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25 or 6 to 4

This song has been covered by several artists, including Vince Neil (on Carved in Stone), Straitjacket, Local H, Robert Forster, Intruder, Bruce Foxton, The Moog Cookbook, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Pacifika and Umphrey's McGee.

Fredrik Wallumrød

Now he also plays within the metal band «Dog Almighty» together with Fridtjof «Joff» Nilsen and Kim Nordbæk, and the rock band «El Caco» including Anders Gjesti (guitar) and Øyvind Osa (bass guitar).

Hazardous Mutation

The cover art was done by Ed Repka, who has done artwork for other metal bands such as Megadeth, Death, Massacre, Nuclear Assault, Merciless Death, etc.

Hibernus Mortis

Taking influence from a variety of sources, musically the band took inspiration from the old-school death metal bands like Incantation, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Death, Dismember, Immolation, Entombed, Obituary, Vader and Suffocation just to name a few.

I Am Nemesis

Caliban promoted the album through their "Get Infected" Tour 2012 with support of Winds Of Plague, We Butter The Bread With Butter, Eyes Set To Kill and Attila which started off on February 2 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Loudblast

The band announced that they were splitting in 1999, but after a support concert to Chuck Schuldiner's Death in 2002, the band reformed with Agressor's Alex Colin-Tocquaine and released Planet Pandemonium in 2004.

Luca Princiotta

In June 2006 he was hired by the German heavy metal singer Doro to substitute the band's guitarist (and his then-BLAZE bandmate) Oliver Palotai in some European gigs.

Markus Johansson

The featured guest list on A Lethal Dose of Truth includes Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), Rob Caggiano (Anthrax, Volbeat), Brendon Small (Dethklok), Andy LaRocque (King Diamond), and Gene Hoglan (Testament), with nearly a dozen other current and former members of Iced Earth, Jag Panzer, Cynic, Helloween, Halford, Chimaira, Death, contributing as well.

Oliver Palotai

He made his name playing keyboards and guitar for Doro and keyboards for Circle II Circle (as a touring member between 2003 and 2004) before joining Blaze Bayley's BLAZE as a replacement for founding guitarist John Slater in 2004.

Voodoocult

The project was especially notable for the reputation of the participating musicians, such as Chuck Schuldiner (of Death fame), Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo, and Mille Petrozza of the German thrash metal band Kreator.


see also

20 Years

20 Years of Noise 1985–2005, a compilation album of the Italian Extreme Metal band Necrodeath

45 Minutes of Fairytale Endings

45 Minutes of Fairytale Endings is the debut album released in 2003 by the British metal band Zero Cipher.

8 Miles High

8 Miles High was meant to be the debut album of Australian nu-metal band Superheist.

Anton Reisenegger

On December 24, 2012, it was announced that Reisenegger would become the guitarist of the United States-based heavy metal band United Forces, which features two former members of Stormtroopers of Death, vocalist Billy Milano and bassist Dan Lilker, and Nick Barker on drums.

Anya Monzikova

In 2007, Anya played the angel character from the painting "The Wounded Angel" in the music video Amaranth, the second single from Dark Passion Play, the album from the Finnish metal band Nightwish.

Bishop Gorman High School

Christopher Babbitt, (Musician) Lead Guitarist and Singer or American metal band Taking Dawn

Brandon Curtis

Curtis has produced three albums for the American post-metal band Russian Circles: Geneva (2009), Empros (2011) and Memorial (2013).

Cenk Ünnü

Cenk Ünnü (born 1967 in Istanbul) is the drummer of the heavy metal band Mezarkabul (also known as Pentagram).

DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth

It was beaten by UK (non-metal) band Feeder's debut album Polythene, but it was ranked above many commercially famous albums from that year, most significantly (non-metal band) The Verve's Urban Hymns.

Dreaming with the Dead

"Dreaming with the Dead" is the full-length studio debut by death metal band Ripping Corpse, released in 1991.

Elita 5

In a 2001 concert the band opened in Tirana, Albania for the German heavy metal band Scorpions, the vocalist Arif Ziberi in an interview noted that this was one of the most exciting moments in his life.

Elizabeth Báthory

In 2010, Swedish heavy/doom metal band Ghost released "Elizabeth" as the first single of their debut album Opus Eponymous.

Fanfare/Don't Dream It, Be It

Post-Metal band Jesu used a sample of "Don't Dream It, Be It" on the track "Don't dream it" from the album Pale Sketches

Feasting on Blood

Feasting on Blood is the debut album by the brutal death metal band Severe Torture, released by Hammerheart Records on October 9, 2000.

Fedor Jeftichew

The heavy metal band Motörhead has a song called "Dog-Face Boy" on the 1995 album Sacrifice''.

Genocide and Mass Murder

Genocide and Mass Murder is the debut album by Japanese metal band Deathgaze.

Giants–Yankees rivalry

Metal band Metallica played their famous song Enter Sandman as part of the ceremony due to Rivera using it as his entrance song throughout his career.

Greenville, Michigan

Greenville is home to an active music scene and is the hometown of the popular Punk/Metal band Society Kills.

Grochowiak

Sebastian Grochowiak (born 1977), Polish vocalist, member of metal band Witchmaster

Handful of Nothing

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

Holopainen

Tuomas Holopainen (born 1976), the keyboardist of Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish

Homenaje

V8 was an 1980s Argentine heavy metal band whose most famous line-up included Ricardo Iorio (bass), Osvaldo Civile (guitar), Alberto Zamarbide (vocals) and Gustavo Rowek (drums), which recorded the band's first two studio albums.

I Don't Want to Cry

"I Don't Wanna Cry No More", song and single by the German power metal band Helloween from their album Chameleon

I Ejaculate Fire

"I Ejaculate Fire" is a song by virtual death metal band Dethklok, taken from Dethalbum III.

Inner City Unit

In the 1980s original guitarist Judge Trev Thoms started a three-piece metal band named Atomgods which, for a while, also featured second ICU guitarist Steve Pond on bass.

KOLD

Köld, the third album by the Icelandic metal band Sólstafir

Korneuburg

Helmuth Lehner (born 1968), singer and guitarist of the blackened death metal band Belphegor

Krzysztof Oloś

Krzysztof Oloś (born 4 September 1979 in Warsaw), also known as Siegmar, is an Polish keyboardist for the symphonic black metal band Vesania.

M2K Mini Tour

The M2K Tour is a mini tour by American heavy metal band Metallica.

Matthew Brunson

Matthew Moses Brunson is the guitarist for sludge metal band Crowbar, replacing Steve Gibb, and bass player for Kingdom of Sorrow.

Melodramus

Melodramus is a progressive metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah who have recently released their album, Two: Glass Apple, in the United States, while one of the songs from the album was also released on the new Speed Racer soundtrack released by Sumthing Else Music Works on November 16 of 2010.

Metridium

Post-metal band Giant Squid used the genus name as the inspiration for the title of their acclaimed 2006 album, Metridium Fields.

Missin' Pieces

"Missin' Pieces" is the last official release by Swedish heavy metal band Mindless Sinner (though called Mindless when they released this album).

Non Phixion

The band's logo was created by Away (aka Michel Langevin) using the same font style that was used for his own futuristic metal band, Voivod.

Panzerballett

The song Iron Maiden Voyage shows these diverse influences; the song's name is a pun on the name of the band metal band Iron Maiden and the Jazz Standard Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock).

Parker Gispert

While in high school, Parker played drums and keyboards in a nu-metal band alongside Hamilton Jordan of Genghis Tron and Noah Britton of The Best Thing Ever.

Pearcy

Stephen Pearcy (born 1959), American lead singer of the 80's metal band Ratt

Prior Park Landscape Garden

A picture of the Palladian bridge located in the Prior Park Landscape Garden is used as the cover art for the progressive death metal band Opeth's second album Morningrise.

Sekula

John Sekula (1969–2010), the original guitarist for alternative metal band Mushroomhead

Seventh Wonder

Many singers have come and gone in Seventh Wonder over the years, among others Ola Halén of power metal band Insania Sthlm.

Six Tears of Sorrow

Six Tears of Sorrow is the debut EP released by French metal band Scarve.

Solano Avenue

Various live bands, most local, have played sets at the Stroll, with notable past musicians including RatDog drummer/Primus co-founder Jay Lane (with jam side project Alphabet Soup) and Marc Biedermann (founder of Blind Illusion, and former bassist for thrash metal band Heathen).

Take it Sleezy

Take it Sleezy is the debut album by American Glam Metal band Dirty Penny, released on August 2, 2007.

The Lost Tapes: Copenhagen 1979

The Lost Tapes: Copenhagen 1979 is an album by Danish punk/metal band Brats.

The Silver Key

"The Silver Key" is a song by the symphonic metal band Dark Moor.

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.

Truth Inside the Shades

Truth Inside The Shades is the first album by Andorran metal band Persefone, released in 2004.

White Wizzard

The new line-up was revealed on June 8, 2010, with Michael Gremio, formerly of Nebraskan power metal band Cellador on vocals and Welsh guitarist Lewis Stephens replacing Kluiber.

Wish I Could

"Wish I Could" is a single of the Italian melodic metal band Dimmi Argus, published by Tanzan Music and released digitally by FreeMood Promotion.