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17 unusual facts about Heavy metal music


Åke Hodell

One of his visual artworks, the piece "220 Volt Buddha", was use as the album cover of Swedish heavy metal band At the Gates' 1993 album With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness.

Cayuga Speedway

In addition to racing, there are also occasional concerts held at the facility - usually conforming with either the country or the heavy metal genre.

Henize 206

This low-metallicity state approximates the predicted chemical composition of the early Universe, allowing astronomers to compare what stellar life was like billions of years ago, when heavy metals were scarce.

Hot metal

A Heavy metal magazine that enjoyed wide circulation in Australia and New Zealand in the late 80s and 90s.

Menace to Society

Menace to Society is the second studio album by the heavy metal band Killers, featuring former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno.

Metal Dead

Also counted among its influences are a wide range of zombie films and heavy metal bands.

Nefarious Realm

Nefarious Realm is a metal, hardcore, and extreme music-themed website and media company, founded by Matt Darcy in early 2006.

North Berwick witch trials

Heavy/doom metal group Cathedral have a song called "North Berwick Witch Trials" on their 2005 album The Garden of Unearthly Delights.

Panda Bear Jones

This is allegedly due to the incorporation of Heavy metal music riffs at live performances, mixed with their usual pop music.

Platinum Underground

Songs like "Trailer Park Mullet Wars" and "Step Up or Shut Up" were a hybrid mix of different heavy metal sounds, while "Say Goodbye" and "Bounce" were new school hip hop.

Rock the American Way

Rock the American Way is the first album by heavy metal band Jack Starr's Burning Starr.

Six Pounds of Sound

Six Pounds of Sound is the first full length album by American metal comedy rock band Taintstick.

Spitting Venom

Spitting Venom is the debut, self-released EP from English heavy metal band Savage Messiah.

Stylistic Changes

Stylistic Changes is the first full-length solo album by Norwegian Progressive/Heavy metal guitarist Carl August Tidemann.

The Art of Metal

The Art of Metal is the second album by Swedish heavy metal band Hysterica.

The Captured Bird

The score for the film is written and performed by the heavy metal band Redeemer.

Xavante people

In 1996 the Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura stayed and recorded with the Xavante people, who featured on their album Roots.


Alien Vampires

Formed in 2000 by Nysrok Infernalien (ex-Aborym) who wanted to explore different sonorities by blending psy trance, industrial, EBM and metal, Alien Vampires was joined by Nightstalker in 2004 who also shared the same passion for Jam Montoya, BDSM and Drugs.

Alone Again and Other Hits

Alone Again and Other Hits is a compilation album released by the 80's heavy metal band Dokken.

Caught in a Mosh: BBC Live in Concert

Caught in a Mosh: BBC Live in Concert is a live album released by American heavy metal band Anthrax on January 22, 2007 internationally and on November 10, 2009 in the U.S. It contains Anthrax's February 15, 1987 show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London (disc 1), as well as their performance at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington on August 22, 1987 (disc 2).

Cloud Connected

"Cloud Connected" is the first single by the Swedish heavy metal band In Flames taken from the album Reroute to Remain, released by Nuclear Blast in 2002.

Dead Heart in a Dead World

Dead Heart, in a Dead World is the fourth studio album by heavy metal band Nevermore, released in July 2000.

Dive! Dive! Live!

Live! is the first live video ever recorded by heavy metal singer Bruce Dickinson.

Fight for Your Mind

Reviews were generally very positive, praising Harper's fusion of multiple genres, from folk ("Another Lonely Day"), folk rock ("Gold to Me"), Black Sabbath-style riffing heavy metal ("Ground on Down") and politically charged reggae ("Excuse Me Mr.").

Glen Alvelais

Glen Alvelais (born February 22, 1968 in Hayward, California) is a heavy metal lead guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Graceful Inheritance

Graceful Inheritance is the debut album by an American metal band Heir Apparent, released in 1986 by French label Black Dragon Records.

Hack Circle

For a time it was a popular Hacky Sack venue (hence the name), later it became a popular hang out for "black-dressed emos, goths, heavy metal fans and United States style gangstas".

Handful of Nothing

A Handful of Nothing is the album released by Swedish metal band, Ebony Tears.

Innocence Is No Excuse

Innocence Is No Excuse is the seventh studio album by heavy metal band Saxon released in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

Jan Thore Grefstad

Jan Thore Grefstad (born January 30, 1978 in Tromsø, Norway) is a Norwegian rock singer, best known from heavy metal bands Highland Glory and Wild Willy's Gang.

KDJE

However, in 2009, the station began incorporating classic heavy metal music by bands such as: Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, and also Led Zeppelin and AC/DC into their typical active rock format.

Les Massiliades

Multiple musical genres were represented, including rock, rap, reggae, afrobeat, metal, folk, java and what the headline band Les Hurlements d'Léo calls "caravaning".

Mark McConnell

Mark "Bam-Bam" McConnell (August 27, 1961 – May 24, 2012) was an American rock and heavy metal musician, best known for his role from 1997–2005 as drummer with Sebastian Bach, and later with Blackfoot and Southern Rock Allstars.

Matt Bachand

He has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences and he is also a backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Shadows Fall.

MegaDriver

MegaDriver is a Brazilian heavy metal and video game music cover band formed in 2003 by Antonio "Nino" Francisco Tornisiello, who uses the stage name "Nino Megadriver".

Milan B. Popović

In 2010, seventeen Serbian (mostly metal) bands recorded the songs on the lyrics written by Popović, releasing them on the compilation album Vreme brutalnih dobronamernika.

Paul R. Gregory

Over the years, Paul has received commissions from many other well-known rock and heavy metal bands including: Dio, Uriah Heep, Blind Guardian, Molly Hatchet, Freedom Call, The Company of Snakes, Beholder and Battalion.

Per Elofsson

In 2005 he made an unexpected appearance on the album Grand Illusion by the Heavy metal band Nocturnal Rites, playing guitar on one song.

Randy Piper

Randy Piper (born William Randall Piper on April 13, 1953 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American rock guitarist and songwriter, best known as the co-founder and original guitarist of the heavy metal band W.A.S.P..

Red Hot and Heavy

Red, Hot and Heavy is the debut album of the Danish Hard rock/heavy metal band Pretty Maids produced by Billy Cross and released in 1984.

Revolution, Baby

"Revolution, Baby" is the lead single of the fourth studio album We Rule the Night by the Swedish heavy metal band Sonic Syndicate.

Rock TV

Rock TV is an Italian Music TV channel based in Milan, Italy, devoted to Rock, Alternative rock, Heavy metal, Punk rock launched in Italy on SKY Italia channel 718 in 2001.

Saalschutz

It combines the styles of Synthpop, Electropunk and Electroclash – as well as Metal, Garage Rock, Tribal House and Trance – creating a style similar to that of Knarf Rellöm, Räuberhöhle and (in parts) Egotronic.

Santa Bárbara de Nexe

The village is home of Eddie's Bar, a bar dedicated to the heavy metal band Iron Maiden by Steve Harris, the bassist for the group.

Sicmonic

Sicmonic (stylized as (Sic)monic) is an American heavy metal band from Phoenix, Arizona, consisting of Taylor Hession, Ray Goodwin, Ryan Gero, Jason Williams and Zack Sewell.

Sonja Aldén

Sonja Aldén (born 20 December 1977 in St Albans, England) is a Swedish singer mostly famous for her 2006, 2007 and 2012 Melodifestivalen entries, her friendship with Shirley Clamp and her songwriting for other artists, for example the hard rock/heavy metal band The Poodles, who also participated in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2006.

Sons of Kyuss EP

Sons of Kyuss EP is the debut self-released EP from American heavy metal band Kyuss.

Steve Loeb

The forerunner of synthesizing the genres of heavy metal and hip-hop, Loeb produced chart records for 13 albums for heavy metal icons Riot and the Top 10 pop single "Amityville" for rapper Lovebug Starski which Loeb wrote with rapper Kurtis Blow.

Street Lethal

Street Lethal is the first studio album by heavy metal band Racer X, released on January 1, 1986 through Shrapnel Records.

The Crane Wives

While the band’s moniker came in part from The Decemberists' 2006 album, The Crane Wife, the members claim a wide variety of influences: folk, blues, ska, punk, and even heavy metal.

The Pack Is Back

The Pack Is Back is the fifth full-length album by the English heavy metal band Raven, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music).

To the Devil a Daughter

Christopher Lee's line "It is not heresy... and I will not recant!" was sampled by heavy metal band White Zombie for the song "Super-Charger Heaven".

Tower of Snakes

One of the very few songs that were finished by the time they went to studio to track down the record, it was written by then-drummer Ken Floyd while he was still playing in metal band Throwdown.

Tracy G

Tracy G (born Tracy Grijalva on January 3, 1959 in Whittier, California) is an American heavy metal guitarist best known for his time with Dio from 1993 to 1999.

UFO discography

The band became a transitional band between early hard rock and heavy metal and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Yenz Leonhardt

Jens Arnsted (more commonly known as Yenz Leonhardt or Yenz Cheyenne) is a heavy metal musician born July 4 in Vordingborg, Denmark.

Zbogom, Srbijo

The album also featured "Zelena trava doma mog" (a cover of "Green Green Grass of Home"), "Danas nema mleka" (a heavy metal cover of Herman's Hermits' "No Milk Today"), which criticizes the Socialist Party of Serbia regime, and "Tamna je noć" (a cover of Mark Bernes' "Tyomnaya noch").