Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago

The unruly offspring of heavy metal and punk rock, thrash metal had coalesced three years earlier around a handful of ...
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“It’s a perfect song. Bonnie really conveys the drama. That voice brought Jim’s song to life”: How the writer of Bat Out Of Hell and a husky-voiced singer from Wales ...

Few songs merit the term ‘power ballad’ quite as emphatically as Total Eclipse Of The Heart, the 1983 mega-hit for Welsh singer, Bonnie Tyler, which shot to No.1 in the UK, US and all across the world ...

The story of the post-hardcore takeover that didn’t quite happen

As nu metal’s commercial power began to wane, major labels desperately signed a bunch of bands with hardcore backgrounds, ...
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“There was a point where My Chemical Romance were opening shows for us. Quite quickly, they weren’t anymore”: The story of the post-hardcore takeover that didn’t quite ...

As nu metal’s commercial power began to wane, major labels desperately signed a bunch of bands with hardcore backgrounds, from My Chemical Romance to Cave In. A lot of them didn’t work out.
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New Doc Spotlights Original Iron Maiden Singer Paul Di’Anno

The extraordinary life of original Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno is chronicled in the upcoming documentary Di’Anno: Iron ...
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Watch the trailer for Paul Di’Anno documentary Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer, featuring Metallica, Slayer and Kiss members

James Hetfield of Metallica, Gene Simmons of Kiss and Gary Holt of Exodus and Slayer, as well as founding Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris and former singer Blaze Bayley, appear in the new trailer, ...

The 150 greatest guitarists of all time

Let’s not waste any time here. Paste staff and contributors came together to build a definitive ranking of the greatest ...