Although die-hard fans stuck by Anthrax no matter who their singer was, it is widely agreed among metalheads that the band was at their peak…
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In their first ten years together, Canadian band April Wine went through several changes in style and personnel with Myles Goodwyn the only enduring original…
The definitive heavy metal band, Black Sabbath, emerged from Birmingham in the British Midlands in 1967. Their debut album, Black Sabbath (1970), stormed to #8 in the UK charts.…
In the late 80s, Cinderella had triple-platinum hits in the US with their debut album Night Songs (1986) and follow-up, Long Cold Winter (1988). Night Songs was released…
In 1967, former drummer of The Searchers, Chris Curtis, asked the boss of Alice Edwards Gowns (a rag trade company) to manage a new group…
Def Leppard formed in Sheffield, England in 1977 as Atomic Mass with original members Rick Savage, Pete Willis and Tony Kenning. Frontman Joe Elliot came…
July 1981, and Diamond Head – the perennially underachieving kings of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) – have just played a routine gig at…
Formed after Ronnie James Dio’s departure from Black Sabbath, Dio’s first self-titled outfit featured the considerable talents of fellow Sabbath absconder Vinny Appice on drums,…
There was never a better time to be a big-haired hard rock band from Los Angeles than in 1987. Mötley Crüe were riding high with the…
Fine in principal, but not quite in practice; The Heavy Metal crowd consistently ruled much of the 80’s, which is why there was ‘alternative music’…
During the 1980s, Helloween were the most successful heavy metal band that Germany has ever produced (who aren’t called The Scorpions). Formed in Hamburg in…
Formed in New York City in 1989, Helmet came out of the noise-rock underground, debuting on the Minneapolis punk label Amphetamine Reptile with the cold-eyed…
In the East End of London, Steve “Arry” Harris and Dave Murray joined forces in 1976 with Paul Di’Anno (real name, Paul Andrews) and Doug…
Named after the Bob Dylan song The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest and led by Tim Brooke-Taylor look-alike and openly gay biker dress-alike Rob…
The KISS story began when Paul Stanley (born Stanley Eisen) and Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz) decided to create heavy metal’s answer to The Beatles in…
Formed in Bakersfield, California, in 1993, Korn pioneered the nu metal genre and brought it into the mainstream. Their self-titled debut album was released in…
With a childhood spent moving from place to place dodging his estranged father, living in his own apartment and selling drugs at the age of…
Formed by Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield in Los Angeles in 1981 and initially inspired by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), Metallica’s…
Michael Schenker joined his brother’s band, Scorpions in 1971. The group opened for UFO on one of their early German tours and UFO were impressed enough that they asked…
In the late 1980s Mötley Crüe – Vince Neil (real name Vincent Neil Wharton), Mick Mars (real name Bob Deal), Nikki Sixx (real name Frank…