First published in 1981, which music magazine takes its title from the sound made when smashing an electric guitar?
Kerrang! Kerrang! Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to hard rock and. heavy metal music, currently published by Wasted Talent (the same company that owns electronic music publication Mixmag). It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off supplement in the "Sounds" newspaper. Named after the onomatopoeic word that derives from the sound made when playing a power chord on a distorted electric guitar, "Kerrang!" was initially devoted to the new wave of British heavy metal and the rise of hard rock acts. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music weekly. "Kerrang!" was founded in 1981.
Electric guitar Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup used to sense the vibration generally uses electromagnetic induction to do so, though other technologies exist. In any case, the signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is fed to a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound. Since the output of an electric