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As he tours new album Luck and Strange, the Pink Floyd guitarist answers your questions on spirituality, Kate Bush - and reconciliation with Roger Waters.
The nu-metal pioneers commit entirely with hulking riffs, frenzied scatting and guttural rage as they stomp through their songs with little ceremony.
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The frontman answers your questions on metal's punk rivals, working with Dolly Parton, his top Priest song and his time working in a Walsall sex shop.
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