This week the other members of the band posted on Facebook that they are breaking up Lostprophets, but their statement leaves the door open to them working together under a different name.

They tell fans, "After nearly a year of coming to terms with our heartache, we finally feel ready to announce publicly what we have thought privately for some time. We can no longer continue making or performing music as Lostprophets.

"Your love and support over the past 15 years has been tremendous, and we'll be forever grateful for all you've given us. As we look forward to the next phase of our lives, we can only hope to be surrounded by people as devoted and inspiring as you guys have been. Jamie, Lee, Luke, Mike, and Stu."

The band announced on Tuesday that they have added shows on December 18th at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, CA and on December 19th at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, NV.

The tour will feature support from Fear Factory and Nonpoint and is scheduled to kick off on November 23rd in St. Paul, Minn. at Myth Live and the last announced date is the stop in Reno.

In other news, David Ellefson has announced a series of book signing events in support of his forthcoming autobiography, "My Life With Deth", which is being released on October 29th.

Windstein broke the news to fans via a couple of postings on Crowbar's Facebook page on Tuesday. He first wrote, "For months now I have been posting that I am concentrating on Crowbar 100% FULL TIME� 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of Crowbar and its a great feeling to put my heart and soul into something that I created so long ago. We are entering the studio 12/16 to record our 10th full length record, look for a late Spring release on E1..See y'all on the road with Crowbar!!! Thanks Kirk"

Four hours later he posted this additional message, "I will say it again� With my decision months ago to focus 100% on Crowbar, Pat resigned as our bassist, and I respect his decision because it's impossible to give 100% to two bands.

"I am giving my ALL to Crowbar as he is giving his ALL to Down There is no animosity.. ..no drama� Just great music being written by all, and that sounds pretty awesome to me !!!"

McCartney will be releasing his new album, entitled "New", on October 15th in North America and October 14th in his native UK. He worked with various producers on the project including Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth, Ethan Johns and Giles Martin.

The Beatles legend will be holding the Twitter question and answer session to answer fans questions about the album and its recording. You can submit questions now on Twitter by using the hashtag #AskMacca.

The band launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the album following the reunion of their original lineup, guitarist/vocalist Sahaj Ticotin, bassist P.J. Farley, guitarist Ben Carrol and drummer Skoota Warner.

Ticotin had the following to say about the album and the results of the Kickstarter campaign, "I believe this record to be the most complete album we've ever made, but also the heaviest," he said.

"There is a conscious effort here to be more respectful of hard rock/metal roots and less on being too touchy feely. I really wanted this record to feel intense, even on the more light hearted songs. For once I don't feel as if I compromised on any aspect of the writing for this record."

"The Kickstarter was a surprise on many levels. Not only in the amount of money we raised, but mainly in the intensity of the demand. People were genuinely aggressive about making sure we made another record.

"As clich� as it sounds, without that level of energy, I don't know how well this record would have come out. Their passion directly inspired the songs on this record from beginning to end. It is truly amazing."

Fans can get a taste of what's to come with the stream of the first single "Supermegadubstep" here and the band is taking pre-orders for the album online here.

Stinky Mike, the British sketch comedy duo made up of Jamie Stangroom and Scott Denyer, suggest One Direction's Harry Styles might make a compelling Han Solo, or Myley Cyrus may win over hearts as Princess Leah. What about talk show host Graham Norton as C-3PO?

When the duo finds out Queens of the Stone Age "ginger-brown" frontman Josh Homme is a huge Star Wars fan, they decide to help out by putting him through a rigorous casting process only to end up arguing that he can't play R2-D2; after all, he's 6'4″.

Admitting he has "absolutely no idea" how Floyd might have made it if they were starting out today, he tells the Wall Street Journey, "Record companies can no longer afford to do the sort of development for new artists that they used to do. Launching new artists or bands has simply become too expensive for them now that their business model and their revenues are under pressure.

"It's probably about the heaviest record I've made in a while," admits West. "Some of it is autobiographical. The title Still Climbing [which references Mountain's debut Climbing!] shows where I'm at. And there's a song called Tales Of Woe which is an acoustic ballad that isn't a pity party on my behalf, it's just the truth about where I'm at."

In an interview with Spotify, Novoselic explained that he used his Gibson bass for the recording session: "I did a song with Modest Mouse earlier this year for their new record. It's pretty edgy. I've got my big Gibson bass and a Rat distortion pedal busting out a... this bass riff."

These days, it's also because of his Great American Nightmare Festival, taking place from October 10 through November 2 in Los Angeles. While Halloween isn't in the event name, what other festival features three different haunted houses? There are, of course, nightly live bands, including 3OH!3, Blood On The Dance Floor, Andrew W.K., Powerman 5000, the Butcher Babies and Rob himself. Zombie has made it his job to celebrate Halloween, professionally speaking.

"I've wanted to do this for a long time," Zombie tells Radio.com. "It's really a two-week-long Halloween extravaganza. There's haunted mazes, but every night there's bands playing metal, punk, alternative, dance�every night's different. Then, there's car shows and wrestling. You can go to everything or to one thing, but I wanted to do one sort of all-encompassing Halloween carnival craziness."

Of course, for Rob Zombie, nearly every day is Halloween. Whenever he takes the stage�including in blazing temperatures on this summer's Mayhem festival�he's wearing full-on monster gear. From his stage get-ups to album art to music videos, Rob's music (both as a member of White Zombie and in his subsequent solo career) has always had a huge visual element.

"I never had a moment where I thought the visuals are important�it never even crossed my mind that they weren't important," he said. "I was more shocked when people would act like they weren't. Visuals have always been incredibly important to rock music. Would anyone have cared if Jimi Hendrix was fat and bald, or if Jim Morrison was ugly? Rock has always had a lot of style."

White Zombie came out of a scene that didn't pack a huge visual punch: the New York art scene of the mid-'80s that also included Sonic Youth and Live Skull. But at some point, they were accepted in the heavy metal community, where Rob now enjoys near-icon status. His metal fanbase has supported him for over two decades now.

"The biggest thing about metal audiences that other forms of music don't have�some of them do, I'm sure�the longevity and the loyalty," he said. "You'll see people, they love it forever. They'll say, 'It's my 50th time seeing Iron Maiden!' That's whats great about it. It's that frozen in time loyalty to the bands that they love."

A lot of those fans showed up to see Rob headline Mayhem this summer, alongside Mastodon, Five Finger Death Punch and more. Mayhem is notable not as America's big touring metal fest these days, but also for advocating various veteran's charities. The charity that Rob worked with was the Puppy Rescue Mission, and while the idea of the demonic rocker loving puppies sounds funny at first, it's quickly clear that this is a cause that is near to his heart.

"The puppy rescue: it's a funny name," he admits. "What it is, is a lot of soldiers in Afghanistan would find these dogs and bond with them and sneak them on the bases, even though they weren't supposed to have them. It was probably the only moment of sanity for these guys, when they spent time with them. Some of the stories I've heard are horrible: people would torture these dogs, and kill them for fun. These guys saved these dogs, and really bonded with them. But they weren't allowed to take them home, and if they could, it was so expensive. That was a cause I could really understand and get behind. Imagine being that far from home and bonding with a dog and then being told to just leave him there and then get on a plane to go home. No way!"

The band had this to say about Black, "Lorne was a big part of Great White in our early years. He had a wonderful sense of humor. He was a true bass player to the core!! He was a fan of great bass players and acted as a student of bass, always paying close attention to the best in the business. He had a Paul McCartney sensibility in that, instead of just following a guitar line, he played a song within the song.

"Listen to the bass in 'Rock Me', that is a great example of Lorne's God given talent, and contribution to a song. He was always fun to be around and we are really going to miss him:. He had many fans around the world, that will also miss him!! Lorne is gone, but his memory will live on!! Rest in peace brother... Great White."

Black's funeral is scheduled to take place this Friday, October 4th, at Murietta Valley Funeral Home from 9 - 10:30 AM. The facility is located at 24651 Washington Ave. in Murietta, CA.

Lord passed away on July 16, 2012 at the age of 71 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. "It's fifteen months since that day in the studio when we heard the bad news about Jon," posted Glover.

"Strangely enough, although he left the band eleven years ago, his presence in the band has deepened since last year. Apart from the fact that his spirit seemed to pervade the recording sessions and that Now What?! is dedicated to him, these days an interview never goes by without one or all of us talking about him. Above And Beyond, a paean to Jon, is being released as a single and every time I hear it or play it, my mind is full of great memories."

The guitarist is featured in a new commercial for the Foundation, of which Lifeson has been a longtime supporter�and for him, it's personal. "A little over [ten] years ago, my father passed away after two very difficult years of failing health," Alex explains.

"Both his kidneys ceased to operate and he was on dialysis for over two years. Many times, he was nearly lost during his dialysis and it was heartbreaking to watch his demise, and that's why this is especially important to me."

Think "first wave of thrash metal," and what has been come to be known as "the Big 4" immediately come to mind - Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth. But that's not to say that there weren't other bands from the era that lent a hand in the trailblazing of the genre - especially, Heretic. And now, fans can hear what the band was all about on a recently-released box set.

Collecting a pair of classic early releases from the band and expanding them with extra tracks (the 1986 EP 'Torture Knows No Boundary' and the 1988 full-length 'Breaking Point'), 'From the Vault' also includes a DVD comprised of two vintage live performances (the Country Club from 1985 and Jezebels in 1986 - the latter recorded while supporting Megadeth) and a bonus video clip (for the track "Let Em Bleed").

Hailing from Los Angeles, the band was founded by guitarist Brian Korban in 1985. Including singer Mike Howe in their ranks from 1986-1988 (before he would go on to join Metal Church for a trio of releases), Heretic quickly found themselves in the midst of a musical movement that would take the world by storm.

"Heretic opened for so many great bands back in the 80's," recalls Korban. "Metallica, Saxon, Mot�rhead, The Plasmatics, Megadeth, Armored Saint, Riot, Lizzy Borden to name a few. I think opening for Metallica, and winning their crowd over was one of my fondest memories. During our first song, the crowd was chanting 'Metallica!' louder than we we're playing live. But by the third song, we had their full attention."

It wasn't long before Heretic was penning hard-hitting thrash tunes, including a pair that sticks out as favorites for the guitarist. "My personal favorites are 'Betrayed' and 'The Search.' 'Betrayed' because it really spotlights every member of the new line-up, and it's fun to play live. 'The Search' is a song I'm proud of for its lyrics. Pretty heavy thought for a young songwriter. They still ring true with all the crazy things going on in the world today."

As Korban stated, there is a new Heretic line-up, which is comprised of himself, as well as singer Julian Mendez (who sang with the band in 1986), second guitarist Glenn Rogers, bassist Angelo Espino, and drummer Ignazio Coppola. "We plan to keep recording new music, and play as much as we can," says Rogers. "We want to grow the band and bring it to its rightful place in the world of heavy metal."

The landmark album was so significant that the syndicated radio show has broken up the celebration into a two part special with part one streaming right now.

The show sent over this quote from the special, which comes from Hendrix biographer John McDermott, "By the time you get to Electric Ladyland, the third album, it's really Jimi having graduated from that education Chas (Chandler) provided him.

By 2008 he'd notched up 34 award nominations and several wins. But he's not expecting to climb much higher in terms of popularity. Slim � real name Bill Homans, whose most recent album is this year's Bull Goose Rooster � tells the Montgomery Advertiser:

"About the only thing I could see that might do it is if Ry Cooder would collaborate on one of my albums. If I could work with Ry Cooder I would be a freaking made man. He's my dream producer."

The record was snubbed by all but 3% of Metallica's fanbase, selling 15,000 copies during its first week of release compared to 490,000 for 2008′s Death Magnetic. Even their much-maligned 2003 album St Anger sold 418,000 in its first week. Reed admitted he'd had death threats following the launch.

But Hammet tells The Verge: "I think Lulu is some of the best stuff we've ever done. The song Junior Dad moves me to tears. And working with Lou was such a cool, unique and special thing for us.

As we haven't taken part in our promo videos for a while, we felt now was the time to make an appearance," The band says. "But we also wanted to create a journey with the video that was similar to the journey portrayed by the music: a pretty straightforward step from the night, what it hides and the fear it generates, into the reassurance and safety of the dawn."

The Velvet Revolver and former Guns N' Roses guitarist joined students for a performance of the GNR version of the Bob Dylan classic, "Knocking On Heaven's Door."

The video footage features "Broken, Beat & Scarred" at soundcheck, the band in the tuning room and a performance of "Master Of Puppets" from the concert.

The record was made while drummer Dave Innes fought a battle against stomach cancer, which threatened to end the band's career. The result, says guitarist Jablonski, is "an album of real passion and pain that takes us to a whole new level."

Spiritual Beggars Guitarist Michael Amott recently offered these details about the new the record: "We started the recording process with an eight-day-long session.

The band joined host Bob Coburn to take calls from fans as they make the rounds to promote the forthcoming live DVD, "VIVA! Hysteria", which captures the band during their 2013 spring residency in Las Vegas. Listen to the replay here.

Brownstein stars in the IFC series Portlandia; she was also a guitarist in Washington band Sleater-Kinney and is now a member of Wild Flag.

The interview was to promote the band's concert at Estadio Nacional (National Stadium) that took place yesterday (Oct. 1). The 11-date, 4-week South American tour began in Caracas, Venezuela last Saturday.