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Fact of the Week

Learn a different fact every week!

The heaviest metal band is actually made of metal.

Fact of the week

21 November 2022

The heaviest metal band is actually made of metal.

Compressorhead is a band that plays an intense and powerful style of rock music called heavy metal. Not only does the band play heavy metal, it is heavy metal: all of its members are robots.

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26 December 2022

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19 December 2022

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