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"This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world, AI, genocide, climate change, the power elite, $$$$ hoarding pigs." Chat Pile announce third album Who Loves The Sun
2+ hour, 28+ min ago (244+ words) A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth…...
I heard Lars Ulrich jumped out of a helicopter as it was landing and disappeared: What happened the night Metallica's drummer went missing " and Slipknot and Slayer saved the day
5+ hour, 22+ min ago (620+ words) Unexpectedly down an original member, Metallica headlined Download festival 2004 backed up by Joey Jordison and Dave Lombardo On June 6, 2004, Metallica were preparing to headline Download festival to roughly 100, 000 people. There was only one problem: Lars Ulrich was nowhere to be…...
"We were young men, living hard and out of control, and we lost our heart and soul." The story behind the John Frusciante song which saved the Red Hot Chili Peppers in their darkest hour
5+ hour, 34+ min ago (230+ words) "It was devastating. Just unbelievable" Slovak's bandmates knew that he had been using heroin: he and Anthony Kiedis had shot up together numerous times in the past. But on the quartet's first European tour in the spring of 1988, the pair…...
Screens and fake news and artificial intelligence" we don't need that in the way of our connections: How Sepultura made their technophobic final statement, The Cloud Of Unknowing
6+ hour, 22+ min ago (724+ words) As Brazil's groove metal heroes prepare to call it quits, we speak to guitarist Andreas Kisser about their swansong EP After more than 40 years of thrashing, Brazilian icons Sepultura are calling it a day. They didn't plan on making new…...
Between girls, drugs and an entourage he'd bring everywhere, Pete was out of his mind more than at any other point: How I Don't Wanna Be Me gave gothic metal icons Type O Negative their last big anthem, but spelled the start of the end
8+ hour, 25+ min ago (138+ words) Louder I Don't Wanna Be Me is one of Type Of Negative's hallmark songs, but the story of its conception was, typically, surrounded by controversy, mayhem and a dose of black humour Peter liked to poke the bear like that,…...
Did Muse's Matt Bellamy really earn his guitar smashing world record?
8+ hour, 32+ min ago (881+ words) Ambitious from the start, the conspiracy-theory obsessives were always going to have to move on from their early days of excess. This is how they did it Muse started out as a series of irreverent party acts before making their…...
I was in my boxers and my mother caught me in this heightened creative moment. It was pretty embarrassing: Inspired by Tool, Led Zeppelin and classic sci-fi, Coheed And Cambria turned a tumultuous break-up into Welcome Home
8+ hour, 13+ min ago (748+ words) Thanks to its venomous lyrics and hard, screeching riff, the 2005 single became a Platinum-selling breakthrough moment Claudio co-founded Coheed in the late 90s. They were originally called Shabutie, until their singer/guitarist, an ardent comic book reader and sci-fi obsessive, came…...
Sonja Kristina's highs and lows with prog groundbreakers Curved Air
10+ hour, 35+ min ago (1730+ words) The singer on influencing Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux, her relationship with Stewart Copeland, prog versus punk and why she didn't like her band's mid-70s output When did you first sing in public? At school. I used to do songs like…...
Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix: The Story Behind The Song
12+ hour, 33+ min ago (337+ words) A month after arriving in London, Jimi Hendrix recorded a song that transformed ancient blues into modern hard rock "This is useless," Hendrix lamented, "I'll never be able to make a record here." Sensing that his control over his prot'g…...
The story of Dire Straits, the band who quit at the height of their fame
12+ hour, 17+ min ago (1865+ words) How Dire Straits went from the pubs of London to become one of the biggest bands of the 1980s At 10. 10pm on October 9, 1992, Mark Knopfler bid goodnight to 40, 000 people and walked off stage in Zaragoza, Spain. It was the last time he…...