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Wikiquote
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Wikiquote is one of a family of wiki-based projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, running on MediaWiki software. And to be as proper as possible in regard to the details of the quotations, though there are many online collections of quotations, Wikiquote is distinguished by being among the few that provide an opportunity for visitors to contribute. Wikiquote pages are cross-linked to articles about the personalities on Wikipedia. Initially, the project was created solely in English, an expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004. As of September 2016, there are 89 versions, as of September 2016, thirty-one versions each have more than 1,000 articles. Sixty language versions have 100 or more articles, Wikimedia Foundation List of Wikiquote Projects by Language Official website
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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Pantera
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Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. The group was formed in 1981 by the Abbott brothers – drummer Vinnie Paul, bassist Rex Brown joined the band the following year, replacing the original unofficial bass guitarist Tommy D. Bradford. Having started as a metal band, Pantera released four albums during the 1980s. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera replaced Glaze with Phil Anselmo in late 1986, with its fifth album, 1990s Cowboys from Hell, Pantera introduced a groove metal sound. Panteras sixth album, 1992s Vulgar Display of Power, exhibited an even heavier sound, Far Beyond Driven debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Tensions began to surface among the members when Anselmo became addicted to heroin in 1995. These tensions resulted in the sessions for The Great Southern Trendkill being held separately. The ongoing tension lasted for seven years, during which only one studio album. Pantera went on hiatus in 2001, but was disbanded by the Abbott brothers in 2003 amid communication problems, the Abbott brothers went on to form Damageplan, while Anselmo continued work on several side projects, including Down in which Rex Brown joined as well. On December 8,2004, Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed on stage by a mentally unstable fan during a Damageplan concert in Columbus, Ohio, in 1982, the band was renamed Pantera in order to shorten the name and to settle an agreement between all band members. Hart left the band and Terry Glaze became the groups vocalist, later, Glaze stopped playing guitar, leaving Darrell as the sole guitarist. Later that year Bradford also departed and was replaced by Rex Brown, Pantera became an underground favorite, though its regional tours in this era never took them beyond Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. The band began supporting fellow heavy metal acts such as Stryper, Dokken, and Quiet Riot. Metal Magic was released on the record label of the same name in 1983 and produced by the Abbott brothers father, Jerry Abbott. The following year, Pantera released its second album, Projects in the Jungle. Though still very much a glam metal album, the band members crafted songs that had less overbearing melodic influences than songs from Metal Magic, another change was Terry Glazes name, as he was henceforth credited as Terrence Lee. In addition, a video for the albums lead track. Projects in the Jungle was also released on the bands independent Metal Magic Records label, in 1985, Pantera again released a full-length album on Metal Magic Records, titled I Am the Night
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Nashville is the capital of the U. S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the central part of the state. The city is a center for the music, healthcare, publishing, banking and transportation industries and it is known as a center of the country music industry, earning it the nickname Music City, U. S. A. Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county government which includes six municipalities in a two-tier system. Nashville is governed by a mayor, vice-mayor, and 40-member Metropolitan Council, thirty-five of the members are elected from single-member districts, five are elected at-large. Reflecting the citys position in government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Courts courthouse for Middle Tennessee. According to 2015 estimates from the U. S. Census Bureau, the balance population, which excludes semi-independent municipalities within Nashville, was 654,610. The 2015 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,830,345, the 2015 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,951,644. The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and it was named for Francis Nash, the American Revolutionary War hero. Nashville quickly grew because of its location, accessibility as a port on the Cumberland River, a tributary of the Ohio River. By 1800, the city had 345 residents, including 136 African American slaves and 14 free blacks, in 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1843, the city was named the permanent capital of the state of Tennessee, by 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the South, antebellum Nashville was a prosperous city. The citys significance as a port made it a desirable prize as a means of controlling important river. In February 1862, Nashville became the first state capital to fall to Union troops, the state was occupied by Union troops for the duration of the war. Within a few years after the Civil War, the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veteran John W. Morton, meanwhile, the city had reclaimed its important shipping and trading position and developed a solid manufacturing base. The post–Civil War years of the late 19th century brought new prosperity to Nashville and these healthy economic times left the city with a legacy of grand classical-style buildings, which can still be seen around the downtown area. Circa 1950 the state approved a new city charter that provided for the election of city council members from single-member districts. This change was supported because at-large voting diluted the minority populations political power in the city and they could seldom gain a majority of the population to support a candidate of their choice
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Vulgar Display of Power
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Vulgar Display of Power is the sixth studio album by the American heavy metal band Pantera, released on February 25,1992 through Atco Records. One of the most influential metal albums of the 1990s. Several songs from this release have become some of the bands best known, such as Mouth for War, A New Level, Walk, Fucking Hostile, in 1991, Pantera returned to Pantego Sound Studio to record their second release under Atco, Vulgar Display of Power. The album was produced by Terry Date, who specializes in the rock, Date also went on to produce the bands following two albums, Far Beyond Driven and The Great Southern Trendkill. Before Date came in to work on the album, the band had demoed three tracks, A New Level, Regular People and No Good, the rest of the songs were written in the studio with little preproduction and demoing. After being in the studio for two months, Pantera were invited to open for Metallica and AC/DC at the 1991 Monsters of Rock free concert in Moscow, the band then returned to the studio to continue work on the album. They travelled to New York City to master the album at Masterdisk, drummer Vinnie Paul said that Cowboys from Hell was really close to the definitive Pantera sound. When Metallica released their self titled album in 1991, Pantera considered it a letdown to fans because they believed Metallica abandoned the thrash metal sound heard in previous albums. Pantera felt they had an opportunity and a gap to fill, the riff for Walk is played in a time signature of 12/8. Darrell had played the riff during a soundcheck while Pantera was touring for Cowboys from Hell, following this tour, the band returned home and found that some friends thought that rock stardom had gone to their heads. The lyrics for the song were inspired from these peoples attitude toward the band, Anselmos message to them was, Take your fucking attitude, keep that shit away from me. The title of the album is taken from a line in the 1973 film, when Father Damien Karras asks Regan MacNeil to break her own straps and release herself using her evil power, Regan replies thats much too vulgar a display of power. In April 2007, the title was used for the book A Vulgar Display of Power, Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa, the book details the incidents leading up to the murder of Dimebag Darrell Abbott. The albums cover is a photo of a man being punched in the face and was shot by photographer Brad Guice, the band told their label that they wanted something vulgar, like a dude getting punched. The first version of the cover that the label brought to the band showed a boxer with a punching glove, according to Vinnie Paul, the man on the cover was paid $10 a punch and was hit in the face 30 times to get the right picture. However Brad Guice stated that the man, who was named Sean Cross, was never actually hit, Vulgar Display of Power was released on February 25,1992. The original album spawned four singles, Mouth for War, This Love and Hollow were released in 1992. In 1993, the released the fourth single, titled Walk
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The Great Southern Trendkill
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The Great Southern Trendkill is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera, released on May 7,1996 by EastWest Records. It reached number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, and managed to stay on the chart for over 16 weeks, floods, the albums longest song, contains a guitar solo considered by many to be Dimebag Darrells finest. Guitar World magazine voted it as the 19th greatest guitar solo of all-time, the album is available as downloadable content for Rock Band, with the exception of Suicide Note Pt. I. 10s was featured in the Funimation dub of the Dragon Ball Z film Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan in 2003 and it also has a more experimental nature, such as the acoustic guitars and ballads. Unlike Panteras first three major albums, the vocals are often double tracked and layered to create a more demonic effect. An example of this can be heard in the chorus of 13 Steps to Nowhere, screams done by Phil Anselmo on the song The Great Southern Trendkill were compared Seth Putman. The lyrical themes on The Great Southern Trendkill include drugs, a flood that ends mankind, finding deeper meaning, anger, the album features elements of thrash metal and death metal while still being a groove metal album. Melody Maker - It makes my brain hurt, my eyes water, I cannot think of higher recommendation, considering the kind of album it is. If it made me feel all warm and gooey or tearful and lovelorn, spin -. mature speedmetal and perfect summer fun, twisted power ballads, rap-style toasting, almost radio-worthy melodies, plus all the right jackhammer drum jolts, wrestler bellows, and guitar lurch. On August 12,2016, Pantera announced via social media that a 20th anniversary edition of The Great Southern Trendkill would be released on October 21, the reissue will feature two discs, including a remastered version of the original album as well as 12 unreleased tracks. These are expected to include instrumentals, as well as alternative mixes, in addition, a separate LP named The Great Southern Outtakes will be released. This LP will consist of songs released on disc 2 of Trendkills reissue. Pantera Philip Anselmo – lead vocals Dimebag Darrell – guitar, backing vocals,12 string acoustic guitar on Suicide Note Pt. II, ross Karpelman – keyboards on Suicide Note Pt. Technical Terry Date – producer, recording, mixing Vinnie Paul – producer, recording, mixing Pantera – co-producer Ulrich Wild – co-recording
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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I'm Broken
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Im Broken is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their seventh album Far Beyond Driven. It was the first single issued from the album, kerry King said in a Japanese TV show Rock Fujiyama that its his favorite guitar riff. The song is about the pain that Panteras vocalist Phil Anselmo felt. Phil Anselmo said This is right when I started feeling the pain in my lower back, I think this is one of the first times in my life, man, that I had this thing called vulnerability kick in, and that was a very uncomfortable feeling. Anselmo adds, I think that was really my first glimpse into kind of screaming to the world, thats where a lot of the best riffs I ever wrote came from. Im Broken was released as the bands first single for Far Beyond Driven, two versions of the single were released. Both contained the b-side Slaughtered, but each version included a pair of live tracks. All live tracks were recorded in Moscow, USSR at the Monsters of Rock concert in 1991, the single garnered the band its second top 40 U. K hit reaching #19 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the bands highest charting single worldwide. It also reached #49 on the Australian Charts and #32 on the Swedish Charts, the song was also nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 1995 Grammy Awards. Allmusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia called Im Broken a wisely chosen first single, a live version of the song can be found on the bands live album Official Live,101 Proof. During live performances of the song, the band would have Dimebag Darrell performing backup vocals, the covers for parts 1 and 2 each show half of Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmos face. When compared, it can be seen that they are an image of one another, and on part 2 of the single. Im Broken was covered by Trepalium on their album, H. N. P The song was released as downloadable content for Rock Revolution. It is a track in Guitar Hero, Warriors of Rock. The music video was featured on Beavis and Butt-head on the episode The Pipe of Doom, the song was featured in a Carls Jr. and Hardees television commercial, starting in December 2015. The commercial features a burger flying through the air after the opening riff
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Planet Caravan
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Planet Caravan is a song by the English rock band Black Sabbath. Geezer Butler has stated that the meaning is floating through the universe with ones lover. The lyrics to the version as available on the Special Edition reissue of Paranoid were ad-libbed by Osbourne about an outing in the woods. The song appears on their 1970 breakthrough album Paranoid, lead singer Ozzy Osbourne uses a Leslie speaker to achieve the vocals treble and vibrato effects. The piano parts on the track were played by album engineer Tom Allom, iommi overdubbed flute to the reversed multitrack master which was then re-forwarded and treated with stereo delay. Planet Caravan was covered by American heavy metal band Pantera for their 1994 album Far Beyond Driven and it is often played as a bumper before commercials on the syndicated Jesus Christ show on Sunday mornings. A video was produced for the song, all of the computer-generated visuals for the video were taken from Karl Sims digital animation Panspermia produced for the 1991 SIGGRAPH conference. The Planet Caravan video has been omitted from recent Pantera music video collections, the song was released as the second single from Far Beyond Driven, and the follow up single to their hit single Im Broken in 1994 on EastWest Records as a 12 single. It came in a 12 gatefold with a blood-red vinyl, inside, the vinyl has a band picture with To our fans, Thanks for the support. The pictures have also signed in silver. In the liner notes of Far Beyond Driven, it reads and we did the song because we wanted to. It has nothing to do with the integrity of our direction, if you dont, dont fucking listen to it. On behalf of the rest of Pantera, Phil Anselmo 94, all tracks by Pantera unless noted otherwise. Clive Jones of Black Widow and Agony Bag in 2007, cable on In These Black Days, Volume 4, a tribute to Black Sabbath. Estonian band Rondellus covered this song in Medieval style, on their tribute album Sabbatum, for voice, lute, in their version the lyrics are translated into Latin, and the song has been retitled Planetarum Vagatio. Svarti Loghin on their album Drifting Through the Void, Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan Darkside as part of their Boiler Room concert in New York in 2013. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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5 Minutes Alone
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5 Minutes Alone is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their 1994 album Far Beyond Driven. The song also appears on the live album. The song was released as content for Rock Revolution and Rock Band 3 and can be heard during a cut-scene in Tom Clancys Ghost Recon. And I was like, Listen, in case you havent noticed theres 18,000 people who really dig what were doing, youre the only one doing that stupid shit without even having to egg the crowd on. Ten guys just jumped the guy and beat the shit out of him and his dad called the manager after all the lawsuits and this and that, and basically said, Give me five minutes with that Phil Anselmo guy. Panteras vocalist Phil Anselmo spoke about what the song is about saying, the way I remember it was there was this kid that swore that I jumped off the stage and beat him up. That did not happen at all, when the father asked for five minutes alone with me, our manager responded aptly and perfectly, No, you dont. I really doubt that, and basically hung up on the guy, but once that story was conveyed to me, it actually made me angry because it wasnt fucking true. I basically plucked out those words from my agitators mouth and yeah, man, five minutes alone, upon release the song had an immediate impact on the bands fanbase, quickly becoming one of Panteras most popular songs. 5 Minutes Alone was covered by the bands Lamb of God, Ill Nino, DevilDriver, Soilwork and it featured 3 vocalists,5 guitarists, and 3 drummers. The song was covered by Nonpoint for the Metal Hammer tribute album Getcha Pull. A Tribute to Dimebag Darrell as a bonus track. Nonpoint then released the song on their 2010 studio album Miracle, Texas deathcore band Upon a Burning Body recorded the song as well. It can be said as another track for Getcha Pull. Official music video Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Becoming (song)
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Becoming is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their seventh album Far Beyond Driven. It was released as a 2-track promotional-only vinyl 12, with 5 Minutes Alone as its B-side, the song features a guitar riff by Dimebag Darrell which involves a DigiTech Whammy pedal as well as extensive double bass drumming from Vinnie Paul. It also uses a guitar tuning, as it sits between C# and D-tuning. Therefore, with Becoming, it is what it says, during live performances of the song, the band would play Becoming and combine it with the outro of Throes of Rejection, a Pantera song also featured on the album Far Beyond Driven. A live performance of the song is available on the bands live album Official Live,101 Proof
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Heavy metal music
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Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are associated with aggression. The first heavy metal such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the evolution by discarding much of its blues influence, Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as metalheads or headbangers. During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with such as Mötley Crüe. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre and these include groove metal and nu metal, the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. Heavy metal is characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound. Metal subgenres variously emphasize, alter, or omit one or more of these attributes, the typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist. Keyboard instruments are used to enhance the fullness of the sound. Deep Purples Jon Lord played an overdriven Hammond organ, in 1970, John Paul Jones used a Moog synthesizer on Led Zeppelin III, by the 1990s, in. almost every subgenre of heavy metal synthesizers were used. The electric guitar and the power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a use of high volumes. Guitar solos are an element of the heavy metal code. That underscores the significance of the guitar to the genre, most heavy metal songs featur at least one guitar solo, which is a primary means through which the heavy metal performer expresses virtuosity. One exception is nu metal bands, which tend to omit guitar solos, with rhythm guitar parts, the heavy crunch sound in heavy metal. Palm muting the strings with the hand and using distortion. Palm muting creates a tighter, more sound and it emphasizes the low end
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EastWest Records
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East West Records is a record label owned by Warner Music Group operating under WMGs Independent Label Group. Upon its creation in 1955 by Atlantic Records, the label had one hit with the Kingsmen and went into hibernation until 1990, Atlantic senior VP Sylvia Rhone was appointed Chair/CEO of the fledgling label. EastWest also distributed other imprints, such as, Interscope Records, Motor Jams Records, Mecca Don Records, in 1991, East West merged with its Atlantic sister label Atco Records, briefly calling itself “Atco/East west Records”. In 1993, Atcos name was dropped and the continued to operate under the East West name once more. While in the United Kingdom, the brand was applied to many of the WEA artists such as Simply Red, Chris Rea, in 1994, Rhone was appointed Chairman and CEO of Atlantics sister label Elektra Records. At the time, East West also broke away from the Atlantic umbrella to continue to operate under Rhone at Elektra. By the new millennium, budget cuts at Warner Music Group resulted in East West being absorbed into Elektra, where some of its acts were shifted over as well. In 2004, Time Warner sold Warner Music Group to private investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. Subsequently, more cuts were made. In 2005, WMG reactivated the East West imprint as an in-house label, East West today operates under Warners Independent Label Group. East West Records was revived in the UK in 2014 under the direction of Max Lousada, Chairman & CEO, the resurrected label is headed up by Dan Chalmers, President, Rhino, East West and ADA UK. Key artists on the East West roster include Robert Plant, Si Cranstoun, Boyzone, Bette Midler, Jools Holland, Beverley Knight, Amelia Lily, The Corrs, discography of 1957–1959 East West singles Official Website
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Recording Industry Association of America
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The Recording Industry Association of America is a continental North and South American trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA says create, the RIAA headquarters is in Washington, D. C. The RIAA was formed in 1952 and its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the RIAA equalization curve, the format of the record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3 rpm,45 rpm. Since 2001, the RIAA has spent $2 to $6 million each year on lobbying in the United States, the RIAA also participates in the collective rights management of sound recordings, and it is responsible for certifying Gold and Platinum albums and singles in the United States. Cary Sherman has been the RIAAs chairman and CEO since 2011, Sherman joined the RIAA as its general counsel in 1997 and became president of the board of directors in 2001, serving in that position until being made chairman and CEO. Mitch Glazier has been the RIAAs senior executive vice president since 2011 and he served as executive vice president for public policy and industry relations from 2000 to 2011. The past RIAA chairman and CEO is Mitch Bainwol, who served from 2003 to 2011 and he left in 2011 to become president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. The board of directors consists of 26 members of the board, the RIAA operates an award program for albums that sell a large number of copies. The program originally began in 1958, with a Gold Award for singles, the criterion was changed in 1975 to the number of copies sold, with albums selling 500,000 copies awarded the Gold Award. In 1976, a Platinum Award was added for one million sales, the awards are open to both RIAA members and non-members. Since 2000, the RIAA also operates a program for Latin music sales. Currently, a Disco De Oro is awarded for 30,000 units, the RIAA defines Latin music as a type of release with 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish. In 2006, digital ringtones were added to branch of certification. In the same year, the RIAA introduced the Latin Digital Award for digital recordings in Spanish and this release format includes DVD and VHS releases, and certain live albums and compilation albums. The certification criteria is different from other styles. Gold,50,000 Platinum,100,000 Multi-Platinum,200,000 copies The RIAA opposes unauthorized sharing of its music, studies conducted since the association began its campaign against peer-to-peer file-sharing have concluded that losses incurred per download range from negligible to moderate. The association has commenced high-profile lawsuits against file sharing service providers and it has also commenced a series of lawsuits against individuals suspected of file sharing, notably college students and parents of file sharing children
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Dimebag Darrell
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He was considered to be one of the driving forces behind groove metal. Abbott was shot and killed by a gunman while on stage during a performance with Damageplan on December 8,2004, at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio. He ranked No.92 in Rolling Stone magazines 100 Greatest Guitarists and No.1 in the UK magazine, Abbott was born in Arlington, Texas on August 20,1966, the son to Carolyn and Jerry Abbott, a country musician and producer. Before he wanted a guitar, Abbott asked his parents for a BMX bike and he took up the guitar when he was twelve, with his first being a Hondo-style Les Paul along with a small amplifier. Upon winning a series of local competitions, most notably held at the Agora Ballroom in Dallas, Texas. He then sold this guitar to luthier Buddy Blaze, who installed a Floyd Rose bridge and emblazoned it with Abbotts signature lightning bolt paint job, Blaze returned it some years later. Coincidentally, his father had bought him a Dean ML the morning before the aforementioned competition. Abbott met his long-time girlfriend Rita Haney at an age around the third grade. Abbott formed Pantera in 1981 with his brother Vinnie Paul on drums, originally, he called himself Diamond Darrell Lance. The band was influenced with thrash metal acts such as Slayer, Megadeth, Venom, and Metallica as well as metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Motörhead. Shortly after singer Phil Anselmo joined Pantera, Darrell was invited by Dave Mustaine to join Megadeth, Darrell was willing to join, but on the condition that Mustaine also hire his brother Vinnie on drums. As Mustaine already had a drummer, Nick Menza, Darrell decided to stay with Pantera, Pantera would go on to become a key formulator of the post-thrash subgenre of groove metal. It would not be until nine years after forming that Pantera saw its first piece of commercial success in its 1990 major label debut, Cowboys from Hell. On Panteras 1994 album Far Beyond Driven, Abbott, whod been listed on all prior albums under the moniker Diamond Darrell, was listed as Dimebag Darrell. and Raw. Pantera began to suffer from mounting tensions between members in the mid-1990s, largely due to vocalist Phil Anselmos rampant drug abuse. In 2001, the group went on hiatus, during which time Anselmo worked on projects, such as Superjoint Ritual. This caused more friction within the band, as the Abbott brothers kept waiting for Anselmo to become available to work with them again, the frustration with Anselmo led to their decision to disband Pantera in 2003. After a year, brothers Vinnie and Dimebag formed Damageplan, a metal band which continued the Pantera-style groove metal sound
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The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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The soundtrack to the movie The Crow was released in 1994. Rage Against the Machine re-recorded their 1991 B-side Darkness of Greed and renamed it Darkness for this soundtrack, the Cure also wrote the song Burn for the movie. Stone Temple Pilots originally re-recorded a song off their Mighty Joe Young demo, titled Only Dying, the inclusion of songs written by The Cure and Joy Division are notable because the influences of both bands are present in the original comic book. In one panel, Eric even quotes a lyric from the song Disorder from the album Unknown Pleasures, oBarr was a big fan of both bands when he was creating the comic book. Peaking at the top of the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart, the album has sold 3.8 million copies in the United States, and has been certified 3x-Platinum by RIAA
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Phil Anselmo
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Philip Hansen Phil Anselmo is an American heavy metal musician who is best known as the lead vocalist for Pantera. He is also the owner of Housecore Records and has been involved several other bands. Anselmo was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is of Danish, Italian and he attended many schools, the last of which was Grace King High School located in the suburb of Metairie. Anselmos father, Phil, owned and operated a restaurant in Metairie called Anselmos, Anselmo has said in various interviews that he was very quiet and secluded as a child. He spent some time working on fishing boats as a young man, as a teen, Anselmo accidentally started a fire in his parents house while pulling a prank on his sister. The incident resulted in damage to most of the furniture. While a teenager, Anselmo joined the band Samhain, from the early to mid-1980s, Anselmo was a member of the band Razor White. While they did have some material, they played mainly Judas Priest covers. Pantera was a metal band, with three self-released albums to their name. In 1986, the decided to replace singer Terrence Lee. Seeking a new frontman to continue on this path, the band was led to 19-year-old Anselmo. In 1987, after meetings, Anselmo was added to the Pantera lineup. The band was so impressed with Anselmo that they re-recorded some of Terrence Lees vocals for their latest release, Anselmo relocated to Texas to record Power Metal, which was released in 1988 on the bands own record label, Metal Magic Records. Following the release of Power Metal, the band dropped its glam image, Pantera recorded the album Cowboys from Hell in 1990, and a long tour began. The band documented portions of tour on their first home video, Cowboys from Hell, The Videos. In 1992, Pantera released Vulgar Display of Power and that same year, the band released a promo titled Hostile Mixes that contained four songs, three of which were remixes. The first two remixes were done by Justin K. Broadrick of Godflesh and the last by J. G. Thirlwell of Foetus, in 1994, Pantera released Far Beyond Driven, which debuted at No.1 in the U. S. In late June, Anselmo was charged with following a altercation with a security guard when fans were prevented from getting on stage
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Heroin
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Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opiate typically used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. Medically it is used to relieve pain and as a form of opioid replacement therapy alongside counseling. Heroin is typically injected, usually into a vein, however, onset of effects is usually rapid and lasts for a few hours. Common side effects include respiratory depression and about a quarter of those who use heroin become physically dependent, other side effects can include abscesses, infected heart valves, blood borne infections, constipation, and pneumonia. After a history of use, withdrawal symptoms can begin within hours of last use. When given by injection into a vein, heroin has two to three times the effect as a dose of morphine. It typically comes as a white or brown powder, treatment of heroin addiction often includes behavioral therapy and medications. Medications used may include methadone or naltrexone, a heroin overdose may be treated with naloxone. An estimated 17 million people as of 2015 use opiates such as heroin, the total number of opiate users has increased from 1998 to 2007 after which it has remained more or less stable. In the United States about 1.6 percent of people have used heroin at some point in time, when people die from overdosing on a drug, the drug is usually an opioid. Heroin was first made by C. R. Alder Wright in 1874 from morphine, internationally, heroin is controlled under Schedules I and IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. It is generally illegal to make, possess, or sell heroin without a license, in 2015 Afghanistan produced about 66% of the worlds opium. Often heroin, which is sold, is mixed with other substances such as sugar or strychnine. The original trade name of heroin is typically used in non-medical settings and it is used as a recreational drug for the euphoria it induces. Anthropologist Michael Agar once described heroin as the perfect whatever drug, tolerance develops quickly, and increased doses are needed in order to achieve the same effects. Its popularity with recreational users, compared to morphine, reportedly stems from its perceived different effects. In particular, users report an intense rush, an acute transcendent state of euphoria, while other opioids of recreational use produce only morphine, heroin also leaves 6-MAM, also a psycho-active metabolite. Equipotent injected doses had comparable action courses, with no difference in subjects self-rated feelings of euphoria, ambition, nervousness, relaxation, drowsiness, short-term addiction studies by the same researchers demonstrated that tolerance developed at a similar rate to both heroin and morphine
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Vinnie Paul
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Vincent Paul Abbott, also known as Vinnie Paul, is an American professional drummer and producer who is best known for being a former member, and co-founder, of the heavy metal band Pantera. He is currently a member of supergroup Hellyeah and he also co-founded the heavy metal band Damageplan in 2003 with his late younger brother, Dimebag Darrell. Vincent Paul Abbott was born in Abilene on March 11,1964 and his parents are Jerry, a country music songwriter and producer, and Carolyn Abbott. In 2009, he started American Drummer Champions with the aide of friend and influence M. Ludowise, in August 2013, Paul featured in a music video for Black Label Societys cover of Aint No Sunshine, appearing alongside a horse-masked Zakk Wylde. Wylde and Paul are well known to be friends, with Wylde also having been particularly close with Pauls brother Dimebag Darrell before his death in 2004. Paul formed the metal band Pantera in 1981 with his brother Dimebag Darrell and Terry Glaze on guitars, bassist Tommy D. Bradford. Upon Harts departure, Glaze assumed vocal duties, in the summer of 1982, Bradford left the band and was replaced by Rex Brown. The band released three albums with that lineup, Pantera recruited vocalist Phil Anselmo to replace Glaze in 1987. By 1990, the band had signed to Atco Records and released Cowboys from Hell. I, Cemetery Gates and Revolution Is My Name, in 2001, Anselmo decided to put Pantera on hold because of back pain while he toured and recorded with his side projects. Panteras official disbandment took place in 2003 for several reasons, in the years to follow, bad blood would stir up between Abbott and Anselmo. However, Anselmo has publicly announced that he wishes for Paul to forgive him, however, Paul has stated that he is not interested and will never talk to Anselmo again. After the breakup of Pantera, the Abbott brothers formed the metal band Damageplan with former tattoo artist Bob Zilla on bass. Damageplan recorded one album, New Found Power, which was released on February 10,2004, on December 8,2004, while on tour to support Damageplans album, Dimebag Darrell was shot dead onstage by ex-US marine Nathan Gale at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio. After burying his brother, Paul formed Big Vin Records in February 2006 and released Rebel Meets Rebel, Paul writes a monthly question-and-answer column in Revolver. Paul maintains endorsement deals with ddrum, Sabian cymbals, and Vic Firth drumsticks and he previously endorsed Tama, Pearl drums, and Remo drumheads and hardware. Paul also played drums for Dethklok at a show in Philadelphia with Metalocalypse creator Brendon Small, around this time in his career. As of 2016, the group has released 5 albums, latest being Unden. able, sometime in 2017, Paul is planning on releasing a cookbook called Drumming up an Appetite with Vinnie Paul
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Megadeth
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Megadeth is an American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California. Guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson formed the band in 1983 shortly after Mustaines dismissal from Metallica. A pioneer of the American thrash metal scene, the band is credited as one of the big four with Anthrax, Metallica and Slayer, responsible for thrash metals development. Megadeth plays in a style, featuring fast rhythm sections. Themes of death, war, politics and religion are prominent in the song lyrics, in 1985, the band released its debut album on the independent label Combat Records. The albums moderate commercial success caught the attention of bigger labels and their first major-label album, Peace Sells. But Whos Buying. was released in 1986 and influenced the underground metal scene, despite its prominence in thrash metal, frequent disputes between its members and substance abuse issues brought Megadeth negative publicity during this period. After the lineup stabilized, the released a number of platinum-selling albums, including Rust in Peace. These albums, along with touring worldwide, helped bring recognition to Megadeth. The band temporarily disbanded in 2002 when Mustaine suffered an arm injury and re-established in 2004 without bassist Ellefson, Ellefson settled with Mustaine out of court and rejoined the group in 2010. Megadeth has hosted its own festival, Gigantour, several times since mid-2005. As of 2014, Megadeth had sold 50 million records worldwide, earned platinum certification in the United States for five of its fifteen studio albums, Megadeth won its first Grammy Award in 2017 for the song Dystopia in the Best Metal Performance category. The bands mascot, Vic Rattlehead, regularly appears on album artwork and, since 2010, the group has experienced controversy over its musical approach and lyrics, including canceled concerts and album bans. MTV has refused to play two of the videos that the network considered to condone suicide. As Metallicas lead guitarist since 1982, Mustaine had composed some of the early songs. Afterward, Mustaine vowed revenge by forming a band that was faster and heavier than Metallica. On the bus back to Los Angeles, Mustaine found a pamphlet by California senator Alan Cranston that read. The term Megadeath stuck with Mustaine and he wrote a song with the slightly changed to Megadeth
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Black Sabbath
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The band experienced multiple line-up changes, with Iommi being the only constant member throughout its history. Originally formed as a rock band, the group soon adopted the Black Sabbath moniker and began incorporating occult themes with horror-inspired lyrics. They also composed songs about social instability, political corruption and drugs, Osbournes regular use of alcohol and other drugs led to his dismissal from the band in 1979. He was replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, in 1992, Iommi and Butler rejoined Dio and drummer Vinny Appice to record Dehumanizer. The original line-up reunited with Osbourne in 1997 and released a live album Reunion, Black Sabbaths final studio album and nineteenth overall,13, features all of the original members but Ward. A year after embarking on a tour, the band played their final concert in their home city of Birmingham on 4 February 2017. Iommi has stated, however, that he has not ruled out the possibility of new material or one-off shows under the Black Sabbath name, Black Sabbath are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath, Paranoid and they were ranked by MTV as the Greatest Metal Band of all time, and placed second in VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock list. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them number 85 in their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and they have sold over 70 million records worldwide. Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and they have also won two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance. Following the break-up of their previous band Mythology in 1968, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward sought to form a blues rock band in Aston. The new group was named the Polka Tulk Blues Band, the name taken either from a brand of talcum powder or an Indian/Pakistani clothing shop. The Polka Tulk Blues Band featured slide guitarist Jimmy Phillips, a friend of Osbournes. After shortening the name to Polka Tulk, the band changed their name to Earth and continued as a four-piece without Phillips. Iommi became concerned that Phillips and Clarke lacked the dedication and were not taking the band seriously. Rather than asking them to leave, they decided to break up. While the band was performing under the Earth title, they recorded several demos written by Norman Haines such as The Rebel, Song for Jim, the demo titled Song for Jim was in reference to Jim Simpson. Jim Simpson was a manager for the bands Bakerloo Blues Line, Simpson was also a trumpet player for the group Locomotive
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Paranoid (album)
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Paranoid is the second studio album by the English rock band Black Sabbath. Released in September 1970, it was the bands only LP to top the UK Albums Chart until the release of 13 in 2013. Paranoid contains several of the signature songs, including Iron Man, War Pigs and the title track. It is often regarded as one of the most quintessential and influential albums in heavy metal history, Paranoid was recorded at Regent Sound Studios and Island Studios in London, England. Ironically, the title track was written as an afterthought. As drummer Bill Ward explains, We didnt have enough songs for the album, and Tony just played the guitar lick and it took twenty, twenty-five minutes from top to bottom. It was all done in two hours. The single was released in September 1970 and reached number four on the UK charts, most of the songs on Paranoid evolved during onstage improvisational jams. In the same documentary, Iommi demonstrates his approach to the solo in the song, explaining that I always tried to keep the bottom string ringing so it fills it out nicely. On Planet Caravan, Osbourne sings through a Leslie speaker, with the singer telling Mojo in 2010 and it looks like a fridge with a knob on. The albums opening track War Pigs was originally intended to be called Walpurgis, thats who the real Satanists are, all these people who are running the banks and the world and trying to get the working class to fight the wars for them. We sent it off to the company and they said. So I changed it to War Pigs, in his autobiography I Am Ozzy, vocalist Ozzy Osbourne recalls, It was originally going to be called Walpurgis. Which was a term for a black magic wedding or something, Then we changed it to War Pigs, and Geezer came up with these heavy duty lyrics about death and destruction. No wonder we never got any chicks at our gigs, Geezer just wasnt interested in your average I love you pop song. Geezer also liked to put a lot of stuff, like Vietnam references. He had his ear to the ground, Geezer did, the song Iron Man was originally entitled Iron Bloke, upon hearing the main guitar riff for the first time, Osbourne remarked that it sounded like a big iron bloke walking around. The title was changed to Iron Man as bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler composed the lyrics
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Ted Nugent
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Theodore Anthony Ted Nugent is an American musician and political activist. Nugent initially gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Amboy Dukes, after playing with the Amboy Dukes, he embarked on a solo career. Nugent is also noted for political views, his lifelong stance against drug and alcohol abuse and advocacy of hunting. He is a member of the National Rifle Association and a strong supporter of the Republican Party. Nugent was born the third of four siblings in Redford, Michigan, He moved to Palatine, Illinois as a teenager, raised Catholic, Nugent has mentioned his ties with Catholicism many times during interviews, and has stated that he regularly attends church. He attended William Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois, then transferred after his year to St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights. Nugent has released more than 34 albums and has sold a total of 30 million records. He was known throughout his career in the 1970s for using Fender amps, a large part of his signature sound. Nugents 2005 plans involved a tour with country music singer-songwriter Toby Keith, Nugent toured with local Detroit musician Alex Winston during the summers of 2007 and 2008. On July 4,2008, at the DTE Energy Music Theater in Clarkston, Michigan, Ted Nugent played his 6, Derek St. Holmes, Johnny Bee Badanjek, and Nugents guitar teacher from 1958, Joe Podorsek, all jammed on stage with Nugent for various tunes. The Cellars house band at the time had been the Shadows of Knight, the Amboy Dukes second single was Journey to the Center of the Mind, which featured lyrics written by the Dukes second guitarist Steve Farmer. Nugent, an ardent anti-drug campaigner, has claimed that he had no idea that this song was about drug use. The Amboy Dukes, Journey to the Center of the Mind, Migration, on April 5,1968, Nugent along with a group of musicians paid tribute to Martin Luther King by having a folk, rock and blues jam session. Joni Mitchell played first, followed by Buddy Guy, Cactus, other musicians who participated were BB King and Al Kooper. After settling down on a ranch in Michigan in 1973, Nugent signed a deal with Frank Zappas DiscReet Records label. The following year, Tooth Fang & Claw established a fan base for Nugent, personnel changes nearly wrecked the band, which became known as Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes. Nugent reunited with the members of the Amboy Dukes at the 2009 Detroit Music Awards. The psychedelic band received a distinguished achievement honor at the event, the Dukes also played together at the ceremony, marking their first public performance in more than 30 years
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Weekend Warriors (album)
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Weekend Warriors is the fourth studio album by American hard rock guitarist Ted Nugent, released in 1978. It was the first Ted Nugent album not to feature Derek St. Holmes until Nugent in 1982, instead, Charlie Huhn, the new guitarist for Nugent, performed on the album and several other albums until Holmes returned. The front sleeve-art was by British artist Jeff Cummins and was commissioned by Oui magazine. Nugent liked what he saw and the artwork was recommissioned by CBS, although the album was a success, it contains few songs that have become concert or radio standards. Similarly, rock station WKTG in Madisonville, Kentucky used to use Weekend Warriors every Friday at 5,00 PM to start the weekend, however, the song has not been used recently, as it has been replaced by Loverboys Working for the Weekend
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Rex Brown
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Rex Robert Brown is an American musician and author, who is best known as having been the longtime bassist for the Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling, now defunct band Pantera. He is a member of Down, and is currently the bassist for the band Kill Devil Hill. He is to release his album as a solo artist sometime in 2017. For the first time in Browns career, the work features him not only as a bassist, Brown authored a book called Official Truth 101 Proof, which was released in April 2013. The book documents Panteras formation, career, and break-up, Rex Robert Brown was born in Graham, Texas on July 27,1964. His father was forty when Brown was born, and died in 1971 and he was raised by his mother and sister. Brown was first introduced to music through his grandmother, who taught him to play the piano when he was a child, Brown was a member of the Boy Scouts of America and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. Brown became a fan of ZZ Top and Def Leppard as a youth and he remains a fan of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and hardcore punk. Rex joined Pantera in 1982 with his classmate from the school jazz band drummer Vinnie Paul, guitarist Dimebag Darrell. During the early days of Pantera, Rex Brown went by the stage name Rex Rocker, for the 1990 album Cowboys from Hell he was credited simply as Rex. It was not until the 1994 album Far Beyond Driven that he used his name of Rex Brown. Pantera recruited vocalist Phil Anselmo to replace Glaze in 1987, by 1990 the band had been signed to Atco Records and released Cowboys from Hell which proved to be the bands turning point. During downtime Brown, Dimebag, and Vinnie teamed up with country artist David Allan Coe in a project called Rebel Meets Rebel in 1999 and this group released an album on May 2,2006 on Vinnie Pauls Big Vin Records label. In late 2010 Rex became a member of Kill Devil Hill, with Vinny Appice, Dewey Bragg. Kill Devil Hill released their album in May 2012 to critical acclaim. In 1998, during his stay in Louisiana, he was invited by Phil Anselmo for a jam session that included all the members of Down except their bass player Todd Strange, who left the band. That night they ended up writing several demos for what became their second album recorded in the fall of 2001 at Anselmos barn that had been transformed into a professional studio. The album was released on March 26,2002, and became the first Down release featuring Rex Brown on bass, the band, however, went on hiatus again at the very end of 2002
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Anus
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The anus is an opening at the opposite end of an animals digestive tract from the mouth. Amphibians, reptiles, and birds use the same orifice for excreting liquid and solid wastes, for copulation, monotreme mammals also have a cloaca, which is thought to be a feature inherited from the earliest amniotes via the therapsids. Marsupials have a single orifice for excreting both solids and liquids and, in females, a vagina for reproduction. The development of the anus was an important stage in the evolution of multicellular animals and it appears to have happened at least twice, following different paths in protostomes and deuterostomes. In animals at least as complex as an earthworm, the forms a dent on one side, the blastopore, which deepens to become the archenteron. In deuterostomes, the original dent becomes the anus while the gut tunnels through to make another opening. The protostomes were so named because it was thought that in their embryos the dent formed the mouth first and the anus was formed later at the opening made by the other end of the gut. More recent research, however, shows that in protostomes the edges of the dent close up in the middle, leaving openings at the ends become the mouth. Anal canal Imperforate anus, a birth defect, media related to Anus at Wikimedia Commons
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Entertainment Weekly
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Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by Time Inc. that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Different from celebrity-focused publications like Us Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW primarily concentrates on entertainment media news, however, unlike Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which are aimed at industry insiders, EW targets a more general audience. The first issue was published on February 16,1990, the cover price was $1.95 The title word entertainment was not capitalized on the cover until mid-1992 and has remained so since. By 2003, the weekly circulation averaged 1.7 million copies per week. In March 2006, managing editor Rick Tetzeli oversaw an overhaul of EWs graphics, Entertainment Weekly follows a typical magazine format by featuring a letters to the editor and table of contents in the first few pages, while also featuring advertisements. While many advertisements are unrelated to the entertainment industry, the majority of ads are typically related to up-and-coming television and these beginning articles open the magazine and as a rule focus on current events in pop culture. First Look, subtitled An early peek at some of Hollywoods coolest projects, is a spread with behind-the-scenes or publicity stills of upcoming movies. The Hit List, written each week by critic Scott Brown, highlights ten major events, Typically, there will be some continuity to the commentaries. This column was written by Jim Mullen and featured twenty events each week. The Hollywood Insider is a section that reports breaking news in entertainment. It gives details, in the columns, on the most-current news in television, movie. The Style Report is a section devoted to celebrity style. Because its focus is on celebrity fashion or lifestyle, it is rich in nature. Recently, the converted to a new format, five pictures of celebrity fashions for the week. A spin-off section, Style Hunter, which finds reader-requested articles of clothing or accessories that have appeared in pop culture recently, appears frequently. The Monitor is a two-page spread devoted to events in celebrity lives with small paragraphs highlighting events such as weddings, illnesses, arrests, court appearances. Deaths of major celebrities are typically detailed in a one-half- or full-page obituary titled Legacy and this feature is nearly identical to sister publication Peoples Passages feature. Harris column focuses on analyzing current popular-culture events, and is generally the most serious of the columns, harris has written about the writers strike and the 2008 presidential election, among other topics
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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Melody Maker
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Melody Maker was a British weekly pop/rock/disco music newspaper, one of the worlds earliest music weeklies. It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born composer, publisher Lawrence Wright, in 2000 it was merged into long-standing rival New Musical Express. Originally the Melody Maker concentrated on jazz, and had Max Jones, one of the leading British proselytizers for that music and it was slow to cover rock and roll and lost ground to the New Musical Express, which had begun in 1952. MM began its Melody Maker LP charts in November 1958, two years after the Record Mirror published the first UK Albums Chart, MM had larger and more specialised advertising, soon-to-be well-known groups would advertise for musicians. It ran pages devoted to minority interests like folk and jazz, a 1968 Melody Maker poll named John Peel best radio DJ, attention which John Walters revealed may have helped Peel keep his job despite concerns at BBC Radio 1 about Peels style and record selection. Melody Maker supported glam rock and progressive rock in the 1970s, Coleman had been insistent that the paper should look like The Daily Telegraph, but Williams wanted the paper to look more contemporary. He commissioned a design, but this was rejected by Coleman. During this period Melody Maker was described as the journal. In January 1972, in a moment for rock journalism. It was during this interview that Bowie claimed, Im gay, OH YOU PRETTY THING ran the headline, and swiftly became part of pop mythology. Bowie later attributed his success to this interview, stating that, Yeah and it was that piece by Mick Watts. During his tenure at the paper, Watts also toured with and interviewed artists including Syd Barrett, Waylon Jennings, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, in 1980, after a strike which had taken the paper out of publication for a period, Williams left MM. Several journalists, such as Chris Bohn and Vivien Goldman, moved to NME, Coleman left in 1981, the papers design was updated, but sales and prestige were at a low ebb through the early 1980s, with NME dominant. While MM continued to devote most space to rock and indie music, it covered techno, rap and post rock, two of the papers writers, Push and Ben Turner, went on to launch IPC Medias monthly dance music magazine Muzik. The paper printed harsh criticism of Ocean Colour Scene and Kula Shaker, in 1992, they gave a French rock band called Darlin a negative review calling them a daft punky thrash. Darlin eventually became the music duo Daft Punk. The magazine retained its large classified ads section, and remained the first call for musicians wanting to form a band, Suede formed through ads placed in the paper. In early 1997, Allan Jones left to edit Uncut and he was replaced by Mark Sutherland, formerly of NME and Smash Hits, who thus fulfilled boyhood dream and stayed on to edit the magazine for three years
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Guitar World
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Guitar World is a monthly music magazine devoted to guitarists, published since July 1980. It contains original interviews, album and gear reviews, and guitar, the magazine is published 13 times per year. Formerly owned by Harris Publications, Future US bought the magazine in 2003, in 2012, NewBay Media bought the Music division of Future US. The latter company also published a title, Guitar Legends. Guitar World website 100 Greatest Guitar Solos Guitar World Interviews Past and Present
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Monsters of Rock
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In 1979, promoter Paul Loasby, along with Maurice Jones, planned a one-day festival dedicated specifically for bands within the hard rock and heavy metal genre. Loasby was an established and successful promoter working that year on the Rainbow UK tour and penned the festival as the final show of the tour for the band to headline. Jones knew the owner of the Donington Park race track, Tom Wheatcroft, located next to the village of Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England, and the site was chosen to host the event. Donington Park was unknown as a location but its location in the East Midlands next to the M1, A42. Additionally the site ground level sloped which allowed for a viewing for the audience throughout the site. The first Monsters of Rock line-up consisted of a mix of British, over the years, the attendance continued to grow, reaching 107,000 in 1988, when two fans died during Guns N Roses set. As a result, the festival was cancelled the following year, the festival had been held in parallel in West Germany from 1983 to 1991. In 1984 and 1986 the festival branched into Sweden, in 1988, the festival occurred for the first time in France, Italy, Spain and The Netherlands. It was held as an event in 1991 in Soviet Union, Poland, Belgium. In 1994, the festival was exported overseas to Chile, Argentina, in 1993 the MONSTERS OF ROCK® radio show debuted in the United States with host Harlan Hendrickson. In 1995 the festival found itself in a situation until Metallica agreed to play with the condition of the band having control over the event. Donington Park remained event-less until 2001 when the Rock and Blues Festival, an outstanding success from the offset, the festival continues to this day having increased to a three-day event with five stages, though as of 2008 the event has been relegated outside of the track. In 2006, the Monsters of Rock name was revived and held at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England, for a one off event headlined by Deep Purple and with Alice Cooper as a special guest. In 2012 Harlan Hendrickson & Monsters of Rock Worldwide partnered with Larry Morand, Motörhead Bad News Warlock 22 August 1987 Bon Jovi Dio Metallica Anthrax W. A. S. P. A. S. P. The Almighty 4 June 1994 This was the first year that two stages were used, magazine were invited to vote on bands to appear at the festival, and Extreme easily won the right to appear second on the bill. 26 August 19951995 was not officially billed as Monsters Of Rock, skid Row Slayer Slashs Snakepit White Zombie Machine Head Warrior Soul Corrosion of Conformity 17 August 1996. Ozzy Osbourne and Kiss co-headlined with Kiss being the band on stage. S. G. A. F. France, Paris, Hippodrome de Vincennes –3 September 1990 Whitesnake Aerosmith Poison The Front Faith No More Face to Face Quireboys Note, Faith No More was not on the ticket list but was present to the show. S. T
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Kerrang!
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Kerrang. is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music, currently published by Hamburg based Bauer Media Group. It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a supplement in the Sounds newspaper. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music newspaper, angus Young of AC/DC appeared on Kerrang. s first cover. Launched as a magazine, Kerrang. began to appear on a fortnightly basis later. The original owner was United Newspapers who then sold it to EMAP in 1991, during the 1980s and early 1990s the magazine placed many thrash and glam metal acts on the cover but later discarded them when grunge acts such as Nirvana rose to fame. Readers often criticise the magazine for repeating this process every time a new musical trend becomes popular, Kerrang. s popularity rose again with the hiring of editor Paul Rees circa 2000 when the nu metal genre, featuring bands like Limp Bizkit and Slipknot were becoming more popular. Rees went on to edit Q magazine and Ashley Bird took over as editor from 2003 to 2005, however the magazines sales went quickly into decline in 2003 and Paul Brannigan took over as editor in May 2005. Prior to this Metallicas James Hetfield referred to their sound as power metal, with the emergence of emo and metalcore, Kerrang. began to heavily feature this musical trend. However, the revamp was not welcomed by all readers and many complaints were received about Kerrang. s sudden emphasis on emo, Brannigan took the magazine into its most commercially successful period with a record ever ABC for the title of 80,186 copies. In 2008, EMAP sold its magazine to current owner Bauer Media Group. Brannigan left Kerrang. in 2009 and Nichola Browne was appointed editor and she later stepped down in April 2011. Former NME features editor and GamesMaster deputy editor James McMahon was appointed as editor on 6 June 2011, Kerrang. s website, www. kerrang. com, was launched in summer 2001 by Dan Silver. Kerrang. ’s parent company Emap acquired the name from a Norwegian cybersquatter by the name of Steingram Stegane for a token sum of £666. Kerrang. s website is dedicated to finding out information to do with the magazine and also the latest information on the current bands. The website hosts Kerrang. s online shop, podcasts, message board, TV and radio segments ensuring even more opportunities to sell associated merchandise, launched its own online forum with the rants and raves section taking up most of the traffic. Though initially extremely popular, the number of users began to peter out around 2005 with the number of people online dropping to as low as 10 when previously it had been closer to the 100 figure. According to Alexa www. kerrang. com generates 60,000 pageviews per month and is ranked 66, since 1993, the magazine has held an annual awards ceremony to mark the most successful bands in the interests of their readers. The event is presented by music celebrities, with many others outside the industry who attend the event
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Prong (band)
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Prong is an American heavy metal band formed in 1986. Prong had two independent releases, Primitive Origins and Force Fed, the albums attracted the attention of Epic Records, who signed the trio in 1989. The group disbanded in 1997 after the Rude Awakening tour, to date, they have released eleven studio albums, one live album, four EPs, one DVD and one remix album. A pioneer of the metal scene, Prong is fronted by Tommy Victor. Korns Jonathan Davis, Demon Hunters Ryan Clark, and Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor all cite Prong as an influence to their musical style, the band was founded by singer/guitarist Tommy Victor and bassist Mike Kirkland. Ex-Swans drummer Ted Parsons joined a few months later, Prong released an EP Primitive Origins and an album Force Fed that were noted for their brutal hardcore punk sound. The recordings were released on Southern Records in the U. K. although Force Fed was recorded and completed in 1987, due to label problems, the album was not released until early 1989, coinciding with the bands first European tour. Epic Records saw the potential and signed them in 1989. Prongs major label album, Beg to Differ, was released in 1990. In the following year, Kirkland left the band and was replaced by bassist Troy Gregory, Prong issued their fourth release, Prove You Wrong, which saw the band experiment with programming and electronic samples while still retaining an aggressive yet melodic sensibility. By 1994, Troy Gregory was out of the band and was replaced by Paul Raven and John Bechdel, the new line up released Cleansing. With a slight industrial metal influence, Cleansing contained songs that are still considered Prong classics and is Prong’s most successful release to date, the videos for these two songs became staples of MTV’s legendary Headbangers Ball. The band toured America with Sepultura and Pantera as an opener for their Chaos A. D. and they also undertook a headlining European tour with Life of Agony and The Obsessed as their support. Prongs sixth album Rude Awakening was released in 1996 and it entered the charts at No.74 and sold 10,000 units in America in one week. Epic Records decided Prong were not selling records and released them from their contract 3 weeks later. In 2002, Victor re-formed Prong with bassist Brian Perry, drummer Dan Laudo, in 2002, after a 42-show American tour that was recorded for a live CD Prong entered the studio and recorded a new CD titled Scorpio Rising which was received with mixed responses. Victor played on and off again with Glenn Danzig from 1998–2005 in between time with Prong and his final goal of playing and writing on a Danzig record was met with Circle of Snakes in 2004. Prong released a live 2-disc DVD in 2005 entitled The Vault which features performances from the Hulstsfred and With Full Force festivals and this disc has Brian Perry and Mike Longworth on bass as Longworth replaced Perry after his departure in 2003
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Geezer Butler
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Terence Michael Joseph Geezer Butler is an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the metal band Black Sabbath. He has also recorded with Heaven & Hell, GZR, Butler received the nickname Geezer at approximately age eight, because he used to call everybody Geezer at school. It was just a term for a man. Butler grew up in an working-class Irish Catholic family and was influenced by the writing of Aleister Crowley as a teenager. Butler formed his first band, Rare Breed, in the autumn of 1967, Butler dated a girl who lived near Tony Iommi, and Iommis earliest memories of Butler involved seeing him walking past his house in Birmingham quite often to visit her. Later, Iommi and Butler became acquainted when their bands played at a nearby nightclub, separated for a time, Osbourne and Butler reunited in the blues foursome, Polka Tulk, along with guitarist Iommi and drummer Bill Ward. They renamed their band Earth, but after finding a band in the small-time English circuit with the same name, inspired by John Lennon, Butler played rhythm guitar in his pre-Sabbath days, including with Rare Breed. When Sabbath was formed, Iommi made it clear that he would not want to play with another guitarist, Butler lists Jack Bruce of Cream as his biggest influence as a bassist. Iommi described Butler as being another planet in the bands early days, he took LSD, wore Indian hippie dresses. At the time Black Sabbath was formed, Butler was studying to become an accountant, Butler briefly left Black Sabbath during the recording of their 1980 album Heaven and Hell to deal with personal problems. He again left the band in 1984 after touring in support of their 1983 album, in 1988 he joined his former Sabbath bandmate Osbourne to take part in the No Rest for the Wicked World Tour. Butler re-joined Black Sabbath in 1991 for the reunion of the Mob Rules line-up, in 1995 Butler joined with Osbourne to play on the Ozzmosis album. After recording Ozzmosis, he formed G/Z/R, issuing Plastic Planet in 1995 and his next solo album, Black Science, followed in 1997. Butler returned to Sabbath once more for the 1997 edition of Ozzfest, in 2005 he released Ohmwork, his third solo album. Butler is married to Gloria Butler, who managed Heaven & Hell and he also shares his Los Angeles home with several cats, of whom he has posted pictures on his website. His son, Biff Butler, was the frontman in the nu metal band Apartment 26, butlers other son James is a graduate of Oxford and resides in London. According to Ozzy Osbournes autobiography I Am Ozzy, Geezer never uses foul language, an avowed vegan, Butler appeared in an advertisement for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 2009
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Tony Iommi
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Anthony Frank Tony Iommi is an English guitarist, songwriter and producer. While working in a factory as a teenager, Iommi lost the tips of the middle and ring finger of his hand in an accident. Iommi briefly left Black Sabbaths forerunner, Earth, in 1968 to join Jethro Tull, after which he returned to Black Sabbath in 1969, in 2000, he released his first solo album Iommi, followed by 2005s Fused, which featured his former bandmate Glenn Hughes. After releasing Fused, he joined Heaven & Hell, which disbanded after Ronnie James Dios death in 2010, Iommi was ranked number 25 in Rolling Stone magazines list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. In 2011, he published his autobiography, entitled Iron Man, My Journey through Heaven, Anthony Frank Iommi was born in Birmingham, the only child of Anthony Frank and Sylvia Maria Iommi. His mothers family were owners in Italy. The family were Catholic but rarely attended mass, the family home in the Park Lane area of Aston also housed a shop which was a popular meeting place in the neighbourhood. The family living room doubled as the shops stockroom and his mother ran the shop while his father was a carpenter by trade. Born and raised in Handsworth, Birmingham, Iommi attended Birchfield Road School, at age 8 or 9, Iommi fell and badly cut his upper lip as another boy chased him. As a result, he gained the nickname Scarface which caused him to become self-conscious of the scar, and he eventually grew his trademark mustache as a means of covering it. At about age ten, Iommi began working out and learned judo, karate and he became so good at boxing that he envisioned a future as a bouncer in a nightclub, thus avoiding a career in a boring factory job. Iommi initially wanted to play the drums, but due to the noise he chose the guitar instead as a teenager, after being inspired by the likes of Hank Marvin. He has always played guitar left-handed, after completing school, Iommi worked briefly as a plumber and later in a factory manufacturing rings. He states that at one point he worked in a music store, at the age of 17, Iommi lost the tips of the middle and ring finger of his right hand in an industrial accident on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory. Was told youll never play again, I sat in the hospital with my hand in this bag and I thought thats it - Im finished. But eventually I thought Im not going to accept that, there must be a way I can play. After the injury Iommi considered abandoning the guitar entirely, however, his factory foreman played him a recording of famous jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, which encouraged him to continue as a musician. As Iommi would later write, My friend said, Listen to this guy play, listening to someone play the guitar is the very last thing I want to do right now
