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Exodus and Slayer‘s Gary Holt credits a metal legend with teaching him how to play guitar — Kirk Hammett. Of course, both musicians have ties to Exodus and Hammett, at that time, wasn’t the legend he is now. Hammett was one of the co-founders of the thrash group in 1979, along with fellow guitarist Tim Agnello, drummer and then vocalist Tom Hunting and a few others. “Tim Agnello was the guitar player before I joined, but Exodus operated as a power trio, with Tom playing drums and singing for a while,” Holt said in a Loudwire episode of Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction. The guitarist added that he me...
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Here is the heaviest song by 10 big ’60s rock bands. Given that heavy metal didn’t completely take off until the 1970s – and the early part of the prior decade was dominated by pop, blues, R&B, surf music and rock ‘n’ roll – you’d be forgiven for thinking that the 1960s were lacking in significantly aggressive music. You’d be wrong, of course, but you’d be forgiven. READ MORE: The Heaviest Song by 10 Big ‘70s Rock Bands In fact, it was around this time that artists such as Link Wray, Willie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and The Kinks started pioneering and popularizing guitar distortion, powe...
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Skid Row played their first of four dates with Halestorm‘s Lzzy Hale on vocals on Friday at Carterville, Illinois’ Walker’s Bluff Casino Resort. You can the setlist and fan-filmed video from the performance below. The band stuck mostly to classics off its first two albums, Skid Row and Slave to the Grind, according to setlist.fm. If Hale was feeling nervous or uncertain about her cold open with the rockers, she didn’t show it. She strutted across the stage, playing off both her bandmates and the audience, and nailed Sebastian Bach‘s piercing high notes with ease. (Incidentally, the band’s clas...
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Skid Row played their first of four dates with Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale on vocals on Friday at Carterville, Illinois’ Walker’s Bluff Casino Resort. You can see video from the performance below. The band stuck mostly to classics off its first two albums, Skid Row and Slave to the Grind, according to setlist.fm. If Hale was feeling nervous or uncertain about her cold open with the rockers, she didn’t show it. She strutted across the stage, playing off both her bandmates and the audience, and nailed Sebastian Bach‘s piercing high notes with ease. (Incidentally, the band’s classic-era singer is curre...
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AC/DC launched their European Power Up tour with a performance in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on May 17. The European trek marks the legendary hard rock group’s first full tour since 2016, though they did perform at the Power Trip festival in 2023. AC/DC certainly got things started with a bang during the Germany gig, delivering a fiery set full of their most celebrated hits. After a video introduction, the band began their set with “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It),” an emphatic opener that got the crowd cheering. “Wonderful to see you all again!” frontman Brian Johnson declared as the tune came ...
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Check out our new Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?video compilation “Lies the Internet Told About Thrash Metal.” There’s no shortage of legends and rumors about the heyday of thrash, but luckily, we’ve spoken to some of the most iconic musicians from the scene and were able to get some of the stories straight. We compiled clips of some of the lies that Wikipedia told about thrash metal that were disproven, and turned them into one episode. One of the Wikipedia myths said that Kerry King‘s guitar playing on Slayer‘s albums Hell Awaits and Reign in Blood was intended to “mimic the screams of the song...
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Apocalyptica have landed the ultimate stamp of approval on their cover of Metallica‘s “One” by getting two of Metallica’s band members to guest on the track. Both James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo turn up on the cello-heavy band’s new cover from the Apocalyptica Plays Metallica, Vol. 2 album. This is a bit of a full circle moment for the group, who first started turning heads in 1996 with their debut album, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos. The record won over a lot of fans as they delivered instrumental cello version of some of Metallica’s biggest hits. Now, nearly 30 years later, Metallica’s ...
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Serj Tankian has released a new song called “A.F. Day,” which he said was originally written for System of a Down. The song will be featured on the rocker’s upcoming solo EP Foundations, which will be out in September through Gibson Records. The track gradually builds up in intensity, and about halfway through, you can hear why Tankian imagined it for System of a Down. “This is a song I wrote in the early days of SOAD that I never released,” the singer said of the track. “The majority of the instrumentation and vocals are recordings from that time. Dystopian in mood, it’s a reflection of the a...
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Season 1 of X-Men ’97 is over. And what a season it was, filled with action, adventure, melodrama, romance, and tragedy, all of it drawn from the vast history of X-Men comics. But if you haven’t read X-Mencomics or watched the original X-Men: The Animated Series, you might have missed some of the coolest Easter eggs in the season finale. That’s where our latest Marvel video is comes in. We’ve got dozens of Easter eggs for you, plus tons of hidden references and little details you might have missed. We’ll show you the subtle meaning of all the water in Magneto’s mind, the callback to “The Muir ...
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Avril Lavigne discussed the infamous “Melissa” conspiracy theory in her first-ever podcast interview. The pop-punk princess, who will turn 40 years old in September, recently appeared on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddypodcast, where she was asked about the craziest rumor she’s ever heard about herself — though Cooper had already hinted at the conspiracy theory. “Oh, yeah that one, I know what you’re talking about,” Lavigne said. “I mean, it’s just funny to me. On one end, everyone’s like, ‘Oh my god, you look the exact same. You haven’t aged a day!’ But then other people are like, there’s a consp...
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