The contents page of a magazine is used to inform the reader of what content is printed inside, therefore, the contents page must be displayed well so it is pleasing to the eye and easy to understand in little amount of time.

In this magazine the contents page has a very structured layout enabling the reader to get a clear view of what the magazine contains. The page is divided into sections, the images used cover most of the page whilst the information is laid out around it.

The format used immediately catches the readers' eye drawing their attention to the pictures. The pictures make the contents page seem more excitable giving the reader and insight into what the rest of the magazine may well be like.

Yellow and black are the main colours used for the text and some of the pictures as well, this gives the magazine a colour scheme, these colours happen to be very common to Kerrang. Two images stand out in particular, a large dark image of slipknot which is fairly understandable, and a large dark yellow image. These colours contrast against the white background, meaning the images are more outstanding and catch the attention of the reader.

In the text, exclamation marks are used to represent attitude and heavy rock music, which connotes the style of the magazine. The language used in the text is a representation of the style of magazine. ‘Your chance to win hot signed shit!’ is a very informal and rude quote, which denotes to the genre of magazine very well. Also at the top right hand corner there is a quote written by a member of the public saying "I'd be really slutty if I were a girl for a day...", this shows that the magazine is unconcerned about other people's opinions making it quite popular as people look up to things like that.

Despite the images all belonging to the same sort of style of music, each image displayed is targeted at a different aspect of music. For fans of hardcore rock there are fairly scary, unwelcoming images and for fans of softer rock there are images of bands performing whilst smiling for the camera (much more welcoming). The mixture of different music styles attracts reader's as people have different interests and taste and the magazine contains a bit of everything. As this magazine appeals to pretty much anyone it gives the magazine a much broader market.