As anyone who’s heard Billy Talent’s classic track Devil In A Midnight Mass can attest, Ben Kowalewicz has one of the most distinctive voices in rock. Here is a singer who summons the kind of piercing, high-pitched screams that can raise eyebrows clean off people’s faces. But right now? Ben’s voice is soft, a virtual whisper. He’s recalling the moment, over a year ago, when his life changed forever. That is when he became that most nerve-wracking, awe-inspiring of things: a dad. “Me and my wife had a little girl,” he smiles as Kerrang! catches him leaving Billy Talent’s rehearsal space. “She’s changed my whole perspective on everything. Looking into her eyes, I don’t know…” He drifts off, struggling to find adequate reverential words. “There’s just...
