Electric Wizard’s Liz Buckingham: On Heavy Music And Taking The Hard Road

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The leather-clad, self-taught axeslinger riffs on Beethoven and Revolver 's Hottest Chicks in Metal.

The Face-Melting 5: Edward Fortyhands Goes Metal

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"Headbangers Ball" is back with a vengeance over at MTV2, where host Jose Mangin gives metalheads their weekly dose of heavy riffs and thrashing vocals. And each week we'll dive in to the show for some metal immersion therapy and come back to you with the five most face-melting moments for metal purists and noobs [...]

First Listen: YOB, ‘Atma’

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The members of YOB often build on slow, powerful riffs that go fathoms deep, repeating them like metallic mantras.

First Listen: YOB, ‘Atma’

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The members of YOB often build on slow, powerful riffs that go fathoms deep, repeating them like metallic mantras.

For Avenged Sevenfold, ‘Nightmare’ album is part of the grief

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The majority of the lyrics on the album were rewritten to address the death of drummer Jimmy Sullivan. The result is a highly personal work. Orange County's Avenged Sevenfold has long been known by heavy-metal fans for its riffs and its death-obsessed imagery. "Sometimes I don't know why we'd rather live than die," sang frontman M. Shadows in the band's 2005 hit "Bat Country," which topped the ...