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No underground genre of music can survive once it becomes a corporate commodity, and punk rock fared the very worst when giant companies used the genre to relate to a generation of kids.The peak of cringe when it comes to punk rock in commercials was discovered by Taco Bell. In 2019, the taco giant created a Sex Pistols-esque band to sing about ordering takeout. “What does everyone want tonight / Tacos! Tacos! / And what’s…

In the years immediately following the great grunge explosion of 1991, the entire world seemed to be looking at Seattle.Few bands were bigger than Nirvana, especially after Nevermind knocked Michael Jackson’s Dangerous from the top of the albums chart. Pearl Jam’s Ten peaked at No. 2 a few months down the road, and they drew in crowds at the Lollapalooza festival that were bigger than what the headliners did.Alice in Chains released Dirt on Sept. 29, and Stone Temple Pilots — an…

Zakk Wylde is one of many greats to hold down the guitar spot in Ozzy Osbourne’s solo band, but it didn’t come without its challenges. In this edition of Gear Factor, Wylde reveals how he carved out his niche in the history of Ozzy players and delves into some of his favorite guitar riffs that initially inspired him.When Wylde started with Ozzy, he knew that he was not interested in replicating what other players that…

When TV sitcoms joke about metal, it goes one of three ways: Making metal the butt of the joke, making a hapless character the butt of the joke, or creating absurdity for a joke. Whether it’s cringe or not, here’s a compilation of metal jokes on sitcoms.Sitcoms don’t get much more cringy than The Big Bang Theory. The wildly popular CBS series saw two of its main characters head into a goth bar, drinking vodka…

Metallica are the most commercially successful and genre-defining metal act in history, and it seems like every musician has talked about the band at least once.“James Hetfield is definitely one of the best guitar players to have ever walked this Earth,” Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge said in an episode of Loudwire’s Gear Factor. “Even though I sort of know theoretically how to play ‘Master of Puppets,’ it’s impossible to play it in down strokes the way…