Kerrang is and has been cringeworthy for a long time



i have too many memories of watching the kerrang channel as a teen, just wishing theyd play something like Dillinger for once instead of the everlasting rotation of paramore, fall out boy, jimmy eat world and panic at the disco.

that sounds rough

but it also raises the question: why did you keep watching

mort with the 'i used to obsessively watch it but only for research!!'

@shem
PC or console? Is it as bugged and as vast a disappointment as it’s made out to be?

it was when i didnt know how to use the internet to find music properly

still it introduced me to some good shit. Lower Than Atlantis when they were (briefly) good for example

Most Mort opinion of all time

most mort opinion of all time would be listen Fear Before

or Coalesce are goat

I owe a lot to Kerrang when I was in primary school for getting me into music as much as I was etc etc

still wank tbf

I’ve always thought it was wank because during that period (92-98) I was very much grunge, indie, punk. Metal was absolute nonsense to me back then. Complete bollocks. Used to read the NME but that was fucking awful when whipping up excitement for the ‘next big thing’ and the writers were so far up their own arse it was lol

I always remember reading an article in Kerrang in the mid nineties about Black metal and being fascinated by it but again just thinking it was complete nonsense.

most zak opinion of all time is that The Sex Pistols were a good band and not a pastiche of punk rock

The anger, resentment and passion were as real as it gets sonny jim

me and a friend always laugh at the fact that NME once had The Drums on the cover like 3 times in one year. also responsible for the landfill indie scene and endlessly hyping it (i even read an awful article from someone recentely at nme bemoaning that phrase and saying it was unfair to *indistinguishable boring indie band no57*

https://www.nme.com/features/landfill-indie-snobbery-2741199



id rather be a snob than herald 95% of the bands mentioned there

I remember NME as a joke mainly from their beyond-hyperbolic The Vines review

‘Highly Evolved’ is the sort of shiver-down-the spine debut that gets you thinking that if The Strokes were the John the Baptists of rock then just maybe…

the vines.

i just had to look them up and they were insanely derivative

just boring af

Larrikin Love ‘one of the greatest lost bands of all time’

Yeah course they are mate. Fuck right off. Fucking ludicrous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asOvnGHwtDU&list=LLxFRTtcZUHXYrdxHf3DmMNw&index=498

You will know this track I reckon. But, yeah for sure.

yeh i vaguely recognise that song. more or less indistinguishable from every other indie band of the era tho

Album Rating: 4.5

I remember lower than atlantis getting hyped up by mh and kerrang like crazy and I didn't get why. Still don't like 'em.