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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath are an English Heavy Metal band from Birmingham, who are known to be co-founders of the Heavy Metal genre along with Led Zeppelin. Black Sabbaths' dark and heavy music was the blueprint for todays Black Metal or Doom Metal. The original lineup consisted of Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass-guitar) and Bill Ward (drums). Since the bands formation in 1968, the lineup changed multiple times but the band is still active to the present day. More...
Deep Purple
Deep Purple is a british rock band that pioneered hard rock in the late 60's (and still, as of 2009, exists) and also was one of the first bands incoorporating classical music in the sound of rock. The band had several setups known as Mark I, Mark II etc. There is no doubt that Deep Purple was one of the most influential bands of the seventies, and has inspired generations of musicians/bands in the genre of hard rock/heavy metal. More...
The Beatles
I'm very proud to announce that we have a new member of the wiki team, Boson! Here's an article written by him:
The most famous and influential band there has ever been. The Fab Four changed the face not just of popular music and how it is recorded but also were a great influence in the changing of popular culture in the 60’s.
The Beatles were a band formed in the late 1950's that started out playing rock and roll classics but evolved into the most popular pop/rock group of all time. Their recordings have become classics and they have influenced generations of musicians that have followed.
The story of the Beatles is long and complicated but very interesting. More...
The Sex Pistols
Certainly one of the most controversial bands there has ever been and also probably one of the most influential. They burst onto the music scene in 1975 in London and completely changed the face of music in Britain. Their loud, aggressive, and anti-establishment stance inspired a whole host of new bands and established punk as a new rock music genre and culture in Britain. Bands such as The Ramones and Patti Smith with a similar anti establishment ethos, (particularly with regard to the established music scene) brought punk to America. The Pistols phenomena was short lived, controversy followed them everywhere much of it created deliberately by thier manager Malcolm McLaren. More...
The Police
The Police are a rock band that were formed in London in 1977. This was at a time when punk rock was at its peak in England and though The Police could never be described as a punk band they used that image to some extent to gain an audience. Whilst their early records were undoubtably influenced by punk they also took influence from reggae and jazz. Their albums have sold massively, apparently they have sold more than 50 million copies!! More..
Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is a Rockband from New Jersey (USA). Since 2003 the band exists 20 years and has sold more than 100,000,000(!) albums. The band started to make music in the style of Hair-Metal, but since the 90s they've changed to kind of mainstream rock. A big part of Bon Jovis success is Desmond Childs work, who composed some of their most famous songs like Livin' on a Prayer, Keep the Faith, This ain't a Love Song and You Give Love a Bad Name. More...
Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth is a Swedish Metal band that was formed in 1988 in a suburb of Stockholm called Tumba. The band plays a melodic influenced type of Death Metal with a Viking theme in lyrics and appearance, that is why the music is called Viking Metal. Amon Amarth are one of Europe's most successfull Death Metal Bands of all time. The band is famous for synchronized rotor-headbanging of all members of the band.[...] Amarth was originaly formed as a Grindcore band called Scum in 1988 by bassist Ted Lundström and guitarist Olavi Mikkonen. The band recorded just one Demo that was not even released due to it's poor sound Quality. After singer Johann Hegg joined the band in 1992 the band decided to call themselves Amon Amarth... More...
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.[...] In 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 Heavy Metal. The project was cancelled in 1994... More...
Evergrey
Evergrey is a progressive metal band founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1996.[...] The band released their first album "The Dark Discovery" in 1998, which in contrast to their later albums, deals with several themes such as paronoia, religion, suicide and child abuse. In 1999, the band released their second album "Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy", where they used several classical instruments, such as harps and violins. More...
Millencolin
Millencolin is a Swedish punk band made up of four members that started back in 1992 in the town of Örebro. They have released eight albums and sold over two million copies worldwide. They quickly became one of the most famous punk bands in Sweden and later all across Europe, USA and Australia, being one of the longest, still active, punk bands in Europe these days. Millencolin play punk/rock, and have stated that their main influences are punk bands such as Bad Religion, Pennywise and Samiam. More...
Sanctity
In an increasingly lethargic music scene, Sactity's Road to Bloodshed is a shot of adrenaline and holds a very strong place in the pages of metal history. A huge compliment to such a new band. Relatively a new band to the metal scene and not much news to report on yet but the band was formed in 1998 and with some extensive line-up changes. The have only release one album so far but their sound is very reminsiscent to old school thrash and progressive metal. More...
Judas Priest
Judas Priest hail from Birmingham England. Formed in 1968, they remain one of the most influential bands in heavy metal. Many say it was "Priest" that defined the "twin guitar attack" in heavy metal. Emplying not one but two proficient lead players. Similar to their early influences like the band Wishbone Ash. Judas Priest were one of the first bands to be labeled as Heavy Metal. It was Priest that brought about the later imitated leather and chains look. Many current and past metal bands credit Judas Priest as a major influence. They have 18 albums to their credit. More...
Nickelback
Nickelback is a Rock band that comes from Hanna (Alberta/Canada) and exists since 1995. It consists of the halfbrothers Mike (bassguitar) and Chad. (guitar/vocals) Kroeger, Ryan Peake (guitar/vocals) and Daniel Adair (drums).
The band was founded in 1995 and the name „Nickelback“ was found this way: Mike Kroeger worked in a „Starbucks“ shop and because of the price-system he always had to give the change – 5 cent – a nickel. More...
Nirvana
Nirvana were founded in 1987 by Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic. They got to know each other during school in 1984 and especially due to the fact they were both huge fans and supporters of another local band from their high school known as "The Melvins". In 1985 Kurt founded together with the later Melvins-Drummer Dale Croyer and himself as bassist the band „Fecal Matter“. After having recorded two demos (in the house of Kurt Cobains aunt) and played some gigs, they resolved theirselves. More...
Evergrey
The band released their first album "The Dark Discovery" in 1998, which in contrast to their later albums, deals with several themes such as paronoia, religion, suicide and child abuse. In 1999, the band released their second album "Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy", where they used several classical instruments, such as harps and violins. Their third album, "In Search of Truth", was released in 2001 and deals with alien abductions. Frontman and vocalist Tom Englund was inspired to write this album after reading a novel called "Communion" by Whitley Strieber. More...
Megadeth
Megadeth is a succesfull American Thrash-Metal band which have had their best times in the 80's and 90's. Megadeth counts to the most influencial bands in heavy metal music and is one of the four inventors of Thrash Metal, along with Slayer, Metallica and Anthrax . The only original bandmember left is bandleader and founder Dave Mustaine. More...
Sepultura
Sepultura (portuguese for Grave) is a Brazilian Metal band that was formed in 1984 in Belo Horizonte by the brothers Igor and Max Cavalera. Sepultura is the most successfull band from Brazil although they are a Thrash/Death Metal band that plays non-commercial music. The band was famous for their raw and simple music that is influenced by native brazilian music. In 1996 singer and guitarist Max Cavalera disbanded after an argument and started his own, successfull projects. Sepultura are loosing fans since this day. More...
Dragonforce
Band founders Sam Totman and Herman Li played in a Black Metal!!! band called Demoniac (Darkthrone style with Corpsepaint and Stagenames!) and recorded three albums with this band. Demoniac broke up in 1999 and every current member of Demoniac except for vocalist Lindsay Dawson joined Li's and Totman's Power Metal project DragonHeart. The bandname soon was changed into DragonForce because of an already existing Band from Brazil called Dragonheart. The first demo was recorded with the new vocalist ZP Theart and was published on Mp3.com, where the title track Valley of The Damned became the most played song in the genre of Heavy Metal. This granted the band the opening spot for a Stratovarius Tour aswell as a record Deal withl More...
The Killers
Brandon Flowers was part of the band "Blush Response", but left it in 2001, refusing to move to California. Searching for a new band he came across an add in a local Las Vegas newspaper where David Keuning was looking for members to form a band in the style of "The Cure", "Oasis" and "The Smiths", so they met and decided to start "The Killers", recruiting drummer Ronnie Vannucci and bassist Mark Stoermer. The name of the band comes after a fiction band that features in a New Order video called "Crystal", and years later when The Killers became famous they actually got to play live that song along with New Order. More...
Blind Guardian
The band was formed by the school friends Hansi Kürsch (vocals and bass) and André Olbrich (Lead Guitar) under the name Lucifer's Heritage. The band recorded two demos as Lucifer's Heritage and underwent several lineup changes until the classic lineup with Marcus Siepen (guitar) and Thomas Strauch (drums) came together in 1987 and the band was renamed into Blind Guardian. Their debut record Battalions Of Fear was recorded in 1988 on the label No Remorse Records which was essentially a Spped Metal record. For the tour to their second record Follow The Blind Blind Guardian let the newcomer band Iced Earth join as their opening act. Blind Guardian and Helloween, another German Power/speedmetal band were bonded closely by their style and personal friendship so that Kai Hansen from Helloween/Gamma Ray was featured on their third record Tales From The Twilight World, which was recorded in 1990. More...
Machine Head
Robert Flynn left his former band Vio-Lence after a fight between the band members to form his own band in which he would not only play guitar but be the vocalist. Flynn founded the band Machine Head together with bassist Adam Duce and they are the only members of the original lineup on the present day. They hired lead guitarist Logan Mader and drummer Tony Constanza and started to write songs. With their first small gigs they became famous in the Bay Area underground scene and they decided to record a demo tape. The tape was recorded in a friends' bedroom with a total budget of 800$, consisting of six tracks. The demo was send to Roadrunner Records and they signed Machine Head in 1993. Drummer Tony Constanza left the band during the record of their debut and was replaced by Chris Kontos. Their debut CD Burn My Eyes was Roadrunner Records'best selling debut CD of all time and the band toured with Slayer in More...
Flyleaf
Flyleaf is a rock/alternative band that formed back in 2003 in Texas, USA. There are five members in the band, four guys and a frontwoman named Lacey Mosley. They have published just one album, named like the band, in 2005. Lacey is just 1,5 meters tall, but when she stands in the midle of the stage and the guitars fill the air, she begins to sing and people are usually amazed that such a small woman can have such a powerful, unique style. Her voice is the epicenter of Flyleaf, the soul of their songs. For the ones out there who are in doubt or never heard of the band just try and listen to "I'm so sick", to name an example, regarded as one of their best songs by their fans. More...
FooFighters
After the suicide of Kurt Cobain in and the splitting-up of Nirvana in 1995, David Grohl decided to come up with a new band. Because, still in the times of Nirvana, Grohl wrote his own songs, which weren't exploited in Nirvana, so, in Foo Fighters he utilized them (and kept writing songs for sure). Few months after Court Cobains death he recorded a demo tape all by his self (he played all instruments and sang, except some guitar parts) that was called „the Foo Fighters album“. Some years later Grohl said to MTV that it's due to his psychologist that he did not stopped to make music (God bless him). This album and the singles that were taken, got into charts immediately More...
Linkin Park
Mike Shinoda (guitar, keyboard & vocals) and Brad Delson (guitar) knew eachother since Highschool. The idea to found a band came by visiting a concert of the Metal-band Anthrax together with the hip-hop crew Public Enemy. So they took Rob Bourdon (drums), David Farell (bass). Because they needed an leadshouter, Mark Wakefield joined, but after having recorded a demo he left and today's leadshouter Chester Bennington came in. Inmediately after joining Bennington canceled his job and moved from Arizona to California – together with his wife. Having all members together the band was founded with the name „Xero“. In 1998 they changed it's name in „Hybrid Theory“. More...
Greenday
Greenday was founded in 1987 when the two friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt (both 14) decided to make a band named „Sweet Children“. They had their first gig on the 17th of October 1987 at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo (California/USA). They had the possibilty to „perform“ there, because Armstrongs mother worked in this pub. In 1988 they took John Kiffmeyer into the band who was playing the drums and organised their gigs and everything else. Besides that, he already had band-experiences (Isocrazy). More...
Pearl 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...)
