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"I was so ****ed they called it punk!" Kerry King reveals the pop punk legends he's excited to see live this summer - even if he doesn't always agree with their genre label
Kerry King explains why punk hasn't evolved and thrash metal probably won't
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"For some people, we'll always be that band that lived in that house the police would always come out to." Scream's brilliant DC Special album is a love letter to a city and a punk scene that continues to inspire outsider art worldwide
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Slipknot is so lucky to have you. Members of Slayer, Megadeth, Rage Against The Machine and more react to Eloy Casagrande joining the metal icons
Heavy metal legends from Gary Holt to Nita Strauss have responded to the Slipknot drummers first statement since joining the band
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Watch David Gilmour wring every ounce of emotion from the guitar solo on Prince's Purple Rain – with Tom Jones
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour gives a TV audience a solo of epic Floydian scale
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Billy Morrison is a success story 30 years in the making
"I didn't do a thing in the music industry until I was twenty-nine"
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“Like Volare, the marriage of voices flies free in a spirit of joy.” Punk icons Iggy Pop and Siouxsie Sioux have re-recorded The Passenger for an ice cream advert
Who knew that one day punk legends would unite to sell ice lollies? Listen to the Iggy Pop/Siouxsie Sioux collab here
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"The wave of legacy bands striking new gold in their twilight years continues unabated." Almost 50 years in, German heavy metal legends Accept have found a new career peak with Humanoid
Accept have put together an absolute banger with their brilliant new album, Humanoid
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“We took influences from the New York hardcore scene. Our stuff was faster than in the Bay Area”: the 100mph story of East Coast thrash
The inside story of 80s thrash’s great East Coast vs West Coast rivalry
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“We wore silly hats, but in those days, you did silly things”: Listen to the doo-wop bands Ronnie James Dio sang in before becoming a metal star with Black Sabbath and Rainbow
Before Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio, one of heavy metal’s most powerful voices sang in skiffle and doo-wop groups. This is what they sounded like…
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“We never did any TV-throwing – I’d rather nick ’em than throw ’em out the window”: Jeff Lynne recalls how easy it was for ELO to take over the 70s
From working with Roy Wood and hanging with the Beatles to finding that songs simply poured out of him, the bandleader still can’t believe his luck
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When the call went out to replace Ian Gillan in Deep Purple, only one man got an audition
"One demo was of a guy playing one finger piano on Black Night"
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“A lot of guys can play awesome guitar but there’s very few super-shredders like that”: members of Slayer, Nightwish, Mastodon and more salute the genius of Alexi Laiho
Late, great Children Of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho was born on April 9, 1979
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The isolated bass track from Metallicas Orion proves that Cliff Burton was a master of his instrument
Orion without guitars and drums is still a majestic experience. Thats how incredible Cliff Burton was.
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"He was drunk out of his mind and he asked me to make out with him": Billy Corgan on how he became a fan of The Cure... and the first time he met Robert Smith
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and Cure leader went on to become fast friends
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“When working on material we could ask, ‘What would we have done in the days of Close To The Edge?’ Maybe sometimes we didn’t ask that question enough”: Steve Howe’s favourite Yes songs
Guitarist lists his five of the best – and explains why they’re all from the 70s
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"We all did shots with him!" The Hollywood icon that left Guns N' Roses "very wobbly" while shooting one of their most famous videos
When one of rock's most chaotic bands hung out with a true Hollywood icon in the early 90s, things were never going to go quietly
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“It’s been a blessing to have been underdogs for so long. It’s kept us hungry. I’m ravenous”: the late ’80s fall and early ’90s rise of Motorhead
Motörhead struggled through the second half of the 1980s - but there was no way that Lemmy was going to give up
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The Judas Priest album title that became heavy metal's definitive statement of intent
Where do you go once you’ve crafted one of the finest heavy metal albums of all time?
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“It’s about a beautiful ménage à trois and you can’t beat that, can you?” Perry Farrell on what he thinks is Jane’s Addiction's most underrated song
Look away now if you get awkward about rock stars talking about their threesomes...
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A death metal recording studio is being recognised as a historical landmark in Florida
The spot where Death, Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura and more recorded their classic albums is getting a commemorative plaque from Hillsborough County, Florida
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It was inspiring to see how Metallica worked. I had their posters before I had my first guitar: how Volbeats Michael Poulsen stepped up to metals big league
The story of Volbeats Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies album
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"When I saw No Doubt perform, it was like the sunbeams came down and the angels sang." 9 songs that changed my life, by New Years Day's Ash Costello
From Queen and No Doubt to AFI and Nine Inch Nails, these are the songs that built Ash Costello
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“We can make records until our hands fall off. But if we can’t sell it live, I don’t want to”: how Slayer reconnected with 80s thrash and made World Painted Blood
Slayer’s 2009 album World Painted Blood was the best since their 80s heyday – and this is how they made it
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This 41 year old video is the oldest known footage of Slayer, and it proves they were brilliant from the start
Watch a pre-fame Slayer play a show in Anaheim, California several months before debut album Show No Mercy came out
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“Now… which leather pants to wear?!” Lzzy Hale of Halestorm will front Skid Row on tour, following the exit of singer Erik Grönwall
Halestorm’s singer/guitarist will be leading glam metal legends Skid Row during their next four tour dates