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Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records (Roadrunner Music Group B.V.) is a record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal bands. It is currently a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The label was launched in the Netherlands in 1980 as "Roadracer Records" in the United States. Roadrunner's initial business was...
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Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir (pronounced /ˌdɪmuː ˈbɔrɡɪr/ in English) is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. Dimmu borgir means "dark castle" or "dark fortresses" in Icelandic and Old Norse. The name is derived from a volcanic formation...
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- 1993
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Deicide
Deicide is an American death metal band formed in 1987. Their first two albums, Deicide and Legion, are ranked second and third place in best-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era. The band has been the source of a considerable amount of...
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- 1987
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced /ˌlɛnərd ˈskɪnərd/ LEN-ərd-SKIN-ərd) is an American rock band, formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1964. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before three...
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- 1964
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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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
Staind
Staind (pronounced "stained") is an American rock band from Springfield, Massachusetts, including lead singer/guitarist Aaron Lewis, lead guitarist Mike Mushok, bassist/vocalist Johnny April and drummer Jon Wysocki. Over the past 14 years the band...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Nov 24, 1995
Opeth
Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. While the band has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force since joining promptly after its...
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- 1990
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Obituary
Obituary is an American death metal band formed in 1985 in Tampa, Florida under the name Xecutioner and later renamed to Obituary. The band comprises vocalist John Tardy, drummer Donald Tardy, guitarists Trevor Peres and Ralph Santolla and bassist...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1988
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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Dream Theater
Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band. Though a...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Sep 1986
Nightwish
Nightwish is a metal band from Kitee, Finland, formed in 1996 by songwriter/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen. Nightwish is Finland's most successful band with more than 7 million albums &...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Jul 1996
Slipknot
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the lyrics, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969....
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1963
Satyricon
Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band.
Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral (Carl-Michael Eide) and Wargod. Haavard (Ulver) soon joined them. Satyr took over lead vocals in 1991. Satyricon's current drummer, Frost, who joined the band in 1992,...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
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Misfits
The Misfits are an American rock band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk rock and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery. Founded in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey by singer and songwriter...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Feb 1977
Emperor
Emperor were a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. Over the years, the band's music changed to what can be called "extreme symphonic metal" in their later days. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2001
KISS
Kiss (styled KISS in capitals) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Easily identified by its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid-1970s on the basis of their elaborate...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1972
New York Dolls
The New York Dolls are an American rock band, formed in New York City in 1971. In 2004 the band reformed with three of their original members, two of whom, David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, continue on today and have released two records of new...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1971
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1977
Ratt
Ratt is an American heavy metal band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round," "Wanted Man," "Lay It Down," "You're in Love", "Way Cool Jr." and ...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1981
The Cult
The Cult are an English rock band, formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk and gothic rock band with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking mainstream in the United States in the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
Down
Down is an American heavy metal supergroup formed in 1991 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2009, the band consists of vocalist Phil Anselmo, guitarists Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein, bassist Rex Brown, and drummer Jimmy Bower.
Since its inception,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Nickelback
Nickelback is a Grammy award nominated Canadian rock band from Hanna, Alberta, formed in 1995. Founded by members Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and then-drummer Brandon Kroeger. Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
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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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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1980
Sepultura
Sepultura (Portuguese for "tomb" or "grave") is a heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal and thrash metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and their later experiments...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1984
Coal Chamber
Coal Chamber was an American nu metal band from Los Angeles, California. The band formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2003. Former vocalist Dez Fafara and guitarist Meegs Rascon started She's In Pain in 1992. The two decided to create Coal Chamber in...
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- 1995
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2003
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Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a...
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- Oct 31, 1990
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Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an extreme metal band from Suffolk, England formed in 1991.
The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal and other extreme metal styles, while...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
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Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. Founded in the following disbandment of the bands Overcast and Aftershock. Killswitch Engage's lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones, bassist Mike D...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1999
Soulfly
Soulfly is a metal band formed in 1997. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura guitarist and frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the Brazilian group in 1996. The band has released six studio albums, one tour EP, several singles, and...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1997
Pet Lamb
Pet Lamb were a hard rock band from Dublin, Ireland. They formed in 1991. The band signed to Blunt Records, a label owned in part by Andy Cairns of Therapy?, in 1993 and released their first EP, Paranoid from the Neck Down. After this EP, the band...
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Collective Soul
Collective Soul is an American rock band from Stockbridge, Georgia. They have enjoyed popularity on alternative rock, mainstream rock and pop music radio throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, recording seven #1 mainstream rock hits. They broke...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
Derrick Green
Derrick Green (born January 20, 1971) is the vocalist for the metal band Sepultura, whom he joined on the departure of their previous vocalist Max Cavalera in 1997.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Derrick was a singer for thrash metal/hardcore band Outface...
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- Jan 20, 1971 (age 38 years)
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Jerry Cantrell
Jerry Fulton Cantrell. (born March 18, 1966 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the grunge band Alice in Chains, as lead guitarist, backing and co-lead vocalist, and co-lyricist. He...
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- Mar 18, 1966 (age 43 years)
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Tony MacAlpine
Tony Jeff MacAlpine (born August 29, 1960) is an American guitarist and keyboardist. Having released ten studio albums over a career spanning more than two decades, he is best known as an instrumental solo guitarist; although he has worked with many...
Date of birth:
- Aug 29, 1960 (age 49 years)
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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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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1984
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1998
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Morbid Angel
Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They, along with Death, Possessed, Obituary, Massacre, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
Cynic
Cynic is a progressive metal band with incorporated jazz fusion elements, founded in Miami, Florida, US. Their first album, Focus released in 1993 (see 1993 in music), is widely regarded as a landmark release of the genre. The band released their...
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- Nov 1987
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1994
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Within Temptation
Within Temptation is a Dutch rock/metal band. The band was founded in 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt. Their music is described as symphonic metal, gothic metal , although in an interview, Den Adel said they fell...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1996
Suffocation
Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1989, and has since released six studio albums.
Suffocation recorded the albums Human Waste, Effigy of the Forgotten, Breeding the Spawn, Pierced from Within, and Despise the Sun before...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Jennifer Arroyo
Jennifer J. Arroyo (Born March 20, 1975 in Staten Island, New York) is an American bassist best known for her tenure in the Canadian alternative metal group Kittie.
While living in the Washington, D.C. area, she was the bassist for the rap metal...
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- Mar 20, 1975 (age 34 years)
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Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree is a progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Frequently associated with both psychedelic rock and progressive rock, their music has also been influenced by trance, krautrock...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1987
Black Label Society
Black Label Society is a heavy metal band formed by Zakk Wylde, with seven studio albums released to date.
In the early 1990s, Wylde had formed his own solo band Pride & Glory, playing a mixture of bluesy southern rock with heavy metal. However,...
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Mike Portnoy
Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) is an American drummer primarily known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Known for his drumming prowess and technical skill, Portnoy has won 23 awards from...
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- Apr 20, 1967 (age 42 years)
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DevilDriver
Devildriver is an American groove metal band from Santa Barbara, California, formed in 2002. Coal Chamber vocalist Dez Fafara was not happy with the direction Coal Chamber was going in musically, and met musicians who had a similar music interest at...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2003
Earth Crisis
Earth Crisis is a vegan straight edge metalcore band from Syracuse, New York, that recorded and performed from 1991 until they broke up in 2001. They have reunited and been active again since 2007. A new record was released on Century Media records...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2001
Chimaira
Chimaira (pronounced /kaɪˈmɪərə/) is an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 1998. The band is a notable band in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Their band name is derived from the name Chimera, a monstrous creature in...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1998
Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, formed in 1999. The band blends influences stemming from modern hardcore, symphonic (black) metal, and melodic death metal. Although the band is often labeled as simply...
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Type O Negative
Type O Negative is a heavy metal band from Brooklyn, New York City. Although commonly viewed as a gothic metal band, Type O has also incorporated elements of doom metal and thrash metal. Their dramatic lyrical emphasis on themes of romance,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Glassjaw
Glassjaw (sometimes stylized glassJAw or GlassJAw) is a four-piece post-hardcore band from Long Island, New York. The band is fronted by vocalist Daryl Palumbo and guitarist Justin Beck, and have undergone numerous line-up changes since their...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1994
Sammy Hagar
Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar (born October 13, 1947), known as "The Red Rocker", is an American rock singer, guitarist, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as the original singer of the early 1970s rock...
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- Oct 13, 1947 (age 62 years)
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Jess Margera
Jesse Phillip Margera (born August 28, 1978 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States) is the drummer in the band CKY, its predecessor Oil and Foreign Objects, Viking Skull, and The Company Band.
He is the older brother of Bam Margera and the son...
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- Aug 28, 1978 (age 31 years)
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CKY
CKY (originally known as Camp Kill Yourself and later as Camp; sometimes stylized as cKy or ckY ) is an American alternative metal band that formed in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1998. Currently comprising vocalist and guitarist Deron Miller,...
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- 1996
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DragonForce
DragonForce are an English power metal band from London, formed in 1999. They are known for fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game influenced sound.
DragonForce was formed in...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2001
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Lars Mikael Åkerfeldt (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈoːkərfɛlt]) (born 17 April 1974) is a Swedish musician who achieved fame as the lead vocalist/lead guitarist and songwriter of progressive death metal band Opeth as well as the lead vocalist of death...
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- Apr 17, 1974 (age 35 years)
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Sharon den Adel
Sharon Janny den Adel (born 12 July 1974, in Waddinxveen, South Holland) is a Dutch mezzo-soprano and composer, best known as the lead singer and one of the main songwriters in the Dutch symphonic rock/metal band Within Temptation.
She performed...
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- Jul 12, 1974 (age 35 years)
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Robert Westerholt
Robert Westerholt (born January 2, 1975, Waddinxveen) is the founder of, and guitarist and backing vocalist in, the symphonic metal band Within Temptation. He writes a great deal of the music for the band, along with the band's vocalist, his partner...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1975 (age 35 years)
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Chris Fehn
Christopher Michael "Chris" Fehn (born February 24, 1972), or known by his number #3, is an American musician known as one of the two custom percussionists of the Grammy Award winning heavy metal band Slipknot.
Fehn was born in Des Moines and raised...
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- Feb 24, 1973 (age 36 years)
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The Great Kat
The Great Kat is the stage name of Katherine Thomas (born 1966 in Swindon), an English-born, Long Island NY raised, musician best known for her thrash metal interpretations of well-known pieces of classical music. Most feature her using the electric...
Date of birth:
- 1966 (age 44 years)
Howard Jones
Howard Jones (born July 20, 1970) is an American musician and is the current lead singer of American metalcore bands Killswitch Engage and Blood Has Been Shed. Howard adheres to the straight edge lifestyle..
Date of birth:
- 1970 (age 40 years)
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Feeder
Feeder are a Welsh rock band, formed in Newport during 1992 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Grant Nicholas and drummer Jon Lee. Bassist Taka Hirose later joined after Grant responded to an advert. Jon Lee took his own life in January 2002 at his...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
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Artillery
Artillery is a Danish technical thrash metal band. They participated in the early development of the genre, and their highly energetic, riff-centric and often fast-paced music is similar in style to that of Coroner, Megadeth and Sabbat from the same...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
