HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: Mötley Crüe – Mötley Crüe
Should a band change their name when there are tectonic shifts in their DNA? Whether it be a complete change
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Heavy Music History
HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: The Gang’s All Here – Dropkick Murphys
Twenty five years after its release, The Gang’s All Here feels like the seed of the DROPKICK MURPHYS sound we’ve come
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HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: Lost Forever // Lost Together – Architects
After the negative critical and fan reception to their 2011 album, The Here And Now, English metalcore band ARCHITECTS reignited their love
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HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: Going To Hell – The Pretty Reckless
Ten years ago, the sun rose on THE PRETTY RECKLESS’ second album Going To Hell. It was an album that
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HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails
Concept albums are generally dark affairs. 1982’s The Wall by PINK FLOYD talks about the descent into madness of a rockstar burdened by
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HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: The First Grammy For Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Goes To…
The Grammys: music’s highest accolade to be bestowed on the industry, or an out-of-touch ceremony that only rewards what’s popular.
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HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: Evisceration Plague – Cannibal Corpse
By 2008, CANNIBAL CORPSE had reached a point where they had been active for two decades, an extraordinary feat for
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HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: Babymetal – BABYMETAL
LIMP BIZKIT. BRING ME THE HORIZON. SLEEP TOKEN. All the above have something in common – at various points in
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HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: Transilvanian Hunger – Darkthrone
Rewind the clocks to the early years of the 1990s and something was brewing in heavy metal’s underground. After the
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HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: Hydra – Within Temptation
Although not confirmed to be a subtle dig, the timing was suspicious: during the recording of NIGHTWISH’s Endless Forms Most
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