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The 90s were dominated by an alt rock explosion, but as the decade came to a close there was a shift in sound to a harder edge. One of the leaders of this heavier sound was a young band out of Chicago who called themselves Disturbed, and on March 7, 2000, they released their debut album,  The Sickness. Over the next few years, The Sickness spread throughout the rock world and became a multiplatinum smash. "People think it was like this meteoric rise. It really wasnt," frontman David Drai...

The 1986 cult movie 'Highlander' launched a franchise, even though issues behind the scenes meant there was nearly only one.

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Before AC/DC started working on the follow-up to their 12th U.S. album Ballbreaker, the band members agreed they didn’t want to return to the meticulous, demanding work ethic of the Rick Rubin-produced disc. Not that there was anything wrong with the songs on Ballbreaker per se, but in the studio Rubin was a perfectionist, and asked the band to do as many as 50 takes of some of the songs, a move that left the Australian legends frustrated and exhausted. So for album No. 13, Stiff Upper Lip...

Years before they played orchestral, convoluted gothic / black metal and titillated rebellious fans with slogans like “Jesus is a C--t,” Cradle of Filth were a novel, literate death metal band that played straightforward chainsaw riffs and relied on classical-influenced keyboard passages to provide atmosphere, not drive the songs. The group’s first album, The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, which came out Feb. 24, 1994, is raw and simple, but not icy or nature-influenced enough to qualify ...

Interview: Carly Pearce Knows a Thing or Two About Silver Linings 29 EP. Its hard to blame her — every sunny day seemed to come with a rogue rain cloud. You dont even need to go back to last summer for an example — try last fall. After Pearce and Lee Brice were nominated for a CMA for Musical Event of the Year, they were poised to take the stage for a national broadcast performance of "I Hope Youre Happy Now." Then, she fell and knocked several teeth out on Halloween. Theyd win the awar...

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