Moshradar Games · 12 questions
Metal Myths & Legends: True or False?
Twelve stories you've heard in the pub. Which ones actually happened?
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Question 1 of 12
Ozzy Osbourne once bit the head off a real bat on stage.
True — in Des Moines in 1982. A fan threw it on stage and Ozzy says he thought it was rubber. He needed rabies jabs afterwards.
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Question 2 of 12
Black Sabbath's debut album was released on Friday the 13th.
True — Friday 13 February 1970.
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Question 3 of 12
Lemmy once worked as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix.
True — for the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the late 1960s.
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Question 4 of 12
Slayer's Reign in Blood runs for more than an hour.
False — ten songs in just under 29 minutes.
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Question 5 of 12
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden is a qualified airline pilot.
True — he has flown commercially and piloted the band's own tour plane.
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Question 6 of 12
Judas Priest took their name from a Bob Dylan song.
True — 'The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest'.
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Question 7 of 12
The umlaut in Motörhead changes how the name is pronounced.
False — Lemmy said it was only there to make the name look mean.
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Question 8 of 12
Rammstein took their name from Ramstein Air Base.
True, more or less — it came from the 1988 air show disaster at Ramstein, with an extra m added.
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Question 9 of 12
Nightwish have won the Eurovision Song Contest.
False — they tried to represent Finland in 2000 with 'Sleepwalker' but lost the national final. Lordi won it for Finland in 2006.
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Question 10 of 12
Download Festival is held at Knebworth Park.
False — it is at Donington Park in Leicestershire.
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Question 11 of 12
All four members of System of a Down are of Armenian descent.
True — and the band has long campaigned for recognition of the Armenian genocide.
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Question 12 of 12
Gojira are from Belgium.
False — they are from south-west France.
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