The Day in Rock  8/11: Priest Drummer Denies Sex Charges, Primus Sucks Again, Meatloaf Returns, Sharon Osbourne Show In Trouble, Grohl Ties The Knot, Goes Metal., Boxing the Crue, Hatebreed Get Brutal, Zakk Wylde To Aid Rhode Island Fire Victims

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Priest Drummer Denies Sex Charges
Blabbermouth reports: Former JUDAS PRIEST drummer Dave Holland has appeared in court charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy, according to BBC News.

Holland denies one charge of attempted rape and four of indecently assaulting the teenager. 

All of the alleged offenses are said to have taken place between July and December last year. 

Holland, 55, of The Green, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, pleaded not guilty to all the charges at Leicester Crown Court on Friday (August 8). 

Holland joined Birmingham-based JUDAS PRIEST in 1979 and played with them for 10 years in the band's heyday. 
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Primus Sucks Again
Primus have reunited with their original line-up of Les Claypool, Larry 'Ler' Lalonde and Tim 'Herb' Alexander. The group recently hit the studio to record five new songs, all of which are set to be included on the groups upcoming new DVD/CD release "Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People", due out on October 07th through Interscope. 

New songs recorded for the CD portion of the release include:
"Pilcher's Squad"
"Mary The Ice Cube"
"The Last Superpower Aka Rapscallion"
"My Friend Fats"
"The Carpenter And The Dainty Bride"

The DVD portion of the release will feature all 13 of the bands videos, including the banned "Lacquer Head" clip along with the rare "Cheesy Home Video" release, "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" animated video, and other previously unreleased live performances, among other things. In support of the release, the band plan to play a limited number of live shows beginning October 15th. Dubbed "Tour De Fromage", the group will perform a varied opening set each night, followed by a full performance of 1991's "Sailing The Seas Of Cheese". 

Initial dates for the trek are as follows:
October 17th Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern Theatre
October 21st Denver, CO - The Fillmore
October 31st San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
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Meatloaf Returns
Chart Attack Reports: We've been waiting almost a decade for this, and every second has seemed like an hour. But finally, there is an end in sight for our long, agonizing wait � the new Meat Loaf album is ready for release. Couldn't Have Said It Better, slotted to hit stores on September 23 in Canada, will be Meat Loaf's eighth studio album and his first since 1995's Welcome To The Neighborhood. 

Meat Loaf is currently touring the United States and will be heading out for a European tour in October. He does not have any Canadian concerts scheduled, but he will be visiting the country in August to do the media circuit in promotion of his new record. Make sure to watch out for him on the TV. 

The track listing for Couldn't Have Said It Better is as follows: 

Chapter One: 

"Couldn't Have Said It Better" 
"Did I Say That" 
"Why Isn't That Enough" 
"Love You Out Loud" 
"Man Of Steel" 

Intermezzo

Chapter Two: 

"Testify" 
"Tear Me Down" 
"You're Right, I Was Wrong" 
"Because Of You" 
"Do It!" 
"Forever Young"

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Sharon Osbourne Show In Trouble
The New York Post Reports: Sharon Osbourne is so ticked off about the direction her new talk show is heading, she's refusing to show up for work. Sharon was supposed to tape some test shows Monday, but according to Foxnews.com she called in 'sick' on Saturday from England and informed her bosses she'd be missing most of the week � even though guests and audiences had already been booked. Osbourne promised to do a Friday show and maybe one for Saturday. The show, set to launch Sept. 15, has been racked with difficulties ever since a producer from the trashy 'Jenny Jones Show' was hired. Insiders say celebs are staying away in droves, and the only bold-faced name producers could procure was publicity-hound Sean 'Puffy' Combs. 'Sharon is a smart, tough businesswoman,' one source told PAGE SIX. 'She thought her experience with Telepicture would be the same as the one she had with MTV, where they let her do whatever she wanted. Things are not going well.' 'Our relationship with Sharon has been and continues to be terrific,' insists Telepictures president Jim Paratore. 'Sharon went to London to see [her daughter] Kelly perform, something that had been the plan for a long time. She got an ear infection and the doctors told her not to fly. Because we're in good shape it wasn't a big deal.' "

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Grohl Ties The Knot, Goes Metal. 
Much Music Reports: Foo Fighter frontman Dave Grohl has gotten married to his longtime live-in girlfriend, a former MTV producer. The couple married at Grohl's Los Angeles home. In attendance at the ceremony was Grohl's former  Nirvana bandmate, Krist Novoselic. 

In related news southernlord.com reports: Former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has confirmed to MTV.com that his much-anticipated metal side project PROBOT will finally surface in early fall on Southern Lord Recordings. "It's not unlike [Santana's "Supernatural"] record in that it really kick ass, but it's not the kind of thing that you'd expect," Grohl said of the album. "There's a certain kind of person that will like the robot record and there aren't that many of those people.... I mean, it's not meant to, like, make money." Probot's debut CD - which features Grohl, Zwan guitarist Matt Sweeney and Foo Fighters producer Adam Kasper accompanying Slayer's Tom Araya, MotÃrhead's Lemmy Kilmister and others singers - has been in the works for much of the past three years, and was previously rumored to be coming out through either Roadrunner Records or RCA Records (via Grohl's Roswell imprint). "After recording a bunch of it, a friend of mine said, 'Wow, you know what would be really cool is if you could get a different vocalist to sing on each thing.' And then I picked all of my favorite vocalists from that specific genre of music, underground metal from like '83 to '89," Grohl explained. Among the tracks that are set to appear on the effort are the following: "Dictatorsaurus" (feat. Snake), "Centuries Of Sin" (feat. Cronos), "Access Babylon" (feat. Mike Dean), "Sweet Dreams" (feat. King Diamond), "Ice Cold Man" (feat. Lee Dorrian), "My  Tortured Soul" (feat. Eric Wagner), "Big Sky" (feat. Tom G. Fischer), "Emerald Lies" (feat. Wino) and "Shake Your Blood" (feat. Lemmy)
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Boxing the Crue
Rolling Stone Reports: Motley Crue plan to release their four-disc box set retrospective November 11th. The collection will pull from the band's entire catalogue, featuring rarities as well as the hits from their multi-platinum Eighties run. 

"It's cumbersome to put together, but it's going to be exciting for the buyer," Crue founder, songwriter and bassist Nikki Sixx told Rolling Stone earlier this year. "I want them to go, 'Wow, I never thought I'd get my hands on the very first single. They only made a thousand of these things, and here I finally get it.'"
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Hatebreed Get Brutal
Hatebreed have set The Rise Of Brutality as the title to their forthcoming follow-up to Perseverance. The album is due out on October 28th. Hatebreed will be kicking off the The Rise Of Brutality 2003 tour on September 10th in State College, PA. Click Here for the Full Story

Zakk Wylde To Aid Rhode Island Fire Victims
KNAC.com reports: Daddy's Junky Music in Warwick, R.I., and WHJY will host an in-store appearance by guitarist Zakk Wylde on Wednesday, August 13, at which the winner of a charity raffle to benefit the victims of The Station Nightclub fire will be announced. 

The winner of the raffle will receive an autographed Zakk Wylde Epiphone "Bullseye" guitar, the entire Zakk Wylde/Black Label Society music catalogue, and other Black Label Society merchandise. 

All 20 Daddy's retail locations have been selling raffle tickets to help raise funds for the victims of the Station Nightclub fire in W. Warwick, R.I. Wylde, Daddy's Promotions Director Candi Bramante, and Daddy's Vice President Bobby Baker will present a check in the amount of $5,000 to Joe Bevilacqua, WHJY Program Director, and Paul Fuller, President of The Doc Fund, a charity established in the name of Michael "The Doctor" Gonsalves, a DJ at WHJY who perished in the fire. The Doc Fund gives 100 percent of all money collected to two charities - one that gives assistance directly to the survivors and families of the victims of the fire and the other a scholarship set up in Doc's name at his alma mater, Rhode Island College. 

Daddy's Junky Music is located at 1400 Bald Hill Road in Warwick, R.I. Call (401) 823-3239 for any additional information. There is no admission charge, but a donation to The Doc Fund is requested. Click Here for the Full Story

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