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The Racket was an Australian heavy metal radio show airing on national youth broadcaster Triple J.It launched in 1990 as the Three Hours of Power, and aired on Tuesday nights until the show was retired at the end of 2024, alongside the departure of long-time presenter Lochlan Watt.
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. [2] With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a thick, monumental sound characterized by distorted guitars, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats and loudness.
Venom are an English heavy metal band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, Venom's first two albums, Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982), are considered major influences on black metal, thrash metal and extreme metal in general. [1]
Headbangers Ball is a music television program that consists of heavy metal music videos airing on MTV and its global affiliates. [1] The show began on MTV on April 18, 1987, [2] playing heavy metal music videos from both well-known and more obscure artists.
[3] [7] By 2012, the site had developed its own 24 hour radio network, Metalinjection.fm, [8] and expanded into audio podcasts (such as the weekly Metal Injection Livecast) and had an iPhone application. [2] [3] In 2008, Metal Injection launched the New England Metal Fest TV series to provide coverage of the 2008 New England Metal and Hardcore ...
Z Rock was a nationally syndicated radio network based in Dallas, Texas, that, from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, played heavy metal and hard rock music. The format was one of several 24-hour satellite-delivered music formats offered by the pioneering Satellite Music Network (a company which in 1989 merged with ABC Radio Networks and later became Cumulus Media Networks).
Welcome to Hell is the debut studio album by English heavy metal band Venom released in December 1981 through Neat Records.After various line-up changes and recording several demo tapes in Impulse Studios, Venom gained success and attention with the single "In League with Satan", their dark, satanic image and their fast, raw sound.
Zero Hour is an American progressive metal band formed by twin brothers Jasun Tipton and Troy Tipton in Pleasanton, California, United States, in 1993.They released their self-titled debut album independently in 1999, and followed it up with 2001's The Towers of Avarice, their first album on the Sensory Records label, which also released all of their subsequent albums.