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Today's featured article Lemmy, lead singer of Motörhead The new wave of British heavy metal began in the late 1970s and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. Encompassing diverse mainstream and underground styles, the music often infused 1970s heavy metal music with the intensity of punk rock to produce fast and aggressive songs. The do-it-yourself ethic of the new metal bands led to the spread of raw-sounding, self-produced recordings and a proliferation of independent record labels. Song lyrics were usually about escapist themes from mythology, fantasy, horror or the rock lifestyle. The movement involved mostly young, white, male musicians and fans of the heavy metal subculture, whose behavioural and visual codes were quickly adopted by metal fans worldwide after the spread of the music globally. The movement spawned perhaps a thousand bands, but only a few survived the rise of MTV and glam metal. Among them, Motörhead (singer pictured) and Saxon had considerable success, and Iron Maiden and Def Leppard became international stars. (Full article...) Recently featured: Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment Castell Coch Caitlin Clark On this day... January 25: Feast day of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Christianity) and Dwynwen (Wales); Tatiana Day (Russia) Nellie Bly 1515 – Francis I, a great-great-grandson of Charles V, was crowned king of France in the Reims Cathedral. 1725 – Privateer Amaro Pargo was declared a hidalgo, a member of the Spanish nobility. 1765 – Port Egmont, the first British colony in the Falkland Islands, was founded. 1890 – American journalist Nellie Bly (pictured) completed a circumnavigation of the globe by land and sea in a then-record-breaking 72 days. 1998 – The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam detonated a truck bomb at the sacred Buddhist Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, killing 17 people. Mihrimah Sultan (d. 1578) Anna Gardner (b. 1816) Jane Bathori (d. 1970) Seunghee (b. 1996) More anniversaries: January 24 January 25 January 26

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