" The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s

 The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akHJ-WROwZc

“As long as you’ve got a pack of cigarettes,” sings Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s biggest ever rock star, “life can’t be all that shabby.” When Tsoi died in a car crash in 1990, Please Kill Me writes, “it was, to a young person in the Soviet Union, as if Bob Dylan, James Dean and Muhammad Ali all died simultaneously.” When Yuliya Abasheva, born in the year of Tsoi’s death, first heard him sing, “I was thrilled to the core of my being. I literally fell in love with his music, and I immediately realized that I didn’t want to listen to any music but Kino.”

" The 10 creepiest metal songs ever

 The 10 creepiest metal songs ever

Let old school horror-metal freaks Possessor take you by the hand and guide you through 10 of the most skin-crawling metal songs known to man or ghoul

" 11 metal bands who never made an album as good as their debut

 11 metal bands who never made an album as good as their debut

For some, the first time is best. Here are the bands who never improved on their debut albums

"“Amerika ist wunderbar!”: how Rammstein conquered the USA

 “Amerika ist wunderbar!”: how Rammstein conquered the USA

Only a fool would have put money on a bunch of German industrial-metal perverts becoming one of the biggest bands in America. But this is how Rammstein did it

" The 10 heaviest metal riffs ever

 The 10 heaviest metal riffs ever

Metal Hammer

Spirit Adrift mastermind and riff connoisseur Nate Garrett on the heaviest noises ever forged in the name of metal

"The 50 greatest Dave Mustaine quotes ever

 The 50 greatest Dave Mustaine quotes ever

Metal Hammer

From the pages of Metal Hammer, here are 50 killer Dave Mustaine quotes to live your life by

"Guitar hacking with Eddie Van Halen

 Guitar hacking with Eddie Van Halen

Boing Boingby Gareth Branwyn

In this reprinted piece from Popular Mechanics, 2015, the late, great Eddie Van Halen talks about how he modified his early guitars and amps to help create the unique guitar sounds for which he became famous.

My playing style really grew from the fact that I couldn't afford a distortion pedal.

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" Rock & Metal Musicians Pay Tribute to EDDIE VAN HALEN, RIP

 Rock & Metal Musicians Pay Tribute to EDDIE VAN HALEN, RIP

Metal Injectionby Robert Pasbani /

To say the entire rock world is shocked with the sudden, but not unexpected loss of guitar god Eddie Van Halen is an understatement. Not only would rock and metal never be the same, but music in general without the Van Halen guitarist. The dude was insanely innovative, seriously look up all the advancements he […]

Eddie Van Halen dead at 65

Metal Hammer 

Legendary Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen has died after a long battle with cancer

RIP Eddie Van Halen, Dead at 65

Metal Injectionby Robert Pasbani /

The Van Halen guitarist died after a battle with throat cancer.

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