When former professional wrestler the Ultimate Warrior agreed to contribute vocals to Asking Alexandria's last album, the band probably thought nothing of repaying the favor and appearing on Warrior's TV show. Maybe they should have.
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“You’ve got three guitars, and nothing to prove”: Stephen Malkmus, Emmett Kelly, and Matt Sweeney discuss the country tracking tricks, experimentation, and East German fuzz pedal clones that power The Hard Quartet's self-titled debut album
![Opeth's Fredrik Åkesson [left] and Mikael Åkerfeldt sit on an old sofa with their PRS electric guitars. Åkesson looks off into the distance while Åkerfeldt stares into the camera.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mBjBAxu9jXG82RYpeGpuUX-1280-80.jpg.webp)
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