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"There were a lot of hardcore racists in the South, but we thought they were just silly." Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young, and the truth about rock's most misreported beef

"There were a lot of hardcore racists in the South, but...

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The story of three songs that started fifty years of fake news

"Maybe they should have included a disc of Lemmy spinning in his grave." Motörhead's On Parole Sessions are a noble endeavour but the extras are perplexing

"Maybe they should have included a disc of Lemmy spinni...

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Motörhead's shelved would-have-been debut album gets the box set treatment it do...

“Every song I wrote came together easily. It was just one of those patches – about five years’ worth. I was really lucky to go through that”: Jeff Lynne didn’t notice he’d turned ELO into the world’s biggest rock band

“Every song I wrote came together easily. It was just o...

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He recalls being surprised with his first hit in America, taking five minutes to...

“I told her to write a poem about batteries that are dying that cannot be recharged”: Slipknot’s Shawn “Clown” Crahan explains how Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia ended up on Look Outside Your Window

“I told her to write a poem about batteries that are dy...

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Scabbia, who was in a relationship with ’Knot guitarist Jim Root from 2004 to 20...

“I could go to a festival in a unicorn outfit and no one would bat an eyelid. Nobody cares”: From teenage rebellion to gatekeeping and mental health, we interviewed a therapist to try and understand how metalheads’ brains work

“I could go to a festival in a unicorn outfit and no on...

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Why do some people love metal while others hate it? Why do metalheads gatekeep? ...

"I went looking for heroin in a subterranean club and approached some guys. I got a severe beating outside instead." Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan recalls the painful day that he told his bandmates he was struggling with addiction

"I went looking for heroin in a subterranean club and a...

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"If you'd said my mother had died, I wouldn't have cared less"

"This track is arriving in an atmosphere of chaos." Tom Waits and Massive Attack collaborate on haunting, politically-charged new single Boots On The Ground referencing "the militarisation of police forces fusing with neo-fascist politics"

"This track is arriving in an atmosphere of chaos." Tom...

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Waits’ first new material since 2011 is a dark collaboration with Massive Attack

"I jumped through a window and hit one. Someone started choking me; I was basically blue by the time I was rescued." Russian Nazis, emotional encounters with Dio and rumours about Tom Hanks: Shane Embury on almost 40 years of Napalm Death and beyond

"I jumped through a window and hit one. Someone started...

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Extreme metal legend Shane Embury shares some of the wildest stories from his li...

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