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“He said, ‘How about Slayer with special guests Slayer?’ We went, ‘Wow, that could be crazy’”: The bizarre story of Slayer vs Slayer, the 80s metal Battle Of The Bands with only one winner

On November 30, 1984, Slayer played their very first gig in San Antonio, Texas. The up-and-coming LA thrashers been booked in at the Villa Fontana,...

Ironflame – Worlds to Conquer Review

Besides thrash, heavy metal played a pivotal role in shaping my relationship with metal. Black Sabbath and Rainbow informed my earliest dalliances with the genre,...

Phil Collins opens up about the chances of releasing new music: “There are some things I could finish. And other things which are finished”

When Genesis wrapped up their hugely successful The Last Domino? reunion tour in March 2022, it wasn’t just the end of the road for one...

“I’m at work in the petrol station and I read that the album is at No. 23. I’d last heard it at a playback in George Martin’s studio”: Stackridge’s Monty Python-like experience with The Man In The Bowler Hat

In 1973, with their music already labelled as ‘what The Beatles might have done if they hadn’t split up,’ cheeky Bristol prog band Stackridge found...

A rebel with a taste for booze, bad drugs and run-ins with the law: Nine Steve Earle albums you should listen to and one to avoid

Steve Earle has never been just a country singer. Throughout his life has read like a rock’n’roll parable: the bacchanalian rebel with a taste for...

The gospel according to Peter Frampton: “Being chased and having your clothes ripped off by girls is all very exciting, but it gets old pretty quickly”

My doctor calls me a young seventy-five,” Peter Frampton says with a smile. “Which is better than an old seventy-five, right?” For an artist who’s...

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