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Top Five Metal Bands – Q-Tease Jen's Picks [VIDEOS]

Jennifer Beaudoin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:43:38 +0000

Happy Metal Day! \m/ In honor of today, I want to do a more personal blog on my favorite metal bands. Newer, more modern metal wouldn't be here if it weren't for past bands and musicians, but the metal of today also deserves to be recognized. After all, some of today's better metal bands could go down in history just like the old school ones have, and create a continuous cycle of metal that gets handed down to each generation. Here are my top five metal bands. Rock out!

Black Sabbath Makes Big Reunion Announcement

BJ Ragone — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:17:10 +0000

The moment that everyone has been waiting for finally arrived. Black Sabbath took to their website to make a big announcement only fitting for National Metal Day. Black Sabbath has been teasing us with information about a potential reunion for months now. First Ozzy would confirm, then Tony would deny it. Well I am here [...]

Q103 Metal Day Cage Match – Judas Priest vs Iron Maiden

WQBK — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:45:09 +0000

A classic Q103 Cage Match today! Two bands that put heavy metal on the map will fight to the end. Hangbangers let your voice be heard. We want to know what Metal band is better, is it Judas Priest or Iron Maiden? Vote now only one can win. Rob Halford and the band named Judas [...]

Five Heavy Metal Musician Veterans

Jennifer Beaudoin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:45:51 +0000

Put up your metal horns kids, today is National Metal Day! \m/ I think it's great that metal is getting its very own day of recognition, honor and homage. In my opinion it should get an entire week or month, but hey why be greedy right? Well, today is also Veterans Day, which should also be honored, because without all of our veterans we wouldn't have the freedoms and rights we do today. I thought I would mix the two together and give you a list of five metal musicians who are also veterans. They might be a surprise to you, but without these individuals we wouldn't have freedom or good metal, so read on and check out what metal heads also served in the military.

The Best Heavy Metal Movie Moments

BJ Ragone — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:32:50 +0000

Heavy metal is a big part of musical history and it's even slipped it's way into the movies. Not really that surprising since their is a culture of people who love it more than anything. Their have been entire features dedicated to it and even some awesome cameos. Since today happens to be National Metal [...]

The 11 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time

BJ Ragone — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:00:22 +0000

Heavy metal got it's beginnings in the late 1960's, powered it's way through the 1970's when everyone thought it was going to die and stormed into the 1980's. We had hair, glam, thrash and everything in between in that decade and in the 90's things got even heavier. Now in the 2000's we have meta

11-11-11 is National Metal Day

WQBK — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:04:59 +0000

Raise your devil horns \m/, Friday November 11th has been proclaimed as National Metal Day. After the Free Beer & Hot Wings morning show we think that you should crank the volume on Q103 to 11. All day we're planning to feature some of the most influential bands in metal history like Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth Pantera and many others.

Warm up for National Metal Day with Anthrax at Northern Lights

WQBK — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:30:18 +0000

Thrash Metal is coming to Northern Lights Tuesday night as Q103 presents Anthrax and Testament with special guest Death Angel. Anthrax is on tour celebrating their 30th anniversary and the release of their new album 'Worship Music'. Lead singer Joey Belladonna returns to the band with Rob Caggiano, Scott Ian, Frank Bello, and Charlie Benante.