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Combat Records
Combat Records was an independent record label from New York City. The label was home to predominantly heavy metal and punk rock acts including Megadeth, Circle Jerks, Nuclear Assault, Death, Dead Brain Cells, Possessed, Crumbsuckers, Agnostic Front, Agent Steel, Dark Angel, Heathen, Zoetrope and...
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Megadeth
Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1983. Founded by Dave Mustaine following his departure from Metallica, the band has since released twelve studio albums, six live albums, two EPs, twenty six singles,...
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- 1983
Dave Mustaine
David Scott Mustaine (born September 13, 1961 in La Mesa, California, USA) is the lead/rhythm guitarist, main songwriter, and vocalist for the American heavy metal band Megadeth. Mustaine grew up in various Southern California suburbs. He currently...
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- Sep 13, 1961 (age 48 years)
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Mercyful Fate
Mercyful Fate are a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen. Initially active from 1981 to 1985, they reunited in 1992 and have been on hiatus since 1999. They are cited as major influences by many artists in the black metal, thrash metal, power...
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- 1980
Death
Death was an American death metal band founded in 1983. The band's founder, Chuck Schuldiner, is considered a "pioneering death metal vocalist/guitarist." The band split up after Schuldiner died of brain cancer in 2001.
Death is considered one of...
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- 1984
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- 1998
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Nick Menza
Nick Menza (born 23 July 1968 in Munich, Germany) is a drummer best known for his work in Megadeth.
As the son of jazz musician Don Menza (who is famous for playing the saxophone in "The Pink Panther Theme"), Nick began playing drums at the age of...
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- Jul 23, 1968 (age 41 years)
Agnostic Front
Agnostic Front is an American hardcore band that formed in New York City in 1980. The band began playing hardcore punk similar to their contemporaries, and were thrust to the forefront of the burgeoning New York hardcore scene in the mid-1980s with...
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Possessed
Possessed is an American death metal band, originally formed in 1983. Noted for their fast style of playing and Becerra's guttural vocals, they have been cited as a great influence on the death metal genre. In fact, the band's influence on the genre...
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Savatage
Savatage is an American progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida. The band has been inactive since the release of their last album in 2001, and have not performed live...
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- 1983
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- 2002
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Gar Samuelson
Gary C. "Gar" Samuelson (June 12, 1958 in Dunkirk, New York - July 22, 1999 in Orange City, Florida) was the original drummer for thrash metal band Megadeth, working in it from 1984-87.
Little is known about Samuelson before Megadeth; however it is...
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- Jun 12, 1958
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- Jul 22, 1999 (age 41 years)
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The Beatnuts
The Beatnuts are a New York-based hip hop group and production duo from Queens, New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les. JuJu is Dominican American from Corona and Psycho Les is Colombian American from Jackson Heights. The...
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Blind Illusion
Blind Illusion is an American progressive thrash metal band that was part of the Bay Area thrash metal scene. Formed in 1979 by lead guitarist and chief songwriter Marc Biedermann, the band had an extremely unstable lineup (Biedermann being the only...
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Look What I Did
For the compilation by Joe Walsh, see Look What I Did!
Look What I Did is an American post-hardcore band, formed in 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The music combines elements of jazz/fusion, hardcore, metal, and progressive pop punk. The band is...
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Exodus
Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in the San Francisco Bay Area, California by guitarist Gary Holt, current Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, and drummer Tom Hunting.
Spanning a career of almost 30 years, Exodus has gone through...
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- 1982
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- 1992
Nuclear Assault
Nuclear Assault is an American thrash metal/crossover thrash band formed in 1984.
After performing on Anthrax's debut album Fistful of Metal, bass player Dan Lilker was fired by the band because of his looks, and to open the door for then Anthrax...
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- 1985
Raven
Raven are an English heavy metal band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. They had a hit with the single "On and On", and refer to their music as "athletic rock".
Raven formed in 1975 in Newcastle, England, by brothers John...
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Gary Holt
Gary Wayne Holt (born May 4, 1964 in Richmond, California) is an American guitarist from San Francisco, California. His main guitar influences are Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, Angus Young, Tony Iommi, Uli Jon Roth, Matthias Jabs and Ted...
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- May 4, 1964 (age 45 years)
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HORSE the band
Horse the Band is a band from Lake Forest, California who are best known for their 8-bit Nintendo influenced sound combined with metalcore. Frontman Nathan Winneke had once proclaimed their sound as "Nintendo-core".
Horse the Band was started in...
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Confessor
Confessor is a doom metal band from North Carolina, USA. By their technically complex interpretation of traditional doom style, they are also well-known name within progressive metal circles. To date, the band has released two full-length studio...
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- 1986
Larry LaLonde
Larry "Ler" LaLonde (born Reid Lawrence LaLonde on September 12, 1968 in Oakland, California) is a guitarist who currently plays in Primus along with Les Claypool and Tim Alexander. He has also played with Possessed, Blind Illusion, No Forcefield,...
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- Sep 12, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Forbidden
Forbidden is a thrash metal band from the San Francisco Bay Area, part of the Bay Area thrash scene, most popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Their early style was a technical thrash metal and later the band included alternative elements...
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Helstar
Helstar is a heavy metal band from Houston, Texas, formed in 1982. Their musical style is considered technical speed metal.
Helstar began with a more basic metal style in 1983 with 2 demos followed with their first studio album in 1984 titled...
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Circle Jerks
The Circle Jerks are an American punk band, formed circa 1979 in Hermosa Beach, California. It was formed by Black Flag's original singer, Keith Morris, and future Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson. They were among the preeminent hardcore punk...
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Dark Angel
Dark Angel was an American thrash metal band from Los Angeles, California. Their over-the-top style (extremely fast, heavy and lengthy songs with lots of tempo changes, lyrics and extended instrumental parts) earned them the nickname "the L.A....
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- 1983
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- 1992
Agent Steel
Agent Steel is an American speed metal band from Los Angeles, California that was formed in 1984 by singer John Cyriis (birth name "Jean Pierre"),and drummer Chuck Profus. The band released two full length albums and one EP before disbanding in 1988...
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- 1984
Heathen
Heathen is a North American thrash metal band originating from the Bay Area California, founded in 1984 by guitarist Lee Altus and drummer Carl Sacco. They have released two critically acclaimed albums, Breaking the Silence (1987) and Victims of...
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Tigertailz
Tigertailz are a glam metal band hailing from Cardiff, Wales. They are most famous for their 1990 album Bezerk which made the UK Top 40 and spawned three successful singles. The band have recently reformed to considerable popular acclaim.
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Keith Morris
Keith Morris (born September 17, 1952 ) is an American singer and songwriter. Active since 1976, Morris is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk bands Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, and Midget Handjob. He currently works...
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- Sep 17, 1952 (age 57 years)
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Barry Donegan
Michael Barry Donegan (born November 16, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, writer, political activist, and political candidate best known as the lead singer of the rock band Look What I Did. He is also working on a side project with Evan...
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- Nov 16, 1978 (age 31 years)
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Greg Handevidt
Greg Handevidt was born in the California Bay Area in Concord. His parents moved to a rural Minnesota town where he met David Ellefson when they were 10 years old. The two moved to Hollywood, after high school, hoping to become musicians. They ended...
