Kerrang Kurtailed? No way! (Kerrang!)

Name: geordieger

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Product:	Kerrang!
Date:	24/04/01 (13 review reads)
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Advantages: Still factually correct

Disadvantages: Not the Kerrang I knew and loved

I am now what you would call a vintage Heavy Metal fan, that is I am over the age of 18, 26 to be precise. My music tastes have varied somewhat and can be now described as diverse, but give me a good slice of Heavy Metal thunder anyday!

I bought Kerrang from the age of 12 until I was 22, religiously, every wednesday. I couldn't wait to see what latest offerings were to be had from my favourites. The likes of Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera, Alice in Chains, The Almighty and so on graced my bedroom walls, and my stereo, blasting forward their own particular brand of music.

I picked up Kerrang last week, from my brothers bedroom floor, and smiled as I reminiced about bold, vright, savavge coloured columns of steely, jagged print. Eyeopeningly obscene pictures of any long haired metal god, doing something undescribible with a guitar. The latest rock chart that would totally disagree with the pepsi chart.

I was shocked. Nice white pages. The typeset neatly laid out into ledgible blocks of rectangles. Men who have less hair than my grandad. Where had it all gone, the mess and mayhem that was rock, the hardcore expliticism that metal produced. The guys shown in the latest issue would all look respectable, put a shirt and tie on them.

Then it hit me, the wild and hairy days of the late eighty and nineties had gone, and now a sort of respectable lad gone wrong ruled the metal roost, and Kerrang had to cater to their fans, not the die hard Guns 'N' Roses fans, the mad as anything Poison fans, no we are now well pat it you see.

Kerrang has moved on to a new era. metal has moved to a different generation, but I still have memories of the best metal magazine that there ever was or ever will be. Long live Kerrang and the variety that is the spice of life.

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