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They've always lovingly worn their influences on their pontifical sleeves.

See where they're roaming next.

There's way more substance here than haters would lead you to believe.

It wasn't welcome in his Catholic home.

The genre's best bands had a penchant for reinvention — making this list especially difficult.

Jeremy McKinnon wants metal to stop being "so closed off."

"Oh my God, what just f---ing happened?" he recalled thinking at the time.

"If ever Paul owned a song, it's that one," he says of the classic.

They insist they're all still "brothers for life."

See what the former Megadeth bassist thought of these bands.