This concert-less pandemic has given us a whole lot of Metallica content, including their weekly ‘Metallica Monday’ series, for which they’ve released a different pro-shot, full-concert video from their archives each week. Sadly, it ends tonight (8/24). The final Metallica Monday will be their March 3, 2017 Mexico City show, and you can tune in below via YouTube at 8 PM ET. Metallica are taking donations for their All Within My Hands Foundation here.

Among the 22 videos released for Metallica Mondays were classic moments like their 1983 Chicago show, their 1989 Irvine show, their 1994 Mountain View show, their 1997 Salt Lake City show, their Master of Puppets 20th anniversary show in Berlin, their Big 4 show at Yankee Stadium in 2011 (where the whole Big 4 covered Motorhead together), and more. Watch all of those below.

Meanwhile, present-day Metallica recently appeared on Howard Stern for a performance and interview, as their S&M2 live album/film (of the 20th anniversary S&M concerts with the San Francisco Symphony) comes out this Friday (8/28), and their newly-filmed concert film hits drive-in theaters on Saturday (8/29).

Metallica also say new music is on the way, so stay tuned for more on that.

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25 Punk & Heavy Metal Toys We Really Want to Own

AC/DC Funko Pop: Angus Young

No rock god figure collection is complete without an Angus Young. The AC/DC Funko comes in a few different varieties, though all of them except for the standard black outfit are a bit rare. You’ve got a 1 in 6 chance of getting the blue guy if you order online, and Amazon is listing an exclusive more expensive red one as well. My temperature's high, hell's bells!

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Agnostic Front Super7 Reaction Figure: The Eliminator

NYHC represent! The Eliminator from Agnostic Front's 1986 Cause For Alarm album cover comes to life for this ReAction figure. Put him on your shelf next to the ReAction Vic Rattlehead (as seen below), and listen to them (and/or the voices in your head) argue whether the killing business is good, or merely fine.

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Alice Cooper Funko Pop

The godfather of shock rock (and corpse paint) is looking absolutely dapper as a Funko here in his white top hat...Well we got no choice, all the girls and boys, makin' all that noise 'cause they found new toys!

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Anthrax Super7 ReAction Figure: Among The Living

Super7 is doing a great job of creating figures based on iconic metal album art, and the evil looking guy on the cover of Anthrax’s 1987 thrash classic Among the Living is the subject of this neat action figure. "The Walking Dude" -- as they call him -- is actually based on villain Randall Flagg from Stephen King’s The Stand which is about a horrible pandemic that is wiping out most of the world’s population… very timely.

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Billy Idol Funko Pop

For just a bit of money, money, you can own your very own cool looking punk turned pop star Billy Idol. Eyes and face not sold separately.

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Def Leppard Funko Pops

Unlike love, these mini versions of Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Rick Allen, Phil Collen, and Steve Clark will not bite. You know you want this set, even if ironically. So, are you gettin' it? Oh, really gettin' it? Yes, are you gettin' it? Whoa, really gettin' it?

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Ghost Funko Pop: Papa Emeritus II

Like KISS, Misfits, Alice Cooper and King Diamond before them, Ghost were made for merchandising, and both Super7 and Funko have the ghoulish face painted Papa goods in Emeritus and Nihil varieties. Nostro dis pater, nostr’ alma mater.

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Ghost Funko Pop: Papa Nihil

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Ghost Super7 ReAction Figure: Papa Emeritus III

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Iggy Pop Funko Pop

Come on shake, come on, shake, come on shake you little Iggy Pop doll. The shirtless godfather of punk Funko is another must have for your rock god collection and may just be the prettiest thing I ever seen, uh-huh.

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Iron Maiden Eddie Funko Pops

Can I play with madness? Eddie may be the most iconic metal band mascot there is, a key figure in Iron Maiden’s album art and themes and elaborate stage show and backdrops, and of course on the shirts… so many shirts. So it is no surprise that in recent years, with help from companies like Funko, Neca and Super7, the band have greatly expanded their merchandise universe with a variety of toys, including but not limited to the great ones pictured in this post. Super7 is especially impressing as usual with the album specific carded action figures.

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Iron Maiden Neca Figure: The Trooper

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Iron Maiden Super7 Reaction Figure: Blind Series

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Iron Maiden Super7 ReAction Figure: Flight of Icarus

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Iron Maiden Super7 ReAction Figure: Live After Death

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Iron Maiden Super7 ReAction Figure: Piece of Mind

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Iron Maiden Super7 ReAction Figure: Somewhere In Time

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Iron Maiden Super7 ReAction Figure: The Number of the Beast

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Iron Maiden Super7 ReAction Figure: Twilight Zone

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Johnny Cash Funko Pop

This Johnny Cash figure will be mine, I walk the line! He may not be punk or metal, but we all bow down to the original man in black.

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Joey Ramone Funko Pop

Aey oh, Funko. And also a Joey Ramone figure by Neca which will set you back many more dollars due to its current rarity. Regardless, no collection would be complete without at least one version of the tall, countercultural icon.

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Joey Ramone Neca Figure

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Judas Priest Super7 ReAction Figure: Rob Halford

You’ve got another action figure coming! Legend Rob Halford of Judas Priest comes complete with his classic stage outfit, microphone, and whip. Hell bent for leather!

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King Diamond Super7 ReAction Figure

KING DIAMOND ACTION FIGURES! It was never fair that you could fill a room with different KISS dolls while equally great dresser King Diamond languished in obscurity. Now, thanks to Super7, not only do we get a figure of the operatic heavy metal legend, to put on our shelf next to Skeletor (Super7 sells him too) and Phantom of the Opera (ditto), but we get multiple varieties including the latest very sweet "ULTIMATES" edition Mercyful Fate-era King Diamond that comes with a blood filled skull chalice, goat skull, bone cross microphone, and more. I mean, duh.

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King Diamond Super7 ULTIMATES: Mercyful Fate

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KISS Dressed to Kill Figures

I want to rock and roll all night, and party (with my toys) every day! I can’t think of a more classic example of rock and roll action figures than the 1977 KISS dolls by MEGO. A set in their boxes still goes for over $1200, but the demon masters of merchandising have long made it so you don’t need to hit eBay to own your own mini Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss. The Funkos, album-themed sets and larger figurines pictured in this post are just some of the fully costumed options you can choose from at a store near you.

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KISS Funko Pop Four-Pack

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KISS Bif Bang Pow! Figures: Alive II Concert Lighting Deluxe Boxset

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Nirvana Funko Pop: Kurt Cobain

A Funko, an albino, a mosquito, my libido. Yeah, hey, Kurt Cobain in Striped Shirt would look great on your shelfo.

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Megadeth Neca Figure: Vic Rattlehead

So Far, So Good... So What! Toys are my business…. And business is good! As seen on the cover of their first four and classic albums, Megadeth mascot Vic Rattlehead is available as a larger Neca 8" figure and in smaller Super7 ReAction action figure formation. Each piece sells... but who's buying? Cloth and plastic pieces will not rust!

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Megadeth Super7 ReAction Figure: Vic Rattlehead

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Metallica SMITI Figures: Master of Puppets playset

Master! Master! Where’s the toys that I’ve been after? The Smiti Master of Puppets action figure box set comes complete with 25 separate pieces including the stage, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Cliff Burton. Three of these fine metal gods, and newer bassist Robert Trujillo, also look mighty fine Funkofied.

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Metallica Funko Pops

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Misfits Super7 ReAction Figure: Die Die My Darling Fiend

As if our Misfits vinyl and t-shirt collections weren’t large enough, Super7 spoils us with a wide variety of irresistible ReAction figures. There are at least 12 different versions of the Fiend, each tied to a record like Legacy of Brutality and Die Die My Darling, and a few versions of the Jerry figure complete with devil lock. Gotta have you on my wall, gotta have you on my wall…

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Misfits Super7 ReAction Figure: Horror Business Fiend

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Misfits Super7 ReAction Figure: Legacy of Brutality Fiend

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Misfits Super7 ReAction Figure: Static Age Fiend

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Misfits Super7 ReAction Figure: Walk Among Us Fiend

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Misfits Super7 ReAction Figure: Jerry Only

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Mötorhead Funko Pop: Lemmy Kilmister

Funko really killed it with both of their Motorhead figures: Lemmy and Warpig, the latter being a take on The Loudest Band on Earth’s evil looking logo and mascot. Also known as Snaggletooth, the Joe Petagno designed hybrid skull character appears in some form on almost every Motorhead album, not to mention on their merch, and is the subject of all five different varieties of Super7 ReAction Figures. Love them like a reptile.

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Mötorhead Funko Pop: Warpig

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Mötorhead Super7 ReAction Figure: Warpig

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Rancid Super7 Reaction Figure

...And out come the Rancid action figures. Like Zartan before him, Skeletim is sure to be a formidable foe for your G.I. Joe. Like Rancid's Tim Armstrong, you may not have a mohawk anymore, but that doesn't mean you can't still blast punk rock and play with your toys. Give ’em the boot!

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Slayer Funko Pops

Hell awaits, but meanwhile these pure evil Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King, and Tom Araya Funkos are here to keep you company.

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Slayer Super7 ReAction Figure: Minotaur

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Slayer Super7 Reaction Figures: Live Undead 3-Pack

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S.O.D. Neca Figure

Sargent D is coming and you're on his list... or is it the other way around now that Neca has immortalized the soldi er from the cover of S.O.D.’s (satirical) classic Speak English or Die as a 10" figure? Have you been naughty or nice?

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Venom Super7 Reaction Figure

Lay down your souls to the gods rock 'n roll! Though they may have been more hard rock than black metal as we know it today, Venom’s influential 1982 album Black Metal is still credited with helping invent the subgenre it helped name, due in part to the band’s Satanic themes and imagery which are on full display on the cover art that inspired this amazing little demonic action figure.

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