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Van Halen singer David Lee Roth says there’s absolutely no truth to the widely reported story that he went into anaphylactic shock because of a peanut allergy on May 23 and had to be resuscitated by police in Brantford, Canada.
“I was in Canada only from July first through the fourth [...]

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“Big hair, big bangs, and a song for every occasion, whether you like it or not.”
That’s the slogan of “Heavy Metal Guy,” a short cartoon series created by Jason Sadler for Mondo Media. The show features a stereotypical hair metal dude who sounds like a cross between Vince Neil and Axl Rose and pops up [...]

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Maybe we’ve grown too cynical with age, but we were sure the video “Heavy Metal is Our Religion” by the supergroup Metalslovenija was a clever spoof of events like the 1985 collaboration “Hear N’ Aid,” in which members of numerous marquee metal bands got together to record a song called “Stars” for charity.
But the more [...]

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We figured the maniacal Swedish Chef from “The Muppets” would crank up Scandinavian music when he wanted to swing the cleaver or choke his chicken, but we sort of took him for a fan of Hypocrisy, Meshuggah, At the Gates or someone else from Sweden. Little did we know the puffy guy prefers folk metal. [...]

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The Gathering land new singer?
There have been some really bad covers of heavy metal songs over the years, and we’re not even including any of the ones Pat Boone did on his absurd album In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1997). Just off the top of our heads, Die Krupps demolished nearly [...]

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