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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records,” was famously David Lee ...

There are no off days for Cryptopsy. The Canadian death-metal band is on a night off just outside of Baltimore when Westword rings, but instead of indulging in the local fare of soft-shell crab and ...

What qualified as metal in 1995 was a grab bag for sure. After the fallout from the popularity of grunge, metal went back underground but was poised for a return led by nu metal. While not all of ...

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As Judas Priest continues its tour in support of last year’s “Invincible Shield” record and marks the 35th anniversary of 1990’s “Painkiller” album, guitarist Richie Faulkner is hoping that the new ...

The following list of the most underrated song by 11 legendary hair metal bands proves that the genre was more than hits and filler. Hair metal – or glam-metal, or pop-metal, or whatever you want to ...

Megadeth is set to release their final album sometime early next year via Dave Mustaine's Tradecraft imprint in partnership with Frontiers Label Group's BLKIIBLK label, will be accompanied by a global ...

Regardless, the band have sold over five million albums during their career, and with A New World Rising, album 27, they have pulled out all the stops to deliver one of the Metal albums of 2025. In a ...

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