Carpenter Brut: 10 albums that changed my life
Metallica, Meshuggah, Megadeth, Type O Negative, Tiamat – synthwave kingpin Carpenter Brut‘s record collection is metal all the way
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Watch Rob Halford make all Sum 41's teenage metalhead dreams come true
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