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Slayer

Slayer is a thrash metal band from US, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. The band was credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal bands, along with Metallica, Anthrax, and Megadeth. Slayer's musical traits involve fast tremolo picking, guitar solos, double bass drumming, and shouting vocals. The band's lyrics and album art, which cover topics such as death, deviants, suicide, genocide, necrophilia, insanity, Nazism, religion, Satanism...

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Born Into Suffering

Born Into Suffering is a Vegan Beatdown/Hardcore/Metal band from Perth, Western Australia. Formed in mid-2007 as just a basic Beatdown band, however the members were all Vegetarian or Vegan, and felt the need to voice the concerns and frustrations of a world gone mad with greed and the soulless manipulation of animal kind. The message is simple, GO FUCKING VEGAN! Angry and heavy, but full of heart.

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The Stabs

Formerly called Jodi Moore as a tribute to an acquaintance who didn't want the honour of seeing her name in the street press, The Stabs acquired their new name not long after starting to play irregular gigs at small Melbourne venues around 2003. They have the honour of clearing the 'Airport Lounge' at Monash Uni faster than any other lunchtime act, with only three diehards ending up braving the wall of noise for the whole set.

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Cavalera Conspiracy

Brazilian metal titans Max and Igor Cavalera have written and recorded new material together for the first time in twelve years, since their work in Sepultura. Formed in the summer of 2007, Cavalera Conspiracy, is their new project and features the Cavalera brothers from Brazil, bassist Joe Duplantier from France and guitarist Marc Rizzo from the United States. Cavalera Conspiracy's debut record, Inflikted, was released on March 25, 2008 by Roadrunner Records. Recording took place in July 2007 at Undercity Studios in Los Angeles, with Logan Mader (ex-Machine Head guitarist).

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Bullet

There is more than one artist with this name: 1) A Swedish Hard Rock / Heavy Metal band from Växjö.
Their sound is basically raw Hard Rock, with some NWOBHM influences, very similar to bands like AC / DC, Krokus or Accept.
The band released two albums so far; "Heading for the Top" (2006) and "Bite the Bullet" (2008). The current line up is: Hell Hofer - Vocals
Hampus Klang - Lead Guitars
Erik Almström - Lead Guitars
Adam Hector - Bass
Gustav Hjortsjö - Drums

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Unearth

There are at least two bands with this name: 1) Unearth is:
Trevor Phipps - vocals
Buz McGrath - guitar
John Maggard - bass
Ken Susi - guitar
vacant - drums
Hailing from Massachusetts, Unearth bring a refreshing sense of talent with charismatic riffs, thought provoking lyrics and pummeling breakdowns. Unearth masterfully combine an intoxicating mix of American and European metal with hardcore ethic and punch. This unique approach makes Unearth one of the most abrasive, commanding and emotionally charged groups in heavy music today.

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XXXX

There are 2 bands with similar name: 1. Crossover Thrash band from London
http://www.myspace.com/thedrinkingdead 2. Metalcore band from Prague, Czech Republic (correctly written: xXXx, also reffered to as "Xes" or "x-ká" in their native language). They just released their debut album My Life, My Pride (July 2011). Links:
http://www.facebook.com/xxxx
http://xxxxmusic.com
http://bandzone.cz/xxxx
http://youtube.com/xxxxmetalcore
http://myspace.com/xxxxmetalcore

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Tool

Formed around 1990 in Los Angeles, California, United States, by drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, vocalist Maynard James Keenan, and original bassist Paul D'Amour, Tool is a band that is most noted for combining industrial rock with a wide variety of progressive structures, irregular time signatures and lyrics that range from angry diatribes to meditations on philosophical and social matters.

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Elegy

There are at least three artists with the name Elegy: 1. Elegy are a progressive metal/power metal band from the Netherlands. They formed in 1986. 2. Elegy was the name of a melodic death metal band from Secunda, Mpumalanga, South Africa. They are now known as Riddare av Koden after changing their name due to copyright issues with the original Dutch band Elegy as mentioned above. 3. Elegy produced a series of minimal electronic EPs for the labels Likemind, ART and B12 in the mid-1990s.

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Helmet

Helmet was formed in New York City in 1989 by founding members Page Hamilton(guitar), Henry Bogdan(bass), Peter Mengede(guitar) and John Stanier(drums). The group signed to Ampthetamine Reptile Records, and released their first full-length album, Strap It On, in 1991. Interscope Records soon came calling and signed the band in 1992.

The band found mainstream success with their Interscope debut Meantime which debuted at number 68 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the hits “Unsung” and “In the Meantime”.

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