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  Heavy Metal Heroes Accept Get "Classy"

  February 19 at 4 a.m.

  While he thinks the word “crazy” might be stretching it a bit, guitarist Wolf Hoffman does understand that what he did at Germany’s 2017 Wacken Open Air Festival (the world’s largest annual gathering of heavy metal fans) might have some questioning his sanity. That’s where his band Accept staged an...

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  Turns Out Disturbed are Pretty Good Arena Rockers After All

  January 29 at 5:49 a.m.

  Disturbed, Three Days Grace Toyota Center January 28, 2K19 David Draiman speaks with conviction. I can’t say that I always agree with what he has to say, but the way he says it makes me want to. He’s the type of guy that could easily be a life coach if...

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  Metal Around the World. Travel Abroad and Turn it Up to These Seven Metal Bands from Across the Globe.

  January 29 at 5 a.m.

  The roots of heavy metal were established in the ‘60s and '70s mainly by British bands Led Zepplin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath. The metal genre has gone on to include many sub-genres such as glam, speed, doom, progressive, death, black, stoner, even Christian. Characterized by a generally masculine sound,...

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  New Houston Metal Supergroup Necrofier Descends to Eradicate the False

  January 24 at 5:30 a.m.

  A chilly new year is upon Houston, and a chilling new band rises to greet it. Necrofier, an old-school black metal outfit comprising some of the local scene’s leading hell raisers, appeared out of nothingness just in time for the solstice, battle-ready and prepared to rip faces off heads. Just...

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  Houston Hip-Hop Head Turned Metalhead Finds YouTube Stardom

  Thursday, November 22, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Alex Hefner’s YouTube metal music reaction channel has quickly become popular.

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  Axl Rose, Like so Many, is On Twitter and Mad at Trump

  Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Do you remember that weird period of time a few years back when the “social media is killing the rock star mystique and that’s a bad thing” hot take was going around? The idea was that we were losing something by having people in bands become more relatable through the...