Heavy metal has always been more than just a music genre, and it’s a culture, a movement, and for many, a way of life.

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Metallica frontman James Hetfield revealed a tattoo he got in honor of a metal legend that included their ashes.

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Joey Kramer, a drummer from the Bronx, came up with the band name Aerosmith in high school, and wrote it all over his ...

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I Killed the Prom Queen are deliberately stoked the curiosity with 2025 as the target. Their return marks a decade since their last run and 20 years since When Goodbye Means Forever… first dropped.