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Heavy Metal and Hard Rock
Crank the amp to eleven: riffs, umlauts, mascots and legendary line-ups. Prove you know your Sabbath from your Maiden before the encore.
🎸 Music
medium
20 questions
~7 min
What this quiz asks
- Black Sabbath formed in 1968 in which English city?
- Which singer popularised this horns hand gesture among metal fans, saying it came from his Italian grandmother?
- In which country were AC/DC formed in 1973?
- What is the name of Iron Maiden's zombie-like mascot, who appears on almost all of their album covers?
- Black Sabbath's debut album was released on a Friday the 13th.
- Metallica's drummer and co-founder Lars Ulrich was born in which country?
- Who replaced the late Bon Scott as AC/DC's singer in 1980?
- In Kiss, which member played the fire-breathing, blood-spitting character known as the Demon?
- Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water describes a fire during a Frank Zappa concert in which Swiss town?
- Select ALL of these bands that come from Germany.
- Did Def Leppard's drummer Rick Allen carry on in the band after losing his left arm in a 1984 car crash?
- What was the title of Guns N' Roses' 1987 debut album?
- Eddie Van Halen's 1978 instrumental Eruption made which guitar technique famous?
- Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson is a qualified airline pilot who has flown the band's own tour plane.
- Before forming Motörhead, Lemmy played bass in which space-rock band?
- Select ALL of these albums that were recorded by Iron Maiden.
- Metallica bassist Cliff Burton was killed when the band's tour bus crashed in which country?
- Order these bands by the year they formed, earliest first.
- In what year did Metallica release the album Master of Puppets?
- Which band is usually credited as the first to add a purely decorative umlaut to its name?