Whiskey in the jar

Whiskey in the Jar is a famous Irish traditional song which has first-person story of a bandit who is betrayed by a woman, which is not safe if your wife or lover.

It is one of the most performed Irish songs, and has been covered by artists like The Dubliners, The Pogues, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Highwaymen, Roger Whittaker, Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, The Irish Rovers, Poxy Boggards, The Limeliters, King Creosote, The Shatilla Shakers and The Brobdingnagian Bards. In the field of rock music.

Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael Osbourne (born in Birmingham, England on December 3, 1948) is a singer, musician and songwriter with a career spanning more than forty years of activity. In the beginning, was part of the original members of the prestigious and influential heavy metal band Black Sabbath which is credited with being the creator of this genre, the late 60s and early 70s, then start a solo career in the early '80s, making big hits and revolutionizing the genre again. It is known as The Madman (The Fool), The Godfather of Heavy Metal (The godfather of heavy metal) and The Prince of Darkness (The prince of darkness). He has been certified by the RIAA multiplatinum sales of several of his solo albums. At the turn of the century has also gained a wide media coverage, especially for his appearance on the reality show broadcast by MTV The Osbournes, based on the daily life of its controversial family.

Megadeth

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band led by founder and principal songwriter Dave Mustaine. It is a major heavy metal bands, has appeared several times in the top 10 of Billboard charts and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. [2] was created in 1983 after Mustaine kicked out of Metallica, where he held the post of lead guitarist. Since then, the band has released twelve studio albums, three EPs and two albums live.

The formation of Megadeth has changed a lot and constantly throughout its history, in part because of substance abuse by Dave Mustaine, which has caused various problems with the rest of the band. After finding sobriety and securing a stable lineup after being admitted to a clinic because of such problems, Megadeth album scored several platinum and gold, including multi-platinum album and Grammy nominee, Countdown to Extinction, in 1992. Megadeth disbanded in 2002 after Mustaine suffered a severe nerve injury to his left arm, but after an intense physical therapy, guitarist reformed the band in 2004 and Megadeth released The System Has Failed, followed by the album United Abominations released in 2007, and the successful Endgame, released in 2009.

Megadeth is known for his distinctive guitar style, the peculiar form of singing Mustaine, and the subjects of his lyrics, often recurrent, politics, war, and, more recently, relationships. Two music videos of the band have been censored at the MTV music channel because of alleged issues in favor of suicide [3].

Megadeth is a thrash metal bands most famous in history, as it has sold over 25 million albums worldwide, [4] including nine consecutive platinum albums and seven consecutive Grammy nominations in the category of Best Performance Metal. Through more than 25 active years, Megadeth has had 18 official members, with Mustaine the only permanent member and main songwriter. Megadeth is often mentioned as one of the Big Four thrash metal alongside Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax.

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band formed in 1968 [4] in Birmingham by Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums). Since then, the band has undergone many lineup changes, with more than twenty-five former members. Formed originally as a rock blues band called Polka Tulk at first and later, Earth, the group sat on the occult and horror lyrics with guitars tuned in a more severe, changing its name to Black Sabbath and getting several gold and platinum the 1970s. As one of the earliest and most influential heavy metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath helped develop the genre with publications such as Paranoid album that was four times platinum. They have sold over fifteen million copies in the United States.

Ozzy Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979 to be replaced by Ronnie James Dio, former vocalist of Rainbow. However, Black Sabbath saw how, over the 1980s and 1990s, it took four more vocalists Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen and Tony Martin. The original lineup met in 1997 and released a live album, Reunion, whose song "Iron Man" won the Grammy Award in 2000, thirty years after its original publication in Paranoid. The alignment of the early 1980s consisting of Iommi, Butler, Dio and Vinny Appice met in 2006 under the name Heaven and Hell, a title taken from the Black Sabbath album of the same name.

Lars Ulrich

Lars Ulrich, is a Danish drummer best known as co-founder and co-leader (with James Hetfield) of the heavy metal band Metallica.

Born December 26, 1963 in Gentofte (Denmark), within a family of upper-middle class. Being a tennis prodigy in his youth, Ulrich moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of sixteen to pursue his education, but instead to continue playing tennis, he decided to battery. After publishing an advertisement in a local newspaper in Los Angeles called The Recycler, he met James Hetfield.

His playing is very varied, ranging from the simple rhythms of rock album The Black Album, to the complex and fast parts in many of the themes of the heaviest Metallica albums like Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning or ... And Justice for All (the latter made some of the most difficult and complex rhythms of all who have the group). It is also recognized as one of the best drummers of all time.

Motörhead

Motörhead is a British band of heavy metal founded on 1975 by the bear, singer and composer, Lemmy Kilmister, that has stayed throughout the years like the unique stable member. Normally denominated like power trio, Motörhead was a great successful at the beginning of years 80 with several simple ones in the British lists of sale. The albums Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, and particularly nonSleep ' til Hammersmith, heavy laid the foundations the reputation of Motörhead like one of the most outstanding bands of the British scene metal. [2] Although Motörhead normally classifies like heavy metal, speed metal or thrash metal (and, often, considered as a fundamental influence of these two last ones), [1] Kilmister has rejected these last labels, having preferred to describe the style of Motörhead like " rock and roll ". [3] the style of the band has stayed with the years, preferring to touch what they like and it occurs them better; seeing its taste by the rock and roll of the first years in some of its versions. The letters of the band speak generally, military, the fight between the good and the evil, abuse authority, sex, abuse of substances, and the life in the highway. The logo of the band, Snaggletooth, with its horns, chains, and thorns, was created by Joe Petagno in 1977 for the cover of its album debut, appearing with variations in other so many of its albums.

RAMMSTEIN

The name of the group is inspired by the German city Ramstein, in whose air base an accident in 1988 happened during a spectacle, in that were implied three airships of the acrobatic squadron Italian Frecce Tricolori. Two of them were surprised in the air and another one fell on the public, causing more than seventy victims. In the name " is repeated; m" , so that it includes the root of the verb rammen (' to hit, hundir') next to the Stein noun (' piedra'); a translation approximated of " Rammstein" he would be therefore " stone of embestir". Although the band has tried throughout its race to deny a relation between its name and this catastrophe, right after being based ' acted several occasions under the Rammstein-Flugschau name (; Aerial spectacle of Rammstein'). [5] Paul Landers describes therefore the election of the name: [6] In one of our tours with Feeling B, Schneider, Flake and I already had name for the new band. We had writing in the wall of ours: " Rammstein Flugschau". Éramos so idiot that we wrote " Rammstein" with two member states, because we did not know that the name of the place only took one. At the outset we were called thus to make the triviality, but the name we had left patch like those motes that to one it does not like. No longer we were able to take off it of above. We did not want to be really called Rammstein, came tax to us. We look for another name: " Milch" , " Erde" or " Mutter" , but the name already was. The song " Rammstein" , one of first that composed and that tries indeed on the event, reached great popularity during the first years of the group. This contributed to that they decided to maintain his name like " Rammstein".

Notes Megdeth lyrics.

* "Last Rites" is instrumental, the title refers to the anointing of the sick tradition of the Catholic Church. In the live shows before releasing the album, the piano part played by Dave Mustaine started on guitar. The piano part is in fact an evocation of "Toccata" by Sebastian Bach. The rest of the song on the piano parts seem to "Steven" by Alice Cooper from his album "Welcome to My Nightmare."

* "Loved To Death" is about someone who killed his love and suicide, and finally ends up in hell. Dave Mustaine set the concept in the song "The boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, girl does not love the boy, the boy kills the girl"

* "Killing Is My Business ... And Business Is Good!" this is a killer, based on the Punisher character who kills her boss after you pay.

* "The Skull Beneath The Skin" is the black magic ritual, and explains the creation of Megadeth mascot Vic Rattlehead, explaining the steel visor, metal caps on their ears, and iron staples hold your jaw shut.

* "Rattlehead" is a description of a Megadeth concert.

* "Chosen Ones" is about a scene in the film Knights of the square table and their crazy fans, that King Arthur and his Knights fight against man-eating rabbits.

* "Looking Down The Cross" is about the crucifixion of Jesus and his final before he died. In the song, Dave says that Jesus could possibly have wished for vengeance, but only spoke of forgiveness.

* "Mechanix" is a wizard of a gas station. This song was re-written and re-recorded with new lyrics by Metallica as "The Four Horsemen for their debut album Kill 'Em All. The original "Mechanix", was titled "The Mechanix" and can be found in the demo of Metallica No Life 'til Leather

* Killing Is My Business ... And Business Is Good! had a giant war against Kill 'Em All due to the name and likeness of the songs.

James Hetfield

He was born on August 3, 1963 in Downey, California (LA County). His childhood was difficult in many ways. His parents, Virgil Hetfield (a truck driver) and Cynthia (opera singer) were members of a religious group of Christian Scientists (Christian Science). For this reason, most Hetfield's childhood revolved around religious practice and its activities.

Under the doctrine of the church to which his family belonged, the use of medicines for curing diseases was forbidden. James's mother died of cancer when he was 16 years, which marked a serious conflict between James and religious dogma practiced by his family and later greatly influence the lyrics of their next works ...
First bands [edit]
James.

In its nine years, James began taking piano lessons. Later, played drums in his brother, David, finally picking up a guitar in his years of puberty. In those years, James formed his first band, Obsession, inspired by bands like The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Queen, Thin Lizzy, Venom, among others. Obsession was composed of the Veloz brothers on bass and drums, Jim Arnold on guitar Hetfield on vocals. His friends Ron and Dave Mass McGovney fulfilled the role of roadies, and then join the band as members to the withdrawal of the Veloz brothers.

After moving to Brea, California, James met drummer Jim Mulligan at Brea Olinda High School. During lunch breaks, both trials, scaring fellow guitarists with their loud and heavy sounds hitherto unknown. One day, a student named Hugh Tanner was seen by James and Jim loading parts of a Flying V at school. The three formed the band Phantom Lord, with bearish indicators. The project lasted until the graduation of James, when the moved back to Downey.

At that time, James and his friend Ron McGovney moved to a house slated for demolition, then owned by the parents of McGovney. The house was the perfect place for James and Ron spend the time and rehearse. Ron convinced James to play bass, the band Phantom Lord disbanded, resulting in Hetfield's third band to be called Leather Charm. The only difference with the previous band Leather Charm was that James was no longer playing the guitar and Ron playing bass now, while Tanner and Mulligan retained their original instruments.

The band performing songs dedicated to heavy metal in some festivals and even managed to record a demo. After that, the band began to spread. The first to retire was Tanner, who was replaced by Troy James. Later, drummer Mulligan decided to join a band with more progressive style. In the absence of a drummer, James decided to dissolve his companions finally Leather Charm.

Although the output of Mulligan's what Hetfield determined to find a new drummer, Hugh Tanner who was also greatly influenced the musical life of James.

Hetfield did not consider at first take the role of vocalist in his previous bands. Finally, we invited John Bush of Armored Saint (then singer of Anthrax) to sing in the band.

Slayer

Slayer is a heavy metal musical group founded in 1981 by American guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King in Huntington Park, California. To complete his training, King and Hanneman recruited bassist and vocalist Tom Araya of Chilean origin and Cuban-born drummer Dave Lombardo. The latter has been fluctuating in and out of the band for several years. Slayer rose to fame thanks to the release of Reign in Blood, described as "the heaviest album of all time" by Kerrang!. Thanks to this reputation, the group was included during the early eighties in the Big Four of thrash metal alongside Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax.

Slayer has been strongly criticized by religious groups to be a satanic rock band, because both his lyrics and the album covers topics such as Satanism, violence, murder, serial murderers and war, and has been accused of nazismo.Esta support the latter charge was made because the fans of Jeff Hanneman of collecting material and Nazi-themed lyrics and the song "Angel of Death", which is about the doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele. Group members have always denied these allegations, ensuring that they are merely interested in the subject.

Since its debut in 1983, the band has released nine studio albums, two live albums and two compilations, and has sold over four million albums in the U.S. only. He has received two Grammy awards: one in 2007 for the song "Eyes of the Insane" and another in 2008 for the song "Final Six" and have headlined music festivals worldwide such as Ozzfest and Download Festival.

Slayer was formed in 1981 when Kerry King met Jeff Hanneman while they were doing tests to get into a heavy metal band. They recruited vocalist / bassist Tom Araya of Chilean origin and Cuban drummer Dave Lombardo, who met while working as a pizza delivery. The band started to play songs from Iron Maiden and Judas Priest music clubs in Southern California. His early gigs included inverted crosses and satanic images, and other paraphernalia anti-Christianity. During one of these concerts, the band drew the attention of Brian Slagel, a journalist who had recently founded the record label Metal Blade Records, who offered a recording contract training. There is a rumor that the band originally called Dragonslayer due to the film of the same name (in English). However, this rumor was denied in an interview by guitarist Kerry King, who said: "We never call it that. That is a myth. "

The band was offered a gig opening for Bitch at the Woodstock Club in the city of Los Angeles, where he performed eight songs, six of which were covers of other artists. Brian Slagel was one of those attending the concert and was impressed by the staging of the band. Thanks to this, joined them after finishing the show to ask them to record one of the original songs they had played at the concert for inclusion in the compilation of the label, Metal Massacre III. The song "Aggressive Perfector" managed a modest reception in the underground culture, which Brian Slagel offered a formal contract the band to his label Metal Blade Records.

Guns N' Roses

Guns N 'Roses is an American hard rock band. The band formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in 1985. The group, led by the leader and co-founder of the band Axl Rose (William Bruce Rose.), A line has gone through many changes and controversy since its inception, the current lineup features vocalist Axl Rose, guitarists Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, DJ Ashba and Richard Fortus, bassist Tommy Stinson, drummer Frank Ferrer and keyboard players Dizzy Reed and Chris Pitman. The band has officially released six studio albums, two EPs, one live album and a collection controversial throughout his career.

The band has sold over 110 million albums worldwide, [8] [9] including more than 46 million albums in the United States. [10] The album Appetite for Destruction, 1987 has sold over 33 million copies worldwide and reached number one on the Billboard 200 in the United States. In addition, three songs from the album entered the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, including "Sweet Child o 'Mine" which reached number one. . His 1988 album GN 'R Lies has sold over 13 million copies worldwide and their song "Patience" entered the Top 5 of Billboard Hot 100 and the album reached number two on the Billboard 200. The albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II 1991 rose to number 2 and 1 on the Billboard Hot 200 respectively, maintained for 108 weeks and has sold a total of 14 million copies in the United States alone and more than 40 million worldwide, five of álbumnes both singles reached the Billboard Hot 100 and two of them entered the Top 10 list. His next album would be the cover of Punk and Glam songs in 1993 entitled The Spaghetti Incident?, Which showed three singles, one of which entered the Billboard Hot 100 and two entered the largest collection of hits, album reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 200. During the period when the band returned to the stage came out two albums, a live album entitled Live Era: '87-'93 in 1999 and another called Greatest Hits compilation in 2004, although the band was in the negative output the album was a commercial success, the album reached number one in the UK Album Chart and three on the Billboard Hot 200, was 138 weeks on the Billboard Hot 200, after an outing, the album re-enter again and held until today. After a decade of work and problems with former members in court, the band released their next album, Chinese Democracy, in 2008, which to date has sold 6 million copies, have released three singles and one of them entered the Billboard Hot 100 and two on the Mainstream Rock Tracks, and the album reached number three on the Billboard 200 and number two in the UK Album Chart.

In the late eighties and early nineties have been described by the music industry as the period in which GNR "pulled a hedonistic and rebellious attitude revived punk-driven hard rock, with references to earlier albums Rolling Stones "

Metallica

Metallica is a heavy metal band originating in the USA. Founded in 1981 in Los Angeles by Danish Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield, who would join them and Ron McGovney Lloyd Grant. These two musicians were later replaced by guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Cliff Burton, respectively. Mustaine was fired a year after joining the band due to his excessive addiction to drugs and alcohol, and founded the band Megadeth and was replaced by Kirk Hammett. Moreover, in 1986, the death of Cliff Burton in a bus accident in Sweden brought out to the group of Jason Newsted, [2] that, fifteen years later, after his defection would be replaced by current bassist, Robert Trujillo .

To date, the band has released nine studio albums. Metallica's total sales exceeding 100 million, [3] and are considered one of the big four of thrash metal along with Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth. [4] In addition, the group has won numerous music awards, among which nine Grammys, two awards from the music channel MTV, two awards of the Academy of American Music and Billboard magazine award, and has a star on the Walk of Fame Kerrang