Sometimes it takes an old dog to teach us new tricks. In this case, it took five. Deep Purple has never had the fanfare associated with other English bands like The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, or Black Sabbath, but their fans have successfully kept them afloat for a 40-year plus career. They’ve pioneered…
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If Bring Me the Horizon would have heard the echoing piano and delicacy of Oli Sykes’ clean vocals on “And the Snakes Start to Sing” when they released their first EP, they likely would have put money on it being a different band. In a way, it is. Other than the departure of Curtis Ward…
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In 1984, the members of Def Leppard were looking to create a masterpiece to follow up their highly successful 1983 release, Pyromania. They knew that their next album needed to be the ultimate in pop-rock perfection in order to keep them climbing to the top of the charts in the US and to put them…
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The world looked dark for AC/DC when legendary front-man Bon Scott passed away in February of 1980. Fortunately for AC/DC they were able to find singer Brian Johnson and release perhaps the greatest tribute album of all time, Back In Black. This album contains a myriad of classic AC/DC hits such as “Hells Bells” “Shoot…
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Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut release is one of the few revolutionary rock albums of the early 1990s. Edgy both in a musical and lyrical sense, the album may not have created new genres, per se, but it certainly propelled the up-and-coming nu metal and rap metal genres to center stage of the rock…
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