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How Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
In the early 1980s, heavy metal was in a state of decline. The once-mighty genre had been overtaken by hair metal and pop metal, and many of the classic bands of the 1970s had either broken up or were past their prime. But...
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