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GUNS N’ ROSES — THE SONG THAT WAITED DECADES TO BE RELEASED
Long before “Atlas” became an official Guns N’ Roses release in 2025, the song had already spent years inside the mythology of…
THE BAND FILES
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THE BAND FILE #002: SEPULTURA
From Belo Horizonte’s underground to the global metal stage, Sepultura built a career defined by transformation, Brazilian identity and survival through radical…
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HOW LINKIN PARK FOUND A WAY TO START AGAIN
Linkin Park’s return did not begin with a comeback plan. It grew slowly from friends making music together until the band discovered a way to start again.
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Metallica How a Festival Experiment Became the No Repeat Weekend
Before the M72 World Tour, Metallica tested an unusual idea: two shows in the same festival weekend with different setlists. What began as an experiment eventually became the No Repeat Weekend.
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Back to the Beginning Black Sabbath’s Final Homecoming
In 2025, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward returned to Aston for one final Black Sabbath performance. More than a farewell, Back to the Beginning closed a circle that had started in Birmingham more than half a century earlier.
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METALLICA — FORTY YEARS WITHOUT CLIFF BURTON
Cliff Burton died at 24. Forty years later, his musical ideas, influence and memory still live inside Metallica.
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Raining Blood: The Riff Jeff Hanneman Refused to Forget
Some riffs arrive with a warning: record this now, or lose it forever. That was Jeff Hanneman’s reaction when the central idea for “Raining Blood” appeared. Years later, the Slayer guitarist remembered thinking the riff was good enough to grab his recorder immediately, before it disappeared. He built out a rough version on his small…
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THE VOICE THAT OUTLIVED THE MAN
In “Defender,” Orson Welles plays an absent father whose words remain for his son. Years later, fiction and reality would collide in a way no one could have planned.
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Running Wild: The Accident That Gave Heavy Metal Its Pirates
Running Wild’s pirate identity was not born in a marketing meeting. According to Rock ’n’ Rolf, it began with a riff, a Pirates trailer on television and the song “Under Jolly Roger.”
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BLACK SABBATH: THREE NOTES THAT CHANGED HEAVY METAL
Three notes. A midnight apparition. And a sound that would become inseparable from heavy metal. In 1970, Black Sabbath opened their debut album with a song unlike almost anything that had come before it. But the story behind “Black Sabbath” is even darker — and one of metal’s most famous legends isn’t quite what it…
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Painkiller: The Drum Intro That Announced a New Era
One drum intro. No guitars. No vocals. In 1990, Judas Priest opened Painkiller with a statement that sounded like a machine coming to life. The man behind it was Scott Travis — the band’s new drummer — and the intro was born far more organically than its precision suggests. A NEW DRUMMER. Scott Travis joined…
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Holy Wars: A Song Born From a Divided Land
On May 11, 1988, Megadeth took the stage at the Antrim Forum in Northern Ireland, during one of the most volatile periods of the Troubles. Before the show, Dave Mustaine encountered someone selling bootleg Megadeth shirts. When he asked where the money was going, he was told it supported “the Cause.” Mustaine later explained that…
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LATEST STORIES
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GUNS N’ ROSES — THE SONG THAT WAITED DECADES TO BE RELEASED
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HOW LINKIN PARK FOUND A WAY TO START AGAIN
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THE BAND FILE #002: SEPULTURA
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Back to the Beginning Black Sabbath’s Final Homecoming
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ICED EARTH — WHY THEY HAD TO RECORD “DANTE’S INFERNO” AGAIN
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Raining Blood: The Riff Jeff Hanneman Refused to Forget
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