In 1998, Metallica compiled a double album of cover songs, titled Garage Inc. The first disc contained newly recorded covers of songs by Diamond Head , Killing Joke , the Misfits , Thin Lizzy , Mercyful Fate , Black Sabbath and others, and the second disc featured the original version…
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Additionally, the band played on the 1998 UK Ozzfest tour alongside Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Foo Fighters , Slayer , Soulfly , Fear Factory, and Therapy? , as well as touring with Clutch and Neurosis .
In a 1998 interview with Chart magazine, Moreno stated, “When we went in to make this record, we really didn’t have a set idea of what we wanted to come out with”. He felt that the album “fell into place” once the band settled into the studio. The band expanded…
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Shortly before a European tour in the summer of 1998, Ward had a heart attack and was temporarily replaced by former drummer Vinny Appice .
After both having released solo albums in the early 1990s, Pata and Heath teamed up with Spread Beaver percussionist/ programmer I.N.A., who worked on several of X Japan’s releases, to provide a track for the 1998 Hide tribute album Tribute Spirits .
In 1998, Puma seized the opportunity and offered a $500,000 deal to Korn, including their music featured in Kevin Kerslake -directed advertisements. Korn accepted the contract; Davis said, “That’s more than Adidas ever did for us! It wasn’t a sell-out thing. It was about respect.”
VH1 revived the band’s fortunes in the US in 1998 by featuring them on one of the first episodes of Behind the Music . Re-runs of the episode yielded some of the series’ highest ratings and brought the band’s music back into the public consciousness (following years of burial by…
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Twisted Sister’s first reunion was in 1998 when the band recorded one song, “Heroes Are Hard to Find”, for the soundtrack of Snider’s movie Strangeland .
The band members started to discuss the possibility of a Europe reunion in 1998. “Mic and Ian came over to see me in Ireland,” Tempest said, “Then whilst we were there, John Norum called from LA, and we were like ‘Yes, maybe now is the right time to get things…
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In 1998, Helloween released Better Than Raw , one of the band’s heaviest albums since the full-length debut.