Kerrang is garbage regardless.

tbh thats good of him to be pissed for removing his bandmates (which is what i think happened not too sure)

he is a bit of a cunt sometimes but ive never thought him awful

They removed the entire band. This article is bad.

"MAN I FEEL LIBERATED NO WONDER KANYES ALWAYS DOING THIS"

yeah spec im a tiny bit pissed couldnt actually work out from the article what had happened


and rowan that tweet is gold

If anyone here reads Kerrang! (and wants to admit it) then I'm intrigued to know what that growling grannies section was.

good on him

na only one i read is rocksound and thats veryoccasionaly its still shit as kerrang but a bit less

Front was actually quite good cos you get tits and music and everything else it had everything but i dont think theyre even still a business

They didn't remove the entire band, Oli's still there so I included correct details.

Long story short: BMTH spend all day at cover shoot preparing for feature with Kerrang. Jordan Fish worked his ass off trying to get it all right and promote the Teenage Cancer Trust show at the Royal Albert Hall. Once it's all done Kerrang's editors cut out the rest of the band save for Oli and replaced the mention of the Royal Albert Hall with a subheadline about "growling grannies". Oli got pissed about it and blacklisted Kerrang and is trying to make sure their management never makes BMTH work with Kerrang again.

oh fuck i remember when they got mentioned on Ant and Dec saturday night takeway some kid they were his fav band and his mum met them and practiced growling with oli could it have been mentioning that i guess?

If anyone here reads Kerrang! (and wants to admit it) then I'm intrigued to know what that growling grannies section was.


Oh that was when the band did a spot on Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, a fan's grandmother went backstage with them and got some lessons in screaming from Oli. I don't read Kerrang but I saw that feature on TV so I'm pretty sure that's it.

"In his tirade, Sykes criticises the magazine's target audience and the credibility of its music "

ironic tbh

At least Oli didn't piss on anyone.

theres fuck all evidence he ever pissed on that girl tbh its ridiculous

if any of you have evidence of it pls tell

OK I fixed the article. That better?

Good for him. I'd be pissed too.

@DatsNotDaMetulz

ahh im sorry my dude, i read the part where they removed the bands entire article but yeah they only removed oli's bandmates in the picture

that Ant and Dec bit was a while ago tho weird kerrang are only just mentioning it

The magazine's gone to print and is shipping out to stores for Wednesday now so I'm guessing the feature will still be there, and the mention of RAH will be there too. But this'll likely be the last time BMTH feature in the magazine, at least until there's a massive change in leadership at Kerrang and they completely overhaul their editorial practices.

Oli's spot on about Kerrang's obsession with BVB and MCR too. Even though MCR broke up in 2013 they're still on so many Kerrang covers.

While I'm at it so are Nirvana and Kurt's been dead for 22 years. People just keep finding ways to desecrate his legacy and wear out every last fibre of his coattails.

Kerrang is painfully out of touch and still panders to the same generation which is weird

Yeah, I've lost interest in Metal Hammer too really. Seems to be slowly but surely heading the same way so I stick to online or Terrorizer.

honeslty gave up on uk print media or anything tbh rock sound a few years was cool but bught it s few months ago and it was pathetic full of rise records shit and the like

even NME is occasionaly better these days

damn that is a terrible cover kerrange chose

NME is fucking trash too.

Seriously I think Terrorizer is the only decent one so far but it caters to more underground/extreme acts so will never get the readership. And it doesn't try to which is probably why its writing and editorials are better. Kerrang and co all want to pander to younger readers and Terry Bezer (Beez) is probably responsible for a lot of that having been in major roles for both Metal Hammer and Rock Sound in recent years.

nice dig super

yeah nme is generally trash but they have their decent moments but that diesnt mean much for such a long running and once hughky respected rag

That cover isn't nearly as bad as every guitar world cover of the last three years though. They made Eddie Van Halen look like the fucking outdoor man.

Good on Oli for doing this.

he's got a point, good on him

why does this guy still have a chili bowl haircut

Good to see a frontman act less like a frontman. Last album still stinks.

isn't Decibel still decent?

I forgot kerrang was still a thing.

"The only reason you should buy kerrang is if Andy Biersack spot the differences and MCR themed crosswords tickle your fancy."

That is one of the better insults I have seen this week. I now have a tad bit more respect for this guy. In the end though, doesn't matter how many Death tank-tops he wears, I still hate the dude's music.

read for filth lmao

lol kerrang still exists

the shade of it all

I was shitting on Kerrang in Sainsbury's yesterday to my mate and some guy in stretchers and a While She Sleeps top picked one up and gave me a very british disapproving glare. Was awkward

he deserved to be put down for his life choices lets be honest you did the right thing

Oli is a cunt, but Kerrang is absolute shite, so good on him

people only agreeing with him cos they hate kerrang smh

fuck kerrang though~@@~

hating kerrang is dumb, it's just a magazine. u dont have to read it

youve obviously never read it then

i have, like a decade ago but it's w/e man

thats the retard who got beaten up by his fans for insulting them right?

who the fuck cares what this retarded british shit does

It's his fault for having a fan-base 85% composed of dumb teenagers which Kerrang also likes to target

I mean there is no difference between him and Biersack

I'm also pretty sure that a band selling out Wembley doesn't have many problems filling up the royal albert hall. So he's just pissed off because Kerrang failed to 'greenwash' BMTH

Ok thats pretty funny

Kerrang is pretty garbage as is pretty much every music magazine

Only ones i occasionally pick up Wire/Uncut/Mojo/Mixmag if they're interesting but they're all dying out anyway so

Oh and Rock Sound has always been pretty trash, just a kerrang clone whose target audience is late teens rather than 13

" In his tirade, Sykes criticises the magazine's target audience"

http://www.rockfeed.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/oli-sykes-twitter-rant-bring-me-696x406.jpg

Kerrang is crap, but so is the teletubbies if you watch it. It's not for 'us' its for 12-16 year olds just starting to get into heavier stuff. It serves it's purpose I guess. I know i'd still be listening to Simply Red if it wasn't for Kerrang.

Good on ollie for this. But yah, dudes a prick usually.

Also, magnet magazine ain't too bad these days tho, I've gotten a ton of new music because of that one

'I know i'd still be listening to Simply Red if it wasn't for Kerrang.'

probably should have stuck to Simpy Red

that's pretty cool of him. fuck kerrang.

he's like the epitome of kerrang and their demographic tho, he's just throwing a tantrum

^^^^

takes aim with his penis pissing on them like he did to that girl after he hit her with a bottle

kerrang is for 12 year old girls
bmth are for 12 year olds

what's the issue here

"who the fuck cares what this retarded british shit does"

You clicked on the article, you dunce, so what does that say about you?


"It's his fault for having a fan-base 85% composed of dumb teenagers which Kerrang also likes to target"

You can't blame an artist for the retarded fan base.

Fair enough tbh, I'd be pissed too

"You can't blame an artist for the retarded fan base"

u totally can

the sykes dude is in the right here tho

Please explain how you can. I'm on pins and needles waiting for an answer.

when u make decisions that will bring a certain audience, and effectively that audience comes to ur fanbase, then u literally can be to blame for ur audience lmao

you can blame skrillex for his fanbase bc of the music he makes just like you can blame bmth for their fanbase now, considering their rise to popularity came with straightened black hair and attack attack stage presence

yeah, like

"when u make decisions that will bring a certain audience, and effectively that audience comes to ur fanbase, then u literally can be to blame for ur audience lmao"

I know plenty of bands where there fan bases aren't retarded. Is the artist to blame for the target audience? Yes.
Is he/she/they to blame for how stupid their audience is? No.

There is a difference.

"Is he/she/they to blame for how stupid their audience is? No"

i mean of course i'd hardly make an argument that oli sykes is to blame for all the hits his fanbase took to the head as infants, but he attracted them

"i mean of course i'd hardly make an argument that oli sykes is to blame for all the hits his fanbase took to the head as infants, but he attracted them"

Jesus Christ, you're missing the point.

whats the difference, u ain't explained urself yet

The difference is you're blaming a band for the stupidity of their audience, almost as if the band made sure that only fucking morons enjoy their music.

The reality is that not a single artist goes out to attract a bunch of morons. As much as I dislike Tool and their fans, Tool set out to make "intelligent, high quality" music, with the intention of attracting the like. Unfortunately, that isn't mostly the case, as most of their fans are pseudo-intellectuals with a Napoleon complex.

"almost as if the band made sure that only fucking morons enjoy their music"
u've heard their music right?

it would have been clearer if u'd said that the band is not to blame for their audience's actions tho lol

"it would have been clearer if u'd said that the band is not to blame for their audience's actions tho lol"


I dunno, the fact that I said you can't blame an artist for their RETARDED fan base is kind of clear.

u can

No wonder several users think you're an idiot. You've made it quite obvious.

still ain't explained how u can't

"The reality is that not a single artist goes out to attract a bunch of morons. As much as I dislike Tool and their fans, Tool set out to make "intelligent, high quality" music, with the intention of attracting the like. Unfortunately, that isn't mostly the case, as most of their fans are pseudo-intellectuals with a Napoleon complex."

That's a perfect example right there. Are you really that dense?

they literally made music that attracts that kind of person, are u really that dense?

as much as I'd love to dispute asdf on this, he really has a point there

there are examples of bands that somewhat accidentally end up with a stupid fan base but most bring it upon themselves

bmth is a prime example of such

whether it's accidental or not, it sill falls on u lol. and in this particular case, it's intentional lol

why every fucking irrelevant and dumbest possible news ever always have the most retarded and dumb discussions ever stop

for the same reason u feel compelled to tell everyone how smart and eloquent u are bby!

Asdfpstfu

ok if you were talking about a band who unintentionally developed the fan base, that's a whole different ball game. can't act like it's the same thing in the slightest

anyway, kerrang sucks lmao

TBH if I ended up with a shitty fanbase I would completely change my sound to push them away. My music taste is broad enough that I can try a different style if I wanted, and probably still enjoy it. If my nu metal band attracted too many idiots then I might take a break from it and start a depressive suicidal black metal band or a post-rock/punk band or something. I remember hearing that Kurt Cobain tried to challenge his fans and weed out the dickheads with Nirvana's In Utero but it didn't really work and they just ended up with more idiot fans in a trend that continues to this day.

Oh and if I remember correctly Wes Borland actively despises Limp Bizkit fans.

lol, would totally do that too lmao

sticking to one genre is boring too

Well those are genres I've actually wanted to try before. I was originally in a punk band and auditioned for straight up black metal bands and industrial bands before joining this nu metal band, so I'm not exactly averse to trying to play hugely different styles. If my vocal range was high enough I'd also try out for my friend's pop punk/emo band for the hell of it.

gotta be like the gathering, changin' every album

we get it, you're cool and are in bands, yea really cool. try staying on topic and stop feeding yr ego

god dammit

OK I'll stop plugging my bands which clearly everyone knows the name of because i've been shamelessly mentioning it in every post because I need to feed my ego. You know the name by now jeez

Anyway as we've seen a lot of musicians do actually detest their fans. But I guess you gotta make a living and if that's the style of music you wanna play and you don't want to stop playing that because of dumb fans, you're kind of stuck. I don't actually think Maynard James Keenan wants to record another Tool album because I think he hates his fans. Limp Bizkit might be taking forever to record Stampede of the Disco Elephants because Wes's heart isn't really in it.

u gotta be varied from the get-go, that way people ain't gonna be surprised

It's more fun to screw with people and make an unexpected shift in direction though. If you're too varied from the get go you'll just get idiots from /mu/ who think they're so great because they listen to this experimental blackened post-nu-metal with gothic pop-punk-core influence which changes style every song (or the sort that think they know every style of music because they listened to the first Mr Bungle album). Besides I don't really think there's a place in the world for that sort of music (or that there ever will be). Not letting people know what you're gonna do next or when you're gonna do it can at least temporarily keep that sort of person at bay and ensures that whatever style of music you go for next, you do it properly.

Oli Sykes going radio rock with BMTH was the exact opposite of what he could've done though.