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 up with some
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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 Championships, a prestigious
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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 Nation is looking
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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 this year, but
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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 would burn and
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If you have eight minutes to spare, take a look at this fast-talking, fast-drawing video from 12Tone about the origins of the term “heavy metal.”
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August already. And my parents are coming to visit for almost a week. This should be interesting. Here’s music news for August 1, 2018. Apple is now very close to becoming the world’s
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Earlier today, SpaceX, Tony Stark’s Elon Musk’s company, launched the biggest and most powerful private sector rocket ever conceived, with the idea of sending it into an orbit that will take it near
Read MoreThere have been many Iron Maiden-branded products, from beer to soccer balls to cuff links to 747-400s. Strangely, though, there’s never been an Iron Maiden comic book–until now. Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast
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Have you ever wondered why heavy metal singers can scream for hours on end, but other singers lose their voices all the time? You’d think it would be the other way around, right?
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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 an Elon Musk tribute act. They love what the guy is trying to
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