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The five best metal riffs of all time, according to Employed to Serve guitarist Sammy Urwin

Employed To Serve guitarist Sammy Urwin picks out his five favourite metal riffs ever. Filmed at Raven Records in Camden, ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1982, the World’s Biggest Metal Band Made Their Live Debut at Their First Gig in California

Metallica’s first gig took place on this day, March 14, 1982, at Radio City in Anaheim, California. Hetfield took on vocals for the performance, along with newly recruited members Dave Mustaine on ...
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"I love the sleazy, lustful side of Motorhead." Severed heads, strip clubs and baptism by whisky: Why the metal world loved Lemmy Kilmister, the ultimate rock'n'roll rebel

Motorhead played rock'n'roll. Only, there was so much more to them than just that, wasn't there? 50 years since Lemmy got the boot from psychedelic prog rockers Hawkwind and made a band that'd "kill ...