Clay Marshall
Clay Marshall is a merch guy and writer. He has written for Metal Hammer, Blabbermouth, Classic Rock, Noisey, Billboard, Guitar World, LA Weekly, Prog and more.
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Dave Mustaine revisits the 1992 anthem that lifted his band to heavy metal’s A-tier

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Drummer was around half-way through his separation from the band he’d co-founded when his 50th birthday came up, and he decided to assemble the songs inspired by his fight against alcoholism

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How Skid Row made their classic debut album

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72 hours in Sin City: What we learned at Kiss Kruise: Land-Locked In Vegas

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Kiss are back, and Classic Rock were there to witness it

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Just like the Pied Piper…

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The drummer explored his Alcoholics Anonymous experience across five Dream Theater albums, before playing the material without them

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As Metallica prepare to bring Hardwired... to the UK, we headed to Canada for an exclusive, intimate look inside the biggest tour of 2017. Welcome to the greatest show on earth, babeeeeeeeh

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Heavy metal’s indefatigable warhorses Iron Maiden cement their legacy on new live album Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast

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Metal overlords leap into (trans)action

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Larry Morand runs rock's biggest cruises. Here he explains how it all works: the bands, the fans, and the role played by former Israeli Special Forces operatives

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Dave Mustaine looks back on Megadeth‘s Rust In Peace album – “a masterpiece created in the darkness of heroin”

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Britain’s metal behemoths document their latest global jaunt

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Marshmallows! Weddings! Frogs! We grabbed our overnight bag and headed down to the Megadeth Boot Camp at Dave Mustaine’s California residence. Let’s just say it was in tents...

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Metal and country are mortal enemies. But Dez Fafara and Wednesday 13 are out to prove that they’re closer than you think

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Iconic axeslinger Slash makes a bid for the history books with Living The Dream

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Pennsylvanian rockers Halestorm offer more bark than bite on Vicious

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The voice of Twisted Sister finds a curious blood brother on For The Love Of Metal

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Batman and Robin. Chocolate and peanut butter. Metal and country? Devildriver think so!

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A star-studded insight into the overlooked origins of thrash

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Not yet ratedDream Theater co-founder goes solo on the G3 Tour

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Sold-out tours, record-breaking chart positions… two albums into the Alissa era, Arch Enemy are enjoying a whole new lease of life. We joined them on their latest US conquest

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Huntingdon Beach heroes hit an acoustic high note
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