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[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

No idea how these things work, but someone has uploaded about million back copies of Kerrang as PDF files on a google drive thing

They can be accessed here

I've downloaded those to my computer, look forward to reading them! It's most issues until around 400 which was 1992, and then a couple of issues from 2015ish and some of the specials. It'll be cool to read interviews from the 80s as I was a touch too young at that point and didn't start buying Kerrang! until around '91 ish.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

I've downloaded those to my computer, look forward to reading them! It's most issues until around 400 which was 1992, and then a couple of issues from 2015ish and some of the specials. It'll be cool to read interviews from the 80s as I was a touch too young at that point and didn't start buying Kerrang! until around '91 ish.

I can see all the covers but exactly how do you download or view an issue?

I've never used Google Drive previously.

Oh and how large is the file?

[Justin101]

You can download the entire folder by clicking here;

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It's pretty large, around 8GB

You can also download a single issue, just click on it, and then at the top on the page there is a menu button that is three dots, you click on that and choose download from the menu.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Thanks my good man.

Goes frantically looking for the Blackie Lawless with bloody skull cover.

This was the time i used to get Kerrang! 86 - i'm not sure, 96, something like that. My local newsagent delivered it to me. Mega Metal Kerrang! as well. That was pretty cool. I remember the poster of Doro 'topless' in that very well.

One of my fave issues was another W.A.S.P. cover for the Chainsaw Charlie single. Blackie was inside with a chainsaw stuck in him guts spilling out over a desk. There was a 3D poster of it too i recall.

Edit - Just checked. It's 385 and not there. 384 is though with the duller Kings X on the cover.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Thanks my good man.

Goes frantically looking for the Blackie Lawless with bloody skull cover.

This was the time i used to get Kerrang! 86 - i'm not sure, 96, something like that. My local newsagent delivered it to me. Mega Metal Kerrang! as well. That was pretty cool. I remember the poster of Doro 'topless' in that very well.

One of my fave issues was another W.A.S.P. cover for the Chainsaw Charlie single. Blackie was inside with a chainsaw stuck in him guts spilling out over a desk. There was a 3D poster of it too i recall.

Edit - Just checked. It's 385 and not there. 384 is though with the duller Kings X on the cover.

That's a shame about the WASP issue, I recall that cover as well. I was hoping that the infamous Black Metal issue would be there but it's not, that would have been early '93. I might have a look around the internet for that tomorrow!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

That's a shame about the WASP issue, I recall that cover as well. I was hoping that the infamous Black Metal issue would be there but it's not, that would have been early '93. I might have a look around the internet for that tomorrow!

I remember that too.

It was a whole new scary world of music to me. So different to what i was used to.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The latest issue of Classic Rock (Out next week sometime to non-subscribers) features the summer of 1991 and focuses on a seven week period between August 12th - Sept 24th and suggest it may be the greatest period for rock albums ever.

Although i don't like all the bands or own all the albums it's difficult to disagree with what they say. Here's what came out.

Metallica - Metallica
Spin Doctors - Pocketful of Kryptonite
Pearl Jam (The issues cover stars) - Ten
Rush - Roll the Bones
Dire Straits - On Every Street
Tesla - Psychotic Supper
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Hole - Pretty on the Inside
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Pixies - Tromp Le Monde
Kyuss - Wretch
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Nirvana - Nevermind
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

When you add to that summer these other releases of 1991 and it could be one of the best years ever in terms of new rock albums

REM - Out of Time
U2 - Achtung Baby
Queen - Innuendo
Bryan Adams - Waking Up the Neighbors
Van Halen - F.U.C.K.
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
Bolt Thrower - War Master
Benediction - The Grand Leveller
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
Bang Tango - Dancing on Coals
Carcass - Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious
Cathedral – Forest of Equilibrium
Alice Cooper – Hey Stoopid
Great White - Hooked
The Cult – Ceremony
Death – Human
Danger Danger - Screw It
Entombed – Clandestine
Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
L.A. Guns – Hollywood Vampires
Massacre - From Beyond
Motörhead – 1916
Mr. Big – Lean into It
Paradise Lost – Gothic
Primus – Sailing the Seas of Cheese
Prong – Prove You Wrong
David Lee Roth – A Little Ain't Enough
Saxon – Solid Ball of Rock
Sepultura – Arise
Skyclad – The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth
Ugly Kid Joe – As Ugly as They Wanna Be

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Helloween are currently #7 in the album chart.

New Fear Factory at # 23

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...-chart-update/

[Susan Foreman]

Miley Cyrus, WATT, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo and Chad Smith