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Senior Citizens In Trouble For Terrorizing Neighbors With the Power of Iron Maiden

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:58:26 +0000

Since the members of Iron Maiden are all well into their 50s it shouldn't be a big surprise that some fans of the seminal heavy metal band are now old enough to collect retirement benefits.

Instead it's what a 71-year-old woman from Stockholm, Sweden and her 81-year-old husband did with their Iron Maiden record collection that's noteworthy.

Metal Version of Aqua's 'Barbie Girl' Surprisingly Rocks

Emerald Catron — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:40:29 +0000

This is the perfect way to relive those golden years back in the ’90s before you hardened your heart and started listening exclusively to death metal. It’s a metal guitar version of your 12-year-old self’s favorite song — ‘Barbie Girl’ by Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua. If you have to pretend you don’t know the words, [...]

Metal God Eric Calderone Rocks the 'Super Mario Bros.' Theme

Kyle Dowling — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:20:44 +0000

Just when we thought America’s favorite video game, ‘Super Mario Bros.,’ couldn’t get any better — enter YouTube’s 311Erock, aka rocker Eric Calderone. In this video, Eric shows us that not all metal riffs and/or tones are used for moshing, horror movies and making parents angry. Getting not only the theme song down perfectly but also [...]

'Balloon Boy' Is Back and Fronting a Heavy Metal Band

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:53:11 +0000

Remember the Balloon Boy? That would be Falcon Henne, who for a few moments had the nation on edge after his parents claimed the-then six-year-old had sailed away unaccompanied in a hot air balloon. When the balloon did land Falcon was nowhere to be found and it turned out he had been hiding in the [...]

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi Didn't Know He Played Metal

The Hawk — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:16:27 +0000

Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi recently told the BBC that he wasn’t really aware of the term “heavy metal” for years. “I mean, I always looked at what we did as heavy rock,” he said. “And when that term was first mentioned to me… Somebody said, ‘Oh, you play heavy metal.’ And I said, ‘What? [...]