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“If it was up to me, I’d make it the Big Five”: why Testament deserve to be at thrash’s top table

Testament’s 2012 album Dark Roots Of Earth was another classic from thrash’s most dependable band

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"They really made me smile...it was our singer that we never got!" Metallica's James Hetfield reveals the new metal band he's loving right now - and it involves an old friend

James Hetfield was delighted to recognise an old friend singing for a new band he heard on the radio

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"The Battle Of ’89 still rages 35 years on." Exodus' new live album gives us a rowdy glimpse into the golden age of thrash

New Exodus live album British Disaster: The Battle Of '89 offers no surprises but plenty of thrashing good fun

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"We were like, ‘These guys are just like us, this is crazy! We want to hack things up with machetes with them!’” Members of Metallica, Megadeth, Ghost and more talk the years that made Slayer into the ultimate thrash icons

Slayer might not have been the first band in thrash metal, but they became the genre's ultimate champions

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"There's no better catharsis than being at a thrash-metal show, screaming along with the band and banging your head": Scott Ian on why you should still go and watch Anthrax

One of thrash metal’s Big Four bring the noise – plus Kreator and Testament – to Europe in November

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“We took influences from the New York hardcore scene. Our stuff was faster than in the Bay Area”: the 100mph story of East Coast thrash

The inside story of 80s thrash’s great East Coast vs West Coast rivalry

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"I had a real sense that he was lonely and alone. I felt the same way": On April 1, 1994 two world-famous rock stars were seated together on Delta Airlines flight 788 from Los Angeles to Seattle. It would be the last flight one of them would ever take

On Good Friday, 1994, two musicians caught a flight home to Seattle. One of them would be found dead at home one week later

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“We’d play a song in a certain tempo. Three weeks later, it would be twice as fast”: who invented thrash metal? Kirk Hammett has a theory

Kirk Hammett was there at the birth of thrash with his original band Exodus, so he should know more than anyone who invented the genre

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“Lääz Rockit were headliners, and the band in the middle was Metallica.” The story of Lääz Rockit: the unsung thrash heroes who changed the future of metal’s biggest band

With a pioneering sound, packed-out San Francisco shows and a kinship with Metallica, Lääz Rockit could have been the fifth part of the Big Four. So why did they call it quits as early as 1992?

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New sci-fi RPG from Mass Effect veteran recruits Halo support studio to bring its spacefaring gunplay to life

Certain Affinity joins Archetype to work on Exodus

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"Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast!": the brutal true story behind Machine Head's Davidian, one of the defining anthems of '90s metal

The opening track on Machine Head's stunning debut album Burn My Eyes, Davidian has its roots in real life horrors

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“It’s not like Exodus where it’s 95 percent crunching guitars. I had to really concentrate on not playing so many notes”: Rick Hunolt on his cinematic second act with DieHumane

DieHumane’s The Grotesque is a masterly work of genre-hungry melodic metal, and it finds Hunolt approaching guitar like he's never done before

Guitar World

"Bands need to say 'we're not doing it'": Why musicians are taking a stand on merch cuts

With venues taking as much as 25% of touring bands' merchandise profits, artists like Exodus's Gary Holt and Architects' Dan Searle are demanding change

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Exodus, the new sci-fi RPG from a Mass Effect veteran, 'isn't trying to compete with Starfield'

New sci-fi RPG 'isn't trying to compete against Starfield' says Mass Effect veteran James Ohlen in interview.

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11 legendary heavy metal bands with only one original member left

Superstars from Iron Maiden to Slipknot are still thriving, despite having just one founding member among their ranks

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10 drummers who could replace Jay Weinberg in Slipknot

From Adrian Erlandsson to Gene Hoglan, these drumming dynamos all have the skills needed to join The Nine

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10 classic metal albums with horribly ugly cover art

These masterpieces by Metallica, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath are much easier on the ears than they are on the eyes

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10 terrible thrash metal albums with one classic song

Metallica, Megadeth and Exodus all have some clangers in their catalogue – but at least these songs saved them from being total write-offs

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"Ancient aliens? I'm open to the idea." The incredible life, career and beliefs of Testament frontman and thrash metal legend, Chuck Billy

From his belief in ancient aliens to battling cancer and auditioning for Sepultura, Chuck Billy has seen, done and thought about it all

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Watch 10 of the craziest mosh pits we've ever seen

From attempts at a Guinness World Record to, ahem, 'intimate relations' in the middle of a death metal crowd, here are 10 times moshing was taken to a whole new level

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In a post-Roe world, faith-based family services take on new responsibilities

DALLAS -- When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the feeling was “complicated” for Aubrey Schlackman, who considers herself “pro-life.”

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10 travel firms turning green: new initiatives to boost sustainability

Ahead of Earth Day on Friday, we pick operators taking action to help the planet and limit overtourism, with eco stays, fewer flights and support for local people

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