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We did want the name to be weighty and metal-related because it is a kind of a metal band. So what is heavy and what is metal: that was the answer.” Rully adds, laughing: “You can tell people that we ...

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After a while we got talking a little and he suddenly said to me: ‘You know, that guitar riff you did on ‘You Really Got Me’ was a real landmark.’ You can imagine how I felt. To be endorsed by Hendrix ...

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