Because I live to rant.

Dear Kerrang!,
I'm writing to tell you that I'm so fucking angry at yet another Hayley Williams cover on your magazine. And this is coming from someone who's been a Paramore fan for years, and has seen them three times.

How are Paramore relevant to this week's music? Have they released anything new? As far as I'm aware, The Only Exception came out weeks ago...

Take, for example, Kids In Glass Houses. They put out a quite frankly fucking stunning new album last Monday, Dirt. They work so hard, and they're genuinely lovely people. Not saying that Paramore don't and aren't, but have KIGH ever had a Kerrang! cover? No, they have not. And they absolutely deserve one.

In fact, the only thing that pissed me off more was that on the week Dirt came out, you put Kurt fucking Cobain on the cover. Again, I'm a fan of Nirvana - hell, I was played them by my parents when I was a baby. But Kurt has been dead for almost as long as I've been alive. While he's very influential and was a great musician, 16 is not a special anniversary and he's totally irrelevant to today's music scene. People idolise the musicians you write about; last week Kurt Cobain was effectively put on the front of your magazine for killing himself. That cover could instead have been used for a band like KIGH, who produce positive music, work hard and enjoy themselves, and it could have been really beneficial to them in shifting a few more albums and building their profile.

As a British magazine, surely you should be taking the initiative and supporting the British music scene a bit more, not giving it a shitty little two-page section a week late in favour of some already-famous, often already decrepid Americans who don't need your help? It's better than nothing, I suppose, but it's really not enough. I realise that popular bands sell magazines for you when they're on the cover, but look, for example, at The Gaslight Anthem? Weren't they worth the risk?

Whether you're a fan of Kids In Glass Houses or not, you cannot deny that they work their socks off; touring seemingly constantly, doing signings up and down the country and doing so much just to make their fans smile. They're just one of many bands who do this and deserve more of a chance!

One last thing - think of how much this would have meant to them as individuals. For Hayley Williams, it's nice, but she's had so many covers it's nothing special. For the rest of Paramore, it's yet another example of them being overlooked in favour of their frontwoman. Kurt Cobain is dead and thus we'll never know if he'd give a fuck, although my opinion is probably not, as he'd have been too busy taking drugs and being miserable. KIGH, on the other hand, seem like the kind of people who grew up reading Kerrang! and dreaming of being in its pages. Finally getting to be on the cover would be amazing for them! It's such an honour; like a final confirmation that you've made it that nobody can take away from you. And they deserve that, so fucking much.

I very much doubt you'll print this, due to it's length, my general profanity, and how it's mainly just insuting you. But I implore you to at least read it and take in the point I'm trying to make - support bands who deserve it, and the magazines will keep selling just because of Kerrang!'s prestige.

Yours rapidly-losing-faith, Susannah Lewis, Peterborough

P.S. If you hadn't noticed, I'm a huge KIGH fan, and I wanted to say thanks to them for always, always being so lovely to me. Everyone should go out and buy their album, Dirt, because, as cheesey as it sounds, it will put sunshine into your life. I promise you won't regret it.