Gibson Guitars has a new documentary on Tony Iommi. Watch it here.
Tony Iommi is rightly considered to be the godfather of heavy metal. Thanks to his work with Black Sabbath, metal took root and is now one of the biggest rock
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Random music news for Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Finding it hard to get moving in the morning, even with coffee? What about this new Chinese wristband that shocks you awake? No? I thought so. On to music news
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Ongoing History Daily: The heavy metal church
Metal and hard rock have long been considered the devil’s music, but one church in metal-crazy Brazil would beg to differ. The Crash Church ibegan in a large garage in
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The One Minute Music Book Club: A Heavy Metal History Lesson
I love digging into the inspiration behind songs, especially if the track turns out to be based on real events. A Heavy Metal History Lesson by Josh Putnam does just
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1010: Rock Explainer 4
A boy cannot become a man in the Satere-Mawe tribe of the Amazon rain forget until he can stand being stung by a swarm of bullet ants. They’re called that
Read MoreRandom music news for Thursday, November 30, 2023
Imagine receiving a Christmas present wrapped in this. Meanwhile, there’s music news for November 30, 2023. More music news? Look here. BONUS: There will be one more season of Letterkenny
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We have a winner at the 2022 Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship
Fact: There are more metal bands per capita in Finland (50 per 100,000 people) than any other country on the planet. Therefore, it shouldn’t be surprising that the Finns come
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Confirmed: The finalists for the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship. Wait–what?
Oh, those Finns. After spending so much of the year in darkness, summer brings long days and interesting ways of celebrating that. This includes the annual Heavy Metal Knitting World
Read MoreRandom music news for Wednesday, May 12, 2021
How confident is the UK government that they’ve got the pandemic under control? They’ve approved casual sex. Transitioning now to music news for May 12, 2021… No surprise here: Live
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The Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship is coming July 9
It’s just like it sounds: competitors engaged in competitive knitting to the sounds of metal music. Sadly, COVID is forcing the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship into the virtual universe
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Research asks: Why do people like heavy metal?
It’s the age-old question: Why do people love heavy metal? In particular, psychologists are trying to determine why people like death metal, that deep, aggressive, angular, loud, sharp music that
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