Check out this kid’s parents waking him up with ‘Breed’ by Nirvana. His reaction is… impressive.

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England football manager, Roy Hodgson headbangs to Motörhead.

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On 14 April 1980, Iron Maiden released their self-titled debut album. It was an album that marked the start of a career that would go on to change – and in some ways define – the very firmament of what we call heavy metal. Since it’s now 14 April 2012, we’re going to use this handy-if-irrelevant anniversary [...]

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Ten years ago today, it is generally believed that Layne Staley, frontman with Alice In Chains, died as a result of injecting himself with a mixture of heroin and cocaine. He was juts 34 years old when he died. While Alice In Chains would later reform almost a decade later, it is their early albums [...]

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…which means ‘These Colours Don’t Run’ is the first real taste we’ve had of the band’s forthcoming fifth studio album. So what can we infer from this track with regards to what Architects have in store for Daybreaker?

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Vice’s No Sleep Till… documentary series comes to an end today, with the final instalment focussing on one of California’s finest international punk exports of the last five years: Trash Talk. Vice follow the band as they support Every Time I Die on their last UK tour, which obvious means a) carnage, and b) destruction, and c) skateboarding.

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Sometimes when you go to film a video interview, everything goes wrong. With the case of our interview with Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder, everything did. Our camera broke, and refused to film in anything other than black and white. Our microphone broke, forcing us to wing it with an external digital recorder. [...]

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It’s Friday. You’ve had a crappy week. Right now you’re stuck in front of a computer, probably doing some boring nonsense work when you’d either a) be in the pub, or b) like us, wish you were at Hammerfest. Well we’re not, you’re not, and we’re annoyed about it. We’ve got a lot of aggression we [...]

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Vice’s No Sleep Till… documentary series has so far seen bands from the USA take on the “delights” that Russia and Sweden have to offer a hard-touring punk band, but this week they’ve brought everything about the show a little bit closer to home. For part three in the series, Vice joined crossover types SSS on a [...]

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As far as we’re aware, March 10 (that’s the day we’re publishing this, for anyone who’s late to this particular party) isn’t a particularly important date in the calendar for any of the four members of Slayer. It isn’t any of their birthdays. It isn’t the anniversary of the release of any of their records. As far [...]

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