Kerrang!

A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews. Music magazine that I have researched about is Kerrang. Kerrang is a magazine which is based on rock music; it has the latest gossip and information. The magazine was first issued in 198 at first it was a monthly issued; although in 1987 it was being issued weekly. The magazine was owned by the United Newspaper until sold to the EMAP IN 1991.

During the 1980s and early 1990s the magazine placed many thrash and glam metal acts on the cover (like Mötley Crüe, Slayer, Bon Jovi, Metallica, Poison, and Venom) but later discarded them when grunge acts such as Nirvana rose to fame. The readers usually criticized the magazine for repeating the process every time a new musical trend became popular.  The magazine soon became the new hit after hiring editor Paul Rees circa 2000 when the nu metal genre, featuring bands like Limp Bizkit and Slipknot were becoming more popular. Rees went on to edit Q magazine and Ashley Bird took over as editor from 2003 to 2005.

However the magazine's sales went quickly into decline in 2003 and Paul Brannigan took over as editor in May 2005. With the emergence of emo and metalcore, Kerrang! began to heavily feature this musical trend. However, the revamp was not welcomed by all readers and many complaints were received about Kerrang’s sudden change on emo and metalcore music.

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http://www.kerrang.com/
http://www.kerrang.com/