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-Max Cavalera, front man for Sepultura and Soulfly, provided the "death roar" he's so famous for to the Scorpion King in 2001's The Mummy Returns
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-Adam Jones, guitarist for Tool, worked at Special Effects Studios, designing creatures for major films like Jurassic Park, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, A Nightmare on Elm St.
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-In 2000, British black metallers Cradle of Filth, pulled an April Fool's Day prank, by announcing the release of a double concept album called Victorian England Under Martial Rule, even going as far as naming details about the album and giving song titles.
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-In Norway, when the Norwegian Liberal Party legalized free downloading, Grutle Kjellson and Ivar Peersen of Enslaved visited the party leader's farm and proceeded to "download" one of his mountain sheep for free
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-"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, famous for his role in thrash metal band Pantera, was at one point the proud owner of a live goat. He would dye the goat's goatee red, purple or pink to match his own facial hair
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-John Petrucci, John Myung, Mike Portnoy of Dream Theatre are each married to a member of the all-girl, New York thrash metal band Meanstreak
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-Morbid Angel has managed to give their albums titles that work through the alphabet. 1989 Altars of Madness, 1991 Blessed are the Sick, 1993 Covenant, etc.
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-Prior to forming the band Burzum, Varg Vikernes was such a huge fan of role-playing games and J.R.R. Tolkien's goblins that he named his first band Uruk-Hai
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-Prior to forming Motorhead, Ian Fraser Kilmister, aka "Lemmy" Kilmister, worked as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix and other musicians
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-Swedish progressive metal band Meshuggah took their name from the Yiddish word for "crazy"
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-Burton C. Bell, vocalist for Fear Factory, claims that he was in the Nirvana video "Smells Like Teen Spirit", banging his head along with the other kids
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-Amon Amarth, a Viking metal band, had a nightly toast to the fans out of drinking horns during their 2007 American tour, except in Salt Lake City, where there were strong drinking restrictions
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-When shock rocker Marilyn Manson was 11, his father, Hugh Warner, dressed as KISS bassist Gene Simmons and took his son to see KISS live
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-Fieldy, bassist for Korn, has a tattoo done by Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst. This is from the days when they both worked in a Florida tattoo parlor
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-When thrash metal band Overkill noticed just how similar their mascot was to Avenged Sevenfold's mascot, they made shirts for Avenged Sevenfold saying "get your own f--king logo!"
-BTW, also to point out, notice how Overkill writes their name is all too similar to Iron Maiden? I think Maiden ought to know that their logo is being almost copyrighted by another band!
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-The cover art for Hypnotize and Mesmerize by System of a Down were designed by guitarist Daron Malakian's father, Vartan, who is an extremely talented artist in his own right
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-Former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman moved to Japan and used his fluency in Japanese to host a popular TV show
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-Children of Bodom nicknamed the Grim Reaper featured on their albums "Roy", inspired by lines from the film Hot Shots
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-Maynard James Keenan, singer for Tool, served in the US Army. He studied jiu-jitsu with Brazilian martial arts master Rickson Gracie
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-Motorhead drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor sported an orange-sized lump on his neck, resulting from breaking his neck on tour during the early 1980s and forgetting to see a doctor
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-Mysterious band Ghost inspired the "Ghost" burger at a Chicago burger restaurant. It includes goat shoulder, red wine reduction and a communion wafer
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-GWAR singer Oderus Urungus became the spokesperson for video game commercials at Circuit City in the 1990s
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-This is Spinal Tap is the only film according to IMDb.com to be rated out of 11 stars
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-"Mantra", a song released in 2001 by the band Tool, consists of a slowed-down recording of singer Maynard James Keenan squeezing his cat
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-Wayne Static, of Static-X, was in a band called Deep Blue Dream, with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins
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-On the front of Ozzy Osbourne's solo album, Diary of a Madman, the little boy seen in the background, is his son Louis
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-The first singer for an early lineup of Iron Maiden, Dennis Wilcock, left after the band refused to don Kiss-inspired makeup
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-Prior to joining the band Judas Priest, front man Rob Halford worked briefly at a pornographic movie theater
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-Chuck Billy of Testament and lead guitarist Stephen Carpenter of Deftones are first cousins
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-Prior to the unveiling of the members of Slipknot, bassist Paul Gray took advantage of the sense of anonymity by going on tour with a former stoner metal band called Unida
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-Phil Anselmo of Pantera worked under the pseudonym of Anton Crowley on Necrophagia's 1999 album Holocausto de la Morte. He used the false name for legal reasons
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-After getting fired from Metallica, Dave Mustaine worked as a telemarketer before forming Megadeth
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-Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Eric Peterson were married to the same woman once, but not at the same time
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-"Dragula", the first single by shock rocker Rob Zombie, was inspired by the 1960s TV series The Munsters, specifically the dragster driven by Grandpa Munster, Al Lewis
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-The band System of a Down got their name from a poem called Victims of a Down by Daron Malakian. They changed "victims" to "system" so that their albums could sit closer to Slayer in record stores
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-Bob Rusay, guitarist for Cannibal Corpse, was fired in 1993 and traded in his guitar for a golf club, becoming a fully certified golfing instructor at an Arizona country club
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-When Motorhead front man Lemmy Kilmister tried to follow Keith Richards' idea of blood transfusions, doctors refused. They said his blood was so toxic with drugs that normal blood would probably be fatal to him
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-Slaughter bassist Dana Strum helped recruit Ozzy guitar player Randy Rhoads and later on suggested Kiss guitarists Vinnie Vincent and Mark St. John
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-Current Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner's first public performance after replacing former guitar player K.K. Downing was on the stage of American Idol
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-In 1993, the Humane Society's Genesis Award was given to Megadeth for the title track of their Countdown to Extinction album for raising awareness about animal rights
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-Prior to joining Metallica, Cliff Burton was in a band called Easy Street with Mike Bordin and Jim Martin, who would go on to form Faith No More
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-Black Label Society founder Zakk Wylde originally named the band Hells Kitchen, which is a reference to the kitchen appliances and decorations on the band's Sonic Brew album
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-Slayer guitar player Kerry King was a fan of breeding show dogs
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-When Derek Riggs designed the cover for Iron Maiden's 1984 album Powerslave, he hid secret messages within the art, which included Mickey Mouse and funny phrases like "Bollocks" and "Indiana Jones was Here"
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-When he was younger, former Pantera member "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott asked for a BMX bike instead of a guitar
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-When Black Sabbath lost Ozzy, Sharon Osbourne recommended the band's next singer, former Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio
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-While serving time in prison for petty theft, Ozzy Osbourne used a piece of graphite and pen ink to tattoo the letters O-Z-Z-Y with a needle across his knuckles. In fact, a lot of his tattoos are homemade
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-The first released edition of Metal Massacre, which is a compilation, misspelled Metallica's name with two T's
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-No one knows the whereabouts of the mysterious woman who graces Black Sabbath's debut album. This album was also photographed at the Mapledurham Watermill
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