Kerrang October 1996 | Tool! Reef! Korn! and other four letter words

Watering can news! When we're not giving you the excruciating details about our garden, we're looking at Kerrang 619 from October 1996. It's the most downery, cancelled motherfuckers filled issue we've had yet BUT we're still keeping it light!

Helloween almost get Deep Kutz status AND we realise Coachella is probably not as good as Donnington ‘88.

Korn are our cover stars but never mind that, there's a FREE TAPE which has a succession of the most 90s ass rockers imaginable. Imperial Drag takes us back to a mix CD from the early days of our relationship and we recall a time before Reef were the “It's Your Letters” guys.

Nine Inch Nails’ Quake soundtrack is fondly remembered along with Command and Conquer and Force Commander. Only 90s gamer kids will understand. 

Also! Aerosmith in therapy! Alice in Chains on hiatus! Twelve Monkeys confusion! Pat Boone goes RAWK! Also the astonishing revelation of the reason why one of us likes impenetrable Prog metallers Tool.

We end on some Patreon shoutouts and a feature that *would* be a great ongoing strand. But probably won't, for the obvious reason.

 

PWM71 recorded 20th April 2026