The audience of Kerrang are music enthusiasts that are generally into: rock, goth, metal, punk, thrash and classic indie and the media language reflects the ideology, representation and audience as the main title of the magazine, 'Kerrang' uses effects to make it looked smashed which reflects the rebellic ideology and representation that Kerrang incorporates.
Kerrang has an ideology where rebellic music is important. An example of media language that shows this is the subtitles that the magazine uses, 'Somebody's Gonna Get Killed'. Kerrang also uses iconic images which helps reinforces the ideology.
The artists used in the images of Kerrang are represented as rebels who might be socially unaccepted. Kerrang does this by using powerful and captivating images. On one of the covers, the artist isn't looking into the camera but the camera is looking up at him which makes him seem powerful and not vulnerable so the image connotates that the artist doesn't care about what the world thinks of him but is still strong and powerful.
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