They further reported that the medical examiner will determine a cause of death, after which he'll be flown back to his home state of Texas to be buried between his mother and brother, guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott.

Between The Buried And Me is streaming roughly one minute of their new song "The Proverbial Bellow." The track will appear on BTBAM's forthcoming album, Automata II, due out on July 13. You can have a listen here

Halestorm have released an online stream of their brand new song "Black Vultures". The song is the lead track from their forthcoming album Vicious, which is set to be released on July 27th. Listen to the song here

System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian revealed in a recent newsletter to fans, "I have five rock songs that I wanted I do with SOAD but it doesn't look like that's gonna work out, so I am finishing those up to release them as a solo EP or possibly as a soundtrack for my film cause they are interrelated," Read more here

Bullet For My Valentine have released the first in a series of "making of" videos that they will be sharing for their brand new studio album, Gravity, which comes out on June 29th. Watch it here

Friends, family and fans will be gathering to celebrate the man that Paul Stanley called the "fifth member of KISS", the group's late manager Bill Aucoin. Everyone is invited to FACEBOOK LIVE for his 8th Anniversary Celebration of Life toast from Le Tub in Hollywood, Florida, and the Rainbow in Hollywood, California on June 28th, 8pm EDT, 5pm PDT. Read more here

The Monkees' Michael Nesmith suffered a "a minor health issue" during a soundcheck ahead of a The Mike and Micky Showconcert with Micky Dolenz at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pa, which forced the duo to cancel that show and the remaining stops of the tour, according to UCR. Read more here

Awolnation's February 6th appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live introduced a stripped-down version of the band's Top 5 Alternative Radio hit "Handyman." The version has grown in popularity, as has demand for its release. In keeping with their fan's desires, the band will release the acoustic version of the hit , via all music download and streaming services. Stream it here.

Kerrang! Radio spoke to Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi on the red carpet at the 2018 Kerrang! Awards, and he talked about his plans for the future, including new music, and the possibility of Black Sabbath reuniting for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Watch it here

Marillion have released a new video of a performance of their song
White Paper" from their upcoming release "All One Tonight: Live At The Royal Albert Hall" (out July 27th), which was captured during their first ever performance at the famed venue back in October of 2017. Watch the video here

Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates discussed his fascination with jazz and even confirmed that a jazz solo album is on his "to-do" list in a recent interview with Ultimate-Guitar. Read more here

Blind Guardian will be rereleasing their first four studio albums via Nuclear Blast on September 14th. The back catalogue has been remixed and remastered, and will be available as 2CD-Digi and black vinyl formats, as well as individual colored vinyl for each album. There will also be a vinyl box available. More details here

Powerwolf have released a new music video for a track called "Fire & Forgive". The song comes from their new album The Sacrament Of Sin, which will be released on July 20th. Watch the video here

Lambgoat have premiered a brand new track from Set Sights called "Planted." It comes from their group's forthcoming debut album "The Heavy Alternative" which is set to hit stores on September 7th. Check out the song here

Audiences in Latin America will experience one of the most unique concert tours in the classic rock and progressive rock scene in recent years. David Cross, the legendary violinist from King Crimson between 1972 and 1974 (and who has also been a member of progressive bands such as Clearlight, Low Flying Aircraft and Radius), has joined forces with Stick Men, the innovative power trio comprised by virtuoso touch-style guitarist Markus Reuter (who also studied guitar under King Crimson's leader Robert Fripp as part of his Guitar Craft courses), together with the current King Crimson rhythm section of drummer Pat Mastelotto and Chapman Stickist Tony Levin (who have been providing the basic foundation of Crimson since 1994 and 1981 respectively).

Before I started playing music fulltime, I was an eighth-grade language arts teacher on the Navajo Reservation, in northern Arizona.

I lived in a small town called Shonto, next to the Utah border, which was about 45 minutes from the nearest grocery store and surrounded by beautiful canyon country.

On weeks off from school, I would take my mountain bike, load up with supplies, and head out on these solo-bike trips into the surrounding wilderness.

I was young and a little wild-eyed, so thought I could get through any challenge that would come up. Those were the days before smartphones, so I took an old school map and printouts of the national parks with me and went out on a solo two-week bike trip through Zion, Bryce, Canyonlands, and Grand Escalante National Parks.

One day I messed up. I feel asleep in the sun after a long ride and got burned pretty bad all over my body. In a daze of pain and discomfort, I miscalculated the next day's journey, and found myself out of water, out of food, and out of luck half way through the next day's bike ride.

It was 60 miles either way to the nearest town and the sun was beating down so hard I had to stop and find shade. There wasn't any shade around for miles (this being the desert and the middle of the day), so I had to climb down into a water drainage pipe under the road and wait for… well I wasn't sure for what exactly.

I must have languished in that drainage pipe for hours and somewhere along the line I started singing this tune, 'It's a long way back to Shonto…but I'm ready to ride…' hearing it echo off the walls. It was a haunting melody, but gave me solace that somehow, I'd find a way home.

All of a sudden, I heard a low rumbling, so I poked my head out of the pipe and saw in the distance a huge boat sailing through the desert towards me. I thought I must have totally lost my mind, but it got bigger and bigger as it approached.

Then I saw a tiny truck in front of it, so I realized this truck was towing this huge boat down the highway (probably from nearby Lake Powell) right towards me.

I got in the middle of the road and started waving my hands wildly so it had to stop. There was a middle-aged couple who gave me a wild look and said, "You need a ride don't you?" I nodded and they said they would love to take me to town, but their truck was full. We all looked up to the boat at the same time.

We loaded my bike and all my stuff on the back of the boat, and I climbed up there to find a cooler full of… Mike's Hard Lemonade. They had drank all the water from their day out on the lake already!

I didn't mind, and downed about four of those things while sitting in the back of the boat, going 80 MPH down a desert highway in the middle of canyon county Arizona, wind in my hair, and feeling lucky to be alive.

It was a 'Long Way Back to Shonto,' but I was ready to ride.