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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From Folterkammer's femme-dom black metal to Belushi Speed Ball's 'pizza thrash', Dermabrasion's occulty goth rock and the bizarre alt. metal of Battlesnake, these are the bands you need to hear in September 2024

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"It was important for us to press the reset button": Joe Perry on touring with Kiss and the making of Aerosmith's Honkin' On Bobo

With a back-to-basics blues-oriented just recorded, Aerosmith in 2003 were more determined than ever to let the music do the talking

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“The great albums were not made under a microscope. They were made by living, breathing people who were excited by what they were doing”: How Kiss fought back against the music industry with Sonic Boom

In 2009, Kiss released Sonic Boom, an album that called back to past glories

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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Gene Simmons' pronouncement that rock is dead, here are the Top 10 other examples of Gene Simmons repeating his theory

PS. Rock is very much alive, pass it on

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“‘You got long hair, right?’ Right. ‘And you’re over 6 feet tall?’ I’m like, ‘I’m 5’7 but I’ll have an operation’”: Marty Friedman recalls missing out on joining Kiss because of his height

Yngwie Malmsteen and White Lion's Vito Bratta were also rejected due to image-related reasons

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"Oh my goodness! It's so rousing! Especially the end!": The soundtrack of Gene Simmons' life

Kiss bassist, Demon and fire-breather Gene Simmons picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the "most dishonest" album Kiss ever made

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"'You’re just 5’ 7'? Sorry it’s not going to work out”: Yes, Marty Friedman really was too short to audition for Kiss

Marty Friedman was turned down for Kiss because he's too short

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“I’m 5’7” but I’ll have an operation, I’ll do something”: Ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman was denied a Kiss audition for being too short

Marty Friedman’s height cruelly cost him the chance to join one of rock’s biggest-ever bands

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Bryan Adams showcases the "chaos and destruction" of battle in new video for War Machine

War Machine is a song Bryan Adams co-wrote for Kiss before he was a star

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“I am in the Gene Simmons business. I am the biggest fan of Gene Simmons”: Happy 75th birthday to Gene Simmons, Kiss bassist and unrepentant asshole

Self-confessed “asshole”, politically incorrect philanderer, money-obsessed businessman, rock superstar – god bless Gene Simmons

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“He came over and he said, 'You did a really good job up there.' I thought, 'Man, my guitar was off…’” Whitesnake’s Joel Hoekstra on the time Ace Frehley complimented his guitar playing… even though he wasn’t actually playing anything

Hoekstra says he only “really understood” the KISS veteran after partaking in an intimate and exclusive jam, during which Frehley insisted on cranking his amp to ear-splitting volumes

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“There’s no denying that the thought of Robben Ford playing on a Kiss album is weird”: A brief history of Kiss’s session guitarists – featuring Bob Kulick, Dick Wagner, Rick Derringer and more...

We take a head count of the Creatures of the night that were released into the wild the next morning as the Kiss rock juggernaut rolled on and on

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“Ace came in and noodled some solo takes… Gilby and I looked at each other slack-jawed”: The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine recalls recruiting Ace Frehley and Gilby Clarke for her solo album

Valentine approached Frehley to play on her record at her birthday party – not expecting him to actually show up at the studio

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"A corporate jack-off music festival disguised as some kind of important cultural event for the young generation": The grimy legacy of Woodstock 1994

The 25th anniversary edition of the Woodstock Festival was supposed to revive memories of the original. It'll be remembered for mud.

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“I was never fired from Kiss – I was left behind for a wildly successful commercial venture. You don’t have to be an accountant to understand Paul and Gene”: Bruce Kulick shares war stories from Kiss’ no-makeup era – and the reunion that killed it

Kulick offers a front-row perspective of what went down with Kiss in the ’80s: the tension between the past and future, his six-string independence from Ace Frehley, and the coming grunge asteroid

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Before he was famous, Bryan Adams co-wrote Rock And Roll Hell and War Machine for Kiss: Now he's recorded his own versions

Bryan Adams' video for Rock And Roll Hell was filmed on the roof of London's iconic Royal Albert Hall

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$500 Is Up For Grabs If You Take A Pic Of Your Dog At These Deadpool & Wolverine Photo Ops

We all believe our dogs are super heroes, and now you have a chance to prove it. In honour of Dogpool starring alongside Deadpool in the latest movie Deadpool & Wolverine, Marvel Studios has set up a pop-up opportunity for your furry best friend. You’ll be able to take Dogpool-themed…

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Jon Bon Jovi masterminded one of the biggest and biggest-selling bands of his era, and became one of its biggest rock stars. But there's more – so much more

"There was no Plan B in my life, ever" - Jon Bon Jovi

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The 100 songs that changed metal

From founding fathers like Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Judas Priest to metal's modern leaders such as Ghost, Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the songs that have defined a genre

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"A perfect storm of obstacles and misfortunes": New England released one of the greatest AOR albums of all time, but their career was derailed by the Pope

With some top-drawer tunes, Paul Stanley producing and Kiss’s management behind them, New England seemed, and felt, poised for stardom. Cue bad luck and trouble

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"I had never heard anything that raw and heavy and fast in my life": Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy picks the 10 albums that changed his life

These aren't Mike Portnoy's favourite albums - they're much more important than that

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“I’ve always missed being in Kiss, but if that meant being the Spaceman like Tommy, I wouldn’t want to do it”: Bruce Kulick was never invited to rejoin Kiss – and he's OK with that

Kulick was around for Kiss' under-appreciated no-makeup era, but when the band's first reunion fell through, he was never invited back

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"When the time is right, put us in a coffin and fire up those avatars": Nikki Sixx is up for Mötley Crüe continuing as avatars once the band are dead

Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx is keen to follow in the footsteps of Kiss and ABBA with an avatar-style show so that their music can "go forward for generations and generations"

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“I haven't played much... I thought if I started playing, I would miss playing with the band and doing what we do”: Paul Stanley admits he hasn't picked up the guitar in awhile for fear he'll miss Kiss

After five decades in Kiss, and wrapping up the band's final shows, Stanley is trying to get back into the groove of playing guitar

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“I don’t know if any orgies were ‘thrown’. Those things had a way of happening on their own”: in 1977, Kiss were on top of the world – and Paul Stanley was loving every second of it

Andy Warhol, Studio 54, Madison Square Garden and two albums – this is what it was like being in Kiss in 1977

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