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Heavy Metal

Funny/Weird 

We have a winner at the 2022 Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship

July 13, 2022July 13, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Finland, Heavy Metal, Knitting, String Thing

Fact: There are more metal bands per capita in Finland (50 per 100,000 people) than any other country on the

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Music News 

Confirmed: The finalists for the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship. Wait–what?

June 22, 2021June 22, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Finland, Heavy Metal, Knitting

Oh, those Finns. After spending so much of the year in darkness, summer brings long days and interesting ways of

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Music News AJMT
Music News 

Random music news for Wednesday, May 12, 2021

May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Eve 6, Guitars, Heavy Metal, J Cole, LAPD, Punk, Songwriting, Spotify, Turkey

How confident is the UK government that they’ve got the pandemic under control? They’ve approved casual sex. Transitioning now to

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Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship
Music News WTF? 

The Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship is coming July 9

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Finland, Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal Knitting, Knitting

It’s just like it sounds: competitors engaged in competitive knitting to the sounds of metal music. Sadly, COVID is forcing

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Music News 

Research asks: Why do people like heavy metal?

November 4, 2018November 4, 2018 Amber Healy 1 Comment Cowboy, Death Metal, Heavy Metal, metal music

It’s the age-old question: Why do people love heavy metal? In particular, psychologists are trying to determine why people like

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Music History 

Where did the term “heavy metal” really come from? Let’s find out.

October 16, 2018October 16, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Heavy Metal

If you have eight minutes to spare, take a look at this fast-talking, fast-drawing video from 12Tone about the origins

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Music News 

Random music news for Wednesday, August 1, 2018

August 1, 2018August 1, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bez, Bruno Mars, Crabcore, Happy Mondays, Heavy Metal, Heavy Montreal, Jarvis Cocker, Peter Gabriel, Pulp, Pussy Riot, Samsung, Seth Rogen, Shoey, Sony, Steppenwolf, Toto, TTC, Weezer, WOMAD

August already. And my parents are coming to visit for almost a week. This should be interesting. Here’s music news

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Music News 

Elon Musk just sent his car into an orbit playing David Bowie on repeat on the stereo, something that was predicted in 1981.

February 6, 2018February 6, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment David Bowie, Elon Musk, Heavy Metal, Riggs, SpaceX

Earlier today, SpaceX, Tony Stark’s Elon Musk’s company, launched the biggest and most powerful private sector rocket ever conceived, with

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Music News 

Iron Maiden is Getting Their Own Comic Book

June 29, 2017June 28, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Comic Books, Eddie, Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden

There have been many Iron Maiden-branded products, from beer to soccer balls to cuff links to 747-400s. Strangely, though, there’s never

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Medical Mysteries of Music 

Science Shows: Singing Heavy Metal Makes You A Big Baby

May 24, 2017May 23, 2017 Mathew Kahansky 0 Comments Babies, Growling, Heavy Metal, Instinct, Larynx, Patient, Phonotrauma, Science, Screaming, Singers, Treatment, Vocal Chords

Have you ever wondered why heavy metal singers can scream for hours on end, but other singers lose their voices

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Music News 

This Heavy Metal Elon Musk Tribute Band Wants To Launch A SATELLITE

May 4, 2017May 3, 2017 Mathew Kahansky 0 Comments Elon Musk, Heavy Metal, Kickstarter, Raptor Command, Satellite, Tribute Band

There’s a little power metal band in the States that is obsessed with Elon Musk. They’re named Raptor Command and they call themselves

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