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Kerrang is a weekly rock music magazine. Karrang was first published on the 6th June 1981, edited by Geoff Barton. During the 1980s and early 1990s the magazine put many thrash and glam metal acts on the cover, but later discarded them when grunge acts such as Nivana rose to the fame. Readers often criticised the magazine for repeating this process every time a new musical trend became popular.

Kerrang remains the market-leading music weekly with a devoted audience of rock fans driving sales of 60,289.

The title of the contents page has been set out in white capitals, parts of it is broken up and is scattered around the title. This has been done so it doesn't look complete, which looks effective. Red lines go across the top of the page and behind the title, theses lines are there so there isn't any blank spaces. These lines have also been added behind the sub-heading of 'This week', they have been added here because the font and colour is the same as the title, this keeps the theme running through the page.

There is an editors section which is based on a black background, in this section there is a photograph of the editor and some writing which he has added.



There are three photographs next to each other, these are the same size and each have the name and page number on the bottom of the image, because they appear inside the magazine.



The main photograph is of a singer out of a band, it is the main photograph as they will be a large story about them. The edges of the photograph fades away into the black background, this fading away effect makes it look part of the background.



There are sub-titles in the contents page, these separate the different subjects up, underneath each sub-title there is the page titles and numbers.


At the bottom of the page there is a plug which shows three magazines and along side there is writing to advertise there offer.



Along the side of the page in small writing there is a small section which says who took the photographs in the front page and on the contents page.