Author: Metal Untold
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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 Chinese Democracy era.
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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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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 change.
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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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The Singer Who Came for One Night and Never Left
In 1996, Joacim Cans stepped in to sing three songs with HammerFall for one night. By the end of the day, he was officially in the band.
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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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ICED EARTH — WHY THEY HAD TO RECORD “DANTE’S INFERNO” AGAIN
A missing click track made one of Iced Earth’s biggest epics unexpectedly difficult to tour. Sixteen years later, the band recorded “Dante’s Inferno” all over again.
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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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Anthrax — The Album That Took Ten Years… But Didn’t
Ten years separated Anthrax’s For All Kings and Cursum Perficio. But the new album did not actually take a decade to make. The real story is more complicated.
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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…