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WACKEN, Germany - Two senior citizens disappeared from their rural retirement home in northern Germany Friday and were later found with thousands of headbangers at a heavy metal music festival in Wacken, according to news reports. The nursing home alerted police when staff discovered the elderly men missing from their home, in Dithmarscher, according to German broadcaster Deutsche Wells. It turns out the men were located early Saturday morning about 25 miles away, near Hamburg, at Wacken Open Air, a four-day festival billed as the largest heavy metal gathering in the world. The men were found “disoriented and dazed” around...

From the Rolling Stones to Styx, music T-shirts are are the biggest thing in vintage clothing right now—even if buyers have never even listened to the band.

Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington has died aged 41, LA County Coroner says. The coroner said Bennington apparently hanged himself.

After comedian Kathy Griffin's attorney referenced bands like Municipal Waste and GWAR as other public figures who have created "disturbing imagery" involving President Trump, both bands have come to Griffin's defense. Check out exactly what they said below! Comedian Kathy Griffin recently made headlines around the world after the comedian posted a picture of herself holding a bloodied decapited Donald Trump head. Since then, she's been fired from her position as co-host of CNN's annual New Year's Eve program along with being slammed from the Trump family. Griffin was also slammed by her former co-host of CNN's New Year's Eve...

This is my first attempt at making truly brutal death metal. I think I got the brutal part right. (And yes, the Plaguefather in question is Nurgle of Warhammer / Warhammer 40,000 fame.) For a free download of "Plaguefather," click here, and then click on the Download icon.

When a band that has been around for more than 40 years goes on the road, fans have to be prepared for the possibility that this go-round may be the last. While AC/DC isn’t officially calling this a farewell tour, the fact that singer Brian Johnson had to leave the tour after a doctor said he was risking total hearing loss means it’s unlikely he’ll take the stage with the band again. Johnson’s departure follows co-founder Malcolm Young departure in 2014 because he is suffering from dementia. That same year, drummer Phil Rudd was arrested for threatening to kill someone...

Nick Menza, who played on many of Megadeth’s most successful albums, died after he collapsed on stage during a show. He was 51. Menza was into the third song with his new band Ohm when he collapsed late Saturday night, said Ohm’s manager Steve Bauer. Paramedics couldn’t revive him. The band was playing at The Baked Potato, in Studio City, California. “The group’s bassist texted me last night after it happened,” Bauer told CNN. “We are all still in shock.” Officials haven’t released a cause of death. Alongside Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax, Megadeth makes up metal’s “Big Four.” And for...

Stryper - In God We Trust 01 - In God We Trust - 3:58 02 - Always There for You - 4:11 03 - Keep the Fire Burning - 3:40 04 - I Believe In You - 3:20 05 - The Writing's on the Wall" - 4:19 06 - It's up - 3:50 07 - World of You and I - 3:45 08 - Come to the Everlife - 4:08 09 - Lonely - 4:10 10 - The Reign - 2:49

Jake E. Lee - Retraced [full album HQ, HD] 1. Whiskey Train 2. Evil 3. Way Back to the Bone 4. I'll Be Creepin' 5. Guess, I'll Go Away 6. Love is Worth the Blues 7. I Come Tumblin' 8. Woman 9. A Hard Way to Go 10. I Can't Stand It 11. Rock Candy

Steppenwolf - 'Live At The Fillmore' Fillmore West, San Francisco, California, USA August 27th, 1968 good to fairly good audience John Kay - Vocals, Guitar, Harp Michael Monarch - Guitar Goldy McJohn - Keyboards Rushton Moreve (aka John Russell Morgan) - Bass, Vocals Jerry Edmonton - Drums, Vocals 00:00 Your Wall's Too High 12:50 12:50 John Kay Remarks 02:01 14:51 Hoochie Coochie Man 05:51 20:43 John Kay Remarks 01:09 21:52 Born To Be Wild 08:03 29:56 Desperation 06:20 36:16 The Ostrich 09:13 45:29 Tighten Up Your Wig 04:19 49:49 Disappointment Number (Unknown) 04:14 54:04 Lost And Found By Trial And...

Def Leppard's Best Of album which include 17 of their well known singles including Two Steps Behind, Let's Get Rocked and Animal. Pour Some Sugar On Me 0:00 Photograph 4:53 Love Bites 9:01 Let's Get Rocked 14:48 Two Steps Behind 19:44 Animal 24:04 Heaven Is 28:09 Rocket 31:42 When Love And Hate Collide 35:50 Action 40:08 Long Long Way To Go 43:50 Make Love Like A Man 48:30 Armageddon It 52:45 Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad? 58:07 Rock Of Ages 1:03:27 Hysteria 1:07:35 Bringin On The Heartbreak 1:13:30

Best Of Scorpions Greatest Hits Full Album 00:00 Under the same sun 04:55 White dove 09:15 Wind of change 14:30 Holiday 21:00 Still loving you 27:30 Always somewhere 32:30 When the smoke is going down 36:20 Send me an angel 41:00 Believe in love 45:45 Lady starlight 52:10 Is there anybody there? 56:10 Rhythm of love 1:00:00 No one like you 1:04:00 Big city nights 1:08:10 Rock you like a hurricane 

Aerosmith's Greatest Hits (1080p) - Dream On 0:00 - Same Old Song And Dance 4:30 - Sweet Emotion 7:34 - Walk This Way 10:48 - Last Child 14:21 - Back In The Saddle 17:49 - Draw The Line 22:30 - Kings And Queens 25:54 - Come Together 29:43 - Remember 33:28

Van Halen - 1984 (FULL ALBUM) 0:00 1984 1:12 Jump 5:16 Panama 8:49 Top Jimmy 11:51 Drop Dead Legs 16:06 Hot For Teacher 20:50 I'll Wait 25:36 Girl Gone Bad 30:12 House of Pain 

Rush Chronicles Full Album HD HQ 1080p 1. Finding My Way (Rush) 0:00:00 2. Working Man (Rush) 0:05:07 3. Fly By Night (Fly By Night) 0:12:18 4. Anthem (Fly By Night) 0:15:39 5. Bastille Day (Caress of Steel) 0:20:03 6. Lakeside Park (Caress of Steel) 0:24:42 7. 2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx (2112) 0:28:52 8. What You're Doing (Live) (All the World's a Stage) 0:35:39 9. A Farewell to Kings (A Farewell to Kings) 0:41:20 10. Closer to the Heart (A Farewell to Kings) 0:47:12 11. The Trees (Hemispheres) 0:50:06 12. La Villa Strangiato (Hemispheres) 0:54:46 13. Freewill (Permanent Waves)...

Heavy metal was the No. 1-selling music genre in 1989, and parents feared the worst: that Satan worship, drug use, loads of sex, and suicide went along with it, write researchers in the journal Self and Identity. Records were burned, "Parental Advisory" warning labels were born, and some '90s research suggested that teens who were into metal had a boatload of problems. And then decades passed. How did those metalheads turn out? Pretty OK, found the team led by Humboldt State University psychologist Tasha Howe, reports Billboard. It found that while middle-aged metalheads were more likely to have engaged in...

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is being treated for cancer. A statement on the band’s website said he was diagnosed just before Christmas after a small cancerous tumor was found at the back of his tongue. He has just completed a seven-week course of chemotherapy and radiology treatment, and is expected to make a full recovery. “As the tumor was caught in the early stages, the prognosis, thankfully, is extremely good,” the statement said. …

A French court hit notorious Norwegian heavy metal musician Kristian Vikernes with a fine and six-month suspended prison sentence for blog postings that allegedly glorified war crimes and promoted discrimination against Jews and Muslims. A French court Tuesday slapped a six-month suspended sentence and an €8,000 ($10,000) fine on a Norwegian heavy metal musician accused of inciting racial hatred in his blogs. Kristian Vikernes, 41, was not present in court and neither was his lawyer as the verdict was delivered. He has denied posting racist blogs and said they were written by someone else. Vikernes was arrested in July last...

Ask any metal fan in India for the one moment that changed the country’s music landscape and they will all point you to Iron Maiden’s first show in Bangalore, in 2007. The British heavy metal band played to an audience of 40,000 screaming, teary fans... ...In the early 90s, the first of India’s homegrown IT companies began setting up shop in Bangalore, drawing a huge influx of young IT professionals from across the country, often fresh from their college engineering degrees... The result was a multicultural, open-minded city where alcohol was cheap and the offbeat was not just accepted but...

Musicians and fans of the metal music community often get a bad rap because of their dark, gruff and tattooed looks. The adorable set of photos published in Metal Cats by Alexandra Crockett sets out to change all that by getting accomplished metal musicians to pose with their feline friends and show off their softer sides. The people posing in these photos represent bands with names that are anything but cuddly – Napalm Death, Cattle Decapitation, Murder Construct, Skeletonwitch and Lightning Swords Of Death. But despite these fearsome band names and their black leather, spikes, tattoos and muscles, it’s clear...