Kerrang! Magazine 03/04/13


My Chemical Romance - Farewell To The Black Parade
After 12 years, four studio albums, and countless world tours, we wave a heavy-hearted farewell to My Chemical Romance. In this MCR-packed issue we pay tribute to the band; exploring the legacy that they leave behind them and revisiting how they grew through the pages of Kerrang!.

Paramore poster special! Six, count 'em..., SIX brand newParamore posters. Hayley and the gang fool around in the photo studio and bassist Jeremy Davis gives a puppy a piggyback! Who doesn't want that on their wall?!

Feedback: We asked for your My Chemical Romance artwork, letters, tattoos, photos and experiences and you responded in your thousands. We sifted through, shed a sneaky tear, and compiled the best of it into a Kerrang! Feedback special that we like to call YOUR Chemical Romance. Plus: Tay Jardine from We Are The In Crowd goes head-to-head with reader A-Jay debating sexism in rock 'n' roll.
News: As the dust settles on My Chemical Romance's split, Kerrang! re-examines the facts so far. We also bring you news on the first bands heading to this years' two-day Warped Tour 2013 and K! investigates whether internet streaming music is hurting bands. Unlikely agony uncle, Joel O'Keefe from Airbourne, solves your biggest problems in Life Of Agony, the drummer plague epidemic continues as I Killed The Prom Queen and Baroness both part ways with their sticksmen and we find out what happens when Jono Yates from Blitz Kids watches Kerrang! TVfor a whole day.
What else? The mouth of Asking AlexandriaDanny Worsnop, puts his brain to the test in the K! Quiz and we bring you this week's Official Kerrang! Rock Chart Top 20. Plus: We introduce to Scottish rockers Fat Goth (yes, really)!
Features! Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes talks ambition, trauma and the pain of creating the metal album of 2013This is Sempiternal.
Halestorm's Lzzy Hale tells us about the songs that saved her life.
Heaven's Basement lay down their 10-point plan for US success - cooking up a storm across the pond at their very own metal BBQ.
Enter Shikari frontman Rou Reynolds joins Rolo Tomassi's Eva Spence andThe Blackout's Sean Smith and Gavin Butler to talk to K! about what it takes to develop your own clothing line, print your own tee shirts and even stitch your own cushions!
This week, Don Broco frontman Rob Damiani takes on The Ultimate Rockstar Test and tells us about being stalked around a supermarket.
Lives! Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris rocks Islington Academy with British LionFinch and Mallory Knox take on Brixton Academy (and win), Ghost B.C,GojiraThe Defiled and Heights bring the Jagermeister tour to Sheffield ANDCancer BatsBrutality Will Prevail and Empress brutalise Brighton. You're going to feel tired just reading this lot!
Reviews! Get the final verdict on Paramore's huge new record as Hayley Williams gives us the lowdown on recording their huge new album, Killswitch Engage get back to business and come out swinging, and Blink-182's Mark Hoppus talks BanksySuper Mario Bros. and football in Anatomy Of A Rockstar. PLUS: Get the latest on records by Rival SchoolsTerrorDeez Nutsand Disturbed frontman David Draiman's Device.
Gigs! Up-and-coming pop-rockers I Divide tell us how they'd pimp their tour bus and Luke Prebble of Canterbury (that's the band, not the place!) tells us about watching New Found Glory.
Phew! That's all in this week's issue of Kerrang!, on sale April 3!


I want this.

xo-

~ My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. Because it is not a band- it is an idea. ~

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