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The rise and fall of nu metal, alcohol addiction and the wrath of Sharon Osbourne – Papa Roach‘s Jacoby Shaddix has survived it all
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Gene Simmons: when Kiss play their last song I’ll be crying like a baby
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Will Smith on Ozzfest: "it's the least African American event outside of that broom and big-ass hockey puck thing at the Olympics"
Smith wasn't sure if wife Jada's band Wicked Wisdom would be welcomed at Ozzfest in 2005 - but was happily proved wrong
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Cage Fight: “We have a T-shirt with Boris Johnson getting punched in the face”
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Watch Slipknot bring the carnage in their first ever UK TV appearance
In March 2000, Slipknot made their British TV debut on early evening show TFI Friday. Cue the mayhem…
Praise Satan! King Diamond has never heard of Post Malone
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