Kerrang!: Classic or Dud

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I've searched for a while now but can't find anything on this magazine (though i'm sure i've read about it on here before). Anyhow, i've noticed they've started covering groups I enjoy (review of new Sightings release on UK label Riot Season being one) and wonder whether i should start buying. Is it all just lightweight Linkin Park shit? What kind of people buy it? Is it worth however much it costs?

Miaow x

― ss, Friday, 9 May 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The exclamation mark is undoubtedly dud.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 9 May 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Steer clear of it is my best advice. It's been a terrible magazine for as long as I can remember it, and I'm a complete metalmoron to boot.

I'm not sure who buys it, really, it doesn't seem anyone I ever talk with has anything positive to say about it (strangely, the topic HAS come up), except a few nu-metal fans I know.
I guess if you're interested in stuff ala Linkin Park etc, it's a fair magazine.

What is it about British bands hyping up crap like Akercocke and Hecate Enthroned anyways? Urgh! The latter is particularly obnoxious (and not in that great "we're an obnoxious metalband! Wooh, we TOTALLY dig Satan!" way either, just obnoxioixonbosly bad.

Anyways, euh, I'd say you'd be better off visiting a few websites instead of bothering with Kerrang (or any other print zine, except possibly Lamentations Of the Flame Princess, if only for the interviews)

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Friday, 9 May 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

If you like Hard Rock/Grunge/Nu Metal its great. But if you like more extreme/underground metal try Terrorizer.

― Filip, Monday, 12 May 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

For the first time, more women are reading are reading metal magazine Kerrang than men, while almost half of Q's under-30 readership is now female.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4773221.stm

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 15 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

This was delivered by a Kerrang published in the LA Times a few months back so it must be something the p.r. people have been told to tell everyone. Here, the claim is delivered by "Sophie Watson Smyth Marketing manager, Q and Mojo." Reading between lines, marketroid of publishing arm being deceptive about reach in major media outlet as fishing expedition for enticement of higher class of advertiser.

― George 'the Animal' Steele, Monday, 15 May 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

while almost half of Q's under-30 readership is now female.

HA so that's who buying Q these days, 20something women with rotten / naff music interests !

Reminder Typical Q artists: Keane, RHCP, Oasis, Coldplay, Snow Patrol

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

systems thinking can solve this problem!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Keane, RHCP, Oasis, Coldplay, Snow Patrol

These are totally bird-rock bands. I.e. the kind of bands that only your mates' girlfriends listen to but you don't know anybody else who likes them.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

It explains why those female fronted goth bands have been getting covered so much lately.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

lol sexism

― pscott (elwisty), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Keane, RHCP, Oasis, Coldplay, Snow Patrol

These are totally bird-rock bands. I.e. the kind of bands that only your mates' girlfriends listen to but you don't know anybody else who likes them.
I know plenty of blokes who like RHCP & Oasis.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Not the others though!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 15 May 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

Meanwhile, back at the OP...

I grew up reading Kerrang! once I discovered it. I used to buy it for only 99 cents at a record store in Manhattan called It's Only Rock And Roll as a regular sale to get people in the door (it worked - I still have vinyl with stickers from them on them) and I rarely missed a week.

There was a nice nostalgic thread that veered onto this nostalgia for the magazine - and got into discussing how Pandora's breasts have changed over time but I don't have the time to search for it.

Anyway, yeah. Classic.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think that was in this thread How do the various members of Terrorvision spend their time these days?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

ten years pass...

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/mixmag-buys-kerrang-plans-revive-face-double-acquisition/1431481

― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 17:24 (eight years ago)

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