Other Special Reports
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Monsters Of Rock 40th anniversary: Donington Special
In the history books of rock 1980 is a pivotal year, it was the crowning year for New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. Many classic records were unleashed during that period of time. It was also the birth of Monsters Of Rock, the biggest heavy metal festival in the world.
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Green Manalishi: The 40th Anniversary of “Unleashed In The East”
Live albums are a strange animal. For a long time nobody believed they could be a success of any kind. Especially double live albums now regarded as essential for any band, were still in late 1970’s seen as a risky business. Adding the risk was the musical climate, in 1979 punk movement had reached its…
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Nostradamus – The Man, The Myth, The Music
[three_fourth] The Man Michel De Nostradame was born in France in 1503. The dark mid-ages still reigning this was the era of persecution and witch hunt. This was also a time when terminal diseases raged all over Europe, the most horrible of them all was Black Death, plague. It ended approximately 25-50 million lives in…
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ON A HIGHWAY TO HELL – BON SCOTT 70 Years
AC/DC-legend Bon Scott would have turned 70 this July. His legacy however lives on, not least in the songs still heard live today. Here’s a look at man who started it all: Bon Scott, the mischievous and wild vocalist. By the time I was half alive I knew what I was gonna be Ronald Belford…
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Millworkers annual wrap-up! What have we listened in 2015!
The Millworkers sat down to look back on the past year and gathered their top lists to sum up their most favourite albums.
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Home Of Metal by Bill Sneyd
Birmingham and the Black Country has a musical heritage, which until now, has remained largely uncelebrated. That musical heritage is of course: Heavy Metal. The area has spawned many bands, whose importance and influence still stands today.
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Millworkers 2008 wrap-up
So there it is. Another year behind us and a new one about to begin. As the old 2008 is slowly running out it’s days, the Millworkers sat down to look back on the past year. What were the highlights in the world of heavy metal? What albums had the biggest impact on the Mill…
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British Steel
As the 1980’s dawned there was a rumble in the jungle as punk gave away to a new ferocious movement hailing from United Kingdom. New Wave Of British Heavy Metal stepped up to take the crown. Hundreds of bands had already made their stance at stardom and while most of them would not make it…
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Judas Priest logo history
At least since the 1970s, band logos have been a big part of rock bands’ visual image. Not only to ‘brand the band’ in order to boost the sales of merchandise, but also, especially when we’re talking about heavy metal genre, to provide kind of signs of subculture to the fans -to make the music,…
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K.K. Downing’s Trip to Finland
ON a humid and windy January evening, the five millworkers gathered together at project manager Jari’s house In Tuusula, Finland to discuss forthcoming K.K. Downing – web pages, do some hard work and relax at the same time. This occurred at a strange time in Finnish weather, nobody could recall a January day completely without…