Analysation of Kerrang music magazine

Now that I have finished the preliminary task of creating a school magazine I am now stating my main coursework which is to make a music magazine, however with this task I must create a front cover, contents page and now a double page spread.

This is a professtional music magazine known as Kerrang. Kerrang is based around heavier music such as rock and metal and becuase I am into this type of music I would like to create a rock music magazine.
I will be looking at this magazine and annotating it for ideas towards my music magazine.

The colour scheme that has been used here is mainly notcieable on the main headline and the skyline at the top, they have used two main colours that are black and yellow and have cleverly used them on the skyline as the text and have the background of the text the other colour. They likely used these to colours because they are very different so the contrast really well with each other whereas if they used a darker colour such as brown or grey instead of yellow then it wouldn't be as eye catching.
The main image is of Matt Tuck from the band Bullet for my valentine and Olly Sykes from Bring me the Horizon. The two of them are posing in a medium close up picture, they are known to be very important because they are both infront of the masthead which is one of the most important things on the front cover becuase it is the title of the magazine.