Kerrang was first printed as a supplement in Sounds magazine on the sixth of June 1981, and is now published by Bauer Consumer Media. AC/DC were on the very first front cover and throughout the eighties Kerrang featured many thrash, glam and metal bands including Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, and Metallica. But when Nirvana started to get big Kerrang started to put grunge bands on their covers. This happens every time there is a new music trend, in my magazine I will try to include artists from a currant popular genre as this will attract more readers. The most successful period was from 2000 onwards when Nu Metal was big, and Paul Rees was the editor. Paul Rees moved to Q and Ashley Bird took over, unfortunately Nu Metal declined at this time and so did Kerrang! sales and he was fired. The most obvious thing to change about Kerrang is the cover. Over the years the amount of text on the page has changed and in later years more images were added. The mast head also changed from big to small to big again, and the current cover has removed the white band and the subheading. Another feature included in the magazine is the comic strip ‘Pandora’ I may try to include a similar feature in my magazine.
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