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2016
HELLO READERS, and welcome to this
week’s issue of Kerrang!. Oh, wait – it’s
that time of year again! The list you love
to love/write horrible stuff about, tie
said horrible stuff to a brick and throw
said brick through our window! And
we’ve got an all-new number one! I’ll
leave that surprise until p29, but know this: these are
exciting times to be a rock [Link] is a scene where
veteran stars still thrill us after all these years; where
outspoken whippersnappers are grabbing their chances
to break through.A scene full of ideas, opinions and, most
importantly, great music. Enjoy the list
– argue and discuss. But respect these
people fighting to make our scene a
more interesting place. Enjoy the issue!

BIFFY NEWS
We go
behind the
CLYRO p46 scenes of
Pierce The Veil’s new video
Simon used ‘eeny, meeny, for Circles (p4), Hellions
miny, moe’ to pick which reveal why their new album is
string he played. the weirdest you’ll hear this
year (p8) and Descendents
tell us why they’re back again
(p9). Elsewhere, Deftones’
Chino Moreno burns his bum on a volcano (p10).

It’s probably the

FEATURES most important
list you’ll read in
ages: Kerrang!’s huge countdown through the 50
Greatest Rockstars on Earth right now (p17).
Elsewhere, following news of Led Zeppelin
winning a court case over their biggest hit, we look
COVER PHOTO: PAUL HARRIES

at rock’s biggest clashes in the courtroom (p38)…

We catch up with Biffy Clyro

LIVES
V in Spain, where they’re warming
up for Reading & Leeds (p46).
Plus, Alice Cooperr gives us a shock at Stone
Free Festival (p48) and Trash Boat set sail in
Southampton (p49)!

REVIEWS
V
It’s finally here! The
blink-182 album with
Matt Skiba! How does
it sound? Find out (p50)! And then we go inside
the storming new Night Verses album (p51)!

After conquering America, The

GIGS Struts return home for their
biggest homecoming, yet as
frontman Luke Spiller looks to bring the thunder
(p56). Meanwhile, Crazy Arm’s Darren Johns
gives us a guided tour around Plymouth (p58).

p30
Want posters of your fave rockstars
holding big shiny K! Awards? Ding ding!
 “I KEEP TELLING
PEOPLE I FEEL
LIKE A DIFFERENT
PERSON…”
VIC FUENTES

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2 J

THE
STORY
MOS
T IM
PORT
ANT
THIN
G EV
ER

Vic didn’t have Rennies on

the rider. Again

MISADVENTURES

ON FILM
W C L’S FORT COMING
VIDEO FOR CIRCLES: A SONG WITH SERIOUS SUBJECT MATTER THAT’S
BEEN GIVEN A FUN VIDEO TREATMENT. VIC FUENTES TELLS US WHY…

FRONTING PIERCE The Veil may well SO, VIC, WHAT’S THE CONCEPT BEHIND
be the best job in the world right now. THE VIDEO FOR CIRCLES?
Having slaved over Misadventures for VIC FUENTES (VOCALS/GUITAR T R): “It’s’ loosely
two years,Vic Fuentes and the guys saw based off this movie that we loved growing up called
it shoot to Number Four on the Billboard charts Nothing But Trouble
T , which stars Chevy
e Chase and
the first week of release, and they’re currently Demi [Link]’re big cult-classic movie fans, and
having the time of their lives playing it in its entirety that one always scared us and made us laugh when
before rabid fans in intimate venues across the we were kids. I don’t’ even remember how we came
[Link]
r in the fact they recently spent a up with the idea to do a video around it (laughss)! I
day shooting a bonkers video for Circles,
r which guess we startedr talking about doing something set
let them pay homage to an early-’90s cult classic, in, like, a creepy hotel and it just went from there.
WORDS: DAN SLESSOR

and they have a lot to smile [Link] caught up Before we knew it, we were making it.”
with frontman Vic to find out just what the hell is
going on in that video, how awesome life has been ARE YOU JUST PERFORMING IN IT, OR
since they dropped the record and how the recent IS THERE A STORY?
shootings in Florida have affected the band… “There’s both. It’s as if we’re on tour and we have

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THE BI
to stop off somewhere and get a hotel, and it
ends up being this crazy experience. We get
put through this whole funhouse of tricks and
booby traps that we’re trying to escape, and
there’s this old guy, who’s the hotel owner and
‘all-seeing eye’, and he’s the one kind of pulling
the strings and enjoying watching us go through
it all. The cool thing is we got Matt Pinfield to
play the old man, and he was a VJ on MTV back
when videos were actually huge on there.”

DO YOU ALL MAKE IT TO THE END OF

THE VIDEO ALIVE, OR DO YOU SUCCUMB
TO THE TRAPS ALONG THE WAY?
“I can’t give it away yet (laughs)! We didn’t go
all ‘Saw’ with the booby traps, we wanted it to
be more on the fun side than the gory side. In
the movie we’re kind of copying, you don’t see
any blood or guts, it’s all about prop bones and
dumb stuff like that, because we want to make “I’VE GOT
FRIENDS IN
people laugh. It’s definitely as much comedy as
it is horror.”

YOU ALL GET PRETTY DIRTY IN YOUR

ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE THE HOUSE – WAS
IT FUN GETTING ALL GRIMEY LIKE THAT?
ORLANDO WHO
“It was, but the funny thing is we had to get
dirty first because there were certain shots
ARE AFRAID TO
we had to do at the start of the day, for some
reason, and then we had to clean up and hide GO OUT… IT’S
the fact we were so dirty later on when we
shot the beginning of the video. When you
watch it, you’ll see that at the start of it we’re
SUPER-SCARY”
all wearing jackets, because, underneath, all our VIC FUENTES
clothes are really dirty and messed-up (laughs)!”

AND IS IT RIGHT THAT YOUR GIRLFRIEND

HAS A CAMEO AS A REPORTER? and I think that’s definitely what we accomplished
“Well, sort of! She wasn’t supposed to be in it with the video.”
at all, but she showed up to hang out on the set
with me, which was cool, and I think it’s just her YOU WERE SO MOVED BY THE EVENTS
hand that actually makes it into the video. The IN PARIS THAT YOU WERE INSPIRED
director wanted a woman’s hand to be holding TO WRITE A SONG ABOUT THEM…
the reporter’s microphone, and luckily she had WE PRESUME YOU WERE EQUALLY
just gotten her nails done so she was looking AS MOVED BY THE SHOOTINGS AT
perfect for the part (laughs)!” THE PULSE NIGHTCLUB AND OF
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE?
CIRCLES WAS INSPIRED BY THE PARIS “Yeah, and honestly, it’s getting scarier. I’ve got
SHOOTINGS LAST YEAR… BECAUSE friends in Orlando who are afraid to go out now,
OF THAT, WAS IT TRICKY COMING UP and with us playing shows, we’re looking for exits,
WITH A CONCEPT FOR THE VIDEO? and making sure if something was to happen we
“It really was tricky in the beginning, yeah. We would all know exactly where to go. It’s super-scary,
would tell directors what it was about, but, and it seems like things are popping up every other
at the same time, we’d say, ‘We don’t want to day. Playing that song, it’s still reminding me of what
directly recreate that in any way. We don’t want happened. It’s pretty horrible.”
anything that will trigger that at all, we want
it to be a completely different take on it, to ONTO A LIGHTER SUBJECT… HOW
basically take the idea of people trying to get HAVE THINGS BEEN GOING SINCE YOU
away from something or escape something or DROPPED THE ALBUM?
help each other out of a crazy situation, and “Well, we’ve been doing the Misadventures Tour
do something else with it.’ It was proving to – which is all sold out – where we’re playing the
be a problem with people coming back with entire album every night. Since the first day we
treatments that were too literal, and making had a crowd of kids who had somehow learned
it too serious. We wanted to make something all the lyrics and sang all the songs with us, and
positive out of this whole thing, we wanted it’s been building and getting a little louder every Tony tried really hard not
to make something fun from this idea and put day since. I’ve been telling the crowd every night to notice the photographer
some sort of lighter spin on such a heavy topic, that this is something we don’t plan on ever doing had farted

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Kellin Quinn jumped up on the

counter so he could be in the photo

got on the radio, we wanted it to be because we

just kept playing and working at it and somehow it “Clean your room, or no PlayStation,”
happened – and it did (laughs)! It’s super-exciting, shouted Vic’s parents from downstairs
and our parents and friends at home are always
texting us when we’re on the radio, it’s amazing.”

HAVE YOU HAD ANY OTHER FUN,

NEW EXPERIENCES OFF THE BACK OF
DROPPING THE RECORD?
“I don’t know, between the shows playing the whole
record and the radio and everything else, everything
has been fun experiences. I mean, it’s cool seeing
our fans getting Misadventures tattoos, that was
not something I was expecting, so it’s really great
when that [Link] have been so many true
supporters, too, people saying they know how hard
The manager of the Natural History we worked on the record, and it was a long wait,
Museum gave PTV an epic telling off
but it was totally worth it. Every time we hear
that from our fans it means a lot to [Link]’re just
enjoying our lives on this tour.”
again, it’s kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I
think everyone appreciates that that hour and a WHAT HAVE YOU GOT GOING ON
half together is something special. It makes for BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN WE SEE
something super-memorable, and it’s actually YOU OVER HERE IN NOVEMBER?
been a crazy challenge for us, because we’ve “We have a lot of touring. The South American Yeah, you’re not getting a
never tried to play an entire album before. The tour is coming up soon, then at some point we’ll good TripAdvisor review, mate
first few shows, we were definitely staring at our be announcing another American tour, then we
instruments with looks of great concentration, have Australia, which will be really fun, and then
just trying to play them right (laughs)! Now we’re heading back over to Europe and the UK. We
starting to really get to grips with it, and I’d say can’t really announce which song it will be yet, but
by the end of the tour we’ll have all the songs we have the next single lined up, too, and we’re
completely perfect (laughs)!” already talking about the music video we’ll be
shooting for it, which we’ll probably be doing at
WITH A PERFORMANCE ON U.S. CHAT the end of this tour. We’re definitely going to be
SHOW CONAN THIS WEEK, IS THIS ALBUM keeping busy!”
OPENING UP A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES
THAT THE LAST ONE DIDN’T? SO, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE 2016
“It really [Link] is the first record that we’ve had IN TERMS OF YOUR CAREER? ARE YOU
with any songs on the radio, and right now Circles RIDING THE ULTIMATE HIGH?
is all over K-Rock and 91X in San Diego, which is “Yeah, this really is the ultimate high. Honestly, it
our local [Link]’s been a lot of cool new feels like we’re starting a new life almost, and I
experiences, including playing various radio things, keep telling people I feel like a different person,
and Conan [O’Brien] is literally my favourite talk we’re grown up in this band, and it’s all new and
show host of all time – I’m so stoked to play his different with this album. It’s exciting, because
show. I never would have dreamed we would get we have all these new songs to play, and we’ll
to a point where we’d be doing things like that, and be playing shows we’ve never played before, and
I still can’t believe it. Every night I’m thanking the going to some festivals for the first time – it’s
crowds coming to the shows for bringing us to this always exciting when you look to the future and For more Pierce The Veil, head to
level. It’s crazy, especially the radio thing, because it’s full of things you’ve never done before. That’s [Link]
we always wanted it to be a natural thing. If we ever what I would always like to have in front of me.”

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so e eason

THE FEED
T S
OC

INSIDE THE WEIRDEST

ALBUM YEAR…
HELLIONS’ NEW ALBUM, OPERA OBLIVIA, IS THE MOST OUT-THERE RECORD YOU’LL
OF
THE
HEAR THIS YEAR. HERE, VOCALIST DRE FAIVRE TELLS US FIVE REASONS WHY…

1
THEY WENT TO directly, it’s about the individuals themselves. I went to We take the perspective of people who look down
THE OPERA the church with my nan when I was growing up, but on musicians or artists as if they’re wasting their time
DRE FAIVRE (VOCALS):“The it was never a church where they tried to brainwash by not having that white-collar job or [Link]’s
most obvious aspect about this album [Link] we’ve always been there for anyone like a Ferris wheel running in the back of our minds,
is the overtly operatic element… the grandeur. who’s wanted to go [to church] for whatever reason. always coming back around. But I think it shows true
That came from our guitarist, Matthew [Gravolin]. It feels like a betrayal when we see this stuff. Not so character when you stick with that one [goal] and
He listens to a lot of classical music and it was much of that faith, but of human trust.” see it through.”
important for him to have that grand influence. He

3 5
wasn’t directly like,‘Okay, everyone go and listen to THEY’RE EXORCISING THEIR DEMONS THEY’VE TORN UP THE
opera music to get on my level!’ But once we had “Spending a lot more time close to each PUNK-ROCK RULE BOOK
some skeletons of songs it naturally came to the other had a big impact on the [Link] “The title – Opera Oblivia – sums up the
point where we wanted to be on that level, and we eighth song is called Nightliner Rhapsody, and it’s whole album. It’s a dramatic term which describes
took it upon ourselves to pull in certain influences about a series of drunken evenings with really good a passive state of [Link]’ve always tried
and aspects that we wanted to do. Our drummer, friends and exorcising some personal demons on to avoid pigeonholing ourselves, and this time we’ve
Anthony [Caruso], was listening to a lot of pure- our first European [Link]’re together 340 days of come to make the album from an exclusively artistic
percussion stuff that [added an almost] world-music the year anyway, but taking those relationships and perspective. It’s hard to explain this [Link]’re
element, too!” friendships out on the road is [Link] see [each influenced by everything – a broad musical palette
other’s] lowest lows as well as the highest highs. [It’s – but [the individual strands] aren’t really ‘present’

2
THEY’VE TACKLED CHILD ABUSE only] when you get to feel that you know someone to us. It’s very much about us as individuals in our
“There’s a song called Here With Us about really well you can begin to reveal your darkest bedrooms coming up with certain ideas and then
abuse within the church. It came from secrets to them…” coming to the band and having four other people’s
watching and listening to interviews with people perspectives evolve and change that [into a song]. It’s
WORDS: SAM LAW

4
who’ve been through those experiences that really IT’S FUELLED BY EXISTENTIAL PANIC about [forgetting] that tunnel vision you had as a kid
lit a fire under our asses and made us sit down and “You wouldn’t hear these songs if we didn’t where you’re like,‘Fuck jazz music! Punk forever!’”
think. It’s about the people abusing their entitlement have [Link] years between 24 and 25 for
and powers, and it’s pretty much a big ‘fuck you’ to us saw a lot of us growing up as people, and the song Opera
p Oblivia is out on
that. It’s not an attack on the church or the faith Lotus Eater is about [those years’ existential] panic. July 29, via UNFD
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INK A BAND
“I’VE FINALLY
DECIDED TO BE A
“DO YOU EVER THYONE ELSE IN
ER
STINKS BUT EV S TO THINK
THE WORLD SEEMIBLE SO YOU
THEY’RE INCRED MUTE ALL
JUST HAVE TO S?”
YOUR FRIEND
GRAHA M,
MUSICIAN!”
RYAN SCOTT
STATE CHAMPS FRONTMAN MILO AUKERMAN TELLS EVERY TIME
US WHY DESCENDENTS ARE BACK, I PANIC!
AND, POSSIBLY, FOR GOOD…
RIGHT HOOK Panic! AAt The Disco frontman
Brendon Urie is to appear
Five Finger Death Punch A WHOPPING 12 years after they term, stable science career’ – which on the new Every
v Time I
guitarist Jason Hook k took a last released an album, Descendents turned out to be not so long or Die album, Low Teens, out
break from tank metal to try his are back! Their seventh record, stable, and in January this year I got September 23.A longtime friend
hand at acting. He’ll appear as an Hypercaffium Spazzinate, comes out laid off. I’d always straddled the fence, and fan of the band (he has the
FBI agent in upcoming movie Z, on July 29 via Epitaph, so we caught saying,‘Am I going to be a scientist or artwork for New Junk Aesthetic
which is about the Zodiac Killer up with main man Milo Aukerman a musician?’ And now I can say at my tattooed), Brendon appears on
and set 40 years after the original to find out more… ripe age I’ve finally decided to be a It Remembers, and apparently
murders took place. “Shot on musician (laughs)!” lends a “melodic counterpoint”.
location in Ottawa, Ontario,” IT’S BEEN A LONG HIATUS, EVEN WHICH MEANS HE’S SINGING,
he wrote under a photo on his BY YOUR STANDARDS – WHY TELL US ABOUT THE RECORD… YOU GUYS! Even though he
Instagram. “I managed to get thru DID YOU DECIDE TO COME BACK? “Well, we didn’t write about coffee proved he can scream while
my scene without screwing it up! MILO AUKERMAN (VOCALS): for once! And instead we have it impersonating ETID at this year’s
Lol! Back to Vegas in the morning “Well, for most of the 2000s I was there in the title, which in itself I Slam Dunk Festival.
to continue recording with the pursuing a science career – my think will have people scratching
guys #bestlifeever #feelingblessed background is in genetics, and I was their heads! It kind of came from
#neveradullmoment.” basically doing plant genetics for a this idea of imagining Milo in the
#easyonthehashtagsmate lol! biotechnology firm. How we got to laboratory trying to make a better
where we are today was that in 2010 version of coffee. I also wrote a song
we started playing shows again, which about ADD and the drugs used to
was spurred on by some health treat it, because my son has ADD,
issues our drummer Bill [Stevenson] and that was a very different subject
had. He had gotten really sick and matter for us.”
almost died, and after surgery he
rebounded, and it got us all excited at ARE DESCENDENTS PLANNING
the chance to get back in the game.
We had all been writing some songs,
ON STICKING AROUND A WHILE?
“If I had my way, I wouldn’t go on NOFX SAY “TAKE
and shortly after that it seemed like
a good idea to make a record. It was
hiatus again, and I’m hoping we’ll put
the next record out in a few years, CARE” AFTER FAN DIES
actually one of my favourite records
to make, because having a deadline
rather than 12. I saw science as a
stable option and doing music as fun, FOLLOWING SHOW
can produce a shoddy thing, so we and I’ve come to find out in 2016 I Last week, NOFX X singer/bassist

MA
M ANSSON did it right and took our time.” had it all backwards! Given that we’re
going to try to keep going with it, I’ve
Fat Mikek posted a tribute to
20-year-old Samuel Pollas

THE MODEL
TH E HAVE YOUR PREVIOUS LONG
HIATUSES STEMMED FROM
never been able to commit 100 per
cent to music, and now, given that
who died after hitting his head
on the ground at their show in
Marilyn Manson and YOUR SCIENCE CAREER, TOO? opportunity, I’d be a fool to not try.” Copenhagen on June 15. “He was
Courtney Love have been “Yeah, and this one was even longer nauseated and dizzy, but decided
chosen by fashion designer Marc because I had finally embarked on DESCENDENTS PLAY REBELLION FEST to go home and sleep. He never
Jacobs to model his 2016 fall what was supposed to be my ‘long- IN AUGUST. SEE THE GIG GUIDE woke up. Our hearts go out to
collection. Posting a photo of his mother and friends,” wrote
Mazza on his Instagram, Marc Mike, before posting words from
said he was drawn to Manson Sam’s mum saying: “If you’re drunk
when the pair met, writing: “I and hit your head, do not go to
was intrigued by his persona bed without getting it checked.
and curious about his perverse Let none of your friends walk
and incredible intellect”.While home alone after a fall or blow to
he picked Hole frontlady the [Link] care of yourselves
Courtney to model his garms and each other.”
because of her “mesmerizing and
extraordinarily moving portrayal
of Althea in the film The People
vs. Larry Flynt”. Sure.

SEUSE
“WHEN THE MASN’T HAVE
HE DO ES
TELLS YOU ‘FIX YOU’,
WORDS: DAN SLESSOR

ENOUGH TIME TOE TO SLOW

IT MIGHT BE TIM
DOWN!”
THE WINDMILLINGR-BATES,
TE
Marks & Spencer’s autumn/ DAVYD WIN
ORROW
winter range looked comfy
BURY TOM

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ENTIAL
FID
DID SOMEBODY LEAVE

K!ON
THE HEATING ON?
ERI SH FALL OUT BOY
GIBB LONDON DUNGEON
IP AND When Patrick Stump and

GOSS
on their smallest-ever co put
show (to just 80 people London
ROCK like dirty Thames wat ), it smelt
hadn’t just been swimmer. No, they
ing, they
were playing the London
Dungeon and Jack the
Ripper was crowd-
surfing.

YOUNG GUNS
ON A BUS
When Young Guns played a gig QUEENS OF THE
on a London double-decker bus STONE AGE
to launch 2015 album Ones And
Zeros, it was really hard to stand AT THE BOTTOM OF A SALT MINE
up. They served cocktails, too, QOTSA played a former salt
which made it even harder to mine in Erfurt, Germany, in
stand up. Did we mention November 2007, to a select
it was hard to group of competition winners.
stand up? Josh Homme took several
boxes of Tupperware with
him and he’s not had to
buy Saxa since.

YOU PLAYED
RAGE AGAINST
THE MACHINE
ON WALL STREET
After playing an impromptu
gig outside the New York Stock
Exchange for their Sleep Now
In The Fire video, RATM tried to
WHERE!? THINK MOSH-PITS can
get a little warm? Well, last
week, Deftones frontman
£1,325), and fans had to walk two and
a half miles or take a helicopter to get
there, before getting on a six-minute
SEX PISTOLS
CHELMSFORD PRISON
There’s not much to do
so it must be nice whein prison,
enter the building, and got told visit. Residents of Chen bands
Chino Moreno played a gig in a frickin’ elevator ride down 400 feet to get to lms
to piss off by police. Maximum Security wer ford
volcano at Iceland’s Secret Solstice the gig, which took place at the bottom en’t
Leonardo DiCaprio would fussed about Sex Pistols
have let them in… festival. A non-active one, obviously, but of the Thrihnukagigur. Phwoar! Now, there in 1976, though, playing
giving
still a volcano. Tickets weren’t cheap let’s take a look at some other weird them “catcalls, boos
and screaming”.
at 250,000 Icelandic krona (roughly gig locations… Nice guys.

PANDORA BY RAY ZELL [Link]

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PANIC! AT THE DISCO ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME AS

THEY STEAL MOOSE BLOOD’S NUMBER ONE SPOT. BUT WILL GOULD,
CAN CREEPER, UM, CREEP THEIR WAY UP NEXT WEEK? CREEPER about this song from
FIRSTLY, HOW DOES IT the beginning, because
FEEL TO WIN BEST BRITISH it went in directions
NEWCOMER AT THIS YEAR’S
HIGHEST POSITION

we hadn’t previously
WEEKS ON CHART

KERRANG! AWARDS? explored with this band.

“It’s absolutely It references some of the
ARTIST TITLE LABEL overwhelming to be music we grew up with,
addressed as that – we’re along with some of the
1 5 1 PANIC! AT THE DISCO Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time FUELED BY RAMEN
all still in total disbelief. sounds of the post-rock
We were so nervous we got into a little later.”
2 8 1 BIFFY CLYRO Wolves Of Winter 14TH FLOOR going in to the K! Awards,
but it turned out to be IS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT
3 10 2 A DAY TO REMEMBER Paranoia ADTR RECORDS one of the best nights of THE TRACK THAT PEOPLE
our lives.” MIGHT NOT KNOW?
“Yeah, the spoken-word
4 3 4 ASKING ALEXANDRIA Here I Am SUMERIAN
DID YOU FEEL CONFIDENT line at the end is an
ABOUT ASTRAL PROJECTION abridged version of a
5 13 3 AGAINST THE CURRENT Running With The Wild Things FUELED BY RAMEN
WHEN YOU FIRST HEARD IT? line from J. M. Barrie’s
“We were really excited novel Peter Pan.”
6 2 6 TWENTY ONE PILOTS Ride FUELED BY RAMEN

7 9 2 DEFTONES Prayers/Triangles REPRISE

ALEX MOUNTFORD,
video for it
ourselves, with
8 5 5 WATERPARKS Crave EASY LIFE/RED ESSENTIAL
DEAD! some help from
friends. It fits with
9 1 9 CREEPER Astral Projection ROADRUNNER
SO, ALEX, WHAT’S YOU’RE the title of this track – it
SO CHEAP ABOUT? cost us, like, £100!”
10 11 1 ANDY BLACK We Don’t Have To Dance ISLAND “A response and a
middle-finger to the FINALLY, WHAT’S SO GOOD
11 8 1 MOOSE BLOOD Honey HOPELESS anxiety and stress that ABOUT PERFORMING THE
comes from difficult SONG LIVE?
social situations.” “When the tearjerker
12 6 10 ISSUES Coma RISE
section into the last
ARE THERE ANY SECRETS chorus kicks in, it’s
13 12 3 SET IT OFF Uncontainable EQUAL VISION
ABOUT THE TRACK? hard to resist doing
“We shot the music an air-fist live.”
14 1312 GHOST TOWN Mean Kids FUELED BY RAMEN

15 5 7 DEAD! You’re So Cheap INFECTIOUS

SEE/HEAR
16 5 7 THE HUNNA You & Me (Hunna Tree) HIGH TIME
THE OFFICIAL
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FUTURE ARTS
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IT’S CHINO BARK VEIL

TIME! BRIDES
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may recognise from BVB doggy!” says
some awards show @Reilly1978.
recently…” says We do, Reilly, we
@CassCol. do. We’re gonna
Hmmm, not sure, pretend that’s
mate. We didn’t
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“The birthday cake I got my boyfriend for his on one second. We
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were thrown by track? We Stitch
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nigh ts of endl ess
In 2016
from
deba
, what

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the
defin
lege
es
nds
a
of
rock
old.
star couldn’t
Gone are
ry and television sets flying
. It’s in the past. Today, what
out of hotel rooms. That’s been done
a rock star is some one with an enduring sense
truly encapsulates
takes char ge of their destiny
of self. The kind of person that
inspi res coun tless othe rs in the process. And this year, we
and
top of our annual chart.
welcome a new kind of rockstar at the
ld be. Join us in the coun tdown to the single
Curious? You shou right now…
star in our world
greatest living, breathing rock
HICKIE, SAM LAW, NICK RUSKELL,
WORDS: EMILY CARTER, GEORGE GARNER, JAMES CASEY, GETTY, PAUL HARRIES,
AMIT SHARMA PHOTOS: LINDSEY BYRNES, CHRIS TOM MARTIN
ANDREW LIPOVSKY, GRIZZLEE MARTIN,
 ALMOST, BUT CHRISSY CALEB
NOT QUITE
JUST BEFORE WE GET
CURRENT
COSTANZA
AGAINST THE BEARTOOTH
R
SHOMO
STARTED, TIME TO LOOK AT
THE BEST OF THE REST… Q Did anyone else at
TYLER CARTER Q They say great things Download spot Caleb
come in small packages, and Shomo attempting to
ATC shooting star Chrissy wrestle the keys to
A strong comeback for Costanza more than lives up the festival out of Iron
Issues in 2016, but we to that billing. With debut LP Maiden’s steely grasp? A
still haven’t quite In Our Bones making tidal fool’s errand, obviously,
forgiven him for waves, the Poughkeepsie but Beartooth certainly
his appalling trio might just be pop- fought the fight of men
solo record. LUKE SPILLER rock’s hottest property at
the moment – and that’s
M. SHADOWS not leaving unless it’s in
an ambulance. And it was
THE STRUTS almost entirely down to AVENGED Caleb’s almighty, bearlike
VIC FUENTES the diminutive frontlady’s SEVENFOLD presence and glass-
jaw-flooring vocal abilities, shattering roar that led his
Q Some people just shout mountainous charisma troops through a career-
One of modern rock’s ‘rockstar’ the first time you
greatest songwriters. and utterly inimitable cool. QAfter slipping from defining set – with cuts off
see them. Built of equal Frighteningly, she’s only just 16th to 44th in last year’s this summer’s sophomore
But a rockstar? Nah. parts Steven Tyler, Freddie beginning her ascent. It’d take countdown, another quiet effort Aggressive – that not
He’s the best mate Mercury, Robert Plant, David an absolute fool to bet against 12 months sees M. Shadows rain, mud or Eddie could
you wish you had. Lee Roth and Steve Coogan, inevitable superstardom. fall further still. Even so, stand in the way of.
young Luke is very much modern metal’s most iconic
your classic, show-stopping
JENNA rockstar, with a good deal
frontman remains a force
McDOUGALL of British flair as well. Nikki
to be reckoned with, and
this next year is going to
Sixx was so impressed with prove crucial for Avenged
Luke’s magnetism that he Sevenfold – with a bunch of
In deciding to reinvent invited The Struts to support
herself as the emo Kylie, colossal American shows
Mötley Crüe at their final- scheduled in the coming
the inspiring young ever shows. Which isn’t bad
pop-punk of yore months, as well as the
patronage for a man with potential release of that
is someone a feathered haircut from
we miss. follow-up to Hail To The
Derby, really. King. Watch out, people…

DENIS
STOFF
ASKING

45
ALEXAND
X RIA

QThe name Stoff could well

mean ‘Lucky’ in Ukraine, if MARIA BRINK
young Denis’ year has been
anything to go by. At the start MARIA IN THIS MOMENT
of 2015, he was the singer
in an unknown metalcore
band in his home country.
BRINK Q It’s hard to pin down
But now here he stands, BAND NAME exactly what’s made In
more than filling Danny HERE This Moment frontwoman,
Worsnop’s shoes on AA’s irrepressible extrovert
5K-rated The Black, having LAST YEARS POSITION: and all-round [Link]
survived a baptism of fire 99 goddess Maria Brink such
headlining Warped Tour QIn the ’80s, British punk a ubiquitous figure over
was about three things: the past 10 years. Maybe
snot, cider and saying ‘fuck it’s to do with her supreme
off’ to Margaret Thatcher. self-confidence and the
Unless you were Snuff, ability to assert herself as
when it was all about an integral figurehead in
pretending to be cockney the Boys’ Club of metalcore.
and doing (intentionally Maybe it’s her unmistakable
shit) comedy covers. In voice – that wondrous
1996, this ridiculously titled range pitched perfectly
record proved that older between throaty power and
definitely does not mean vulnerability. Or maybe
[Link] (intentionally it’s just because she can
shit) comedy covers. In deliver on all fronts with
genuine aesthetic edge,
dressed up like a meeting-
of-minds between Marilyn
Manson and Lady Gaga.

18 KERRANG!
 ALEX
GASKARTH
ALL TIME LOW

Q Music-wise, it’s been a

relatively quiet year for the
pop-punk, with All Time
Low still riding the wave
of success of 2015’s Future
Hearts. But that hasn’t
stopped
band thr
new terr
– from h
arenas
through
the UK, t
headline
the Zipp
Stage of
Festival.
time for
Baltimor
boy to
wrack h
brains
for ATL’s
next
move
– one
that will
surely

JAY BUCHANAN see him

higher u
in next
RIVAL SONS year’s lis

Q It might come as a surprise that

one of the most talented frontmen
in rock never wanted to be a rock
frontman. A Long Beach, California,
singer-songwriter of some acclaim,
Jay’s magnificent pipes caught the
ear of guitarist Scott Holiday via
Myspace, who attempted to recruit
AWSTEN KNIGHT
the singer for the band he was WATERPARKS
forming. Sceptical of the retro-
rock vision but convinced by the
chemistry, Jay got onboard and Q Before 2016, Waterparks
has since shared stages and gone had never even featured in
toe-to-toe with such giants as Brian K!. But when their brilliant
Johnson (AC/DC), Alice Cooper, Rob Cluster EP arrived in our
Halford (Judas Priest), and Kiss’ Gene inbox earlier in the year,
Simmons and Paul Stanley. Most of all, featuring the blue-haired
who but a true luminary could front wonder that is Awsten
the band that’s opening for Black Knight, we knew we had
Sabbath on their farewell tour and something special on our
look so good doing it?! hands. It became clear
why the Madden Brothers
were so desperate to snap
’em up, with the freshest
YOU’RE PROBABLY THE ANY TIPS FOR KIDS IN BANDS WHO
reinvention of pop-punk in
BEST-DRESSED ROCKSTAR ARE JEALOUS OF YOU SUPPORTING
forever. The release of their
IN THIS YEAR’S LIST… SABBATH ON THEIR FINAL TOUR?
debut will see Awsten rise
WHAT’S THE BIG SECRET? “Getting that kind of break from Black
in years to come.
“Thanks, I’m incredibly flattered. Sabbath, you almost can’t plan this
Stylistically, I think the most important kind of thing! You know, I would never
thing is to not care too much – just feel have imagined that, for their last tour,
good in what you’re wearing. When you they would just have us opening as the
get people going too over the top or just sole support. Practice as much as you
caring too much… there’s just nothing can, and try to write the best songs you
worse than watching someone try to be can. Take it very seriously. And hang in
a rockstar. Because once you’ve gone there, because all of us have to spend
too far, once you’ve put too much effort time honing our craft. Be very hard on
into it, the whole thing goes to shit. It’s yourself, be critical. Play as much as
like if you see an actor overacting, you possible. If you’re only playing once a
go, ‘Oh no, I’ve caught them acting!’” week, you’re doing something wrong!”
KERRANG! 19
 OYA MIKEY
VODUN WAY
ELECTRIC
Q Apparently what CENTURY
R
rock’n’roll’s been crying
out for in 2016 is voodoo.
Lots and lots of voodoo. QThere’s been no greater
And face paint. And wild story of redemption in
soul singing. We didn’t 2016 than that of former My
see that coming, but when Chemical Romance bassist
Vodun emerged in an Mikey Way. After saving
explosion of colour and himself from crippling
feathers, we fell under addiction with a stint in
rehab, Mikey then became
their spell immediately.
And it was their magnetic, the first musician everr to
release an album – Electric
JAMES HETFIELD
shamanistic frontwoman,
Oya, who was casting it. We Century’s For The Night METALLICA
can’t remember the last To Control – with this very
time we felt quite so drawn magazine. That forward-
to a singer, and afraid of thinking, creative vision has QIf Metallica weren’t
them at the same time. opened the doors for new Metallica, they wouldn’t
ways to release music; and, have been able to get away
best of all, the album totally
ruled
d. Welcome back,
JAMIE that’s about it (let’s just
leave Steven Seagal’s
with taking forever with
their new album (that’s eight
Mikey mate. CAMPBELL Thunderbox and Keanu
Reeves’ Dogstar at peace,
years’ wait, folks…). And not
many frontmen could spend
BOWER shall we?). Now we can
stick Twilight/Harry
as much time performing
with their daughter at high
COUNTERFEIT Potter heart-throb Jamie school concerts as they do
Campbell Bower on that on tour, headlining events
list, too. In London punks like Reading & Leeds 2015
Q Not many have made Counterfeit, JCB delivers and retain their cred. But
the successful transition the onstage heft to match then, James does what
from movie star to up to his 600-horsepower he damn well wants. Him
rockstar. There’s Jack namesake. Basically, he’s resting makes it to 38. Just
Black, Jared Leto and, uh, the real deal. wait ’til he’s back firing on
all cylinders!

JOE
DUPLANTIER
GOJIRA
R
LAST YEAR’S POSITION: NEW ENTRY
Q It takes a strong man
to wield The Heaviest
Matter Of The Universe!
Of course, strength is just SLASH
one of Gojira frontman Joe
Duplantier’s many defining ELIJAH WITT GUNS N’ ROSES
qualities. An intellectual, LAST YEAR’S POSITION: 27
a multi-instrumentalist CANE HILL
Q Duh, it’s Slash. Slash is
and an environmentalist LAST YEAR’S POSITION: NEW ENTRY automatically in. Slash is
engaged with Sea Q Cane Hill’s intense, cooler than you. But this
Shepherd, the Bayonne enigmatic frontman isn’t a year Slash has excelled
native certainly isn’t short great fan of the Slipknot- himself with that whole
a few strings in his bow. It’s comparisons that have, reunion of some band what
his work alongside brother in-turns, dogged and aided he used to be in thing, and
Mario in Gojira, though, his band’s swift ascent to in doing so has actually
that’s sealed his place on stardom. On one hand, recreated magic we thought
this list. Case in point: this the similarities are clear; was lost forever. Those Guns
year’s 4K-rated Magma. the edgy, unhinged aural songs – Sweet Child O’
One of the most thought- quality and unwashed Mine, Nightrain, Welcome
provoking metal outfits of aesthetic of his Louisiana To The Jungle – they always
today owe everything to his newcomers plainly recalls sounded good when Slash
mercurial genius. the Iowan legends’ early was playing them, but never
days. On the other, it’s as perfect as when he’s got
obvious that Elijah isn’t an Axl Rose yelling over the
artist who feels the need top. And he’s even made the
to hide behind a mask. Rose-meister smile for the
Abrasive, unyielding and first time in over a decade.
with a tangible sense Well played, Mr Slash sir,
of dirt-beneath-the- well played.
fingernails danger about
him, he’s a genuinely
exciting prospect.
20 KERRANG!
 SAM
CARTER
WHAT IF
ARCHITECTS THEY ROCKED
THEY MIGHT NOT BE
ROCKSTARS, BUT WE
SURE WISH THEY WERE!
Q Two of the UK rock scene’s
finest collide here in the mid-30s.
In one corner, weighing probably
PAIGE
not much, is the frontman of one
of the most exciting bands around WWE’s anti-diva is from
today. Oh hi, Sam Carter. And Norwich, she’s paler than
there’s plenty more where that Casper the Friendly Ghost,
came from – he’s an outspoken she’s friends with
vegan and British ambassador all your favourite
for the Sea Shepherd marine bands and she
conservation society, his humane could proper beat
heart and steadfast conscience you up.
might’ve become (deserved)
defining features. But if Architects’ JOKO ‘JOKOWI’
spine-tingling seventh album, All
Our Gods Have Abandoned Us,
WIDODO
is anything to go by, they’re not
holding him back from ripping Indonesia’s
us a new one musically… They’ve President counts
certainly had their ups and downs, Lamb Of God,
but right now – headlining the Cannibal Corpse
historic stages of O2 Academy and Napalm Death
Brixton and beyond – Architects among his favourite
have become a worldwide force bands. If only he’d curb
to be reckoned with. And in Sam, his country’s horrendous
they have one of the finest voices human rights record,
of their generation… he’d be our new favourite
person. C’mon, Joko!

BEX FOWLER

Probably because she’s

sick of mum Sonia Fowler
banging on and on and
on and on and on
and on and on and
on and on, last
year Bex ‘went
goth’. Totes buys
Kerrang! from the
Minute Mart.

KYLO REN

Q Emo Kylo Ren (@KyloR3n)

is basically our favourite
thing on twitter
that isn’t Jono
from Blitz Kids/
Away Days after
he’s had a drink.
He’s basically the
Sith Pete Wentz. How
cool is that?!

MARCELINE THE
VAMPIRE QUEEN

Marceline is the hot-to-trot,

guitar-slinging vampire
from our favourite TV show
in the whole world,
Adventure Time.
And I’m Just
Your Problem
is basically the
greatest lost Hole
song, too.
KERRANG! 21
 ERS
OMO
JOHN BAIZLEY
BARONESS
Q a, Rivers
Weezer
Q Perhaps what made ABBATH hat the
Baroness’ 5K-rated Purple
EX-IMMORTAL
doing the CHINO
album from last year so
amazing was that it exists
expect
band: MORENO
at all. It’s the result of tforward
herculean work, and an QWhen we called Abbath g after his DEFTONES
intense test of the human Doom Occulta to chat n the UK
spirit. Following a terrible about life as a solo aring to
bus crash outside Bath in artist, having split age! That Q [Link]’s old master
2012, John and the rest of from legendary said might’ve sown some
Baroness were left with Norwegian Album) potent creative oats with
injuries so severe that two black metal terrors out Team Sleep, ††† (Crosses),
of them quit, and it looked Immortal, he spent f Tinder Palms and Saudade, but
like John would never play most of the time h them, for Chino, Deftones will
the guitar again, such was laughing down the version always represent home.
the state of his arms. You phone, or else singing me 2016 opus Gore has proven
can hear every step of Blueberry Hill by old-time we’ve to be the band’s most
his long journey back in rock’n’roll cat Fats Domino divisive latter-day offering,
every note of Purple, at us. He has a Motörhead but few are complaining
and see it on tribute band (Bömbers), about Chino’s soul-soaked
the broad as well as his own line vocal performance or the
grin on the of snow globes. In his layered complexity of his
man’s face mind, he’s a wayward now-trademark ambient
when Baroness member of Kiss who soundscapes. And even
play the almighty, ended up in a Norse folk if those don’t tickle your
life-affirming tale. In ours, he’s the closest taste, try telling us you
songs live. A thing black metal has to its weren’t flinging fists
genuine own Lemmy. Frankly, the when he rolled out My
hero. world needs more people Own Summer (Shove It)
like Abbath. at Download

JARED
LETO
30 SECONDS
TO MARS

QObservers will note

that 30 Seconds To Mars
have been noticeable by
their absence over the
last year. This is because
Jared Leto – a man who
treats everything he works
on as something that
Q
could genuinely change
the world and puts the
appropriate level of
effort in – has been
busy trying to play the
definitive version of
the Joker in Suicide
Squad. So, until he’s
done with that and
ready to give 30STM
150 per cent of his
attention again,
there won’t be
any action. But
just imagine how
good their return
and his portrayal
of Batman’s
arch-nemesis
will be.

22 KERRANG!
 TOM MORELLO
RATM/PROPHETS
OF RAGE

Q It might’ve taken the

most tempestuously
unhinged election year
America has ever seen
to rouse one of rock’s
renegades from self-
imposed hibernation, but
the RATM guitar hero is
making up for lost time.
Reuniting with his RATM/
Audioslave comrades Brad
Wilk and Tim Commerford
and bringing onboard
Public Enemy’s Chuck D
and Cypress Hill’s B-Real to
complete Prophets Of Rage,
he’s promising to deliver an
electric jolt to the political
discourse, derail ‘The
Donald’ and help take the
power back.

BECKY
BLOMFIELD
MILK TEETH
BILLIE JOE
Q The fierce, feminist heartbeat
at the centre of one of the UK’s
ARMSTRONG
most exciting young outfits, Becky GREEN DAY
Blomfield mightn’t be a ‘rockstar’ in
the conventional sense of the word,
but she’s one of a laudable new breed Q Another year, another
embracing the platform to become a placement for the punk
figurehead for positive sociopolitical rock icon. It’s a testament to
change. She’s the first to admit that the musician that, in Green
message counts for sod all if the music Day’s 30th year as a band,
doesn’t measure up, mind, and the Billie Joe Armstrong is still so
Gloucestershire collective’s brilliantly high up in our list – despite
grungy alt. racket has more than the Oakland heroes being
earned its right to be heard locked away in the studio.
As well as writing the
follow-up to Green Day’s
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE though I think that really depends 2012 trilogy, Billie Joe has
A ‘ROCKSTAR’ IN 2016? on your outlook. But, yes, I view it as recently caused a storm with
“I think the definition has something of a responsibility.”
changed a lot. It doesn’t just mean
people who drink and take drugs and WHAT ARE THE MOST NEGATIVE
play a lot of shows any more. I still play a ASPECTS OF BEING A ROCKSTAR?
lot of shows. I get drunk sometimes. But “Probably the sexism, and the
I think being a ‘rockstar’ nowadays is objectification. It doesn’t happen all
more about having a voice. People like the time, but when it does, it’s really
myself use our platform more positively uncomfortable. I think there’s still a long
than the self-indulgent way.” way to go in changing that. It’s a shame.
Women still don’t get treated equally, no
DO YOU FEEL THAT, NOWADAYS, matter what we do. But with campaigns
BEING A ROCKSTAR IS MORE like Emma Watson’s ‘HeForShe’, greater
RESPONSIBILITY THAN LUXURY? awareness and men standing up, there
“I don’t personally see it as a luxury, is the potential for change.”
KERRANG! 23
 WHERE ARE GERARD
THEY NOW?
WHAT HAPPENE D TO
THESE STARS FROM
WAY
QThe ex-MCR frontma
LAST YEAR? might’ve spent more tim
as of late curating his D
PETE WENTZ
BECCA Comics special imprint FALL OUT BOY
MACINTYRE Young Animal, than play
y’know, actual rock mus
but from the unreleased
PAPA Q Like an emo Bruce
Where will Becca be
found when there’s a new
Hesitant Alien recordin
that surfaced on Record
EMERITUS III Dickinson, Pete Wentz’
diary is just as full of
Marmozets album? Store Day to the pervasive GHOST extra-bandular activities
as it is Fall Out Boy tour
Not in this shitty
sidebar, eh?
rock influences bleeding
through in his visual art ASH COSTELLO Q We’ll be honest, we did
dates. Running a label,
being a dad, heading
That’s for sure! (check out the nods to
She stormed in at Black Sabbath in the NEW YEARS DAY expect the third incarnation up a fashion empire and
of Ghost’s Pope-esque doing charity work are
eighth position last costumes for Doom Patrol),
frontman to be a case of ust some of the things
year. Will she top it in 2017? it’s impossible to escape
Q Ash invited us over to her
Gerard Way’s influence as ‘Meet the new boss, same he does outside his day
Place your bets… house recently, where she
one of the high priests of as the old boss’. But this ob, he recently starred
showed us a collection of is a ghoul of many talents, in Nickelodeon’s TV
modern rock. Now, if he
CHESTER could just announce some
her friends’ teeth h that they and although at first glance version of Jack Black
BENNINGTON had donated to her when the mitre and corpse paint flick School Of Rock.
aid gnashers had fallen were present and correct, Sleep, presumably, is for
ut. This is not the hobby when he whipped off the the weak.
A longtime f a mundane person. And outfit at London’s grand
stalwart of ’s a dark sense of macabre old Palladium theatre
Kerrang!’s 50 mystery that the gothtastic and began shimmying
Greatest Rockstars NYD frontwoman carries about the stage as though
In The World Today with her everywhere. Best channelling the spirits of
list, Chester is literally f all, while onstage, she’s Fred Astaire and Harry
nowhere to be found. ery much like Harley Houdini, we realised this
We’re but a few minutes Quinn: The Metal Years, and time around, Papa had
away from getting his face we’ve also seen her turning reinvented himself as one
printed on milk cartons. nto a total geek in the of the greatest showmen on
omic shop by K! Towers. Earth. Or in Hell.
ANDY
BIERSACK
JONATHAN
After all the hype,
the Andy Black
DAVIS FRANK
album ended up
being… well, just
okay, really. A return
to form with the mighty
KORN

Q Like Axl Rose, Korn’s

frontman is enjoying
CARTER
FRANK CARTER &
Black Veil Brides later this
year should see him right. something of an Indian THE RATTLESNAKES
summer in his career.
No doubt buoyed by the
ANGUS YOUNG renaissance his band has Q Cast your mind back to February
enjoyed since 2011’s The 2014, and it’s remarkable to think
Path Of Totality and the how far the Wolf of Watford has
You are Angus rejoining of guitarist Brian come since Pure Love’s indefinite
Young. You won ‘Head’ Welch in 2013, hiatus. The recent Spirit Of Punk K!
this list last year. Jonathan has been back to Award-winner has been building
You duckwalked the peak of his powers – as on his rejuvenation since forming
across the globe anyone who witnessed The Rattlesnakes, writing one of the
on the Rock Or Bust tour. Korn on Slipknot’s Prepare best albums of 2015 with Blossom,
You are the master of For Hell Tour, the 20th giving Sum 41 a run for their money
blues-rock guitar solos anniversary shows later on this year’s K! Tour, making a
and riffs that make us that year or their recent huge impression on stages across
want to break our necks. Download performance the world and becoming the most
But you also hoyed Brian can attest. Jonathan still exciting frontman in rock.
Johnson out on his ear in a builds on the raw talent of
way not befitting a man of the young man whose roar
his stature. Not cool, dude. of ‘Are you ready?!’ became
Just not cool. the voice of a generation.

PHIL
ANSELMO

Do we really need
to explain this one?

24 KERRANG!
BILLY CORGAN
SMASHING
PUMPKINS

Q Being on Corgan-Watch
over the last year or so has
called for a dump truck
full of popcorn. POW!
Saying Foo Fighters haven’t
evolved! BAM! Calling out
Pearl Jam for not writing
good songs! WHACK!
Describing former lover
Courtney Love as “the
least loyal person I’ve ever
known in my life”. But to
his fans, well, this grouch
has actually lightened up,
talking to audiences at gigs
and even playing ‘The Hits’.
We like this new Billy.

SIMON
NEIL
10 MOST
BIFFY CLYRO

Q According to the lyrics

of Animal Style – Biffy MARILYN OUTRAGEOUS
MANSON
MANSON
Clyro’s recently-released
new single – Simon ‘didn’t
want the captain’s role’ –
but as the songwriter of
the UK’s most ambitious
QUOTES
band, it’s a responsibility he
Q The triumph of Manson’s
continues to shoulder. His
Pale Emperor album wasn’t so
well-publicised breakdown
much down to the songs being
at the end of touring 2013’s
the best Manson’s written in
Opposites proved that it’s
yonks, as to the feeling that
a position that comes with
The God Of Fuck had got his
personal pitfalls, but the
horrible, grimy, shocking, sleazy,
emergence of Wolves Of
middle-fingered mojo back,
Winter – the ferocious,
having seemingly lost it down
territory-marking first
the back of the sofa for a few
single from forthcoming
years. He felt dangerous again,
album Ellipsis – proves
you felt a bit wrong listening to
Simon still ably leads the
it, and live he brought back that
pack, tooth and nail.
feeling that you’re glad your
mum wasn’t there watching with
you. And now he’s topping it all
off with a role as a hitman in the
forthcoming movie Let Me Make
You A Martyr. Welcome back,
Brian. We’ve missed you.
 JOSH BRENDON
E
DUN & U IE
URI
TYLER JOSEPH PANIC! AT
THE DISCO
TWENTY ONE
PILOTS
Q Part flamboyant
frontman, part white-
Q Like any truly perfect toothed gameshow host,
partnership, you can’t have Brendon has evolved into
one without the other, one of the most fabulously
and that’s why both
members of Ohio’s
SU-METAL bombastic stars on Earth.
This year’s Death Of A
new kings sit proud BABYMETAL Bachelor album was a
in 14th place. From high-voltage ride through
transcending Vegas, as glittering as the
genres to infiltrating QThe (baby) face on the gold blazer the frontman
the mainstream, front of a J-Rock Kaiju that’s has taken to wearing at his
Tyler and Josh consumed everything in gigs. Basically, Brendon’s
have ripped apart its path, Su-Metal has led become Warped Tour’s
every rule in the her pop-metal cohorts to answer to
book. A wild live conquering the main stages legendary
experience, lyrics of Reading & Leeds and lounge lizard
addressing mental Download (demanding Frank Sinatra.
health and the more circle-pits than a All that, and
most dedicated jacked-up DevilDriver at the he can do
following since the latter), headlining Wembley back-flips
MCRmy, twenty one Arena and making UK onstage. Hero.
pilots are the least chart history, with Metal
‘rocking’ stars on this Resistance crashing the
list – but absolutely Top 20 to become the
the most mind- highest-charting Japanese
blowing. After Reading album ever. Not a bad
& Leeds, plus a single 12 months for someone
on the upcoming Suicide who celebrated her 18th
Squad soundtrack, their birthday in December.
rise will only continue… Good work!

JASON AALON
BUTLER
LETLIVE.

Q An awful lot has changed

since the letlive. frontman
came out of nowhere and
topped this poll back
in 2011. We’ve had two
CORE
R Y TAYL
Y OR
album’s worth of musical SLIPKNOT/
T
evolution, for one thing. The STONE SOUR
tooth-loosening hardcore
of old has subsided into
something more controlled, Q How many rockstars
pure energy making way on this list have broken
for a no-less-brilliant bones? Plenty. But how
vocal-led sustainability. many have snapped
The political bite of Jason’s their necks, without even
lyrics has sharpened, too, realising? Yep, The Great Big
honing latest masterpiece Mouth recently announced
If I’m The Devil… with that he’d had two discs
fine protest pedigree. replaced and work on his
At a time when the vertebrae after not even
American presidential race noticing the damage he’d
continues to heat up, and caused. As well as having
heartbreaking tragedies an extraordinarily high pain
are becoming more and threshold, in February the
more commonplace, the ’Knot frontman led his mob
timing really couldn’t be around the UK on one of the
better. In Jason we trust. best metal tours our shores
Rock’s most riotously have seen for yonks. Add
unpredictable personality in the fact Corey’s a father,
remains undimmed. letlive. author, Doctor Who monster
return to these shores later and so much more, and it’s
in the year. Prepare to lose an absolute no-brainer for
your shit all over again. this year’s Top 10.
26 KERRANG!
MAYNARD WILL GOULD
CREEPER
JAMES
KEENAN Q At this year’s K! Awards,
Will – the frontman of
Creeper, the worthy
TOOL/A PERFECT recipients of the Best
CIRCLE/PUSCIFER British Newcomer gong –
met and spoke to his idol
(and fellow attendee), Matt
Q As perma-mysterious frontman Skiba; a man the teenage
of both Tool and A Perfect Circle, Will had his picture taken
Maynard James Keenan has long with years before. And
been one of the most revered that’s what makes Will
men in rock. But, this year, he’s special: he effortlessly
arguably entered the most manages a juggling
creatively fruitful (not to mention act that few can even
ground-breaking) chapter of attempt; he’s the confident
his career via his other band, fron
Puscifer. Not only do they make his b
incredible art-rock, they’re also the m
putting on a live show like no-one in th
else in 2016. Or ever. Even by whil
professional rock mad scientist to fe
Devin Townsend’s standards, a weir
Puscifer live show is a bizarre ever
experience – one that involves exp
him acting for short films in wha
character as ‘Major Douche’, diffe
opens with a professional abo
wrestling match and also includes coul
remote-control cock fights. When day
they finally played their first- your
ever UK shows in May, Maynard hero
confirmed himself not only as a your
unique rockstar, but one with a pee
totally unique vision for what a
rock band can be…

WHY DID YOU

NEED PUSCIFER AS
DAVE GROHL
A MUSICAL FOO FIGHTERS
AVENUE TO EXPLORE?
“I think it was because there
was more to it than just the Q As well as releasing last
music. I’d met a bunch of year’s ace Saint Cecilia EP,
friends who had access to Dave toured on a massive
less expensive methods to do throne made of guitars after
animation, to do film, just coming a cropper onstage
merchandise in general and busting his leg. This
– exploring ideas. Now I had year, he pulled it out of the
access to ways to present the garage to lend it to Axl
final product – the music – in Rose after the Rosemeister
different formats directly to injured a trotter at Guns
the consumer rather than N’ Roses’ comeback
through the ever-failing show. And as if that wasn’t
music industry.” enough of a service to rock,
Cornish band Black Leaves
HOW CLOSE TO Of Envy found themselves
REALISING YOUR VISION backed hard in fighting
OF THE BAND ARE YOU? a noise complaint, when
“It’s still evolving – it ends Dave waded in with a
up coming down to a lot of letter to Cornwall County
time and a lot of writing as Council. We’d say stranger
far as script pieces to film. things have happened, but,
I’m really a fish out of water really, they never have.
when it comes to being in
front of a camera. It takes a lot
of being ready emotionally, I
don’t know, having a camera
pointing at you and then
having to go when the gun
goes off is hard. But, you
know, we want to explore a
lot more. We’re getting a lot
closer to seeing that through.
I want to see a lot more film, a
lot more animation.”
KERRANG! 27
 HAYLEY LAURA JANE
WILLIAMS GRACE
PARAMORE AGAINST ME!

QFew fans have had Q Still a symbol of strength.

a more satisfying 12 years Still living testament to the
than those of the Paramore importance of being true
frontwoman. She may have to oneself. The Against Me!
been quiet musically of frontwoman transcended
late, but she’s been flying already-considerable rock-
the rock flag elsewhere hero status with her frank
in the world of fashion, openness on struggles with
launching her own line gender dysphoria. She retains
of goodDYEyoung hair a place in our Top 10 for
products, representing her continued efforts at the
alternative culture in more coalface of closed-mindedness,
mainstream markets. Then her refusal to leave behind one
there’s the Parahoy! cruise, of the greatest punk bands of
and thatt collaboration a generation and her growing
with CHVRCHES. With vibrancy: a rockstar growing
album five creeping increasingly comfortable in
round the corner, it’s her own skin. Just back in May,
time to get back to she refused to cancel a show
(misery) business. in North Carolina, instead
burning her birth certificate in
defiance of the discriminatory
HB2 bill. Absolute bloody hero.

OZZY (“That’s a fucking long

time,” he recently observed AXL ROSE Furthermore, he seems to be
more easygoing these days:
OSBOURNE to us, somewhat obviously).
Some have questioned how
GN’R, AC/DC would the Axl of a decade
ago have a) Gone through
he’s managed it, but the with a tour after breaking
BLACK SABBATH impish look on his face as his foot, and b) Done it
he scampered around the performing on a throne
QDo you know where you
QOzzy’s probably going stage at Download was that loaned to him by one-time
are? You’re back in the
to be chuffed to be in exact same mischievous arch enemy Dave Grohl?
good books, baby! For 20
this list, as he is every glint his younger self had, Not likely!
years, the man born William
time he appears, but this and, truthfully, Ozzy’s
Bruce Rose, Jr. seemed
year’s inclusion pales managed for so long
intent on defecating on his
in comparison to the because he’s never changed
legacy from a great height,
fact that his home city of and he’s never grown up.
Birmingham has named a Sorry, Oz, we can’t buy you
a tram, but we love you
BRUCE thanks to a combination of
diva-ish behaviour, creative
tram in his honour. We can’t
compete with that. But more than ever. DICKINSON procrastination and curfew-
busting tardiness. Within the
it’s been well-
earned,
IRON MAIDEN course of this year, however,
he’s rehabilitated his
having reputation by successfully
now fronting not one, but two
QHow do you stop the
been of the world’s biggest
world’s most unstoppable
at this rock bands; reuniting
man? Not even cancer
game with GN’R – and, more
can keep Iron Maiden’s
for 48 controversially, lending
festival-slaying, plane-
years his pipes to AC/DC
flying frontman from doing
exactly what he wants. Last on the final leg of
year, Brucie revealed that their Rock Or Bust
he’d been undergoing World Tour.
treatment for a tumour on
his tongue. Not only did he
fight that off, he made one
of the best albums of his
career in The Book Of Souls,
performed some of their
best shows and found more
energy than ever from
somewhere. How he does it,
we’ll never know…
28 KERRANG!
Q

WHAT DOES BEING A my private life. I’ve had people try to

ROCKSTAR MEAN TO YOU? creep on my friends’ and family’s social
“In my eyes, a rockstar is just media. I’ve also had my phone hacked,
someone who lives as authentically which I don’t like to talk about – that was
and genuinely as they can; it’s about frustrating. Unfortunately, that crossing
integrity. Someone who’s bold, fearless, of lines is something that just comes with
unapologetic and doesn’t look back in the territory in this day and age.”
whatever they’re doing! It’s about not
taking shit from anybody or worrying WHO ARE YOUR ROLE MODELS?
about the expectations of others.” “I guess I’m a really big Florence +
The Machine fan. I’ve tried to take
WHAT ARE THE NEGATIVES? notes on her connection with an
“I guess people treat you differently. audience when she plays live. I look
You have to take your privacy a little up to people who can get lost and
more seriously. Within the last year, I’ve wrapped up in whatever they’re
noticed people being very invasive in doing. That’s something I aspire to.”
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 ROCK ON TRIAL

Spirit: not the band

that wrote the intro to
Stairway To Heaven…

artist sketch of Led

Zeppelin in the courtroom

“WHAT’S
THIS GOT
TO DO WITH
STAIRWAY?”
J I M M Y P A G E

KERRANG! 39
 Varg Vikernes, sentenced
at a young age for his
heinous crimes…

“WE BELIEVE
WE AVERTED A
GREAT TRAGEDY”
S A N D I E G O P O L I C E

40 KERRANG!
 ROCK ON TRIAL

Church burnings like this were

…AND JUSTICE
FOR LARS
caused by members of Norway’s
’90s black metal scene

Guns N’ Roses faced

persecution for inciting
violence like this in the ’90s

Ozzy faces the music

Tommy Lee looking a bit

more remorseful than
usual in the dock…

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 THE SONGS THAT

SAVED LIFE
JUST THINK, THINGS COULD HAVE BEEN SO DIFFERENT FOR A DAY TO REMEMBER
HAD JEREMY CONTINUED TO PLUNDER HIS DAD’S RECORDS. THE WORLD’S HEAVIEST
POP-PUNK BAND COULD HAVE BEEN THE WORLD’S PUNKEST HOEDOWN…
MY

THIS WEEK: JEREMY McKINNON, A DAY TO REMEMBER

THE SONG THAT MAKES ME THE SONG THAT MADE ME WANT THE LAST SONG I LISTENED
THINK OF HOME IS… TO BE A MUSICIAN WAS… TO WAS…
CROCODILE ROCK UNTITLED DEMO THE ROCK SHOW
ELTON JOHN SWITCH DANCE BLINK-182
“This was the first song my mom played “I lived in the middle of nowhere when I “Pop-punk is summer to me, and I’ve
me from her own music when I was a was a kid – I cannot stress that enough! had blink-182 on my mind lately, as we’re
kid. She got me this stereo system for There was nothing to do, but luckily my touring with them in the States soon.
Christmas, and that night we set it all friend who lived down the street started We’ve played with them a couple of times
up and my mom started bringing out all a punk band. I thought he and his friends before – we got asked to play Matt Skiba’s
these old records that I’d never heard were the coolest people [Link] had a first shows, and I was kind of terrified!
up to that point, because we didn’t have practice space that they would invite me to. We had heard stories that people aren’t
a record player. She played me this song, I’d go and watch them rehearse, and then he always accepted at blink shows. Like, we
and I loved it straight away. The next thing had heard that when Fall Out Boy toured
she showed me was The Beatles’ Sgt.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and “LYNYRD with them, they would have on-nights and
off-nights. Sometimes it would be a crowd

SKYNYRD
to this day it’s still my favourite Beatles that was heavily blink-sided, so FOB
song. Those were literally just the first would play and people just wouldn’t be
two songs she showed me, and they both into it. That scared the shit out of us! It’s
make me think of home.”
FIND IT: Don't Shoot Me I’m Only The SUMS UP MY like, if Fall Out Boy have problems, we’re
gonna have fucking problems! But it’s
Piano Player (1973)

THE FIRST SONG I LEARNED

FAMILY…” been fine. blink are great, and it’s cool
to play with them.”
FIND IT: Take Off Your Pants And
TO PLAY WAS… JEREMY McKINNON Jacket (2001)
COME AS YOU ARE gave me a load of demos that they’d made.
They all just had one song on, but they were THE SONG I WISH I’D WRITTEN IS…
NIRVANA great. I wish I still had them! Right out of the
gate I was like, ‘I’ve got to do this!’ I went to LOSING A
“This song was simple enough to play, and
I learned it by ear. I remember when I was
see this old guy from our church who was WHOLE YEAR
learning from some other guys how to
play guitar, they would tell me that people
a blues guitar player for some lessons. He
tried to teach me chords and stuff to get THIRD EYE BLIND
me started, and my parents got me a guitar.” “I remember I was with the Neck Deep
could learn to play things by ear. It was
FIND IT: In Jeremy’s memory bank… guys when I was producing their album
like this really big deal that some people Life’s Not Out To Get You, and I started
can do it and some people can’t. So, when talking to them about Third Eye Blind.
I figured out how to play this by myself in They all looked at me like, ‘Who’s Third
my room by ear, not even knowing how Eye Blind?’ I was like, ‘Wait a minute, you
to read music, I was stoked. I remember haven’t heard this album?! This is great
thinking, ‘Oh, wow, I can do that – that’s shit!’ One of them bought the record
cool!’ I felt like I was getting somewhere immediately – on their phone, of
with playing the guitar. It was super-simple, course – and the next day after
it was fun to play along with, and
WORDS: MATT ALLEN PHOTO: JEREMY SAFFER

he’d listened to it he was like,

I was so stoked that I’d ‘Eh, half of it’s pretty good, I
learned it and could play guess…’ Maybe you just had to
it. I even went out and be into it at the time, but I still
bought a chorus pedal so I listen to it to this day. I wish I’d
could have the same guitar written any of the songs on this
effect Kurt Cobain had.” album, but this is ‘the one’.”
FIND IT: Nevermind (1991) FIND IT: Third Eye Blind (1997)

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THE SECRET ABOUT ONE

OF MY SONGS IS…

a day to
remember
“I remember I went to go do
scratch vocals, which is usually
a demo version of a [Link]
producer gave me a mic – not
a normal vocal one, but one you’d use for guitar – and I
cupped it with my hand, which is terrible mic etiquette.
But then I started singing, and it sounded super-distorted
and nasty, so we did the whole song like that!”
FIND IT: What Separates Me From You (2010)
THE SONG THAT MAKES for when you’ve finished with someone.
ME HAPPY IS… I remember that this was big when I was
I GET AROUND going through my last big break-up. It
was everywhere, and I just remember it
THE BEACH BOYS whenever I hear this song. Man, it’s such
a great tune.”
“It’s just got a good vibe. I think it’s a
FIND IT: The Script (2008)
childhood thing. It was in that movie
Flight Of The Navigator [1986 children’s
sci-fi flick] – you remember that? There’s THE SONG YOU WOULDN’T EXPECT
a bit in that when he gets in the spaceship TO FIND ON MY IPOD IS…
and he takes off, and they play I Get
Around. This is my favourite Beach Boys
SIMPLE MAN
song. We put it on our dressing room LYNYRD SKYNYRD
music mix, so you might hear this before “Lynyrd Skynyrd were my dad’s favourite
we go onstage!” band. He loved Southern rock, and he
FIND IT: All Summer Long (1964) listened to country all the time. That was
a lot of what I listened to as a kid, and all
THE SONG THAT MAKES ME that ’90s country that was on the radio
THINK OF MY FRIENDS IS… ended up being my favourite stuff ever.
CALIFORNIA I hated it at the time, but now it’s the stuff
I look back on. But Simple Man sums up
COPELAND my whole family, really – that’s who they
“We were driving through California one were. I came from a really Southern family
night, and somebody put this song on. in the middle of nowhere in Florida, and all
Because it’s this really mellow song – just the family still hangs out together. Country
a guitar and, like, a flute or something in music’s a pretty big thing where I lived.”
the background – at the end, when it kicks FIND IT: (Pronounced ‘Leh-’nérd ‘Skin-
in with the full band, it’s super-powerful. ’nérd) (1973)
And I remember that part coming on,
and everybody started air drumming at THE BEST SONG EVER WRITTEN IS…
the same time. That’s one of my favourite
memories of being on tour. Everybody
LEARNING TO FLY
was so happy to be doing what we were TOM PETTY
doing and we were in California, and we “It’s always been my favourite Tom
all just felt really good.” Petty song, and in my opinion he’s one
FIND IT: Beneath Medicine Tree (2003) of the best songwriters on the planet.
And he’s still writing good songs! He really
THE SONG WITH THE does not get the credit he deserves. He’s
BEST LYRICS EVER IS… done really well in his career, but I just
BREAKEVEN don’t hear people talk about him. When
people talk about songwriters, I have
THE SCRIPT never once heard him brought up. Watch
“‘What am I supposed to do his videos and tell me this guy doesn’t
when the best part of me was deserve to be labelled as one of the best
always you?’ This is the best songwriters of all time!”
fucking break-up song ever. FIND IT: Into The Great Wide Open
Those lyrics are just perfect (1991)

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 O Y OF
A
O C STAR IF I COULD HAVE A BEER

A R
WITH ANYONE, IT WOULD BE…

ROB I
DAMBIRAOCNO
DON ON:
B IS N ’T SURE N. THE BEST NON-ROCK
RO HIO
THINGSNCE AND FAS THEM ALBUMS EVER ARE…
BALA ID YOU GE HEN?T
HOW DSTRIDES ON, T
“Thriller, Bad and Dangerous by
Michael Jackson. I honestly can’t pick
FANCY just one of them! They made me
fall in love with music, and I used to
watch the videos and try to learn
his dance moves when I was a kid. I
think because I grew up with those
I’ve got terrible… records I never dissect them – they
just are what they are to me.”
“Balance. I can be up in a plane and
be fine, and I’ve skydived before, and
I was fine, but put me up high where
I’ve got to keep my balance and I am
terrified! My balance is so terrible,
WHEN I WAS LITTLE I
and if you’ve been to any of our WANTED TO BE…
shows, chances are you’ve seen
me fall over at some point.”

I had
a good
start in…

IF MY HOUSE WAS ON
FIRE, I WOULD SAVE…
“My Sonos player, which doesn’t
sound very sentimental, does it?
I Don’t actually
know much about…
“I’D LIKE TO It really has changed my mind in
regards to listening to music. It’s like

“Fashion. If you think I look well GO FOR A PINT a stereo that connects up to your
iPhone, and you can play anything on
turned-out, it’s not always intentional!
Some people have certain steps they
follow when they’re getting ready to
WITH JESUS…”
OROB DAMIANI O
there or from Spotify or wherever.
And if my house burned down, I
think I’d need some music to get me
go out, which I’ve never really had. I through the stress!”
can’t grow facial hair, so shaving isn’t
an issue, but I have lots of showers.
Beyond that, it’s a bit hit-and-miss!”
THE BEST PLACE I’VE
ONE OF MY GREATEST BEEN ON HOLIDAY WAS…
LOVES IS…

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STAR SHOUT! football. Everyone was dressed YOU HAD A WELL-

SIMON NEIL in a very swanky way and I was
there in a full football strip.”
PUBLICISED BREAKDOWN
AT THE END OF TOURING
(BIFFY CLYRO,
[Link] YOU
VOCALS/GUITAR)
HOW’S EVERYTHING IN CONCERNED ABOUT
HI, SIMON! HOW HAS SPAIN CAMP BIFFY THESE DAYS? GOING BACK OUT?
BEEN TREATING YOU? “I’m sure I’ve said this millions “Because we have got a
“It’s fantastic! It’s hard not to of times, but this is still more very deep understanding of
like a place where everyone than just music to us – this is our each other, it makes these
has a nap in the day and has family and our friendships and kinds of things not be a big
three-hour [Link]’ve had everything distilled into one. issue. I did feel pressure last
two days off here, but it’s felt like We’ve been in this band for year, but without Ben and
a week. Last night I was on the almost our entire lives – it’s still James I wouldn’t have got
roof of the hotel watching the so important to us.” through all that.”

Simon realised too late

he’d left his pupils on
the nightstand

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 Alice tried to play down
the wadded-up bog roll
stuck to his mic stand

STONE FREE Justin Hawkins’ guitar-

swing was awesome

FESTIVAL
O 6
SHOCK AND LOAD! ROCK’S MASTER OF MACABRE LEADS
THE CHARGE AT THE CAPITAL’S NEWEST ROCK FESTIVAL
WORDS: JAMES MACKINNON PHOTOS: CHRIS CASEY, SANDRA SORENSON

Q THE ADVANTAGE of festivals indoors: you can set.“He wants his riffs back!” Self-deprecation aside,
control the [Link], the first-ever Stone Free the metal misfits have enough dark materials of their Apocalyptica: “Cello, is it
us you’re looking for?”
Festival inside The O2 is already off to a flying start by own to make the Sabbath axeman [Link] such
the time VODUN (KKK) open proceedings. Like shadowy fare, BLACKBERRY SMOKE’s (KKK)
an erupting volcano daubed in war-paint, the voodoo classic-rock warmth is a welcome arrival as the good
rockers overflow with seismic grooves and incendiary times flow as freely as Charlie Starr’s smoky guitar
energy, turning heads and blowing minds in the foyer. [Link]’s classic rock, but it doesn’t get more
“Tony Iommi just called,” announces wild-eyed classic-al rock than APOCALYPTICA (KK).
THERAPY? (KKKK) frontman Andy Cairns mid- However, despite energetically scraping their cellos,
they aren’t igniting the fire they’re normally known
for. Instead, it takes their (now-20-years-old) Metallica
Vodun didn’t see the renditions to stoke the flames.
‘smart-casual’ bit on
the invitation
Though Justin Hawkins encounters mixed results
reading audience names (“Mark? Michael? Jeremy?
Josh? JOSH!”), THE DARKNESS (KKKK) have
no problem slamming into raunchy [Link]
hit-studded set reaches peaks as high as Justin’s vocals,
possibly thanks to the gilded jumpsuit he’s strutting in.
But there’s no bigger showman than ALICE
COOPER (KKKKK). Pythons, the guillotine and
a Trump vs Clinton punch-up: it’s all here in B-movie
[Link] the centre of it all, though, is Alice himself.
Through execution, resurrection and Elected, he is
equally compelling and repulsive, bringing the final
hammer down on the fest in great, gory style.

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1626 JUL11,
JULY 2, 2015
2016

MELVINS
SWG3, GLASGOW. 21.06.16

KKKK
LEGENDARY WASHINGTON EXPERI-METALLERS
KEEP IT WEIRD. AND LOUD. MOSTLY LOUD
TRASH
BOAT
QBOOKING THE Melvins is surely a mixed
blessing. On the one hand, there’s always a sizeable
crowd of cool folk, crust-punks and ageing
doom-heads pretty much guaranteed to show up.
Hell, tonight’s show has had to be upgraded from
Glasgow’s Art School to sprawling warehouse PLUS: WSTR, WEATHERSTATE
space SWG3 just to accommodate the tangle of JOINERS, SOUTHAMPTON. 22.06.16
fans piling in. On the other hand, there’s the risk
of burst eardrums, cracked masonry and blown
minds that comes with inviting in one of the
KKKK
heaviest, weirdest and loudest bands of all time. It’s POP-PUNK PRODIGIES KICK
a fair trade-off, mind.“Finally we’ve come across the OFF THEIR TOUR WITH GOOD
wall to play for you wildlings!” goads hyperactive MATES AND STORMY WEATHER “Look, ma, no dog shit!”
sticksman/mouthpiece Dale Crover before
inimitable frontman/mad-musical-scientist Buzz WORDS: JAMES MACKINNON PHOTOS: CHRIS CASEY
Osborne welcomes perma-grinning bassist Steven
Shane McDonald as,“One of yours!” They’re the QTHERE ARE some moments South Drive whips up a storm
evening’s only concessions to geographic location, in life when you have only two of colliding bodies, while Fair
before the inevitable tidal wave of aural chaos choices: sink or swim. In front Weather signals the first of STAR SHOUT!
smashes us onto another plane altogether.A
rumbling cover of Green River’s Leech sounds like
of a packed, expectant crowd,
Trash Boat are experiencing one
tonight’s huge sing-alongs.
And though Trash Boat’s TOBI DUNCAN
(TRASH BOAT, VOCALS)
it should be supervised by structural engineers as of those moments now. Tobi entrance is heralded by a
FIRST THINGS FIRST,
much as soundmen, before another avalanche of Duncan’s mic has crapped-out screechy 20th Century Fox
WHAT THE HELL WAS
their own riffs on Night Goat roars into life with during their first song. Hardly an parody, the band are on rip- THAT INTRO MUSIC?
the force of a warp-drive on a steamroller. But it’s a auspicious start to a tour mere roaring form. Tobi spills his guts “We debated loads of
closing cover of century-old Tin Pan Alley anthem days after their debut album over Boneless, while The Guise stupid shit to come on to,
Take Me Out To The Ball Game that ends the came out, but the St Albans crew Of A Mother swells from quiet and this YouTuber’s awful
night on a fittingly bewildered, tinnitus-tinged high. have sailed choppier waters. They depths to a hardcore tsunami movie themes are so good!
Melvins, then: still the world’s weirdest band; still dig in and Tobi yells so loudly that sweeps everyone away. I don’t think it was loud
the world’s loudest band. you can faintly hear him over the The peak is when Tobi throws enough tonight – it’s meant
to be really, really invasive!
SAM LAW hardcore pummel. When his mic the mic into the roiling crowd
No-one ever does serious
finally comes to life, the wave of for Dan ‘Soupy’ Campbell from
SKATING POLLY relief is huge. This ship won’t go The Wonder Years’ verse on
intro music anyway. What,
they do? Well, not us!”
PLUS: JOYCE DELANEY, BRATAKUS down so easily. Strangers, a genius moment
BROADCAST, GLASGOW. 16.06.16 Testing the waters earlier, connecting people and band. And ARE YOU STOKED TO
longtime Trash Boat cohorts though nobody can find the mic, BE TOURING WITH
KKKKK Weatherstate launch into it doesn’t matter. All it takes is YOUR MATES IN WSTR?
RISING OKLAHOMA RIOT GRRRLS BREATHE crunching pop hooks with collective lung power. “We’ve stayed at WSTR’s
houses loads, but this is the
FIRE AND LEAVE SCOTLAND IN AWE ILL, but the tide only turns to And so this tour’s maiden
first we’ve toured together.
QLIKE DOROTHY from The Wizard of Oz, ecstatic when WSTR arrive with voyage proves triumphant. Often when you tour, it can
Skating Polly duo Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse overflowing positive energy Through calm or rough seas, you take days to gel, but it’s
are fresh-faced Midwestern girls who’ve gotten (perhaps buoyed by friends can guarantee Trash Boat will nice to tour when everyone
caught in a tempest and wound up a long from Creeper in the audience). always deliver a storming night. is mates already.”
way from [Link], they’ve landed in a
Glaswegian basement rather than some magical Careful,Tobi, your soul’s
kingdom and, crucially, they’ve not tumbled leaking out again…
into a passing tornado, either. No, this grungy
storm’s very much of their own making. Relishing
warm-up duties, Bratakus wholeheartedly pile
in with some big riffs, before Joyce Delaney
season their fuzz with enough bored, anecdotal
world-weariness to fill a [Link]’s no such
forced angst from the headliners. At 15 and 20
respectively, Kelli (alternating between three-
stringed bass, drums and guitar) and Peyton
(owning just the six-string and the skins) would
only be able to get served one drink at the bar,
but showcase a natural-born energy, authenticity
and raw talent that even decades on the road
couldn’t earn. From the breathy, pulsating attitude
and goosebump-inducing vocal harmonies of
Ugly through the atmospheric exasperation of
Pretective Boy, to a murky, infinitely-better-than-
the-original reworking of Madonna’s Beautiful
Stranger, it’s a jaw-droppingly naturalistic showing.
Maybe that on-the-road apprenticeship with
longtime idols Babes In Toyland paid dividends.
Or maybe fate’s just brought together two young
women truly capable of blowing minds. Believe
the buzz; if Riot Grrrl’s really rising again, Skating
Polly will be its cutting-edge.
SAM LAW

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KKKKK = CLASSIC
KKKK = EXCELLENT
KKK = GOOD
KK = AVERAGE
K = POOR

BLINK-182
CALIFORNIA (BMG)
KKKK
BLINK PROVE THERE’S LIFE AFTER TOM DELONGE
ON SHINING LOVE LETTER TO THE GOLDEN STATE
IF, AS blink-182’s classic What’s My Age state itself on the title-track, their most epically- vignettes in Built This Pool (‘I wanna see some
Again? suggests, ‘Nobody likes you scoped tune to date. Go deeper, however, and naked dudes / That’s why I built this pool’) and
when you’re 23’, what happens when you’ll find the album is an immersive refresher Brohemian Rhapsody (‘There’s something about
your band has an average age of 41 course on everything that makes blink blink. Which you that I can’t quite put my finger in’), which have
and is missing a much-loved founding member? is why it’s extraordinary that it’s taken Matt Skiba, a combined running time of 46 seconds, there’s a
It’s almost certainly a question that crossed the who as the Illinois-born lynchpin of Alkaline Trio is lightness of touch to even the most serious songs.
minds of Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker in the a geographical and musical outsider, to help them Take the lovely Home Is Such A Lonely Place,
aftermath of the confusing and rather protracted realise that vision. And while time will tell if he’s as which is completely imbued with the joy that
departure of Tom DeLonge in early 2015, if effective a foil for Mark as Tom was – impressive exudes from anyone that truly enjoys what they
California’s opening track, Cynical, is anything to go live performances certainly suggest the signs are do for a living.
by (‘There’s a cynical feeling saying I should give up good – he’s unquestionably the superior voice and California’s biggest challenge is going up against
/ You’ve said everything you’ll ever say’). Thankfully, songwriter, bringing subtler melodies and razor- recorded predecessors that have indelibly marked
the remaining duo realised, as excellent comeback sharp craftsmanship to the likes of Rabbit Hole. the hearts and pencil cases of a generation –
single Bored To Death does, that, ‘Life is too short Meanwhile, the presence of John Feldmann as which is why it doesn’t try to. Instead, this album is
to last long’, and retain that freshman-year zeal producer has helped create an atmosphere where all about the journey, not the destination; capturing
while furnishing it with the expertise that comes songs, rather than adherence to an established what happens when friends get together to do
with being alive that little bit longer. musical identity, are paramount. Turns out if you what they love. The fact that it happens
On the surface, California is a musical road nail the former, the latter will follow. to be blink’s most musically ambitious, yet
trip through the state that birthed blink 24 years It might be a stretch to suggest it was Tom’s spiritually comprehensive, album to date is a
ago. Its songs share names with the city of their influence that made the band do the growing up happy by-product.
inception, San Diego (military snare and dreamy they did on 2003’s self-titled record and 2011’s DOWNLOAD: Bored To Death, Home Is Such A
chorus), and their base of operations, Los Angeles Neighborhoods, but there’s clearly more fun being Lonely Place, Brohemian Rhapsody.
(uncharacteristically heavy guitars, electronics and had in his absence. It’s not just in the dick and fart FOR FANS OF: Green Day, Alkaline Trio.
incessant hooks). And that’s not to mention the jokes stakes, either. Despite the inclusion of vulgar JAMES HICKIE

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“PLAYING WITH
MATT SKIBA FEELS
LIKE HOME…”
MARK HOPPUS

TRAC
K
B
TRACY
K

NIGHT VERSES
INTO THE VANISHING LIGHT (GRAPHIC NATURE)

KKKK
SPOOKY NEW YORK POST-HARDCORE CREW VENTURE
INTO THE WEIRD ON DAZZLING, DARK SECOND ALBUM

1 THE FUTURE AS HISTORY:

I LOVE YOU DEAD
Night Verses’ second album
6 FACELESS YOUTH
Arguably the most
formulaic track on the
feels like one long step into [Link] it still feels like
the [Link]’s spat out the a fight with a black hole.
other side is a sometimes
ethereal, sometimes fierce
and permanently absorbing
post-rock [Link] is the
7 PANIC AND PULL
YOUR HEART OUT
Pent-up guitars pursue
perfect entry point. vocals that sound as though
they were recorded at the

2 CONNECTING HEXES
The Long Islanders’
bottom of a lake. Intense.

decision to work with

Glassjaw and At The Drive-In
producer Ross Robinson
8 GROWING OUT OF ORBIT
The headspace occupied
by Douglas is often as
is telling in the jagged and overcast as the music.‘When
uneasy squeals that haunt the you’re lost and torn apart /
coal-black melodies here. You can call on me I’ll pull
you out’, he laments as this

3 DRIFT
The experimentation
track gently unravels.

is in full swing as some

twittering guitars provide
the only cushioning between
9 BLUE SHADES OF THE SUN
Another fast one. It’s like
a huge strop put to tape, this.
Douglas Robinson’s slow,
dead-eyed delivery and the
murkiest of basslines. 10 STRANGE GRAVES
This slow, heavy
workout sprawls and

4 A DIALOGUE IN CATAPLEXY
And here the frontman
howls like a banshee.A
stretches its limbs at its own
pace, as Douglas even slips
into spoken-word passages.
breathless five minutes that

THE INSIDER People are excited to

go out and play shows,
HOME IS SUCH A
LONELY PLACE IS A
sounds like Glassjaw being
twisted out of shape. 11 PHOENIX III: INTO THE
VANISHING LIGHT
Summing up the entire
MARK HOPPUS
(VOCALS/BASS)
and excited to go and
record an album – it’s all
very positive!”
VERY EMOTIONAL
SONG. WHERE DID
THE IDEA FOR IT
5 VANTABLACK
NV’s undefined approach
to genre can feel like they’re
record, this 10-minute closer
is a post-rock freakshow that
shows no regard for style
COME FROM?
WAS IT IMMEDIATELY GIVEN THE FACT IT’S “The initial thought was stalking through a house of or structure conventions.A
OBVIOUS TO YOU THAT NAMED AFTER YOUR how we’re all fathers [Mark mirrors. Here, they possess a mesmerising finish to one of
THIS LINE-UP WOULD HOME STATE, WOULD and Travis are, though dark, pop temperament. 2016’s most intriguing albums.
MAKE A NEW BLINK YOU SAY THE ALBUM IS Matt isn’t – Dad Ed] and
RECORD WHEN YOU AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL? how sad we’re going to
STARTED PLAYING
LIVE TOGETHER?
“I think that everything
that we write, at least for
be when our kids are all
grown up. But also, at the THIS ALBUM IS MOSTLY MADE UP OF…
“It was really natural; it felt me lyrically, comes from same time, how happy
like home when we started things that have happened we’re going to be to see
WORDS: TOM SHEPHERD

playing with Matt. It felt to me or happened to that they’ve grown up and 15%
like what it was supposed people around me. It’s got their own lives. That Experimentation 15%
to be. It feels now like it not all autobiographical, was the genesis of the idea. Weirdness
did when we first started though. Sometimes I’ll be It kind of swirled out from 50%
off as a band, where reading a book and there’ll there; the idea of letting go Darkness
everybody’s really excited be a cool bit in there that I of people that are hugely 20%
and the energy is good. build an idea around.” important in your life.” Hyperactivity

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K = EXCELLENT KKK
K = GOOD KK
K = AVERAGE K = POOR

VANNA edging to the front of our DIY scene since

they formed in 2014, and now brothers Rich PINEGROVE
ALL HELL (PURE NOISE) and Neil Mandell and Phoebe Cross might CARDINAL (RUN FOR COVER)
be the UK’s answer to The Front Bottoms.
KKKK This debut full-length has their sweet and KKKK
POST-HARDCORE FFROOM BOSTONN THAT highly-infectious formula all sewn up. From NEW JERSEY INDIE-ROCKERS PARTY SOFT
F
HITS YOU RIGHT IN THE ANGRY FEE
F ELS bemoaning ‘Why can’t I just enjoy anything??’ ON BEGUILINGLY THOUGHTF
TFULL RECORD
Q‘I AM the voice of LYRIC OF on Leaving Parties Early, to bouts of Q‘I SHOULD call my
deathh’, snarls Vanna’s
shouty singer Davey
THE WEEK existential crisis on Running, this will make
you want to dance the night away. Alone in
parents when I think
of them / I should tell
‘I keep swinging
Muise during Pretty my hand through your flat, anyway, because the vibe here is my friends when I love
Grim. It’s kind of a a swarm of bees one of mentally sprinting away but having them’, croons Evan
hallmark for the album. ’cause I want to stay stuck. Whether a happy accident Stephens Hall on Old
Bleak topics of death, honey on my or done on purpose, fans of bands like Friends.. Feel a wistful
tribulation and unadulterated misery litter table’. Thrice W O, Personal Best etc. will find
WAC twinge? Then this record’s for you. Between
there, pointing
Vanna’s sixth full-length, with clean vocalist something intriguing here. slump-shouldered explorations of platonic
out a very good
Joel Pastuszak declaring, ‘The world is going way to get stung, DOWNLOAD: Running. love, post-adolescent guilt and the benefits
to Helll’. Clearly, the Boston quintet have and also make FOR FANS OF: Great Cynics, Muncie of ‘introspective partying’, these eight tracks
been to their darkest depths and back to a sticky mess Girls, The Front Bottoms. bind the smart emo of Brand New to
make All Hell, pouring their most bitter of your dining HANNAH EWENS the rootsy [Link] of a Bright Eyes or
moments into its 10 brutal tracks. The table. Mate, just Ryan Adams, stoking nostalgia and tugging

SPIDER KITTEN
pummelling onslaught of Circle The Flame go down to the the heartstrings throughout. Glimpses of
launches the tirade, as punishing riffs turn shop and buy punk energy (Then Again) and impressive
yourself a jar.
to fiercely charismatic breakdowns. Leather
BAND: ARK OF OCTOFELIS (UNDERGROOVE) ambition (Visiting) signpost genuine
Feather introduces their Architects-style dynamism further down the road. For now,
progression, with electronic undertones
Thrice
SONG:
KKKK though, this will do just fine.
that lay the foundations for something Black Honey SLAB-HEAVY SCI-FI
F CONCEPT ALBUM
U DOWNLOAD: Then Again.
altogether more ear-shattering. It’s this ALBUM: CONF
NFIR
RMS W
WELSH DOO OMSTERS’
T BRILLIANCE FOR FANS OF: Modern Baseball, Basement.
heavy sense of triumph and strength that To Be QTWENTY-SEVEN SAM LAW
makes All Hell so chaotically cathartic, and Everywhere Is To releases in, you
Be Nowhere
Vanna a band to keep an eye on.
DOWNLOAD: Leather Feather.
think you’d know
what to expect from TARJA
FOR FANS OF: Architects, Hellions. heavyweight Newport THE BRIGHTEST VOID ( RMUSIC)
(EAR
JESSICA BRIDGEMAN quartet Spider Kitten.
You’d be wrong, of KKK
EX-NIGHTWISH SINGER RELEASES ECLECTIC
BRAWLERS course, because bands this prolific – see
also: Melvins – are constantlyy on the move. ‘PREQUEL’ AHEAD OFF NEW ALBUM
U
QHAVING SUNG on
THE BLACK EP (ALCOPOP!) This concept album tells a tale of ambition,

KK SLEEVE OF betrayal and hubris on the fictional the first five Nightwish

LEEDS INDIE-PUNKS TAKE A STAND BUT FAI

F IL THE WEEK planet Octofelis
f (stoner-speak for Eight
Cats, or something), where rocking ’70s
albums, Tarja Turunen’s
operatic trill still inspires
The Browning
TO LEAVE A LASTING IIMPRESSION have a giant, psychedelia literally rules the world, and passion from her fans.
QIN AN open letter nihilistic robot the unhinged experimentalism and crushing Her latest release can
from the band last thing from the grooves on display couldn’t seem more best be described as an
month, a message was future on the otherworldly had they fallen directly from experimental taster for full-length album
sent: “Brawlers are not cover of their outer space. Split, vinyl-style, across two The Shadow Self, which drops in August. It’s
a pop-punk band.” It’s a new Isolation sides, and bookended by the succinctly- more than an EP and features 50 minutes of
fair statement, given that album. He’s got titled Underestimating The Consequences music, varying from the thunderously soaring
a clock around
the light fuzz of their his neck, which
Of Effective
f Propaganda Parts One and rock of No Bitter End and Shameless, to
guitars and conspicuous lack of ‘Woah-ohs’ makes us reckon Two, we get a first half dominated by the
T Witch Hunt’s bold but unconvincing gamble
sit closer to indie than anything else, but it’s he’s a time- 22 sprawling minutes of Feline Will, before with electronic sounds. She also performs an
one that raises expectations for any music traveller as well. comparatively short nuggets The Ark ‘odd couple’ duet with fellow Finn Michael
it precedes. And, sadly, The Black EP is little Presumably the and Launch burn like asteroids through Monroe, and bows out with a remixed
more than [Link]-by-numbers. Lyrics brief just said the record’s second half. Overwhelming? version of Paradise (What About Us?),
about day-to-day frustration – ‘I just wanna ‘a badass’. Perhaps. Ridiculous? Quite, yeah. But this the Within Temptation song on which she
take drugs and be sexyy’, Harry George brings whole new meaning to the phrase guested in 2013. Tarja deserves praise for
Johns laments on Day Job – are backed by HIGH-concept. dipping her toes into new waters – we’ll find
functional, if forgettable, guitar lines. It’s not DOWNLOAD: Feline Will, The Ark out how well she swims in August.
bad, but ‘not bad’ doesn’t cut it when Milk FOR FANS OF: Electric Wizard, Blood DOWNLOAD: No Bitter End
Teeth and Muncie Girls are offering far Ceremony, Sleep. FOR FANS OF: Nightwish, Leaves’ Eyes.
more interesting variations on the theme. SAM LAW STEVE BEEBEE
DOWNLOAD: Shake Me Into Shape.
FOR FANS OF: Milk Teeth, Muncie Girls. VIDEO OF ALL SET for summer? BY BEARS with
RYAN DE FREITAS THE WEEK Not yet, you’re not. THE YEAR AHEAD

HAPPY ACCIDENTS
HEATHENS,
TWENTY ONE
PILOTS
POP-PUNK You need a big, sunny,
pop-punk soundtrack
(KKKK). Your first
thought will be
for those lazy, endless that these Swedes
YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT (ALCOPOP!) Doing a song for days spent sunning really like A Day
the Suicide Squad
yourself (somewhere To Remember, and
KKK soundtrack? You
need a Suicide
other than the UK, sometimes it’s like
MELODIC LONDON PUNKS
P S HIT THE
T E SWEET Squad-themed obviously). There’s
SPOT ON CATCHY DEB
E UT ALBUM
U video. Here, TØP the new blink album,
QIT’S NICE to hear get locked up obviously, but if
awkward indie-punk with the Worst you’re after more,
sung in an unmistakably Heroes Ever, and you’ve gotta dig a
British accent. Hailing serenade them. bit deeper to find
from London via Watch out for the some good summer
bloke with fire in sounds. So, first up, we
Southampton, Happy
his hands. have ABANDONED
Accidents have been

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N TH PALEHORSE Billy Talent

LOOKING WET IN PUBLIC
O

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KKK BILLY TALENT III

FILTHY LONDON SLUDGE-HOUNDS
S BATTER YOU WITH TWO BASS GUITARS
TERE
O

QTITLES LIKE Lambs

To The Laughter and
Miserable Heroin Addict
Vs. Jehova’s Witness
Guy might point to a
band with a twisted
sense of humour, but
there’s absolutely nothing funny about the
noise that Palehorse generate. The dual-bass
attack adds a buoyant bit of upbeat groove
1 FALL OUT
BOY FT.
MISSY ELLIOT–
in places, and the livelier passages kick like
noise-rock heroes The Jesus Lizard, but
GHOSTBUSTERS there are also stretches of almost painfully
Yes, this is a drawn-out funereal doom and jittery, edge-
thing. And of-a-breakdown noise. They flit easily from
it’s exactly as
melodious chanting to tortuous shrieks,
bonkers as you
expect it to be. and just when you think you might have
Palehorse all figured out, they abruptly switch
to another track just for the sheer hell of it.
2 EVERY
TIME I DIE
– THE COIN
Looking Wet In Public is not an easy album
to like, then, but it’s a difficult one to ignore.
HAS A SAY DOWNLOAD: Terrifying Japanese Coldplay
We took a load Documentary, Half Lizard Half Lizard.
of change out FOR FANS OF: Eyehategod, Sunn O))).
of our pockets
PAUL TRAVERS
and showed it
this video. The
coins said ‘Yes’
to these riffs. MY JERUSALEM
A LITTLE DEATH (WASHINGTON SQUARE)

3 STEVEN
BATTELLE –
THE JUMP
KKKK
TEXAS PUNKS TURN TO THE DARK SIDE ON
Dive into the SEX AND DEATH-OBSESSED NEW
N W ALBUM
ex-LostAlone
man’s crazy new
QTO GET inspiration
world. It’s like for My Jerusalem’s new
Queen and Muse album, frontman Jeff
at the same time. Klein would spend his
nights wandering the

4 TOUCHÉ
AMORÉ –
PALM DREAMS
streets of the low-rent
area of New York where
he lives, soaking up the vibe while reflecting
U.S. post-hardcore
on the death of his mother. He’s also got
kings TA are back
with another big
an obsession with wild, dirty rumpo. If this
bit of emotionally all sounds very film noir, that’s entirely
wrought rock. intentional, and lengthy, black-and-white
Right in the feels. shadows hang over this collection of dark
horror-punk. It’s reminiscent of Grave Kerrang! g Radio pplay
5 ROB LYNCH
– PROVE IT!
We’d say this
Pleasures in its dark sound, but they don’t
quite manage to match that band’s morbid
it all at 10pm, June 30!
romance. Nevertheless, if you like staying up
was the perfect
all night staring into the void until it stares
summer sound.
But it’s raining. back at you, you’ll probably like this.
Still good, though. DOWNLOAD: Rabbit Rabbit.
FOR FANS OF: Grave Pleasures, HIM.
NICK RUSKELL

they’ve gone out in SCISSORS (KKKK)

Jeremy McKinnon EP. The Ohio mob
fancy dress, but the possess the sort of
mix of pop-punk songwriting chops
and heaviness is that’ll do them very
highly effective. And well, with every note
besides, we’re still of Play Your Cards
waiting for the new Right, Kid and One
ADTR album, so this Year Down carefully
is good in the interim. Names and Wasting grown in some sort of
TEMPTRESS (KKK) My Time instantly pop-punk greenhouse
WORDS: NICK RUSKELL

by SAVE THE LOST likeable. Finally, we by master botanists.

BOYS takes a more have four tracks of So, the rain appears
straight-ahead pop- perfectly-formed to be here to stay, but
punk tack, a move
that makes party-
tastic songs like Bad
pop-punk cheer from
IN LIGHTS on their
RUNNING WITH
at least you’ll be able
to pretend it’s hot with
these three.
“WE USED RED HOT CHILI
PEPPERS’ MELLOTRON!”
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 ’T MISS
DON

THE STRUTS
THE DERBY RO KERS AV TRUTTED THEIR WAY INTO THE HE RT OF
AMERICANS. NOW, IT’S TIME FOR THEIR BIGGEST HOMECOMING YET…
HEY, LUKE! ARE YOU EXCITED been doing those kinda of venues in the U.S. ARE THOSE HEADLINES AS FUN AS A TRIP
TO COME HOME AFTER BEING and having them sell out. I’ve got three or four ON THE STRUTS’ TOUR BUS?
STATESIDE FOR SO LONG? outfit changes, and I try to add a lot of dynamics “Well, towards the end of a tour, there will
LUKE SPILLER (VOCALS): “It feels to the set, so I think the UK definitely has a lot be a lot of partying and very, very little sleep.
fantastic! We’re also slightly nervous to look forward to. We’re definitely bringing the You can expect high-stake games of FIFA – like,
at the same time, because it’s been such a long thunder, for sure.” $100 games – getting out of hand. Normally it is
time since we played in the UK. We’re doing a 24/7 party, and everyone is invited!”
smallish venues, so the hardcore fans will be
WHAT’S THE MOST ROCK’N’ROLL THING
there, and it’ll be good to catch up with them
and play them some of the new material.” “WE’RE GOING TO YOU’VE DONE IN THE STATES?

BE BRINGING THE
“Most recently, me and Adam [Slack, guitar] got
YOU’VE BROKEN AMERICA, BUT HOW HAS up onstage [at a Chevy Metal show] with Taylor
THE UK RESPONDED TO THE STRUTS? Hawkins [Foo Fighters] and Chad Smith [Red
“It feels a little bit frustrating for us as a group,
because apart from yourselves – you guys are
THUNDER!” Hot Chili Peppers] and did Tie Your Mother
Down and I Want To Break Free. Before, I was
WORDS: JAMES HINGLE PHOTO: ANDREW LIPOVSKY

really the only ones giving us press in the UK, LUKE SPILLER sat there in a corridor with Flea [Red Hot Chili
which is fantastic and we really appreciate Peppers] to my right, with Chad and Taylor
that – we’re being continuously told that our standing in front of me, and I was like, ‘What the
music is too hard to put out there in the UK. APART FROM US, YOUR FANS AND FAMILY, fuck is going on here?’”
But people are turning up to our shows, and WHAT HAVE YOU MISSED ABOUT THE UK?
with the tickets selling out this quickly, it gives “I miss the television! I miss the fact that we FINALLY, WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD
us confidence and the big bollocks to put this have great television. Not being bombarded by FOR YOU GUYS?
out there.” adverts every three fucking minutes is going to “We’re going to Japan for the first time, which
be quite nice. I also miss the local headlines and will be really good. Apparently they’re starting
TALKING OF BIG THINGS… WILL YOU BE stories that you get – I miss the quintessentially to get into it. Then we’re going to be writing and
BRINGING A BIG FANCY SHOW WITH YOU? English headlines, like in Devonshire North recording for the second album!”
“To be honest, Dingwalls is the same size as News: ‘Tiger Goes Missing And Ends Up In
venues we’ve been doing in the States – which Pensioner’s Back Garden.’ Crap news like that DATES: London Camden Dingwalls July 5, Bristol
are about 700-cap. But the good thing is we’ve is always fun!” Thekla 6, Derby Venue 7.

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YOUR WEEK! CAN’T GET TO A GIG? PIERCE THE VEIL’S

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TO 21ST CENTURY
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Y JUNE 29 SHEFFIELD Combichrist, Filter,
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(Black Heart, Camden) mini-tour movie and showed us why
NEWCASTLE Combichrist,, Filter, Rabia SUNDAY
Y JULY 3 they’re one of the hottest bands on
Sorda (Riverside) BIRMINGHAM Heart (Symphony Hall) the planet. Phwoooar…
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THURSDAY JUNE 30 Room, Tufnell Park)
GLASGOW Combichrist, Filter,r Rabia LONDON Combichrist, Filter, Rabia
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Weatherstate (Boston Music Room,
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MANCHESTER Heart (O2 Apollo
(Craufurd Arms)

MONDAY JULY 4
MY FIRST GIG
WHO: PJ HARVEY
BOURNEMOUTH Fit For An Autopsy, , GLASGOW ROYA
Manchester) L CONCERT HALL,
PLYMOUTH DispersE,, Destiny Potato From Sorrow To Serenity (Anvil) SEPTEMBER 2011
(Underground) GLASGOW DispersE,, Destiny Potato VUKOVI’S SINGER WAS INSPIR
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SIRENLIKE SONGSTRESS… BY ANOTHER
(Audio)
FRIDAY
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BRISTOL Combichrist, Filter,
r Rabia Sorda (Borderline)
(Marble Factory)
TUESDAY
Y JULY 5
SATURDAY JULY 2 CARDIFF Fit For An Autopsy, From
BRIGHTON TesseracT,T Bad Sign (Haunt) Sorrow To Serenity (Clwb Ifor Bach) JANINE an album she released in 2011, and
had a laid-back but charged vibe
GLASGOW Heart (Royal Concert Hall)
MILTON KEYNES DispersE, Destiny
LONDON Band Of Horses (O2
Shepherd’s Bush Empire) SHILSTONE, to it. That vibe, along with the fact
Potato (Craufurd Arms) LONDON The Struts (Dingwalls) VUKOVI the venue is so magical, made for a
very special night. I have to admit
PRESTON JJoe Bonamassa (Hoghton NEWCASTLE DispersE,, Destiny Potato “A few years
that I was a little bit drunk, but one
Tower) (Think Tank?) ago, I started
of the main things I took from the
recording with an
gig was the idea that you don’t have
older guy who I
to be perfect when you’re singing
sent a demo of me live. These days, I can give myself a
RIDER OF THE WEEK singing to. When
he heard it, he said that I sounded
bad time when I make mistakes, but
BAND: Nine Inch Nails when she performed that night, it
like PJ Harvey, so I checked her out
By the looks of things, Trent Reznor and co are planning on wasn’t about being pitch-perfect, it
and instantly fell in love with her.
starting their very own juice bar while on tour. We’ll have a was about the honesty in her voice.
Her image and music was sexy, but
banana and strawberry smoothie, please… “I’ve never seen a crowd so
not trying to be sexy; she was one
mesmerised. I genuinely think she
of the first females in music that I’d
could have asked the crowd to do
seen where I felt that she wasn’t anything and they would have done
sexualising herself. I knew that I it. This gig was a turning point for
needed to go to one of her shows as me. I hadn’t performed myself at
soon as possible.
this point, but seeing this
“Watching her live show I thought, ‘I can
definitely made me
do this,’ in terms of
want to go down the
performing; and
route of writing and I can do it that
performing music. way, rather than
The gig was during showing my
her Let England arse and being
Shake era, which is really girly.”
WORDS: JAMES HICKIE

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 PLYMOUTH BOOKING NOW
THE SOUTH-WEST CITY 2000TREES
Line-up:Twin Atlantic, Refused, Moose Blood,While
Manchester Academy 15, O2 ABC Glasgow 16, O2
Academy Newcastle 17, O2 Institute Birmingham
FIGHTING TO KEEP ITS She Sleeps, Neck Deep,The Bronx, Lonely The 19, O2 Academy Leeds 20, Nottingham Rock
City 22, London Camden Roundhouse 23, Cardiff
Brave, HECK, Mallory Knox,The Xcerts,Arcane
THRIVING DIY SCENE… Roots, Counterfeit, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Creeper and TramShed 24, O2 Guildhall Southampton 26.
more! Cheltenham Upcote Farm July 7 – 9.
DARREN JOHNS 3 DOORS DOWN W
BLACK PEAKS S / HECK
H
Huddersfield Parish September 4, Bristol Fleece 6,

(VOCALS/GUITAR), O2 Academy Bristol November 2, O2 Academy

Birmingham 3, Manchester Academy 5, London
London Boston Music Room 7 – 8, Sheffield Plug
9, Edinburgh Electric Circus 10,Aberdeen Cafe

CRAZY ARM Eventim Apollo 6. Support: Pop Evil.

AGAINST THE CURRENT
Drummonds 11,Wolverhampton Slade Rooms
13, Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach 17, Southampton
Talking Heads 18.
Bristol Fleece September 21, Glasgow Garage 22,
Newcastle Riverside 23, Leeds Stylus 24, Belfast BLACK SABBATH
WHAT WAS THE LOCAL generally deals in heavier, gnarlier Mandela Hall 26, Dublin Academy 27, Nottingham Manchester Arena January 22, 2017, Glasgow
SSE Hydro Arena 24, Leeds Arena 26, O2 Arena
SCENE LIKE WHEN YOU WERE stuff. Another larger venue, The Rescue Rooms 28, London O2 Shepherd’s Bush
Empire 30, Birmingham Asylum October 1, London 29 and 31, Birmingham Genting Arena
GROWING UP? Hub, saw Cancer Bats play Manchester Academy II 2. February 2 and 4. Support: Rival Sons.
“When me and my scrumpy-fuelled a fantastic show there earlier on BLOODSTOCK FESTIVAL
ALIEN ANT FARF RM
buddies started going to shows in the year. And, of course, there W
Wakefield Warehouse October 18, Edinburgh Line-up: Slayer,
a Mastodon,Twisted Sister,Venom,
in the early-’80s, it was incredibly is the Pavilions.” La Belle Angele 19,Aberdeen Garage 20, Belfast Behemoth, DragonForce, Paradise Lost, Rotting
exciting and a little scary. Some Empire 21, Dublin Voodoo Lounge 22, Preston 53 Christ,Anthrax, Gojira, Satyricon, Fear Factory,
Degrees 24, Bristol Marble Factory 25, Chester Symphony X, Metal Allegiance, Corrosion Of
older punks and skinheads were DOES THE CITY HAVE ANY Live Rooms 26, Leamington Spa Assembly 27, Conformity, Unearth, Ghost Bath, Evil Scarecrow,
pretty hostile to us, but the shows OTHER PLACES THAT PEOPLE Southampton Engine Rooms 28,Wolverhampton Witchsorrow,Akercocke, Desert Storm and
were always wild. We would go and SHOULD BE FREQUENTING? Slade Rooms 30, London O2 Academy Islington more! Derbyshire Catton Park August 11 – 14.
see bands like the Subhumans, “For recording, there’s Deep Blue 31, Barnstaple Factory November 2, Reading Sub
BLUES PILLS
89 3, Southend Chinnerys 4, Hull Welly 5, O2
Conflict, The Adicts and Cult Sound, PMC and Momentum Academy Oxford 6. Support: (hed)p.e., Sumo
Wolverhampton Slade Rooms November 1,
Maniax at small venues like The Studios. For second-hand vinyl, Cyco, Kaliedo. Glasgow Classic Grand 2, Manchester Club
Academy 5, London Camden KOKO 6, Bristol
Roxy. There were a lot of cool check out Really Good Records, ALL THEME WITCHES Marble Factory 8.
local punk bands that shaped my while Tone Station and Sound Bristol Thekla October 2, Manchester Deaf
Institute 3, London Scala 4, Brighton Haunt 6, BORN OF OSIRIS
rudimentary musical abilities.” Unlimited are the go-to shops Leeds Key Club September 11, Glasgow Classic
Leeds Brudenell Social Club 7, Glasgow Classic
for all your muso requirements. Grand 8, Nottingham Bodega 9. Grand 12, Manchester Sound Control 13, Cardiff
HOW HEALTHY IS THE Worthy bars are: The Nowhere Globe 14, London O2 Academy Islington 15.
THE AM
A ITY AFFLICTION
PLYMOUTH SCENE IN 2016? and The Fortescue, which both O2 Academy Bristol December 4,, O2 Ritz
Support:Veil Of Maya,Volumes, Black Crown
Initiate.
“There’s a healthy array of bands, host sporadic DIY shows; and The Manchester 5, London Camden Roundhouse 6,
promoters, writers and fans of all Bread & Roses, which is run by a O2 ABC Glasgow 8, O2 Institute Birmingham 9, THE BOUNCING SOULS
Norwich Waterfront 10. Support: Northlane, Stray Huddersfield Parish August 2, Glasgow Stereo 3,
genres. We have the Plymouth lovely, bearded lefty.” Bristol Exchange 5, London Camden Underworld
From The Path,Wage War.
Music Collective, which has 6, Kingston Fighting Cocks 7. Support: Pear.
been at the forefront of the local ARE THERE ANY SHOWS IN APOCALYPTICA
BRING ME THE HORIZ IZON
scene – providing many services PLYMOUTH THAT HAVE STOOD Manchester Bridgewater Hall February 27, 2017,
Edinburgh Queens Hall 28, London Royal Festival London O2 Arena October 31, Bournemouth BIC
for local musicians for nearly 30 OUT THE MOST FOR YOU? Hall March 1. November 1, Nottingham Arena 2, Birmingham
years. Livewire Youth Music “Pretty much all of our shows at Barclaycard Arena 4, London O2 Arena 5, Sheffield
ARCH EN
ENEMY Arena 6, Manchester Arena 8, Glasgow SSE Hydro 9.
Project and Plymouth Music the White Rabbit were a blast, Norwich Waterfront August 21, Sheffield
Zone are invaluable hubs that including our debut, as a trio, in Corporation 22, Cardiff TramShed 23, BULLET FOR R MY VALENTINE
V
Southampton Engine Rooms 24. Support: Soilwork. Newport Centre November 24, O2 Academy
nurture young musicians in the 2005. The time we played the Newcastle 27, O2 Academy Glasgow 30,
area while offering broader youth tiny, leaking basement in a pub ARCHITECTS Manchester Academy December 3 – 4, O2
support. Currently, there’s an issue called The Skiving Scholar O2 Institute Birmingham November 11, Academy Birmingham 6, London O2 Academy
Manchester Academy 12, O2 ABC Glasgow 13, Brixton 9. Support: Killswitch Engage, Cane Hill.
with the loss of venues over the was pretty special; we filmed it Nottingham Rock City 15, O2 Academy Bristol 17,
past couple of years, and a fledgling for the video to our debut single. London O2 Academy Brixton 18. BUTSERFEST
community organisation called We played a fun Black Sabbath Line-up: Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, FVK, Creeper,
BAND OF SKULLS WSTR, Crooks,Ashestoangels, Mallory Knox,Young
Music Matters has recently set for Hallowe’en last year at Leeds Stylus October 20, Manchester Albert Hall Guns,As It Is, Moose Blood. Petersfield Queen
been set up to try and address The Junction under the name 21, Newcastle Northumbria University 22, London Elizabeth Country Park September 10.
these issues.” Sabbath Bleddy Sabbath – it’s a Camden Roundhouse 26, Southampton Engine
Rooms November 17. COHEED & CAM A BRIA
West Country in-joke.” O2 ABC Glasgow August 22, O2 Ritz Manchester
WHAT ARE THE KEY VENUES? BASEME ENT 23, London O2 Forum Kentish Town 24. Support:
“When the White Rabbit WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU Newcastle Riverside July 12, Carlisle Brickyard
13, Cardiff Globe 14,Wolverhampton Slade
La Dispute, mewithoutYou.
closed down, we lost arguably the GIVE TO BANDS TRYING TO Rooms 15, Southend Chinnerys 18, Brighton DAM
A NATION FESTIVAL
best venue the city has ever had. MAKE IT IN THIS TOWN? Haunt 19,Tunbridge Wells Forum 20, Southampton Line-up: Enslaved,
a Nails, Ne Obliviscaris, Full
1865 21, Plymouth Hub 22. Support: Dinosaur Of Hell, Oceans Of Slumber. Leeds University
Thankfully, the venue’s manager, “If you really have to play music, Union November 5.
Pile-Up,The Sun Days.
Dan James, took his skills to The then be yourself – don’t be a
BATTLE OF THE BAYSA DANCE GAVIN DANCE
Junction, which now hosts great dick. Enjoy the ride and be O2 Academy2 Oxfordf November 3, Brighton
Line-up: Obituary, Exodus, Prong, King Parrot.
independent and international prepared for a heap of frustration London Camden Electric Ballroom October 25, Haunt 4, O2 Institute3 Birmingham 5,
touring bands. Its sister venue, The and bullshit. The music business is Glasgow Garage 27, Manchester Academy2 28, Southampton Engine Rooms 6, Nottingham
Underground, is smaller and not a meritocracy!” O2 Academy2 Birmingham 29, Southampton Rescue Rooms 8, O2 Academy2 Newcastle 9,
Engine Rooms 30. Manchester Sound Control 10, Glasgow Garage
11, Leeds Key Club 12, Cardiff Globe 14, Bristol
BEARTOOTH Fleece 15, London Camden Underworld 16.
London O2 Shepherd’s ’ Bush Empire December
8, Leeds Beckett 9, Glasgow Garage 10, O2 DEAD KENNEDYS
Institute Birmingham 11, O2 Ritz Manchester 12, O2 Academy Oxford
f October 12, London O2
Southampton Engine Rooms 13, Cardiff TramShed Islington Academy 13 – 14.
14, Dublin Academy 16, Belfast Limelight 17. DON BROCO
Support:Vanna, Fit For A King. Manchester Gorilla July 24 – 25, Glasgow Oran
BESTIVAL
V Mor 26 – 27, Newcastle Riverside 29 – 30, O2
Line-up: Creeper, Fatherson, [Link], Milk Teeth, Institute Birmingham 31 – August 1, Leeds Key
Moose Blood, Pretty Vicious, PUP. Isle Of Wight Club 3 – 4, Bedford Esquires 5 – 6, London O2
Robin Hill Country Park September 8 – 11. Islington Academy 8 – 9, Southampton Engine
Rooms 10 – 11, Norwich Open 13 – 14, Bristol
BIFFY CLYRO Marble Factory 15 – 16.
Glasgow Bellahouston Park August 27. Support:
Fall Out Boy,Wolf Alice, Cage The Elephant. EMMAM BLACKERY
The Junction situated on London O2 Academy2 Islington October 23,
Pro-tip: don’t get a bunch of an, umm, junction… BILLY TALENT Manchester Sound Control 24, O2 ABC2 Glasgow
goths to paint a building… Norwich UEA October 12, O2 Academy Bristol 13, 25, O2 Academy3 Birmingham 26.

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EVAROSE
London Garage (Upstairs) July 8, Oxford Bullingdon 9.
AIRBOURNE GUTTERDÄMMERUNG
THE
H FAF LL OF
O TROY Edinburgh Liquid Rooms July 26, Cardiff O2 Academy Birmingham September
Nottingham Rescue Rooms September 9,, Leeds Y Plas 27, Dublin Academy August 23, 18, Manchester Academy 19, O2
Key Club 10, Glasgow Cathouse 11, Newcastle Belfast Limelight 24. Academy Glasgow 20, London O2
Think Tank? 13, London Scala 14, Bristol Fleece
Academy Brixton 22.
15, Manchester Sound Control 16, Birmingham COUNTERPARTS / EXPIRE
Asylum 17. Support:Tiny Moving Parts. Southampton Talking Heads November
MEWITHOUTYOU
29, Plymouth Hub 30, Cardiff Clwb
FFIDLAR Nottingham Bodega Social Club
Ifor Bach December 1, Glasgow
London Brixton Electric July 12. August 19, Leeds Brudenell Social
Cathouse 2, Manchester Sound Control
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BALL – FUEUELLING
I THE FIRE TOUR
TH U 3, Huddersfield Parish 4, Norwich Club 21, Cardiff Globe 26, Plymouth
Line-up: Less Than Jake,The Skints, Mariachi Owl Sanctuary 5, London Camden Hub 27, Southampton Talking Heads
El Bronx, Kemuri (3 – 6),The Bennies (8 – 11). Underworld 6. Support: Landscapes, 28, Brighton Sticky Mikes 29, Kingston
O2 Academy Bristol October 3, O2 Academy Knocked Loose. Fighting Cocks 30. Support:Yndi Halda
Sheffield 4, O2 Academy Birmingham 5, London (26 – 30 only).
O2 Academy Brixton 6, O2 Academy Newcastle 8, DAMNATION FESTIVAL
O2 Academy Glasgow 9, O2 Ritz Manchester 10, Latest additions: Electric Wizard, NOTHING
O2 Academy Bournemouth 11. Cult Of Luna, Abbath.
Bristol Start The Bus September
FORT FEST
F 11, Leeds Brudenell Social Club 12,
DEATH SPELLS
Line-up: Lonely The Brave, InMe,Young Guns, Black Glasgow Broadcast August 9, London Glasgow Broadcast 13, Manchester
Peaks,Arcane Roots,The Dirty Youth and more! O2 Academy2 Islington 10, O2 Deaf Institute 14, Birmingham Rainbow
Bedfordshire Thurleigh September 2 – 4. Academy3 Birmingham 11, 15, London Hoxton Square Bar &
Manchester Academy III 12. Kitchen 16, Brighton Bleach 17.
GOOD CHARH LOTTE
O2 Academy Glasgow August 24, O2 Ritz
Manchester 25, O2 Institute Birmingham
27. Support: Big Jesus,Waterparks, ROAM
(Birmingham only).
ICED
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London Brixton Electric December 6. Support:
Ensiferum, Kataklysm, Unearth.
I KI
KILLED
D TH
HE PROOM QU UEEEN
Glasgow Cathouse August 22, Birmingham
Rainbow 23, Plymouth Hub 24, London Camden
Dingwalls 25, Southampton Social 26. Support:
The Browning, Feed Her To The Sharks, Empires
Fade,To Kill Achilles.
IIMPERICONO N NEVER SA AY DIE! TOUR
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Line-up:Whitechapel,Thy Art Is Murder, Carnifex,
Obey The Brave, Fallujah, Make Them Suffer,
Polar. London Electric Ballroom November 6,
Manchester Club Academy 7, Glasgow Garage 8,
Bristol Marble Factory 9.
KATATON
ONIA
MUNCIE
N GIRLS

PHOTO: CHRIS CASEY

London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire October 21. Birmingham Rainbow November 25,
Leeds Brudenell Games Room 26,
KILL
I ING
I JOKE Newcastle Think Tank? 27, Glasgow King
London O2 Academy Brixton November 4. Tut’s 28, Manchester Sound Control 29,
London Camden Underworld 20, Exeter
KREATOR Cavern December 1.
Manchester Academy February 28, 2017, Dublin
Vicar Street March 1, London O2 Forum Kentish
Town 2. Support: Sepultura, Soilwork, Aborted.
LLACUNAN COIL I
NAIILS
N PUP
U Pears, Evil Blizzard. Winter Gardens and
Bristol Marble Factory November 10, London
Glasgow Cathouse November 4, Bristol Birmingham Rainbow Courtyard August more! Blackpool August 4 – 7.
Camden KOKO 11, O2 Institute2 Birmingham
Fleece 6, London Camden Underworld 7. 30, Bristol Exchange September 1, Manchester
13, Newcastle Riverside 14, Glasgow Garage 15,
Sound Control 4, Leeds Brudenell Social RED FA
F NG
Support: Full Of Hell.
Manchester Academy 2 16, Southampton 1865 18. Club 5, Nottingham Bodega 7, London Brighton Concorde2 September 26,, London
NAPO
N OLEONO Camden KOKO 27, Bristol Bierkeller 28, Leeds
LLAGWA
W GONO Dome Tufnell Park 9.
Bournemouth Anvil August 1, Southampton Stylus 29, Manchester Academy II 30, O2 Institute2
London O2 Shepherd’s
’ Bush Empire July 17, RAGI
GING SPEEDH DHORN
Joiners 2, Margate West Coast Bar 3, London O2 Birmingham October 2, Glasgow Garage 3,
Manchester Academy Club 19, Nottingham Colchester Arts Centre July 15, Cardiff Clwb Ifor
Academy2 Islington 4, Northampton Black Prince Newcastle Riverside 4, Southampton Engine
Rescue Rooms 20. Bach 16, Liverpool Arts Club Loft 17, O2 ABC2
5, Doncaster Vintage Rock Bar 6, Leeds Key Club Rooms 5. Support:Torche, God Damn.
LON
ONELY TH THE BRAVE
A 7, Newcastle Central 8, Edinburgh Opium 9, Glasgow 18, Leeds Key Club 19, O2 Academy3
Glasgow Classic Grand 10, Manchester Rebellion Birmingham 20, Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms ROB
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O IE
Brighton Haunt October 3, Southend Chinnerys 4,
11, Cheltenham Frog & Fiddle 12, Bristol Hatchet 21, Oxford Wheatsheaf 22, London Camden London O2 Forum Kentish Town October 17.
London Camden Electric Ballroom 6, Bristol Marble
Inn 13, Plymouth Underground 14. Underworld 23. Support: Stoneghost, By Any Means.
Factory 7, Nottingham Rescue Rooms 10, Glasgow SABA
S B TON
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King Tut’s 11, O2 Academy2 Leicester 14, Leeds Key READING
I & LEEDS FESTIV
F VAL Dublin Vicar Street January 10 2017, O2 Academy
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Club 15, O2 Academy2 Oxford 18, Hull Welly 19, O2 Line-up: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Biffy Clyro, Fall Glasgow 11, O2 Apollo Manchester 13, London
Manchester Sound Control October 23,, Glasgow
Academy2 Birmingham 21. Support:Tall Ships. Out Boy, twenty one pilots, Crossfaith, Eagles O2 Academy Brixton 14. Support:Accept.
G2 24, Birmingham Rainbow 25, London Camden
MESHUGG
S GAH Underworld 26. Support: Aversions Crown, Of Death Metal, Lower Than Atlantis, Asking
Alexandria, Five Finger Death Punch, Sleeping SLEEP
S
O2 Academy2 Bristol January 12, 2017, O2 Malevolence,Vitja, Sand. London O2 Forum Kentish Town July 6.
Institute Birmingham 13, Nottingham Rock City With Sirens, State Champs, Frank Carter &
NOTTHING BUT TH
N THIEVES The Rattlesnakes, Creeper, Mastodon, Good THE
H SMITH T STREETT BANDN
14, O2 ABC Glasgow 15, Belfast Limelight 17,
O2 Institute Birmingham November 30, Charlotte, Beach Slang, Frank Turner & The London Camden Underworld July 9, Kingston
Dublin Academy 10, O2 Ritz Manchester 19,
Manchester Academy December 1, London O2 Sleeping Souls,Tonight Alive,Thrice, Nothing Fighting Cocks 10, Norwich Owl Sanctuary
London O2 Forum Kentish Town 20.
Brixton Academy 2. Support: Airways. More, SWMRS,Nothing But Thieves, Coheed 12, Nottingham Bodega 13, Glasgow Audio 14,
META
T L BREW & Cambria, Skindred, Dillinger Escape Plan, Manchester Soup Kitchen 15, Dublin Fibber
OF MICE & MEN
O E Kvelertak, Milk Teeth, HECK, Modern Baseball,
Line-up:V
Venom Inc, Diamond Head, Divine Chaos, Magees 16, Brighton Prince Albert 17. Support:
O2 Academy Birmingham September 30, O2 ROAM,Waterparks, Brian Fallon and more!
Incredible Hog,Witchsorrow and more! London Apologies, I Have None,Woahnows.
Apollo Manchester October 1, Nottingham Rock Reading Richfield Avenue and Leeds
Barnet Rugby Football Club July 30.
City 3, O2 Academy Newcastle 4, O2 Academy Bramham Park August 26 – 28. TECH
C -FEST
F
MIN
INISTRY Glasgow 5, London O2 Forum Kentish Town 7, Line-up: Protest The Hero, Between The
Cardiff T
TramShed August 16, O2 ABC Glasgow Cardiff Great Hall 9. REAL FRIE
F ENDS
Buried And Me and more! Newark Showground
17, O2 Institute Birmingham 18, O2 Ritz London Camden Electric Ballroom December
PANIC!
N AT TH THE DISCO July 7 – 11.
Manchester 19, London O2 Forum Kentish Town. 9, Birmingham Asylum 10, Newcastle Riverside
Support: DevilDriver. O2 Apollo Manchester November 17, Cardiff 11, Glasgow Sain Luke’s 13, Manchester Club THRICE
H
Motorpoint Arena 18, London Alexandra Academy 14, Leeds Stylus 15, Bristol Thekla 16, London Camden Electric Ballroom August 25.
MOOSE BLOOD Palace 19 – 20. Southampton Engine Rooms 17. Support: Knuckle
O2 Institute2 Birmingham October 3,, Glasgow Puck,With Confidence. THE
H WON ONDER R YEARS
Garage 4, O2 Academy2 Sheffield 5, Cardiff Y Plas PIERCE TH
THE VEIIL London Tufnell Park Dome July 28, Swansea Sin
6, London Camden KOKO 7, Manchester Academy Cardiff Great Hall November 25, O2 Academy E ION
REBELL O FESTIV
F VAL City 29, Leeds Key Club 30, Glasgow Stereo 31.
II 8. Support: Boston Manor,Turnover, Luca Brasi. Birmingham 26, London O2 Academy Brixton Line-up: Descendents, Flag,The Dickies, Bouncing
27, Nottingham Rock City 29, O2 Academy Souls,The Dwarves,T.S.O.L, Peter & The Test Y NOT
N FESTIV
F VAL
MOTION O CITYT SOUNDTRACK
N Newcastle 30, Glasgow Barrowland December Tube Babies, CJ Ramone,Abrasive Wheels,The Line-up:The Hives, Neck Deep, Creeper, Moose
O2 Ritz Manchester August 17,, O2 Birmingham 1, Manchester Academy 2, Belfast Mandela Hall 4, Members, Off With Their Heads, Membranes, Blood, Lonely The Brave, Gnarwolves, HECK and
Institute2 18, London Camden KOKO 19. Dublin Academy 5 – 6. Support: letlive., Creeper. Gnarwolves,TV Smith & Friends,The Vibrators, more! Pikehall Derbyshire July 29 – 31.

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MATT HEAFY
TRIVIUM
IN WHICH THE TRIVIUM FRONTMAN POSES THE BIG
QUESTION: IS FUSSY EATING ROCK’N’ROLL?
ON ROCK’N’ROLL… LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH
WHAT’S THE MOST STUPID AND FAMOUS…
THING YOU’VE EVER DONE WHAT’S THE BIGGEST BAR TAB YOU’VE
FOR A LAUGH BACKSTAGE? EVER RACKED UP?
“I jumped off a couch and did a flip into a glass table “It included food, but me and our tour manager went
– the glass went absolutely everywhere! Then there to this bar and spent $200 each, and that was mostly
was the time my habit of absently chewing plastic on [Link] way I see it, money is for spending.
fi chewed a beer glass, and got a If you have extra money, spending it on what
ers in my mouth! I acknowledge I you love is good, and good food and drink
idiot for doing that, though.” is what I love!”

WHAT’S THE MOST WHO’S THE MOST FAMOUS

EXTRAVAGANT THING PERSON YOU’VE TALKED TO
YOU’VE HAD ON YOUR RIDER? ON THE PHONE RECENTLY?
“Our rider is very un-rock’n’roll in that “That would be Nikki Sixx
stuff. But it’s so difficult [Sixx:A.M. /Mötley Crüe]. He
to find these things, it perhaps makes interviewed me for his radio
it more rock’n’roll, since we’re really show [Sixx Sense], and we
making people work to get [Link]’re spoke on the phone after
always being told we have the that. He’s pretty rad, and he
healthiest rider anyone’s seen – nitrate- was telling me all the songs
free lunch meat and stuff like that.” he likes on the last record
[Silence In The Snow],
WHAT’S THE STRANGEST THING which was very cool to hear.”
YOU’VE EVER SIGNED? For you or for him?
“We were playing in New Mexico, and this guy
brought his sleeping newborn to the show. ON THE
Afterwards, he came over and was like, ‘Hey, man, HYPOTHETICAL…
sign my kid’s head.’ I said, ‘Yeah, that’s pretty funny,’ WOULD YOU RATHER
and he looked at me intently like he wanted to hit HAVE TO SPORT A
me. He said, ‘No. Sign my kid.’ I didn’t want to do it, MULLET OR WEAR A PAIR
so I did it very lightly!” OF BAGGY NU-METAL
Just think how much that kid went for on eBay… TROUSERS FOR A YEAR?
“I guess I’d rather do a mullet. I
ON FAILURES AND F’UPS… was 11 or 12 when nu-metal broke,
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN EJECTED FROM so of course I was wearing baggy
YOUR OWN SHOW? pants. I had the ball chain necklaces,
“When we started touring, we were under 21. On [Link] one point, I wore three at the
o e North American tour we played this venue, and same time when playing a show and I
the moment we were done was being choked by them!” THE VERDICT SCORE
“MY FLESH NOT BAD, BUT YOU’VE GOT US
78%
re told,‘You guys gotta
no-one under 21 is YOU’RE A BIG FAN OF WONDERING ABOUT HUMAN
here!’ After that, it FOOD. HAVE YOU EVER FLESH NOW. AND THAT IS BAD…
pening a lot, like
[Link] were PROBABLY BEEN CURIOUS AS TO WHAT
HUMAN TASTES LIKE? THE LEADERBOARD
‘
we t o e!
our,’ and we
TASTES PRETTY “I’ve been curious, but it’s not
something I’d ever want to do. I 1 AL JOURGENSEN MINISTRY 100%

GOOD…”
imagine if the person I’m eating ate 2 ALICE COOPER 99%
HAVE YOU EVER fast food their whole lives, they’d 3 EN BRUCE ASKIN
BEN ING ALEXANDRIA
N 98%
EMBARRASS taste like fast food. I’d probably
4 ENE SIIMMONS KISS
GEN 93%
YOURSELF WHILE MATT HEAFY taste pretty fucking good, though!”
WORDS: DAN SLESSOR PHOTO: PAUL HARRIES

5 I EFIIELD WILSON
CHAD NICE O 92%
STRIKI G A ROCK Like nitrate-free lunch meat?
GO OS ? 6 MORTIIS
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“O yea ! e t gh a stage once. My leg SPIRITUAL HEADMELTER… 7 BERT Mc
M CRACKEN E THE USED 86%
g oard, and the rest of me DOES YOUR SOUL WEIGH ANYTHING? 8 BREN
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C 84%
– it’s good to have a I would think that the soul should be as light as 10 DERYCK WHI HIBLEY SUM U 41 83%
nts! I also got hit in possible, so it can float to where you want it to go. 11 S CO
ASH OSTELLO NEW
N YEARS DAY 82%
ht before playing So, the heavier it is, the greater a burden it is. So, I
to play the think you should probably keep your soul trim on a 12 DENIS STOFF ASKING ALEXANDRIA 73%
” healthy diet of being ‘good’.” 13 TUOMAS HOLOPAINEN NIGHTWISH 70%
S ? Next question: what’s the ideal soul BMI? 14 CHRIS ROBERTSON BLACK STONE CHERRY 52%

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