Editing Kerrang! (section)

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=== Kerrang! Awards ===
{{Main|Kerrang! Awards}}
Since 1993, the magazine has held an annual awards ceremony to mark the most successful bands in the interests of their readers. The awards became one of Britain's most recognised events by the now defunct ''[[Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums]]'', often listing some of the winners in their annual round-up of the previous year. The event is presented by major music celebrities, with many others outside the industry who attend the event.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.entertainment-focus.com/news/kerrang-awards-fuelled-by-relentless-energy-drink-nominations-announced|title=Kerrang! Awards Fuelled By Relentless Energy Drink Nominations Announced|first=Justin|last=Ng|publisher=Entertainment Focus|date=4 May 2011|access-date=22 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128181215/http://entertainment-focus.com/news/kerrang-awards-fuelled-by-relentless-energy-drink-nominations-announced|archive-date=28 November 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

After a year hiatus, the Awards were relaunched in 2018, with notable guests that included [[Johnny Depp]], [[Joe Perry (musician)|Joe Perry]], [[Tony Iommi]], [[Corey Taylor]], and [[Dave Grohl]], among others.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/dave-grohl-dedicates-kerrang-award-to-linkin-parks-chester-bennington-37036597.html|title=Dave Grohl dedicates Kerrang! Award to Linkin Park's Chester Bennington - Independent.ie|work=Independent.ie|access-date=2018-07-18|language=en|archive-date=18 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055243/https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/dave-grohl-dedicates-kerrang-award-to-linkin-parks-chester-bennington-37036597.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ceremony returned in June 2022, with the reader nominations period beginning in April 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kerrang.com/the-kerrang-awards-2022-nominations-are-now-open|title=The Kerrang! Awards 2022: Nominations are now open!|website=Kerrang!|date=11 April 2022 |access-date=21 April 2022|archive-date=21 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421191739/https://www.kerrang.com/the-kerrang-awards-2022-nominations-are-now-open|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Kerrang! Radio ===
{{Main|Kerrang! Radio}}
In 2000, [[EMAP]] launched ''Kerrang!'' as a [[Digital Audio Broadcasting|DAB]] radio station, across the United Kingdom. This was principally a 'jukebox' station, playing a back-to-back sequence of rock and [[alternative rock|alternative music]]. On 10 June 2004, Kerrang! 105.2 was launched as a regional radio station in [[Birmingham]] with an advertising campaign by London-based creative agency ODD.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/about-kerrang-radio/|title=About Kerrang! Radio|work=[[Kerrang! Radio]]|publisher=[[Bauer Media Group]]|date=14 March 2002|access-date=22 November 2011|archive-date=17 November 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117221647/http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/about-kerrang-radio/|url-status=live}}</ref> The radio had a number of specialist programmes dedicated to the many subgenres of rock music. The radio output included interviews with those affecting popular culture and society as well as those involved with music. It stopped broadcasting on FM as of 14 June 2013 and once again became a digital station, with listeners able to tune in on DAB or the Kerrang! Radio app. With this broadcasting change came a move in Kerrang! Radio's offices from Birmingham to London. [[Absolute Radio]] is now broadcasting on its FM frequency.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

=== Kerrang! TV ===
{{Main|Kerrang! TV}}
In 2001, [[EMAP]] launched [[Kerrang! TV]]. As with the radio station, the television channel covers the more mainstream side of the rock music as well as [[classic rock]] bands including [[Aerosmith]], [[AC/DC]] and [[Guns N' Roses]] and classic [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] bands such as [[Iron Maiden]], [[Black Sabbath]] and [[Metallica]]. Kerrang! TV, along with its [[The Box Plus Network]] sister channels, was fully owned by [[Channel Four Television Corporation]] and subsequently closed due to budget cuts made by Channel 4, along with its sister channels, on 30th June 2024.<ref>{{cite news|last=Plunkett|first=Joe|title=Bauer Radio mulls rebrand of Kerrang! station in West Midlands|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/21/bauer-commercialradio|access-date=7 September 2010|work=The Guardian|date=21 November 2008|archive-date=17 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517203225/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/nov/21/bauer-commercialradio|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Kerrang! compilation albums ===
{{Main|Kerrang! Compilation Albums}}
From 1982 the Kerrang! Magazine would occasionally be bundled with compilations, originally on 7" vinyl then moving to cassettes in 1994 and CDs in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kerrang! |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/3190802-Kerrang! |access-date=2023-11-06 |website=Discogs |language=en |archive-date=6 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106171526/https://www.discogs.com/label/3190802-Kerrang! |url-status=live }}</ref> The compilations featured new and popular music, music themed around a particular genre, band or theme and best-of lists. In 2001, Kerrang began releasing Kerrang! the Album under Universal Music.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kerrang! The Album
|access-date=2024-12-30 |website=[[Allmusic]] |language=en|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/kerrang-life-is-loud-mw0000454089 }}</ref> From 2016, the albums were released via Rhino Records.

=== Kerrang! Tour ===
The Kerrang! Tour ran from 2006 to 2017. The line-up for each year was usually announced in October of the previous year and was held throughout January and February of the following year.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gregory|first=Jason|title=New Found Glory, Sum 41, letlive For 2012 UK And Ireland Tour – Tickets|url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/67368/New-Found-Glory-Sum-41-letlive-For-2012-UK-And-Ireland-Tour---Tickets|access-date=23 November 2011|work=[[Gigwise.com]]|publisher=Giant Digital|date=28 September 2011|archive-date=4 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204155803/http://www.gigwise.com/news/67368/New-Found-Glory-Sum-41-letlive-For-2012-UK-And-Ireland-Tour---Tickets|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Relentless (drink)|Relentless Energy Drink]] sponsored the Kerrang! Tour for several years. It is currently unknown if the tour will ever be revived.

*2006, featured [[Bullet for My Valentine]], [[Hawthorne Heights]], [[Still Remains]] and [[Aiden]].
*2007, featured [[Biffy Clyro]], [[The Bronx (band)|The Bronx]], [[The Audition (band)|The Audition]] and [[I Am Ghost]].
*2008, featured [[Coheed and Cambria]], [[Madina Lake]], [[Fightstar]] and [[Circa Survive]].
*2009, sponsored by [[Relentless (drink)|Relentless Energy Drink]] from this year; featured [[Mindless Self Indulgence]], [[Dir En Grey]], [[Bring Me the Horizon]], [[Black Tide]] and [[In Case of Fire]].
*2010, featured [[All Time Low]], [[The Blackout (band)|The Blackout]], [[Young Guns (band)|Young Guns]] and [[My Passion]]. [[Jettblack]] were added for two dates at the London Roundhouse at the end of the tour.
*2011, featured [[Good Charlotte]], [[Four Year Strong]], [[Framing Hanley]] and [[The Wonder Years (band)|The Wonder Years]].
*2012. The tour lasted from 5 to 17 February.<ref name="2012 NFG/SUM">{{cite web|title=Kerrang! Tour 2012 with New Found Glory & Sum 41 - Tickets ONSALE 9&nbsp;am|url=http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/168053/9|date=30 September 2011|access-date=10 January 2012|author=Jon Stickler|publisher=[[stereoboard]]|archive-date=30 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830152820/http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/168053/9|url-status=live}}</ref> It featured [[New Found Glory]], [[Sum 41]], [[letlive.]] and [[While She Sleeps]].<ref name="2012 NFG/SUM" /> On 20 January 2012 it was revealed that [[Sum 41]] had been forced to pull out due to frontman Deryck Whibley who had suffered a back injury and was not well enough to perform for the duration of the tour, they were replaced by [[The Blackout (band)|The Blackout]] who had previously played on the 2010 tour.<ref name="relentless 2012">{{cite web | url = http://www.relentlessenergy.com/events/kerrang-tour-2012-relentless-energy-drink-new-found-glory-sum-41.html | title = The Kerrang! Tour 2012 sponsored by Relentless Energy Drink featuring New Found Glory and The Blackout | publisher = [[Relentless Energy]] | date = 20 January 2012 | access-date = 11 May 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120328130439/http://www.relentlessenergy.com/events/kerrang-tour-2012-relentless-energy-drink-new-found-glory-sum-41.html | archive-date = 28 March 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
*2013, featured [[Black Veil Brides]], [[Chiodos]], [[Tonight Alive]] and [[Fearless Vampire Killers (band)|Fearless Vampire Killers]]. It was an 11-date tour which ran from 3–15 February, with the 6th and 11th being days off. [[William Control]] was a guest DJ and also appeared alongside Black Veil Brides on 2 songs; Shadows Die and In the End.
*2014, featured [[Limp Bizkit]], [[Crossfaith]], [[Nekrogoblikon]] and Baby Godzilla.
*2015, featured [[Don Broco]], [[We Are the in Crowd]], [[Bury Tomorrow]], [[Beartooth (band)|Beartooth]] and [[Young Guns (band)|Young Guns]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Kerrang! Tour 2015 Line-Up Completed - Kerrang!|url = http://www.kerrang.com/24493/kerrang-tour-2015-line-completed-two-bands-announced/|website = Kerrang!|access-date = 28 January 2016|language = en-US|archive-date = 25 November 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151125052831/http://www.kerrang.com/24493/kerrang-tour-2015-line-completed-two-bands-announced/|url-status = live}}</ref>
*2016. On 29 September the headliner for the eleventh Kerrang! tour was revealed to be Sum 41.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Kerrang! Tour 2016 Headliner and Dates Announced - TICKETS ON SALE NOW!|url = http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/music/news/kerrang-tour-2016-headliner-and-dates-announced-tickets-on-sale-friday/|website = Kerrang! Radio|access-date = 28 January 2016|language = en-GB|date = 2015-09-29|archive-date = 5 February 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160205105937/http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/music/news/kerrang-tour-2016-headliner-and-dates-announced-tickets-on-sale-friday/|url-status = live}}</ref> In an interview with Kerrang, frontman Deryck Whibley stated that "After a three-year break, we're honoured that our first tour back is the Kerrang!"<ref>{{Cite news|title = Kerrang! Tour 2016! - Kerrang!|url = http://www.kerrang.com/35958/kerrang-tour-2016-headliners-announced/|website = Kerrang!| date=30 September 2015 |access-date = 28 January 2016|language = en-US|archive-date = 23 January 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160123124617/http://www.kerrang.com/35958/kerrang-tour-2016-headliners-announced/|url-status = live}}</ref> The tour featured [[Sum 41]], [[Roam (band)|Roam]], [[Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes]] and [[Biters (band)|Biters]].
*2017, featured [[The Amity Affliction]], Boston Manor, Vukovi, and [[Casey (band)|Casey]].

=== The K! Pit ===
The year after the final ''Kerrang!'' Tour, ''Kerrang!'' launched a new gig concept known as "The K! Pit", where the magazine promotes a free gig for a popular band in a tiny London venue. Fans gain access by applying for tickets online and being randomly selected in a competition-style draw. Artists featured so far include [[Parkway Drive]], [[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]], [[Fever 333]], and [[Neck Deep]], the latter performance coinciding with the 2018 [[Kerrang! Awards|''Kerrang!'' Awards]] where Neck Deep would win [[Kerrang! Award for Best Single|Best Song]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kerrang.com/the-news/neck-deep-are-playing-the-k-pit-for-the-kerrang-awards-week-of-rock/|title=Neck Deep Are Playing The K! Pit For The Kerrang! Awards Week Of Rock — Kerrang!|website=Kerrang!|date=13 June 2018 |access-date=10 August 2018|archive-date=10 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810235346/http://www.kerrang.com/the-news/neck-deep-are-playing-the-k-pit-for-the-kerrang-awards-week-of-rock/|url-status=live}}</ref> The brand has since also launched the series in Brooklyn, New York, featuring artists such as [[Sum 41]], [[Baroness (band)|Baroness]], [[Knocked Loose]], Daughters, and [[Fit For An Autopsy]]. Performances are streamed on the ''Kerrang!'' Facebook page before being uploaded to [[YouTube]].