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Here, then, are the albums that made 2021. You may disagree, but just looking at these fantastic records, it’s impossible to deny what a broad spread of music and creativity we’ve had over the past 12 months. We want to do with our band what we did in 2003 with Untitled,” he told Kerrang!, “where we take our foundations and go off in completely weird directions.” When Nine, the band’s ninth record (or eighth, depending on whether you count 1994’s Buddha as canon) finally landed in September, not only was it a promise that had been made good on, but it was a change that caught the notoriously fun-loving group in a more pensive and socially conscious mood. The Language Of Injury is a product of intense pressure and time. Although Ithaca formed on a South London industrial estate in 2012, the years between their critically lauded 2015 EP Trespassers and the release of their debut full-length this February was marked by seismic personal upheavals: family loss, losing jobs, personal relationships turning toxic. Yet from the ashes of all that pain and anger, Ithaca crafted one of the most ingenious and gripping metallic hardcore albums of the year.

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Till Lindemann has been a busy boy, hasn’t he? In May, Rammstein finally broke their decade-long album silence, and followed it up by taking over the stadiums of Europe all summer. And with that out of the way, the second album from his Lindemann outfit raised its head. In the 21 years since Cult Of Luna emerged from the genteel Swedish university town of Umeå in an apocalyptic haze of sludgy distortion, the post-metal sect have built a considerable legacy of expanding their sonic horizons to incorporate layers of proggy mysticism and bowel-churning industrialism.Kerrang! Tour 2016! - Kerrang!". Kerrang!. Archived from the original on 23 January 2016 . Retrieved 28 January 2016. A lot of time came and went, but in 2014, American Football reformed and put out their second self-titled album in 2016. To the surprise of many – more as a result of not daring to hope for something so good than any form of cynicism – it was even better than their first. In March, three years on, the Illinois quartet did it again, and this third self-titled record turned out to be the best album of their career so far. When Kerrang! sat down with Frank Iero right before the release of Barriers, his third album under his own name, albeit with a different band each time, he told us that it would be his last record. He has been known to say that before, but his future looks like it could be decidedly busier now that My Chemical Romance have begun to stir again. If he’s right this time, though, it would be a massive shame, because Barriers is as compelling as it is heartfelt.

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SO WHAT? isn’t just an album; it’s a belief-system. Seven years on from grandstanding debut This Is The Six, the wide world may have opened up for While She Sleeps, but so too have the stresses and strains of adulthood and life on the road. Plunkett, Joe (21 November 2008). "Bauer Radio mulls rebrand of Kerrang! station in West Midlands". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014 . Retrieved 7 September 2010. Emap launched Kerrang! Australia in the late 1990s. Unlike its weekly counterpart in the UK, the Australian edition was published monthly due to stiff competition from free local music publications. [ citation needed] Kerrang! is also published in Spanish and German. Kerrang announced its aim to expand into the US in March 2018. [ citation needed] Where its predecessor, 2016’s Integrity Blues, saw the band reigniting a flame last seen a decade ago, on Surviving they increased its potency. It should even be noted that their 10th album is already beginning to be spoken of as one of their best. Spending a decade slogging around the UK and trying to break America can be disheartening. ‘Thrash metal on the stereo / 16 hours a day / Yeah, drivin’ our shit-heap splitter / We got to get to LA,’ sing Dinosaur Pile-Up on the fantastically-titled and cheerleader-infused Thrash Metal Cassette.For the longest time, American Football’s legacy was based on just one self-titled EP and a self-titled album. Released in 1998 and 1999 respectively, the twinkly guitars, melancholy lyrics and beautiful melodies found on those two releases helped define the Midwest emo scene, even though the band broke up the year after their full-length came out. When the news about Rage Against The Machine’s reunion arrived, few had higher hopes for what it all meant than Stray From The Path. “I get chills thinking about it,” frontman Drew York told us when asked about the legendary LA firebrands’ return. “It’s going to be massive for punk and hardcore. I think it’s more of a revolution than a reformation.”