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“I met Billy Corgan at a funeral. I said: ‘Are you aware of my band?’ He goes: ‘You kidding? I got your album in my car’”: The cult hair metal band with links to Styx, Smashing Pumpkins and Kanye West who had the world in their hands –but threw it away

Enuff Z’Nuff could have been the new Cheap Trick, but label politics and self-destruction got in the way

“You could barely drive down Sunset Strip because of the drunk people. A couple of my friends got hit. Luciky, they lived and partied on, like good headbangers”: The outrageous movie which captured the debauched 80s scene that “made Caligula look tame”

Who can forget WASP’s guitarist in a swimming pool with a bottle of vodka and his mom?

“That number-one hit poses the gentle question: ‘Should I just kill myself?'” How a “throwaway” lyric written during a dark time helped turn some punk misfits into one of the biggest rock bands of the 2000s

AFI's 2006 single Miss Murder was even a Top 5 single in Venezuela

Xenobiotic – Dante Review

You haven’t lived until you’ve heard an Australian recite Dante. Once a niche ritual available only to the geographically privileged, everyone’s somethingth-favorite Australian prog-death band...

“Our first logo was a couple of witches throwing stuff into a cauldron. It was mystical – hobbits and the Bible and the Koran. We didn’t know what we were doing”: The cult band who made one of the greatest albums of the 70s – but struggled to match it

Wishbone Ash’s Argus is 70s rock classic

“That bloke’s right – we are crap!” The insult and the instrument that turned a failing pop act into prog giants

They seemed doomed to be one-hit wonders on the cabaret circuit, with gig fees spiralling downwards, until the night they were confronted with the truth

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