The magazine cover features Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl with a miserable expression to suggest attitude and rebellion relating to rock music. The cover promotes exclusive content about the band's UK tour to attract readers. Additional text and images of other bands are included to establish the magazine's focus on rock music content and appeal to its target male audience aged 16-25.

1. Analysis of magazine front covers: Cover 2- Kerrang! Dec 2005 Foo Fighters Edition

2. COPY OF KERRANG 8 PAGE SPECIAL- There is a image of a younger band that are dressed in black, and this expands the target audience for this magazine. THE MASTHEAD- The masthead is at the top of the page and is large, bold and uses contrasting colours (black and white) which makes it stand out and the exclamation mark makes it more dramatic. Also it has a shattered effect which relates to rock music. These features create an identity for the magazine. THE HEADER- The header summarises the main rock bands that are featured in the magazine THE MAIN IMAGE- The main image is a mid shot of the lead singer of the band Foo Fighters (which is clearly shown by the large caption in the middle of the page) who is squinting at the camera with his head slightly slanted, a miserable expression, and has a tattoo on his left arm. These features suggest attitude and rebellion which relates to the music genre rock. He is wearing a bright red shirt hich contrasts with the background and the masthead, and is eye-catching. The background look sunny and is likely to be in the U.S as Foo Fighters are from there, but we cannot be certain as the singer is dominating the page. THE MAIN COVER LINE- The main cover line is situated in the middle of the page, it anchors the main image down, it shows the reader who the man is, and that he is the main feature of the magazine. The font used is large, bold, contrasts with the mans red shirt and has a drop shadow effect which makes it eye-catching. Plus the cover lines ‘UK tour exclusive’ and ‘Back to blow your mind’ makes it more interesting, and creates the sense that the magazine is special and has lots of things included. BARCODE-DATE/ISSUE/PRICE- These are important when selling magazines and tend to be quite small in the corner so it is out of the way of the copy THE FOOTER- Other rock bands featured in magazine. The plus sign suggests there is lots more going on in the magazine RULE OF THIRDS- This hasn’t been used properly as there is space in the left third for cover lines, however the image dominates the page and has many cover lines which looks untidy and again relates to rock music.

4. These are the type of imagery, layout, and text that the target audience look for in a Kerrang magazine (large images of popular rock artists/bands, extras/exclusives, mostly music orientated, etc)