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A rock band from Antioch High School will take to the big stage at The Metro in Chicago Saturday night as part of the annual Hammerfest concert.Midnight Outlaw, a heavy metal/progressive group influenced by 1980s hair bands, will be one of the up-and-coming local bands opening for Lovehammers, an established Chicago rock outfit that headlines Hammerfest annually.Midnight Outlaw was persistent in ...

If you’re a serious metalhead, then you’ve probably heard of Pentagram, whose satanic imagery and albums of gloom-drenched rock were enormously influential on the development of heavy metal in the 1980s and ’90s. The band’s guitarist, Knoxvillian Victor Griffin, has followed a long and strange course from Pentagram’s drug- and booze-fueled days back home to East Tennessee, where he’s found a ...

Top Gun, the Smiths, The A-Team popular culture reached its height in the 1980s didn't it? Toby Litt on a decade he hated at the time, but is reluctantly starting to admire There's a fantastically annoying ad on Spotify at the moment for yet another Hits of the 80s compilation CD. Voiceover man hails "the decade that just won't die" which is true, even though, along with a large number of ...

The 49-year-old recording artist is in trouble with the law once again TheCelebrityCafe.com Staff Last Tuesday, 49-year-old singer Vince Neil-- who is best known as the lead singer for heavy metal band Motley Crew during the 1980s-- released his first solo album in fifteen years. Less than one week later, the musician found himself in trouble with the law. According to the New York Daily News ...

Heavy metal maniac Lizzy Borden plans to wreak havoc in Newport News. Big Daddy productions announced today that the 1980s-era shock rocker will play an all-ages show at Budda's Place , 16912 Warwick Blvd., on June 6.