite band. ...
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Praise Be!
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 30 March 2002
The planet's coolest band are here to give rock'n'roll back its swagger. This is the gospel according to The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion... ...
Girls Against Boys, The Icarus Line, The Von Bondies, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: South By Southwest
Report and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 6 April 2002
Deep in the heart of Texas, the Icarus Line are being lynched by the locals, the dwarves are getting their kits off, and Courtney Love ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 20 April 2002
Conor Oberst began his musical career as a 14-year-old singer-songwriter. Seven years later, he has formed the fiery Desaparecidos. His mission: to open America's eyes… ...
Lemmy and Keith Allen: Grumpy Old Men
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 27 April 2002
Q: What do you get if you bring together two old school frinds with a reputation for raising hell? A: Lots of booze, lots of swearing ...
Profile and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 11 May 2002
They say you can judge a band by their fans. For fast-rising UK noiseniks SikTh, that means obsessive lunatics and pavement-licking berzerkers... ...
The BellRays: Maximum Rock 'N' Roll
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 11 May 2002
Praying for gasoline-fuelled garage punk fired-up with Truth and Attitude? The Bellrays might just be here to save you... ...
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 8 June 2002
An amped-up A begin their triumphant lap of victory across the UK ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 29 June 2002
With their third album, The Remote Part, Idlewild’s time has arrived. Roddy Woomble will reflect upon this once he’s revealed the secrets of serving milk… ...
Queens of the Stone Age: Mean Fiddler, London
Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 6 July 2002
THERE ARE people everywhere. Crowded at the front of the stage, clogging the bar, hanging on the stair rails, queuing for the toilets. The room ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 13 July 2002
For the past nine weeks, Green Day have been blasting across America on the Pop Disaster tour… Their mission: "To reclaim our throne as the most ...
Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 20 July 2002
OUTSIDE THE Astoria, on the Charing Cross Road, "Filthy Phil The Preacher" is holding a Bible and a broken megaphone. ...
Guns N' Roses: London Arena, London
Live Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 7 September 2002
AS THE ALLOTTED showtime of 9pm approaches, it's quite something to think about what might happen here if Axl Rose doesn't show up. ...
Murderdolls, Slipknot: Joey Jordison: Parallel Lives
Profile and Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 28 September 2002
In Slipknot, Joey Jordison gets to rage. In the Murderdolls, he gets to rock. In both, he shits in public… ...
Mudhoney: Number one sick boys
Retrospective and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 28 September 2002
Mudhoney helped invent grunge, then became also-rans in a blur of fights, paranoia and heroin. They're happy to talk about it... ...
The Libertines: London Calling
Profile and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 26 October 2002
It's an East End thing ...
Fugazi: Corn Exchange, Brighton
Live Review by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 2 November 2002
Long-awaited live return of genre-thrashing Godheads ...
Review by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 16 November 2002
Serf's up! Rage/Cornell collaboration hits all the high notes ...
Sum 41: Does This Look Infected?
Review by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 23 November 2002
Ill Communication: Canadian punkers return with superior second record. ...
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster: Gorllla Warfare
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 18 January 2003
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster were reared on violence, vandalism and far, far too many drugs. Join them in their world of darkness and, er, ...
Interview by Cathi Unsworth, Kerrang!, 8 February 2003
Critics call her a spoilt brat. The tabloids think she's out of control. US radio claims she's not "for real". Kelly Osbourne couldn't care less… ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 15 February 2003
As they headline their first UK arena tour, party monsters Sum 41 insist drugs and sex are off the menu. Happily, gambling, boozing and hanging ...
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Lust For Life
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 20 February 2003
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: sex, desperation and glamour, Big Apple style ...
Live Review by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 22 March 2003
IT TAKES A RARE band to transform a large cavern sucked of all life into something approximating a Saturday night party. Many try, most fail. ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 8 November 2003
Hundred Reasons make terrible rock stars. They do, however, make fantastic rock albums. This despite being crippled by panic attacks, chronic geekyness and rampant alcohol ...
The Distillers, Peaches: The Distillers and Peaches: When Brody met Peaches...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, February 2004
THEY MAY have only met once before but within thirty second of being re-introduced backstage at London's Brixton Academy it's clear that Brody Dalle and ...
The Prodigy: Liam Howlett: Never Outgunned
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, August 2004
"I REMEMBER being in our rehearsal room and Keith was picking holes in shit and I just thought 'What the fuck, man? What's happened to ...
Velvet Revolver's Scott Weiland
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, 6 November 2004
THE RIBALD ROCK'N'ROLL spirit of Guns'n'Roses and their ilk has long since evaporated into the smog. Once they owned Sunset, roaring up the strip in ...
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, February 2005
FIVE YEARS. It's a long time by most people's standards, but when such a period passes between albums by Nine Inch Nails, the turbulent electro-noir ...
Billy Corgan: The Pumpkin King Goes Solo
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, June 2005
THE FIRST thing you notice is not how tall he is or how large his hands look, or the fact that he's dressed like an ...
Review by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, 19 November 2005
A diverse and powerful companion album to the earlier Mezmerize ...
Foo Fighters: "Touring the UK? It Feels Great Every Time!"
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, December 2005
2005 HAS BEEN, in the words of guitarist Nate Mendel, 'really fucking chaotic' for the Foo Fighters. First, there was In Your Honour, recorded in ...
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