Truth be told, this isn’t quite how Machine Gun Kelly imagined his first-ever Kerrang! Cover Story would go. As we join the 30-year-old – via video call – in Bulgaria, he considers the legendary tales he read of journalists meeting his heroes “back in the day”, often realising that the environment was equally as fascinating as their on-page musings. “Doesn’t it suck…” he begins in a deep American accent, pondering the nature of COVID rendering such face-to-face experiences an impossibility right now. “I loved when I read a cover story, and the writer’s like, ‘I fuckin’ walked into the room and it smelled like this, and he was fuckin’ doing this, yada-yada-yada.’ That was the coolest part of the story, right? I don’t like going to read an article and it being like, ‘Hey, so here’s the cover...
