You might think that’s a typo in our headline — it’s not.
Yeah, this is, indeed, a flashback to an old Zakk Wylde interview and solo performance session, but Zakk wouldn’t be Zakk if he couldn’t party like Caligula — hence, “Flaskback.”
Anyway, in the following clips, Zakk talks about family responsibility, playing with Ozzy, his friendship [...]

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photo by Evos Marin, courtesy of flickr.com
In June 2006, Unearth singer Trevor Phipps took center stage in a powow with Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen, ex-Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and Kittie drummer Mercedes Lander. It wasn’t for an awards ceremony, charity benefit or supergroup recording session (though we’d love to hear Jourgensen and Phipps screaming [...]

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In 1981, a movie came out that brilliantly captured the aggression, creativity, libido and adolescent humor of the average heavy metal fan. It was called, of course, “Heavy Metal.”
The animated movie was composed of stories from the edgy monthly sci-fi comic magazine of the same name, which featured graphic violence, nudity and far more adult-oriented [...]

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Before forming the operatic avant-metal band Celtic Frost, frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer and bassist Martin Ain rained fire, brimstone and death on the metal community with Hellhammer, which released just one EP, Apocalyptic Raids, in 1984, but inspired the nascent black and death metal scenes to rise up and get evil.
Hellhammer were primitive, simplistic and [...]

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We’ll take one more stab at Christmas, then we’ll leave you alone to enjoy the holiday. Since Celtic Frost doesn’t have a Christmas video and we hadn’t the heart to post anything by the Trans Siberian Orchestra, we dug into the vaults and came up with this ridiculous clip by the now-defunct band The Darkness, [...]

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