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UNCOVERED: 2 - The Untold Story

“Our connection was so special, I would probably be able to feel him if he weren’t here anymore, and I don’t”: Wolfgang Van Halen details his spiritual struggle following the death of his father Eddie

The Mammoth singer/multi-instrumentalist says that losing his father left a “black hole” that made him question his spirituality

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“I’ve been in bands that really felt like you were creating something new – but you were just another band doing what had already been done”: Blending Tool, Bjork and Black Sabbath helped Swedish psych-proggers stand out from the start

The five-piece group surpassed their own expectations at their first-ever rehearsal. Now, as a four-piece with their fourth record out, they’re more impressive than ever

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"I showed up with Tibetan Singing Bowls, some percussion instruments and champagne, and asked them permission to do some experiments." The strange story behind Deftones and Maynard James Keenan's incredible collab, Passenger

One of the best metal collaborations of the 2000s featured two unique creative forces joining forces

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“We knew we had to push and push. We did the work ourselves and toured so much, until radio had no option but to play us”: The unlikely story of the last classic nu metal album

Nu metal was considered dead by 2005 – but one band from Australia ensured that the genre would bow out in a blaze of glory

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“If you were told to listen to us because you like Tool, that’s a positive. But if you listen just for those similarities, you’ll miss out”: The heart and soul that went into Soen’s Tellurian

Comfortable with their connections to Opeth and Pink Floyd, the Swedish band evolved on their second album – which features a rhino eating tiny people on the cover

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“I could see downtown Hollywood and all the transformers were blowing. It looked like the city was being bombed”: How Terminator 2, a banned video and a massive earthquake shaped a classic Tool song

The story of Tool‘s classic 1993 single Prison Sex

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“They lock in and deliver really interesting riffs in a way that makes them sound simple, when they’re not simple at all” TesseracT’s James Monteith on the guitarist and band who changed his approach to music in the 90s

The djent pioneer found inspiration in a player who ignored standard time lengths, came up with unique sounds and played the wrong parts of his instrument – but always managed to groove

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Tool, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, Shinedown, Halestorm, Megadeth, Alter Bridge and over 130 more bands will play next year's Sonic Temple festival in Ohio

The five-stage weekender will take place in Columbus, Ohio from May 14 to 17

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“My wife brought the phone out and thought it was a prank call from Maynard from Tool! Nope – it was actually Lars!”: This is what it’s like to audition for Metallica –and not get the job

Metallica’s line-up could have looked very different today if Robert Trujillo hadn’t got the job

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You’ve probably never heard of this band, but their new album is a devastating space-metal odyssey for fans of Pink Floyd, Tool and great music in general

Psychonaut are far from superstars in the metal scene, but World Maker deserves to change that

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“I hope the fans realised that I’m for real. All the stuff I’ve done was not contrived or remotely premeditated. It was always spontaneous”: Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley inspired a generation of rock stars – including Pantera, Pearl Jam and Tool

"His legacy will live on in the hearts of the KISS Army," says drummer Peter Criss

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“Josh Homme said, ‘Do you want to come over?’ I was like, ‘So, you want to do Kyuss, but no John Garcia?' I’m good.’ I was bitter, I guess": Scott Reeder on the last days of Kyuss, QOTSA and what he told James Hetfield after that Metallica audition

The veteran bassist enthuses about his Spinal Trap tribute album, his part in a James Hetfield lyric session and the heady days of desert rock

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“I couldn't afford a real bass guitar, so I just tuned the strings down on a Telecaster”: How Geezer Butler went from playing bass on a guitar to the ominous riff that defined one of Black Sabbath’s darkest moments

Geezer Butler’s iconic bassline announces this tune from the classic 1970 LP Paranoid

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“I was outside shoveling some moldy hay into a wheelbarrow, and my wife comes out holding the phone. She thought it was a prank call”: Scott Reeder on the time he auditioned for Metallica – after Lars Ulrich cold-called him

Reeder didn't get the Metallica gig but the stoner-rock bass icon got a helluva story out of it – and the silver medal in the metal Olympics

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Tool’s Adam Jones and Danny Carey serve up surprise prog rock spar to open the Canelo vs. Crawford boxing match

The 75-second performance may have been short – but it came right after the band’s appearance at Black Sabbath’s Back to the Beginning extravaganza

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Watch members of Iron Maiden and Tool jam a Jeff Beck song at a wedding last week

Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith and partially-retired drummer Nicko McBrain performed with Tool bassist Justin Chancellor at Smith’s daughter’s wedding on Friday

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“I was supposed to play guitar on Sweet Leaf, then it was Changes”: Wolfgang Van Halen remembers meeting Ozzy Osbourne and reveals his original plan for Back To The Beginning

The singer/multi-instrumentalist dropped out of Ozzy’s final show due to a schedule change, but he got to meet the Black Sabbath frontman at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame the year before

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“They asked Kate Bush, ‘Why do you write about this stuff?’ She said, ‘Well, I’m not very interesting!’ It’s the same with us”: What Sylosis learned from prog stars including Opeth, Tool and Rush

Frontman of the British metal band and his colleagues accidentally discovered a breadth of influences after feeling uninspired by their peers

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"Amid the chaos and violence, Beth strains with every fibre of her being to resist, and to refuse, and to fight for what she holds dear and true." A defiant Jehnny Beth confronts an ever-darkening world with the fierce, furious You Heartbreaker, You

Former Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth returns with thrillingly intense, nu metal-influenced second solo album

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Electronic drumming pioneers: 11 trailblazing players who raised the bar for electronic and hybrid drumming

The drummers, past and present, who embraced technology to revolutionize music and the gear we play

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We need to talk about those heavy metal needle drops in Alien: Earth

Alien: Earth is receiving critical acclaim across the board - and it's packing some surprising metal bangers

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“The way he plays drums without overplaying is extraordinary. He never takes over the music”: Tool’s Danny Carey managed to distract Mick Pointer from Rush

The Marillion and Arena co-founder explains how the American prog metal band astonished him with a track from 1996 album Ænima

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"I wish I'd took some mushrooms." Bill Burr on how teaming up with Primus and Tool members helps his stand-up

Comedian Bill Burr reflects on performing Too Many Puppies with Primus in Los Angeles

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"The thing you’re getting on your phone sucks." Maynard James Keenan's ban on filming his live shows is here to stay

Filming on phones and other devices is prohibited at Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer shows – and that's not likely to change

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“The scene was super-underground. When the music industry developed, everyone got excited to start a band”: Meet Seera, Saudi Arabia’s first public all-female band, who are merging Nirvana and Tool with Arabic influences – and going global

Inspired to pick up the instrument by Guitar Hero, Seera are about to hit the international touring circuit on the back of a debut album that’s all about storytelling in a psychedelic style

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