Kim Kelly
kimkellywrites@gmail.comThe contributor responsible for most of Noisey's coverage of blastbeats, black metal, and bad vibes.
How to Easily Grow Your Own Pandemic Garden
Go beyond windowsill herbs. Here’s all the dirt on how much water, sunlight, and care your home garden needs.
Naomi Klein Is Not Here to Make You Feel Better
The legendary author and climate justice activist lays out her vision of the future. It's not pretty.
How to Make the Perfect Milkshake for Throwing at Fascists
Combining the public humiliation of racists and one of nature’s most delicious frosty treats is pure poetry in motion.
Joy's Genre-Hopping Hardcore Is All About Suffering
Raleigh's next great metal/hardcore hybrid give us an earful about their new album, 'No Light Below,' misanthropy, and doing it their damn selves.
Why I Booked an Anti-Fascist Metal Festival
Fest organizer (and Noisey metal editor) Kim Kelly explains how Black Flags Over Brooklyn 2019 is both a labor of love and a call to action.
How Metal Keeps Me Connected to My Partner in Prison
Listening to and talking about music, he says, minimizes his lingering vulnerability and hopelessness, even if only fleetingly.
The Metal Albums That Are Going to Get Us Through 2019
A look at some of the metal world's most anticipated releases, plus killer new tunes from Jucifer, Devil Master, Mar, Sanhedrin, and more!
I Got Bussed into a Rich School and Saw the Unfairness of America
It was like entering another world—and it taught me all I needed to know about inequality and class privilege.
In 2018, Death Metal Reigned Supreme
As the world burned around us, a new class of forward-thinking bands rose up from the ashes to remind us that only death is real.
Noisey's Year in Metal 2018
Noisey metal editor Kim Kelly shares her Best of 2018 list, reflects on the past year in metal, and looks to the struggles ahead.
How A New York Hardcore Show Reminded Me Not to Forget My Roots
Seeing Minority Threat in Brooklyn took me back to my years as a reluctant Jersey hardcore kid (plus dope tunes from Terminal Nation, Sick Shit, Space Vacation, and more).
Inside MAALSTROOM, Roadburn Festival's Ambitious New Black Metal Project
The Dutch heavy music fest continues its tradition of collaboration with a new commissioned piece showcasing the Dutch black metal scene.