Album review: Pridelands – Light Bends

Following our massive Bring Me The Horizon issue in March, we’re back again for another special edition of Kerrang! magazine – this time, celebrating the arrival of the long-awaited Hella Mega Tour!. In the mag – which is out now – Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Fall Out...

Bring Me The Horizon kicked off their massive Malta weekender event in style last night (May 26), surprise-dropping a new track during their DJ set. Entitled Strangers, the newbie already had fans belting the chorus of 'We’re just a room full of strangers / Looking for something to save us', judging by videos uploaded to social media following the set.

For a band that claim to be “shrouded in anonymity”, it seems odd to lead with the fact that bigLOVE is actually Justine Jones and Sammy Urwin of Employed To Serve. Needless to say, Justine’s throaty roar is unmistakable as soon as the vocals kick in, so any attempt to disguise their identities would have been futile.

Blood Command have shared another ace new single ahead of the release of their upcoming album Praise Armageddonism. The band's latest effort has the excellent title A Questionable Taste In Friends, and is "for anyone who has ever felt like an outcast because of the way they dress or the style of music they are into. It’s for anyone who has ever felt like they’ve been picked on for not fitting in with the rest of the crowd…"

The jacket is age-worn and soft. Made of thick black leather with padded shoulders and brown piping edging the pockets. At its waist three buckles pull together creating the quintessential eighties silhouette. I found it hanging in the window of a vintage shop in Brighton, England. Down one of those...

This professional build has all the right ingredients for tire-scorching diversion. Like most automotive enthusiasts, we love some crazy, interesting builds. We’ve seen all kinds of Frankenstein vehicles like this one, both good and bad, but this Lucky Gunner 1976 Hemi Bug definitely sits on the good side of the spectrum. It’s crazy yet highly functional, because in the end looks do matter but performance is most important.

Demi Lovato has announced a new single, Skin Of My Teeth, to kick off their new rock and pop-punk era on June 10. The U.S. singer staged a “funeral” for their pop career early this year, and confirmed a return to the rockier roots of their first two albums, Don’t Forget and Here We Go Again. Now, album number eight and its heavier sound will be previewed with lead single Skin Of My Teeth – which you can hear a snippet of in the below TikTok.

Following the release of Talk in March, beabadoobee has unveiled a new single, Lovesong, from her upcoming second album Beatopia. She explains of the track: "Lovesong is a song that I had bits written for since my second ever EP. The chorus was actually already written since Loveworm, I just didn't have any chords to sing it with. It's actually written in a really strange tuning that I forget. And yeah, it's just another love song, another sweet love song. It was one of the last songs I recorded for Beatopia."

Only the most important bands make history. As their frontman Bobby Vylan triumphantly reveals tonight, Bob Vylan can count themselves as one of them. They are, after all, the first artist to ever record, mix, and produce an album all by themselves, release it on their own label, and have it reach the UK Top 20. And although it’s highly unlikely anyone’s keeping a record, they’re probably making history by being the first band to start off a sold-out Underworld show with “a bit of light exercise and meditation”.

It’s the time you’ve been waiting for, Neck Deep have returned! Marking their first release in almost two years, the pop-punks have returned with a stomping hit. Titled STFU, the track’s name hints that the band, and frontman Ben Barlow, have plenty to say. Ben explains: "As the world was falling apart at the time, and only seems to have worsened recently, it felt right to satirise the decline of society in typical punk fashion. Looking at the world through a screen and being lured into the impending sense of doom that’s overcome us all."

Even in a pandemic, 2021 was an incredible year for pop-punk trio Meet Me @ The Altar. Their Fueled By Ramen debut EP, Model Citizen, was the highlight, a record which Kerrang! praised for “bringing something new to pop-punk in terms of sound and, more importantly, the very idea of what a pop-punk band can be”. So too did vocalist Edith Johnson, guitarist Téa Campbell and drummer Ada Juarez get back out on the road, playing shows in their native U.S., as well as a short support stint on these shores.

From avant-garde to black metal, Manuel Gagneux has channeled all sorts of influences and sounds into the always-brilliant, always-compelling Zeal & Ardor. But there’s even more that lies behind the surface…. 1Mike Patton. “He is an extremely brilliant vocalist. He tends to do exactly what he wants to do,...

At long last, it's nearly our turn! After the U.S. leg of the Hella Mega Tour finally happened last year, very soon Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer will be crossing the pond to bring their collective shows to the UK and Europe. Naturally, we had to celebrate the...

Conjurer have shared another new single from their upcoming album Páthos. Entitled Cracks In The Pyre, guitarist/vocalist Brady Deeprose reveals that the track is "probably the biggest departure from our previously established sound – the working title was Ballad. For me this is the most affecting track on Páthos, I connect more with it on every listen, and I think it opens up a new element to the band's identity that will be important moving forwards.

Over the past few years, Sydney-born DJ, producer and songwriter Haai – real name Teneil Throssell – has become something of an underground star in her adopted hometown of London. A two-year resident at the Brixton club Phonox, Throssell’s sets are renowned for their frenetic pace and euphoric...

Do you like riffs? Do you like moustachioed men barking at you? Do you like a sound so large it envelopes your very soul? Well good news! We've got Pigsx7 in The K! Pit. Ahead of a summer full of festivals, Geordie psych-doomers Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs stopped by our favourite London dive bar Blondies for a mesmerising evening of mind-mangling mayhem with Dead Man's Fingers.

“I would describe it as, overall, a heavier sound.”. Understatement, your name is Justin and you sing for Field Of Flames. The vocalist is mulling over the reimagining of some older material for the San Jose hardcore band’s crushing new album Constructing A War Against You. Recorded with engineer Charles Toshio, who has also helped assemble records by Bay Area heavyweights Gulch and Scowl, the seven-song release draws out the influences from ’90s metallic hardcore in the band’s music, throwing in twin leads, tremolo picking and some savage chug sections, but its heaviness is often more of a feeling.

Earlier this week, Halsey ironically went viral for revealing that their label wouldn't allow them to put out a new song unless they could “fake a viral moment on TikTok”. Ever since, the entire internet pretty much has weighed in on the issue and shared similar sentiments, with Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda also expressing his frustrations that artists are asked to put "too much time" into creating social media content – and it eats into their time actually being creative.