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Tag: metallica

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020
Staff Picks: Stay Inside and Watch Our Favorite Live Videos
By Riot Fest / Staff Picks, Videos / misfits, Stuff To Do, metallica
You can’t go to any shows right now, but you can watch our favorite live performances.
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December 18, 2018December 18, 2018
Rock Stars & Santa Claus
By Riot Fest / Riot Festmas / prince, metallica, dolly parton
Musicians usually have some pretty eclectic wardrobes, and red looks good on most people. So it's no surprise that some musicians like to dress up…
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May 1, 2018May 1, 2018
The Most Nü-Metal Pop Song Covers in Nü-Metal History
By Andrew Bonazelli / Music / metallica, Staind, Nü-Metal
Around the turn of the Willennium, America couldn't seem to get enough of nü-metal bands taking familiar pop songs and making them heavier, crazier, more…
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April 30, 2018
Stavros from The Atlas Moth’s Mom Once Shredded his Favorite Metallica Tee into Rags
By Andrew Bonazelli / Shirts So Good / metallica, Merch, Atlas Moth
In the latest 'Shirts So Good', we talk to the Atlast Moth guitarist and singer Stavros Giannopoulos about the unfortunate fate of his former favorite…
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April 27, 2018April 27, 2018
That Dirty Donny Gillies sure designs a mean pinball machine
By Dustin Krcatovich / Monsters of Ink / metallica, Dirty Donny, Pinball
Monsters of Ink is a series where we talk to some of the visual artists and designers whose contributions ascribe the visual language of modern music. This…
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April 10, 2018
Revisiting Metallica’s ‘Garage Days’ EP ahead of its Reissue
By Miles Raymer / Music / metallica, reissues, Heavy Metal
The world is full of musicians past their prime, holding heads full of elaborate fantasies about what life would have been like had they received…
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March 22, 2018January 25, 2019
The Odd Couples: 11 Weird Musical Collaborations
By Emily Reily / Music / metallica, Elvis Costello, dolly parton
Some musical collaborations seem written in the stars, and some don't even make sense if you factor in rock star-level drug budgets. But that doesn't…
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November 20, 2017
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
By Riot Fest / Chicago, Music, News, Roundup / metallica, ramones, tommy stinson
Trigger warning for rock 'n' roll purists! Remember when Lars Ulrich's boneheadedness led to a potentially classic Metallica album having no bass guitar in the…
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November 20, 2017November 20, 2017
Eye of the Beholder: A Brief History Of Metallica Songs in Movies and TV
By Andrew Bonazelli / Chicago, Music / metallica, Stranger Things, movies
We can all agree that the finest application of Metallica’s music in a motion picture was Some Kind of Monster. Cool music, cool lyrics, cool…
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October 30, 2017
Has Using Children’s Toys in Rock Songs Ever Not Sucked?
By Andrew Bonazelli / Music, Random / metallica, rage against the machine, L7
I was born shortly after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, so I have a stick and wooden hoop, mouth harp, and near-mint G1 Optimus…
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October 18, 2017February 3, 2019
Heavy Metal Records And The Athletes Who Love Them
By Kevin Warwick / Archive, Music, Random, Sports / metallica, cattle decapitation, Nightwish
Perhaps the most prominent athlete metalhead who never was is Lars Ulrich. Son of professional Danish tennis player Torben Ulrich, a devoted Lars followed in…
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August 30, 2017August 30, 2017
The Daily Riot Fest Roundup
By Riot Fest / Chicago, News, Roundup / metallica, circa survive, The Promise Ring
Metallica is releasing Master of Puppets in epic box set form in honor of the iconic album's 31st anniversary on November 10th via its own…
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