Kerrang!
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, September 1981
"Young Americans listen when I say/There's people putting us down/I know they say we've gone lazy/To tell you the truth we've seen better days/Don't need ...
Tubes, The: Lude-icrous Tales From The Tubes' Fee Waybill
Interview by Chas de Whalley, Kerrang!, June 1983
ASTOUNDING THOUGH it may seem, The Tubes have never seen Twisted Sister, much less rubbed shoulders with the outrageous Dee Snider. In fact, before they ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, June 1987
"KNOW WHAT I want to do? Really want to do? Go over to Japan and pollute it. I'm not talking about drugs, I'm talking about ...
Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe: Jon Bon Jovi: Cosa Glasnostra
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, November 1989
After all the dirt dished out by Mötley Crüe about Moscow, Doc McGhee and the New Jersey Syndicate Jon Bon Jovi has at last decided ...
Winger: 'I Want The Cover Of Kerrang!'
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, December 1989
At the end of a 190 date world tour, WINGER retired to Australia to crack a few tubes, catch a few rays, and laze around ...
Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi: Motley Crüe : Moscow Festival – Crüe Still Peace-d off with Bon Jovi
Report and Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, January 1990
The feud goes on: Nikki Sixx brands JBJ a 'lying asshole' and challenges him to a fist-fight! ...
Report and Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, June 1990
In the inauspicious surroundings of small town America it sounds like a storm is brewing. It's the eve of the new KISS world tour and ...
Dan Reed Network: To Baldly Go…
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, July 1990
Where no King Of Funk Metal has gone before. That's DAN REED's avowed intention, and who would bet against him achieving this otherwordly aim? With ...
Guns N' Roses, Duff McKagan: Guns N’ Roses: Duff McKagan talks
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1993
"SO, WHEN WE got back from the Appetite tour, I bought this big house, bought all this furniture, I was by myself, I was divorced, ...
Aerosmith: Sex'n'Drugs'n'Rock'n'Roll!
Memoir by Pete Makowski, Kerrang!, April 1994
Up until the early '80s, Aerosmith indulged in every rock 'n'roll excess! "It's a miracle they survived!" says Dr. Pete Makowski, who met Steven Tyler ...
Burzum, Mayhem: Black Metal Court Report: Blood, Fire, Death
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, May 1994
Heavy Metal has seen nothing like it before. In Norway's infamous Black Metal scene, murder and arson are rife. Emperor drummer Bard Eithun is already ...
Burzum, Mayhem: Black Metal Court Report: The Killer Cracks!
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, May 1994
Norwegian Black Metal star Varg Vikernes — aka Count Grishnackh — is charged with the murder of rival musician and Satanist Oystein Aarseth. Kerrang!'s exclusive ...
Burzum, Mayhem: Black Metal Court Report: Mass Slaughter!
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, May 1994
Black Metal star Varg Vikernes (aka Count Grishnackh) stands accused of the murder of rival Oystein Aarseth — but incredibly, he was planning a worse ...
Burzum, Mayhem: Black Metal Court Report: Guilty As Hell!
Report by Tore Øien, Kerrang!, May 1994
The verdict is in — and Black Metal star Varg Vikernes, aka Count Grishnackh, has been found guilty of murdering rival Oystein Aarseth. The sentence ...
Pantera: In a Darkened Room...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, May 1994
...is where PANTERA frontman PHIL ANSELMO gets his head together — away from the pressures that come with a US Number One album. What is ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1995
Incredible but true facts about ZZ Top. 1. Jimi Hendrix gave Billy Gibbons a guitar. 2. Dusty Hill wrote 'Tush' in ten minutes during a ...
Guns N' Roses, Slash: In Bed With... Slash
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, July 1995
WHEN WERE you first aware of the birds and the bees? ...
Garbage: The Last Word: Shirley Manson
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, December 1995
LAST MAN YOU FANTASISED ABOUT? ...
Guns N' Roses, Slash: Q&A with Slash
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
YOU HAVE a house in the Hollywood Hills, you have a wife, you have housepets, you're the most unpunk I've ever seen you. A fine ...
Kiss: KISS — the Tribute Album
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
KISS MY ASS, they're thinking of calling the KISS tribute album . "If people think I'm smug about any of this stuff", says Gene Simmons, ...
Lemmy, Motorhead: In Bed With Lemmy
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
When were you first aware of the birds and the bees? ...
Guns N' Roses: Guns N’ Roses: Together Again?
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
GUNS N’Roses is back from the dead. Five years after the release of their last new material — the epic Use Your Illusion I and ...
Mötley Crüe: Motley Update: Mayhem!
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
MOTLEY CRUE go in the studio in November straight from their US club tour to start work on their new album, tentatively titled Personality Number ...
Guns N' Roses: Neurotic Outsiders: Duff and Matt talk records
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, September 1996
The first record you ever bought Matt: 1966, A Hard Day’s Night. I saw The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show — I was ...
Megadeth: The Last Word: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, July 1997
The ultimate questions on life, sex and making a prick of yourself. This week, MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine compares notes with Paul Elliott... ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1998
20 YEARS ago in San Francisco, a young man from the South London suburbs made one of the biggest-selling rock ‘n’ roll records of all ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, May 1998
The world of SLAYER is a bleak, gore-drenched place populated by deviants, lunatics, mass murderers and war criminals. You'd expect nothing less from men who've ...
Feeder: "I'm The King Of The World"
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, August 1998
We join Grant Nicholas at a party on board a boat sailing around Seattle harbour. After six months of incendiary gigs, broken bones, nervous exhaustion and ...
Ash: The New, Clear Sounds of Ash
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, September 1998
TUCKED AWAY behind a careworn inner city church on a quiet residential street in Highbury, North London, lies an outwardly unremarkable red brick building. This ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, September 1998
Six months in the making, ASH's eagerly-awaited second album, Nu-Clear Sounds, is finally upon us. Today, the band look back on 16 weeks of tap-dancing ...
Aerosmith: This Way to Insanity
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, October 1998
"WHEN THE moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore." A rich and fruity baritone croons impressively from room 523 of the ...
Rammstein: Nude Power Generation
Report and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, November 1998
Last month, German shock metallers RAMMSTEIN were branded Nazis by the British press. We have flown to America to uncover the truth. We will subsequently ...
Marilyn Manson: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, December 1998
The season of goodwill may be upon us, but one man has come to vomit on your festive cheer. Fresh from wrecking his hotel room, ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, January 1999
THE UTILITARIAN confines of the cavernous Manchester Apollo are abuzz with a veritable army of well-disciplined tour troopers. It's 3.30 on a particularly inhospitable Mancunian ...
Offspring, Green Day: California Über Alles: US '90s Punk part1
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, January 1999
In 1994, GREEN DAY and THE OFFSPRING released two albums which changed the face of American music. From Dookie and Smash to 'Pretty Fly (For ...
Monster Magnet: Life After Mood-Altering: Monster Magnet
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, February 1999
SIT A SPELL in the stark and featureless foyer of the current temple of the Monster Magnet dreams, a half-built Sunset Strip hotel of rare ...
Green Day, Offspring, Rancid: California Über Alles: US '90s Punk part 2
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, February 1999
After the huge success of GREEN DAY, THE OFFSPRING and RANCID came the inevitable wave of copy-cat bands and the backlash. Here, US punk's movers ...
Stereophonics: Three Local Boys Go Global
Report and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, April 1999
THERE'S A GAGGLE of giggling girls in the hotel lobby. There's even more outside the venue, huddled under blankets or sitting smoking cigarettes in doorways. ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, April 1999
Mullet-spotting, interviews with idiotic Euro-hacks and close encounters with transvestites in restaurant toilets – REEF's bid for global domination is only 24 hours old and ...
Marilyn Manson Blamed For Tragic High School Murders
Report by uncredited writer, Kerrang!, May 1999
Manson speaks out over the tragedy as the world's media condemns him ...
Retrospective by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, August 1999
Thirty years ago this week, followers of CHARLES MANSON committed a series of brutal murders that changed US culture forever. On the anniversary of the ...
Def Leppard: On The Road: Again….
Report and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, October 1999
"RIGHT," SAYS Joe Elliot. "I think it's time for a few drinks." ...
Report and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, October 1999
When it comes to smut, filth and all-round seedy behaviour, no one can touch San Diego oiks BLINK 182. This is, after all, a band ...
Rage Against the Machine: Hello, Hello...It's Good To Be Back: Rage Against the Machine
Report and Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, October 1999
Humourless revolutionaries. Po-faced militants. Volatile insurrectionists permanently on the verge of splitting. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE have been called all of these and more. Which ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, October 1999
You would give your left arm to have a celebrity girlfriend, holidays in the Caribbean, several million in the bank and a reputation as Britain's ...
Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee: Tommy Lee Talks!
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, November 1999
STUDIO CITY, situated on the outskirts of the sprawling Twentieth Century Babylon that is Los Angeles, is a singularly bizarre locale. In amongst its statuesque ...
Blink 182 have arrived! Watch out Britain!
Interview by John Robb, Kerrang!, 2000
Blink 182 are taking no prisoners. We compare tattoos with America's finest ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, February 2000
HIS REPUTATION most definitely precedes him. The press's perception of Henry Rollins has always been somewhat fractious. Journalists have always been suspicious, and on occasion ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, May 2000
AS DIMEBAG Darrell spins the cap from an already dented litre bottle of Crown Royal whiskey in the trashed-out confines of Pantera’s booze-reeking Manchester Apollo ...
New York Dolls: The New York Dolls
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, July 2000
WHILE IT was the Rolling Stones who pretty much defined and trail-blazed the cavalier pursuit of decadence and debauchery in rock 'n' roll, it was ...
Iggy Pop: Lusts of a Legend: Iggy Pop
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 2001
THE ICON flexes his implausibly limber, scar-studded torso and un-focuses his piercing blue eyes for a few seconds as he casts his mind back over ...
Red Hot Chili Peppers, The, John Frusciante: An Interview with John Frusciante
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, March 2001
WHEN FRESH-FACED, 18-year old New Yorker John Frusciante was originally recruited as guitarist by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, following the heroin-related death of original ...
Peaches, Distillers, The: The Distillers and Peaches: When Brody met Peaches...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, February 2004
THEY MAY have only met once before but within thirty second of being re-introduced backstage at London's Brixton Academy it's clear that Brody Dalle and ...
Prodigy, The: Liam Howlett: Never Outgunned
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, August 2004
"I REMEMBER being in our rehearsal room and Keith was picking holes in shit and I just thought 'What the fuck, man? What's happened to ...
Velvet Revolver's Scott Weiland
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, November 2004
THE RIBALD ROCK'N'ROLL spirit of Guns'n'Roses and their ilk has long since evaporated into the smog. Once they owned Sunset, roaring up the strip in ...
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, February 2005
FIVE YEARS. It's a long time by most people's standards, but when such a period passes between albums by Nine Inch Nails, the turbulent electro-noir ...
Billy Corgan: The Pumpkin King Goes Solo
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, June 2005
THE FIRST thing you notice is not how tall he is or how large his hands look, or the fact that he's dressed like an ...
Foo Fighters: "Touring the UK? It Feels Great Every Time!"
Interview by Stevie Chick, Kerrang!, December 2005
2005 HAS BEEN, in the words of guitarist Nate Mendel, 'really fucking chaotic' for the Foo Fighters. First, there was In Your Honour, recorded in ...
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