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"We were like, ‘What if we take speed? Maybe we can play even faster!’ We were definitely better without the drugs." How Europe's biggest thrash band went from getting their mum to sign deals to satanic metal mastery

"When we heard Venom, all our songs became satanic."

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"Crime scene teams tested the entrails - they thought they were human." How Florida became the world death metal capital in the 90s

With the likes of Morbid Angel, Deicide and Death leading the charge, death metal blew up in Florida in the late 80s and early 90s

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“We did get very wild and crazy at points. I remember thinking, ‘Why aren’t we getting arrested?’”: The violent, bloody birth of the Bay Area thrash scene

How a handful of kids from Northern California changed the world

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Death metal guitarist killed in police shootout after ‘tree dispute’ with neighbor turned violent

San Francisco cops say the suspect, later identified as Brian Montana, died after opening fire at officers

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Former Possessed guitarist killed by police in California after gun battle outside his home

Brian Montana, a former member of death metal pioneers Possessed, dies aged 60, following fatal escalation of dispute with a neighbour

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“It’s the perfect encapsulation of youthful anger… It still sounds feral and savage to this very day”: The cult 1980s classic Ghost frontman Tobias Forge calls the perfect extreme metal album

And no, it’s not by Metallica, Slayer or Mercyful Fate

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“They were a huge part of the beginnings of Metallica”: How the Metal Massacre albums launched Metallica, Slayer and the next decade of metal

From Metallica and Slayer to Possessed and Overkill, Metal Blade Records’ underground demo series shone a light on the future of metal in the early ’80s

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Napalm Death's Shane Embury: "Tom Hanks apparently said Napalm Death were s**t after Utopia Banished"

Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury shares stories about fighting racists in Estonia, facing poverty in the Soviet Union and the time Ronnie James Dio made him cry

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The British army's social accounts were hacked by crypto scammers

Even the Twitter and YouTube accounts of one of the largest military forces in the world, can still be manipulated to scam you.

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