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On this Day • 03.06.1994 • Bruce Dickinson • Balls to Picasso 🍻🤘 What's your favorite from this album? #onthisday #brucedickinson #heavymetal #hardrock #iloveheavymetalradio

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Pantera – Walk

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Pantera – Walk

“Walk” is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their sixth album Vulgar Display of Power. The song is considered to be one of the band’s best tracks and is also one of the band’s most well known songs to both Pantera fans and casual listeners.

The riff for “Walk” is played in a time signature of 12/8. Dimebag Darrell played the riff at a soundcheck during the tour for Cowboys from Hell and the rest of the band loved it.

Phil Anselmo said that the message of the song was “Take your fucking attitude and take a fuckin’ walk with that. Keep that shit away from me”. His message was aimed at friends that treated the band differently when they arrived home after touring for Cowboys from Hell. He said “they thought it had gone to our heads, like we’ve got this rock-star thing embroidered across our faces”.

The music video was shot at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. The cover for the single is a screenshot of the band’s “Mouth for War” music video.

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Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

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Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

“No More Tears” is the fifth song and title track on the 1991 Ozzy Osbourne album of the same name. With a running time of 7:23, it is the longest solo song that Osbourne has ever recorded on a studio album. Osbourne considers this song to be “a gift from God”, as stated in the Prince of Darkness liner notes.

The video features a woman in distress locked up in a room and chained to a chair as she drowns in her own tears.

In the 2002 remaster booklet for the No More Tears album, Osbourne stated that the song was about a serial killer.

The song was redone by guitarist Zakk Wylde as a bonus track on the second reissue of the Black Label Society album Sonic Brew. A shorter edited version of this song was released to some radio stations.

The music video was shot to accommodate both the album version and the edited version of the song. Some channels played the full-length video, and others played the shortened version.

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Judas Priest – Painkiller

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Judas Priest – Painkiller

“Painkiller” is the opening track on British heavy metal band Judas Priest’s 1990 album, Painkiller, and was released as the first single off the album later that year.The song tells the story of the Painkiller, the character featured on the cover of the album: a cyborg superhero who saves mankind from destruction.

The song is written in E minor, but the key signature changes during the guitar solos. The first guitar solo in the song, which alternates between the keys of F# minor and C# minor, is played by Glenn Tipton. The second, also in F# minor, is played by K. K. Downing. The song is noted for Rob Halford’s high pitched vocal style and screams throughout the song as well as Scott Travis’ complex drumming. Tipton has also stated that the Painkiller solo is his favourite to play. It is also his first recorded solo to heavily feature the technique of sweep picking.

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Black Label Society - In This River

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Black Label Society - In This River

“In This River” is a song written by American heavy metal band Black Label Society, featured on their 2005 sixth studio album Mafia. Performed entirely by guitarist, vocalist and pianist Zakk Wylde (who also wrote and produced the song).

A common misconception is that Wylde wrote the song as a tribute to his close friend “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott (former guitarist for bands Pantera and Damageplan), who was killed on December 8, 2004. In fact, he wrote the song many months prior to the incident, and subsequently began dedicating the song to him. On the topic of dedication, Wylde explains that he “was looking at the lyrics, and I just said ‘Man, this has gotta be Dime’s tune’, so we just made it Dime’s song and that’s how the video came about. I think it’s really emotional and it came out great. Everyone loves it – Vinnie Paul Abbott (Darrell’s brother), Rita (Darrell’s girlfriend). It’s all about Dime’s memory and there ain’t a dry eye in the house every time you see it.” Wylde also states that every time he plays a show, “it will never leave the Black Label set.” During the “Pedal to the Metal” concert series, however, the song was not included in the set.

The music video for “In This River” features the childhood personage of Wylde and Abbott riding bicycles together and diving into a river. At the end of the video, only the adult version of Wylde emerges, symbolizing Darrell’s death. Wylde explains that “The river is a metaphor for life in general, all the bullshit that you deal with from being a kid growing up. The whole thing’s just about life and death.”

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Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley

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Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley

“Mr. Crowley” is a song by British heavy metal vocalist Ozzy Osbourne about English occultist Aleister Crowley. It was first released on Osbourne’s debut solo album Blizzard of Ozz in September 1980 in the United Kingdom. The song was written by Osbourne, guitarist Randy Rhoads, and bass guitarist/lyricist Bob Daisley.

The song starts with a keyboard solo by Don Airey. The guitar solo by Randy Rhoads after the second strophe became one of the most known in heavy metal.

The song was inspired by a book about Aleister Crowley which Osbourne had read and a deck of tarot cards that were found in the studio as recording of the album was commencing. Crowley was an English occultist and ceremonial magician who had founded the Thelemite religion in the early 20th century.

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Alice Cooper – Poison

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Alice Cooper – Poison

  “Poison” is a song by American rock musician Alice Cooper. Written by Cooper, Desmond Child, and John McCurry, the song was released worldwide as a single in late-1989 from Cooper’s eighteenth album, Trash (1989). The song was one of Cooper’s biggest hit single. “Poison” is one of Alice Cooper’s best known songs.

There are three versions of the video to the song, one of which shows Alice Cooper being chained to a bizarre mechanism and singing while a ghostly woman looms over him. The original video had to be censored for showings during the day, due to shots of model Rana Kennedy topless (Rana Kennedy plays the roles of both women in the video). The portions in question were redone with her wearing a corset to cover her breasts.

A final third cut utilizes alternate takes of Alice during the final refrain of the song, leading to the end (this version seemed to receive the most airplay on MTV). The aesthetic of the video borrowed heavily from the Hellraiser movies, which were very popular at the time. The studios in which the video was filmed in spring of 1989 have since been torn down and are now a parking lot in Los Angeles. The video is still often played on VH1 Classic’s Metal Mania.

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Judas Priest

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Judas Priest

Origin – West Bromwich, England

Genres – Heavy metal

Years active – 1969–present

Website – judaspriest.com

Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in West Bromwich in 1969. Despite an innovative and pioneering body of work in the latter half of the 1970s, the band struggled with indifferent record production, repeated changes of drummer, and lack of major commercial success or attention until 1980, when they adopted a more simplified sound on the album British Steel, which helped shoot them to rock superstar status.

The band’s membership has seen much turnover, including a revolving cast of drummers in the 1970s, and the temporary departure of singer Rob Halford in the early 1990s. The current line-up consists of Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The band’s best-selling album is 1982’s Screaming for Vengeance with their most commercially successful line-up, featuring Halford, Tipton, Hill, guitarist K. K. Downing, and drummer Dave Holland. Tipton and Hill are the only two members of the band to appear on every album.

Halford’s operatic vocal style and the twin guitar sound of Downing and Tipton have been a major influence on metal and have been adopted by many bands. Their image of leather, spikes, and other taboo articles of clothing were widely influential during the glam metal era of the 1980s. The Guardian referred to British Steel as the record that defines heavy metal.

Judas Priest’s style has always been rooted in heavy metal, and many of their albums reflect diverse aspects of the genre. For example, their first album, Rocka Rolla (1974), is primarily rooted in heavy blues rock. From Sad Wings of Destiny (1976) through Stained Class (1978), their style was somewhat progressive, with complex guitar passages and poetic lyrics. Songs would often shift in dynamics and tempo, and the music was some of the heaviest of its day. This would later have a major influence on progressive metal bands.

1977’s Sin After Sin used a combination of double bass drum (or “double kick”) and rapid 16th bass rhythms combined with rapid 16th guitar rhythms used by Black Sabbath, Venom, and Motörhead that came to define the genre. While the double-bass rhythms of Judas Priest are generally measured and technical, the song “Dissident Aggressor” (1977) pushed an increase in “tempo and aggression” which was later adopted by other bands with a much harder-edged approach.

Starting with their fifth album, Killing Machine (1978), the band began to incorporate a more commercial, radio-friendly style to their music. British Steel has been referred to as the “record that, more than any other, codified what we mean by heavy metal”. The lyrics and music were simplified, and this style prevailed up to their seventh album, Point of Entry (1981). With their eighth album, Screaming for Vengeance (1982), the band incorporated a balance of these two styles.

This continued on Defenders of the Faith (1984). With the follow-up album, Turbo (1986), the band incorporated guitar synthesizers into its signature heavy metal sound. On 1988’s Ram It Down the band retained some of the more commercial qualities of Turbo but also returned to some of the fast tempo heavy metal found on their earlier works. This fast-tempo style continued with 1990’s Painkiller. Jugulator (1997) tried to incorporate some of the 1990s contemporary groove metal styles. Demolition (2001) has a more traditional heavy metal sound with nu metal elements. Following the return of Halford for Angel of Retribution and Nostradamus, the band returned to the style of its early albums.

The band’s popularity and status as one of the exemplary and influential heavy metal bands has earned them the nickname “Metal Gods” from their song of the same name.

Discography

Rocka Rolla (1974)

Sad Wings of Destiny (1976)

Sin After Sin (1977)

Stained Class (1978)

Killing Machine (1978)

British Steel (1980)

Point of Entry (1981)

Screaming for Vengeance (1982)

Defenders of the Faith (1984)

Turbo (1986)

Ram It Down (1988)

Painkiller (1990)

Jugulator (1997)

Demolition (2001)

Angel of Retribution (2005)

Nostradamus (2008)

Redeemer of Souls (2014)

Firepower (2018)

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Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

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Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

Released – February 25, 1992 Genre – Groove metal, Thrash metal

Track listing

1. “Mouth for War” 3:57 2. “A New Level” 3:57 3. “Walk” 5:14 4. “Fucking Hostile” 2:48 5. “This Love” 6:32 6. “Rise” 4:36 7. “No Good (Attack the Radical)” 4:49 8. “Live in a Hole” 5:00 9. “Regular People (Conceit)” 5:27 10. “By Demons Be Driven” 4:40 11. “Hollow” 5:48

Vulgar Display of Power is the sixth studio album by the American heavy metal band Pantera, released on February 25, 1992. One of the most influential heavy metal albums of the 1990s, Vulgar Display of Power has been described as “one of the defining albums of the groove-metal genre”. Several songs from this release have become some of the band’s best known, such as “Mouth for War”, “A New Level”, “Walk”, “Fucking Hostile”, and “This Love”.

Drummer Vinnie Paul said that Cowboys from Hell was really close to the “definitive Pantera sound”. When Metallica released their self titled album in 1991, Pantera considered it a letdown to fans because they believed Metallica abandoned the thrash metal sound heard in previous albums. Pantera felt they had an opportunity and a gap to fill; they wanted to make the heaviest record of all time.

The riff for “Walk” is played in a time signature of 12/8. Darrell had played the riff during a soundcheck while Pantera was touring for Cowboys from Hell and the rest of the band loved it. Following this tour, the band returned home and found that some friends thought that rock stardom had gone to their heads. The lyrics for the song were inspired from these people’s attitude toward the band; Anselmo’s message to them was, “Take your fucking attitude and take a fuckin’ walk with that. Keep that shit away from me.”

The title of the album is taken from a line in the 1973 film, The Exorcist. In April 2007, the title was used for the book A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa, which includes many Pantera song titles as chapter headings. The book details the incidents leading up to the murder of Dimebag Darrell.

The album’s cover is a photo of a man being punched in the face and was shot by photographer Brad Guice, who also shot the photo for the Cowboys from Hell cover. The band told their label that they wanted “something vulgar, like a dude getting punched”. The first version of the cover that the label brought to the band showed a boxer with a punching glove, but the band did not like it, so the label produced a second version, with the bare fist. According to Vinnie Paul, the man on the cover was paid $10 a punch and was hit in the face 31 times to get the right picture. However Brad Guice stated that the man, who was named Sean Cross, was never actually hit.

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Suicidal Tendencies - You Can't Bring Me Down

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Suicidal Tendencies - You Can't Bring Me Down

“You Can’t Bring Me Down” is a song by Suicidal Tendencies, released in 1990 on the Lights…Camera…Revolution! album. It delivered moderate commercial success and aided in Suicidal’s transition from a punk metal band to a thrash metal one. Although the song never reached any of the major charts, it was a successful single, becoming arguably the band’s best-known song.

The song begins with a hypnotic whammy bar solo, then goes into a clean, almost acoustic sounding rhythm guitar part, and then a guitar solo is added over it. The solo continues for a while, featuring 8-finger tapping and shredding, then the tempo speeds up and the song breaks into the main riff, and the first verse of lyrics, and finally the chorus.

This continues until around 3:40, when suddenly the rhythm guitar is clean again, the tempo slows down, and another solo comes in. Then finally towards the end of the song it goes back to the main riff, only this time with lead vocalist Mike Muir ranting and almost talking instead of singing. Then the song goes back to the chorus, the chorus extends (with yet another guitar solo), and finally ends (Muir’s last lyrics being “Suicidal!” and then cackling).

The song was written by Muir and lead guitarist Rocky George.

A music video was made for “You Can’t Bring Me Down”, which was a major hit on MTV’s Headbangers Ball. The video seemed mostly to be about the band’s ban from appearances in Los Angeles; in the beginning of the video a newspaper pops up with the head line “Suicidal Tendencies Banned In L.A.” It showed Mike Muir being taken prisoner by a few unnamed authorities, who eventually executed him on the electric chair, despite heavy revolt from Muir’s “gang” (perhaps representative of S.T.’s fans), who try to help him escape.

It should also be noted that when Muir is executed in the video you can see the United States Constitution flashing in the background, which is perhaps taking another stab at the PMRC, which the band believed limited the American constitutional right to freedom of speech.

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Metallica – Metallica

Released – August 12, 1991  Genre – Heavy Metal

Track listing

1. “Enter Sandman” 5:34 2. “Sad but True” 5:24 3. “Holier Than Thou” 3:48 4. “The Unforgiven” 6:26 5. “Wherever I May Roam” 6:44 6. “Don’t Tread on Me” 4:01 7. “Through the Never” 4:03 8. “Nothing Else Matters” 6:30 9. “Of Wolf and Man” 4:17 10. “The God That Failed” 5:09 11. “My Friend of Misery” 6:48 12. “The Struggle Within” 3:56

Metallica (commonly known as The Black Album) is the self-titled fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on August 12, 1991, it received widespread critical acclaim and became the band’s best-selling album. Metallica produced five singles that are considered to be among the band’s best-known songs, which include “Enter Sandman”, “The Unforgiven”, “Nothing Else Matters”, “Wherever I May Roam”, and “Sad but True”. A sixth song, “Don’t Tread on Me”, was also issued to rock radio shortly after the album’s release, but the song did not receive a commercial single release. The album marked a change in the band’s sound from the thrash metal style of the previous four albums to a slower and heavier one rooted in heavy metal.

The recording of Metallica was troubled, and during production the band frequently entered conflicts with the band’s new producer Bob Rock.

“Enter Sandman” was released as the lead single on July 29, 1991.

The follow-up single, “Don’t Tread on Me”, was released promotionally and peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks singles chart.

“The Unforgiven” was a Top 40 hit; it peaked in the Top 10 in Australia.

In 1992, “Nothing Else Matters” was released to more success, reaching number six in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The fifth single from the album was also released in 1992; “Wherever I May Roam” peaked at number two on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart but was less successful on the Hot 100 chart, failing to reach the Top 80.

In 1993, “Sad but True” did not repeat the successes of the album’s previous singles, charting for one week on the Billboard Hot 100 at 98. Almost all singles were accompanied by music videos; the Wayne Isham-directed “Enter Sandman” promotional film won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards

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Judas Priest - British Steel

Released – 14 April 1980 Genre – Heavy metal

Track listing

Side one

1. “Rapid Fire” 4:08 2. “Metal Gods” 4:00 3. “Breaking the Law” 2:35 4. “Grinder” 3:58 5. “United” 3:35

Side two

6. “You Don’t Have to Be Old to Be Wise” 5:04 7. “Living After Midnight” 3:31 8. “The Rage” 4:44 9. “Steeler” 4:30

British Steel is the sixth studio album by the British heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 14 April 1980. It is also the band’s first album with Dave Holland on drums.

British Steel saw the band reprise the commercial sound they had established on Killing Machine. This time, they abandoned some of the dark lyrical themes which had been prominent on their previous releases, but some of it still remains.

Rob Halford said the band may have been inspired by AC/DC on some tracks after supporting them on a European tour in 1979. The songs “Breaking the Law”, “United”, and “Living After Midnight” were released as singles. Digital sampling was not yet widely available at the time of recording, so the band used analog recording of smashing milk bottles to be included in “Breaking the Law”, as well as various sounds in “Metal Gods” produced by billiard cues and trays of cutlery.

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Slayer

Origin – Huntington Park, California, U.S. Genres – Thrash metal Years active – 1981–present Website – slayer.net

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California. The band was formed in 1981 by vocalist and bassist Tom Araya and guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman. Slayer’s fast and aggressive musical style made them one of the founding “big four” bands of thrash metal, alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax. Slayer’s current lineup comprises King, Araya, drummer Paul Bostaph and guitarist Gary Holt.

In the original line-up, King, Hanneman and Araya contributed to the band’s lyrics, and all of the band’s music was written by King and Hanneman. The band’s lyrics and album art, which cover topics such as murder, serial killers, necrophilia, torture, genocide, human experimentation, Satanism, hate crimes, terrorism, religion, antireligion, Nazism and war, have generated album bans, delays, lawsuits and criticism from religious groups and factions of the general public. However, its music has been highly influential, often being cited by many bands as an influence musically, visually and lyrically; the band’s third album, Reign in Blood (1986), was described as one of the heaviest and most influential thrash metal albums.

Slayer has released twelve studio albums, two live albums, a box set, six music videos, two extended plays and a cover album. Four of the band’s studio albums have received gold certification in the United States. The band has received five Grammy Award nominations, winning one in 2007 for the song “Eyes of the Insane” and one in 2008 for the song “Final Six”, both of which were from the album Christ Illusion (2006). Between 1991 and 2013, the band sold five million albums in the United States. After 37 years of recording and performing, Slayer will embark on their farewell tour in 2018.

A lawsuit was brought against the band in 1996, by the parents of Elyse Pahler, who accused the band of encouraging their daughter’s murderers through their lyrics. Pahler was drugged, strangled, stabbed, trampled on, and raped as a sacrifice to the devil by three fans of the band. The case was unsealed by the court on May 19, 2000, stating Slayer and related business markets distribute harmful products to teens, encouraging violent acts through their lyrics, and “none of the vicious crimes committed against Elyse Marie Pahler would have occurred without the intentional marketing strategy of the death-metal band Slayer.” The lawsuit was dismissed in 2001, for multiple reasons including “principles of free speech, lack of a duty and lack of foreseeability.” A second lawsuit was filed by the parents, an amended complaint for damages against Slayer, their label, and other industry and label entities. The lawsuit was again dismissed. Judge E. Jeffrey Burke stated, “I do not consider Slayer’s music obscene, indecent or harmful to minors.”

Slayer has been accused of holding Nazi sympathies, due to the band’s eagle logo bearing resemblance to the Eagle atop swastika and the lyrics of “Angel of Death”. “Angel of Death” was inspired by the acts of Josef Mengele, the doctor who conducted human experiments on prisoners during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and was dubbed the “Angel of Death” by inmates. Throughout their career, the band members were asked about these accusations, and have stated numerous times they do not condone Nazism and are merely interested in the subject.

Slayer’s cover of Minor Threat’s “Guilty of Being White” raised questions about a possible message of white supremacy in the band’s music. The controversy surrounding the cover involved the changing of the refrain “guilty of being white” to “guilty of being right”, at the song’s ending. This incensed Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye, who stated “that is so offensive to me.” King said it was changed for “tongue-in-cheek” humor as he thought the allegation of racism at the time was “ridiculous”.

In a 2004 interview with Araya, when asked, “Did critics realize you were wallowing in parody?” Araya replied, “No. People thought we were serious!…back then you had that PMRC, who literally took everything to heart, when in actuality you’re trying to create an image. You’re trying to scare people on purpose.” Araya also denied rumors that Slayer members are Satanists, but they find the subject of Satanism interesting and “we are all on this planet to learn and experience.”

The song “Jihad” of the album Christ Illusion sparked controversy among families of the September 11 victims The song deals with the attack from the perspective of a religious terrorist. The band stated the song is spoken through perspective without being sympathetic to the cause, and supports neither side.

Seventeen bus benches promoting the same album in Fullerton, California were deemed offensive by city officials. City officials contacted the band’s record label and demanded that the ads be removed. All benches were eliminated.

In India, Christ Illusion was recalled by EMI India after protests with Christian religious groups due to the nature of the graphic artwork. The album cover was designed by Slayer’s longtime collaborator Larry Carroll and features Christ in a “sea of despair”, with amputated arms, missing an eye, while standing in a sea of blood with severed heads. Joseph Dias of the Mumbai Christian group Catholic Secular Forum in India took “strong exception” to the original album artwork, and issued a memorandum to Mumbai’s police commissioner in protest. On October 11, 2006, EMI announced that all stocks had been destroyed, noting it had no plans to re-release the record in India in the future. However, the album has since been imported and made available in India.

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