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Pearl Jam were a grunge band that formed in 1990 in Seattle. The band came from the death of the band Mother Love Bone that tragically ended after the lead singer Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose in 1990. Unlike Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone were a hard rock band inspired by the powerful vocals of bands like Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin. After the devastation of losing their lead singer, Stone Gossard (Guitar) and Jeff Ament (Bass) decided to create a new band. By this point they hadn’t got a name and they drafted in Mike McCready on lead guitar. They decided to record their first demo with the drummer from Soundgarden at the time, who was Matt Cameron. This would be an instrumental demo that they sent to Eddie Vedder who was a surfer based in [[Pearl Jam| More...]] | Pearl Jam were a grunge band that formed in 1990 in Seattle. The band came from the death of the band Mother Love Bone that tragically ended after the lead singer Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose in 1990. Unlike Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone were a hard rock band inspired by the powerful vocals of bands like Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin. After the devastation of losing their lead singer, Stone Gossard (Guitar) and Jeff Ament (Bass) decided to create a new band. By this point they hadn’t got a name and they drafted in Mike McCready on lead guitar. They decided to record their first demo with the drummer from Soundgarden at the time, who was Matt Cameron. This would be an instrumental demo that they sent to Eddie Vedder who was a surfer based in [[Pearl Jam| More...]] | ||
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Peal Jam
Pearl Jam were a grunge band that formed in 1990 in Seattle. The band came from the death of the band Mother Love Bone that tragically ended after the lead singer Andrew Wood died of a heroin overdose in 1990. Unlike Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone were a hard rock band inspired by the powerful vocals of bands like Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin. After the devastation of losing their lead singer, Stone Gossard (Guitar) and Jeff Ament (Bass) decided to create a new band. By this point they hadn’t got a name and they drafted in Mike McCready on lead guitar. They decided to record their first demo with the drummer from Soundgarden at the time, who was Matt Cameron. This would be an instrumental demo that they sent to Eddie Vedder who was a surfer based in More...
Pantera
Pantera were an American Metal band that founded in 1981 by the brothers Vinnie Paul Abbott and Darrel Lance Abbott in Fort Worth, Texas. With Vinnie on the drums , his brother Dimebag Darell on guitar, bassist Rex Brown and their Singer Phil Anselmo, Pantera reinvented the Heavy Metal and shaped the face of todays Extreme Metal. The Band split up in 2003 because the Abbott brothers and Phil Anselmo could not get along with each other anymore. More...
Opeth
Opeth is a Metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. The music is a mixture of Melodic Death Metal, Progresseive Metal and Progressive Rock. Lately there have been some Folk and Jazz influences in Opeth's music. The music varies between fast deathmetal parts with blastbeat-drums and growling and slow accoustic parts with clean vocals. Guitarist, singer and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt is the driving force behind the band and is, in difference to what many people think, not an original member. More...
Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy is a Metal band from Sweden that was formed by brothers Michael and Christopher Amott and bassist/singer John Liiva in 1996. With both Michael Amott and John Liiva coming from successfull Death Metal bands they attempted to go a more melodic way with Arch Enemy. The most remarkable thing about Arch Enemy is the female vocalist Angela Gossow because female gutural growling singers are rarely seen.
Black Label Society
Black Label Society is an American Heavy Metal band formed in 1998 by Ozzy Osbourne's Legendary Guitarist Zakk Wylde. The band plays a mixture of very rude Southern Rock and Heavy Metal with simple riffs and incredible solos, but they are also capable of beautiful ballads with accoustic guitars and piano. Every Instrument except for the drums is played by Zakk Wylde on the records. n 1990 Zakk Wylde's boss Ozzy Osbourne was about to take a longer break after the album Ozzmosis. To kill some time Zakk formed his first project band Pride & Glory in which he combined Southern Rock with More...
This week: AC/DC
AC/DC is a rock band formed in Sydney, Australia by Angus and Malcolm Young in 1973. AC/DC are considered pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal they consider themselves rock n roll.
AC/DC got their name from their sister Margret's sewing machine. "AC/DC" is an abbreviation for "alternating current/direct current", which indicates that an electrical device can use either type of power. Angus and Malcolm felt this symbolized the bands energy, performances, and love for music so they kept the name. There have been rumers that AC/DC stands for Anti Christ/Devil's Children or (more...)
This week: Metallica
Metallica was officially founded on the 28th of October 1981 in Los Angeles,California by rythm-guitarist and and singer James Hetfield and drummer and former tennis-pro Lars Ulrich. The name Metallica was meant to be the name of an underground Metal-Fan-Magazine but was stolen by Lars Ulrich to use it as the name for his band. The first Demo record, including coversongs and the first Metallica song Hit the lights was entirely recorded by James and Lars.
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This Week: U2
U2 is an Irish formed rock funk dance band. They are a four man band with Bono as lead singer, The Edge as guitarist, Mullen as drummer and Clayton on bass. They have won several Grammy awards and have released several albums. (More...)
