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A year and two days after releasing their landmark debut, 1983s 'Kill 'Em All,' Metallica returned on July 27, 1984 with their second album, ' Ride the Lightning ' - and promptly stomped all over the sophomore jinx with a set of songs that found the band broadening the scope of its thrash metal sound to incorporate sharper arrangements, more ... (more)

ROME: Pope Francis made a "surprise" appearance this week at a luncheon that brought him together with the family of Jesuit priest Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, who went missing in Syria one year ago.

When luxury living quarter The Garden opens next year only a metal strip across the courtyard retracing the Berlin Wall will remind its affluent inhabitants that 25 years ago this was the "death strip" on no man's land separating east and west.

The Des Moines Register says Polk County District Judge Dennis Stovall made that ruling earlier this week in dismissing a lawsuit filed by Brenna Gray against Dr. Daniel Baldi.

TRIBUNE Korn will join Body Count, Avenged Sevenfold, Asking Alexandria, Trivium and more at the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Saturday at the Pavilion at Montage Mountain.

HEAVY metal is rearing its thrashing head yet again this summer as swarms of black T-shirt-clad rockers descend on Catton Park for Bloodstock Open Air 2014.

In the spring of 1984, Metallica were at a recording at a studio in Denmark. It was the same studio that Rainbow had recorded 'Difficult to Cure' in.

When the legendary rock band Motley Crue takes its farewell tour to Tinley Park next week, lead singer Vince Neil is planning to make a stop of his own for charity.

A fifth Slipknot album teaser has joined its predecessors online. The clip is short and dark and features similar characters to those in the earlier installments.

The American thrash metal veterans brought this year's Sonisphere rock spectacular to a climax in Knebworth Park with their 'By Request' set chosen by ticket holders.

Newcastle metal band Hellion Rising are hoping to secure a record deal after reaching the final of Hard Rock Hell's very own rock factor Highway to Hell.

A week before the A.H. Rice Silk Mill officially closed in 2006, Evan J. Soldinger walked into the gallery at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts.

The worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history surpassed 700 deaths in West Africa as the World Health Organization on Thursday announced dozens of new fatalities.

WHEN his band Diamond Head folded in 1985, thwarted in their quest for rock stardom, guitarist Brian Tatler, still in his early twenties, must have presumed it was all over.

Dave Mustaine still doesn't mince his words. The founder of Megadeth one of the world's most enduring heavy metal bands has never shied away from public pronouncements on his past drug and alcohol abuse, altercations with band mates and his unceremonious ousting from his first band, Metallica.

On the spectrum of currency ideologues, gold bugs and Bitcoin enthusiasts occupy equal but opposite positions.

The Mix Regional section for Mix 's July 2014 issue focuses on Atlanta. Send us your studio news: updates, sessions, new rooms, club performances and installations.

Catherine Owen coated her body with her lover's ashes to feel close to him on her birthday, three months after he died suddenly at age 29 from a heart attack.

In the city of Mosul, northern Iraq, the greatest abuse of freedom of religion has been conducted.

The Dubai-based carrier is the first to announce action after the downing of Flight MH17 by a missile over an area of Ukraine held by Russian separatists sparked urgent reviews into routes over conflict zones.