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"It didn't matter we'd got a gold record - we still came off tour and had to go back to our day jobs." How Type O Negative created goth metal's greatest album: October Rust

Bloody Kisses made Type O Negative the biggest band on Roadrunner Records, its follow-up cemented them as goth metal's most iconic band

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Exclusive: Roadrunner raises $27 million from Kleiner Perkins and Founders Fund

A Kleiner partner vibe-coded his way to a startup incubated inside his firm.

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Shrooms, alligators and the swamp: how the ‘satanic e-girls of TikTok’ revived psychedelic sludge metallers Acid Bath

The Louisiana band came to a tragically early end in the 90s, but after going viral they’ll soon play stadiums with System of a Down. They look back on the claggy riffs and circle pits

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The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)

From legends like Iron Maiden and Metallica to rising stars such as Bloodywood and Spiritbox, these are the metal albums that have defined the 2020s so far

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"The very first thought that came into my head was, ‘This band are going to get ripped off’." Corrupt police, crumbling dictatorships and amateur translators: The 80s metal classic that smashed borders and helped launch one of metal's most iconic labels

How a bunch of feral boys from Brazil helped reshape metal for decades to come

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“We weren’t scared of grunge. We would see Dave Grohl wearing Sepultura t-shirts”: It was built on death metal – until three iconic bands helped turn this underground record company into the most influential metal label of the 90s

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Enlight Strengthens US Presence With New Financing Deals For Clean Energy Projects

Enlight Renewable Energy (NASDAQ: ENLT) said its U.S. subsidiary, Clēnera Holdings, has finalized two tax equity partnerships for the Roadrunner Solar and Energy Storage Project near Tucson, Arizona.

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Machine Head toured America six days after 9/11: “Everybody in the front row was like, ‘Why am I here? Tell me it’s gonna be OK’”

Robb Flynn looks back on Machine Head playing across the US less than a week after the September 11 terrorist attacks

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“We jumped offstage and took our masks off and started swinging at people at the end of one song”: The wild story of Slipknot vs Mushroomhead, the masked band feud that lit up nu metal

Fight! Fight! Fight!

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"People characterised both of our bands as being arrogant and cocky." How Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium helped revitalise metal in 2005

How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine ushered in metal's next generation

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“This song is nuts! It’s a very violent, angry call for being a champion of all who deserve it”: Matt Heafy on the classic Trivium song inspired by Muse

How a sci-fi obsessed British rock group influenced a key track on Trivium’s breakthrough Ascendancy album

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“There were fire, floods and riots. We saw LA being destroyed. We channelled that into the record”: How Fear Factory predicted the apocalypse with industrial-metal masterpiece Demanufacture

The story of Fear Factory’s Demanufacture, the album that rewired metal forever

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“Whenever we made a mistake, Ross Robinson would be happy, because we’d be breaking boundaries”: Sepultura name the five songs which define their career

Ahead of their impending retirement, Derrick Green and Andreas Kisser explain which songs have most shaped Sepultura’s career

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“It worries the hell out of me. We’ve been outcasts for our whole career. If what we do becomes some sort of trend, will we die with it?”: How Dream Theater became the kings of progressive metal – and stayed there

In 2009, Dream Theater released Black Clouds & Silver Linings – an album the prog metal giants claimed could give Slipknot and Trivium a run for its money in heaviness

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"A true believer, sharp as a knife, heart of gold." A tribute to Michelle Kerr, the ass-kicking, passionate PR legend who helped shape modern metal as we know it

Michelle Kerr, PR for Slipknot, Machine Head, Slayer, Megadeth and many more, died on Saturday. She leaves behind a legacy as one of the metal industry's most beloved figureheads

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New Mexico’s sovereign wealth fund is investing $50M in a bet that scientists will build startups in Albuquerque

A new venture capital studio launched by America’s Frontier Fund is trying to help deep-tech ideas get out of the lab to create successful companies.

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“The death of my mother was the worst thing that ever happened to me. For a year my motto was, ‘Why should I play, why should I eat, for what?’”: The darkness and despair of late Type O Negative frontman and goth metal icon Peter Steele

In 2007, three years before his death, Peter Steele sat down for one of his most candid interviews ever

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“I don’t have any qualms about playing it until the day I die.” How Nymphetamine helped Cradle Of Filth become “the Backstreet Boys” of black metal

With help from Leaves Eyes vocalist Liv Kristine and some spiritual interference from Type O Negative, Cradle Of Filth traded black metal for goth on 2004's Nymphetamine

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"Nobody picks up a guitar to be the most hated band in the world." Nickelback: Hate To Love isn't likely to win over the haters, but does shine a light on why you should never bet against one of rock's most surprising underdogs

Our take on Nickelback's interesting - if hardly explosive - new documentary

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"At first I thought Meshuggah were absolute noise, just trash!": Periphery's Misha Mansoor talks early influences, the benefits of social media and internet trolls

Periphery founder and guitarist Misha Mansoor shares the wisdom that helped his band become djent pioneers

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Every Coheed And Cambria album ranked from worst to best

They’ve meshed prog, post-hardcore and emo over the years in their distinguished catalogue, but which album is Coheed And Cambria's finest hour?

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10 metal one hit wonders

These metal bands all kicked out one classic anthem - but either failed to repeat the trick or disappeared completely

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A beginner's guide to Roadrunner Records in five essential albums

Metal's most celebrated label has put out dozens of genre-defining classics. Here are the five that tell its story

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The full story of metal's greatest supergroup, Roadrunner United: "We even opened it up to Nickelback"

How members of Slipknot, Machine Head, Fear Factory and Trivium came together to celebrate metal's most legendary label

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NURATRUE - Listening to music is almost as good as going to a concert but you're the soundman!

I was promised that I would never listen to music the same again once I had tried NURATRUE - a bold statement to say the least but the result was an incredible immersive experience

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