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41 Years Ago: AC/DC Overcome Tragedy With ‘Back in Black’
When a popular band loses its singer, it rarely bounces back to reach the level of success it had prior…
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38 Years Ago: Metallica Unleash Their Debut ‘Kill ‘Em All’
When Dave Mustaine was abruptly fired from Metallica and shipped off to Los Angeles on a Greyhound bus, he sputtered…
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20 Years Ago: Avenged Sevenfold Introduce Themselves With ‘Sounding the Seventh Trumpet’
As the 21st century arrived, the music world was ready for another revolution and things began to change with a…
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31 Years Ago: Pantera Find Their Voice With ‘Cowboys From Hell’
The first Pantera album to capture the sound most people associate with the band today was actually the group’s fifth…
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Black Sabbath’s ‘Master of Reality’: 8 Facts Only Superfans Would Know
Black Sabbath‘s 1970 self-titled debut was like nothing anyone had ever heard before, and their sophomore work Paranoid only expedited their popularity. By…
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Appetite for Destruction: 16 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
Midway through the ’80s, people were growing bored of rock and roll. Hair metal and glam rock had been fun…
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Four Years Ago: Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington Dies
In 2017, Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington took his life at his home in Palos Verdes, Calif. on what would have been…
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29 Years Ago: Guns N’ Roses + Metallica Launch Ill-Fated Tour
It seemed Kurt Cobain knew something everyone else wasn’t aware of when he turned down the offer to have Nirvana…
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39 Years Ago: Judas Priest Release ‘Screaming for Vengeance’
They were already metal titans across the world, yet Judas Priest didn’t become popular with the American mainstream until after…
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19 Years Ago: Red Hot Chili Peppers Release ‘By the Way’
After the return of guitarist John Frusciante and the success of Californication, what would Red Hot Chili Peppers do for an…
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