Metallica frontman James Hetfield released a spoken-word reading of holiday poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.' ...

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I joined Paste in 2023 and, in my tenure as editor, this year’s AOTY list is my favorite by far. The publication has been doling out these rankings since 2002, affixing an “Album of the Year” ribbon ...

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