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Artist Spotlight: Iron Maiden’s Top 10 Essential Tracks ⚔️
The East London band that turned heavy metal into literature, history, and theatre, and then took the show to every corner of the world for fifty years.
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Iron Maiden | The Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Iron Maiden’s “The Thin Line Between Love and Hate” - how Dave Murray and Steve Harris closed the band’s reunion album with an 8-minute meditation on…
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Megadeth | Ride The Lightning
Megadeth's "Ride the Lightning" cover - Dave Mustaine reclaims the Metallica song he co-wrote 42 years earlier on his band's 2026 final album.
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#70 - Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Black Sabbath's "Headless Cross" comeback story - how Tony Martin and Cozy Powell created the band's finest post-Dio album amid label troubles and…
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#68 - Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Deep Purple's "Perfect Strangers" reunion story - how the classic lineup's 11-year feud created their biggest 80s hit with groundbreaking digital…
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Megadeth | A Tout le Monde
Megadeth’s “A Tout le Monde” - Dave Mustaine’s dream about his dead mother inspired this misunderstood 1994 power ballad that MTV banned, yet became the…
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Metallica | My Friend of Misery
Metallica’s “My Friend of Misery” - from Jason Newsted’s bass riff to James Hetfield’s added vocals, how the Black Album’s most undersold track was…
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Ozzy Osbourne | Perry Mason
Ozzy Osbourne’s “Perry Mason” - how a comeback album with Geezer Butler brought heavy rock sophistication and an improvisational riff that became a…
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