They help audiences follow tedious PowerPoint presentations, and they make heavy metal rock shows wicked awesome.
But few filmmakers before or since have been able to consistently orchestrate such maddening elements into a metal rock flow.
The show is based around the anarchic home life of heavy metal rock star Ozzy Osbourne, who also hails from Birmingham.
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Last December's Christie's auction in Los Angeles featured one lot that seemed irresistible: a poster for a film of a concert by Blue Oyster Cult and Black Sabbath, two out-of-work heavy-metal rock bands that still stubbornly sell old records to adoring fans.
The band Bon Jovi has been labeled many things: metal, rock, pop -- but how about country?
He proceeded to stick the gadget on all sorts of surfaces -- glass, metal, rock, an elevator wall -- like a doctor with a stethoscope.
You'll also be hearing a lot of use of the word "grunge, " a label used -- typically to the labeled party's chagrin -- to describe purveyors of the raw fusion of heavy metal and punk rock that emerged from the Pacific Northwest.
The film satirizes the behaviour and musical pretensions of hard rock and metal bands.
Hard rock and metal have been Finland's most successful music export in recent years.
There's an important distinction between these two types of objects: Comets are mostly water, ice and dust, while asteroids are mostly rock or metal.
This is just what happened in 2003, when two female bombers blew themselves up before metal detectors at a rock concert, killing 16 people.
Embracing his love of classic '70s singer-songwriters such as Cat Stevens and '80s rock and metal bands like Motley Crue, Stephen Kellogg merges many styles to create fun and introspective music.
Areva has implemented a plan to stop radioactive waste rock and scrap metal from getting into the local community, but the problem is clear.
Even though I grew up on metal, punk and hard rock and the majority of my listening to this day takes place within those genres, I still keep a heavy dose of pop music in rotation.
But when, if you do this trick in a laboratory, you give the electrons the chance to bypass a section of rock by way of a metal wire, quite large currents will flow.
Corrugated metal roofs sprout haphazardly above walls made of rock and chain-link fencing.
Heavy metal is the horror-movie genre of rock music equal parts silly and scary, and endlessly appealing to teenage boys, no matter how much it is parodied from Spinal Tap to Beavis and Butthead to Tenacious D.
The fertile and fractious U.S. scene in the genre known as black metal can be understood through a familiar moment in rock history.
He quickly dismisses official business to take us on a personalised metal tour, which includes his sedan dashboard thickly scrawled with the autographs of visiting metal bands, the site of a planned Alley of Rock statue park, and a grain elevator refashioned as a medieval castle ('My idea, ' he cheerfully claims).
The 1984 film, This is Spinal Tap, is an American rock and roll mock documentary about about the heavy metal music band, Spinal Tap - "one of England's loudest bands".
Rarely has calculated stupidity made as much sense as in this vulgar, cartoonish rock opera, starring Jack Black and Kyle Gass as a pair of metal-worshipping musical losers in quest of stardom, redemption, and the rent money.
This 7km-long white-knuckle adventure combines hiking, climbing over smooth rock slabs alongside waterfalls, ziplining over a surging river and navigating wild canyons via bridges and metal rungs.
Although many prognosticators expected " Rock of Ages" to vie for the number one spot this weekend, the hair-metal Broadway adaptation couldn't convince audiences to join the mosh pit.
Before the capsule goes down, though, officials said, metal casing or tubes would have to be lowered into the hole to provide a buffer between the capsule and rock.
Indeed, without the studio, the cat suits and hair-metal guitar solos of The Darkness may never have made it into the public eye, with the band's rock sound perfected at the complex.
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