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"These records (Dookie and American Idiot) came out 10 years apart and they’re milestones in our career, so we’re going to be playing Dookie in its entirety and American Idiot in its entirety." It was January 17, 2024, and Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman of Green Day, revealed to Howard Stern how they wanted to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dookie and the 20th anniversary of American Idiot. Just a couple of days before the release of their 14th album Saviors, but frankly, we didn’t care about that anymore. A tour that promised to be epic and, even though it’s still in its early stages, will surely go down in history. On June 16, 2024, in Milan at the I-Days, Green Day made us relive those emotions that most of us had only partially experienced through watching the videos of Bullet in a Bible, a live album of one of their most famous concerts ever held at Milton Keynes in 2005. Last Sunday’s concert is one of those that makes you go like “I was there.” Disclaimer: although ...

"Metallica are the crème de la crème of those kinds of bands; you can’t really define them as heavy metal, they’re a musical band. The songs aren’t just heavy metal; they’re beautiful songs,” said Elton John in an interview for the 30th anniversary of Metallica’s Black Album, where he covered “Nothing Else Matters” with Miley Cyrus. Metallica is probably one of the first bands to succeed in making a genre that previously struggled to reach everyone’s homes mainstream. Without them, many successful bands today probably wouldn’t exist. The first time I came into contact with Metallica was around 2010 when I saw the video of "Enter Sandman" live at the 1991 Moscow concert, and at the time, I was too young to understand why so many people liked that noise. Over time, I learned to appreciate heavy metal, and that noise became music. Performance When you are in front of such a legendary band, it’s impossible not to be in awe. Despite the nearly 30 degrees Celsius, I got gooseb...