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A choir on one of Germany’s Big Four thrash bands’ new album? “We always did our own thing.”

If you’re looking for some ‘leather, studs and bullet belts’ classic metal, get in their firing line.

The blues rocker plays UK shows in March and April.

Metallica ’s 1984 began with a gear heist and a cancelled UK tour; it ended with them being heavy metal’s Next Big Thing. Then came Master Of Puppets. This is the inside story of the making of that album and the two year whirlwind that took four “alcoholica” outcasts from the El Cerrito garage to the big time.

HEAVY METAL HAS evolved a great deal since four young musicians in Birmingham, England, saw a crowd gather across the street from their rehearsal room, lining up for an opportunity to get terrified by