Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith revisits the early days of his career during a March 2025 interview with UCR.

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Mastodon announced Friday that the band and guitarist Brent Hinds, who co-founded the Atlanta metal act 25 years ago, have parted ways.

The rendition took place at an In Conversation event at London’s Royal Geographical Society on March 4, which was held in celebration of the release of Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl from the ...

During his brief and sporadic association with Queens of the Stone Age, Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan lent his coarse ...

Paramount+ has opened up its vault of classic MTV Unplugged episodes. Over 50 episodes of the live performance series have been added to the streamer, alongside dozens more episodes of VH1 ...

A well-regarded metal guitarist who came up during the rise of the thrash-metal scene in San Francisco during the early '80s, Soderlund was raised in a musical family (both his parents played jazz ...

Even after Slayer’s official farewell tour wrapped up in 2019, the guitarist wasted no time in ... pedal to the metal,” he shares. “When this tour cycle’s over we want to go right back ...

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Mentally I was worse than the first one. I didn’t come into [my] studio for months. When I came in, my guitars were, there was rust all over them. I had to repair everything. “On that March the 26th ...