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The new round of dates includes a run of shows in October and another run in December. The new dates begin with a show in Hidalgo, TX on October 5th and conclude with a Las Vegas show on December 27th.

The band has recorded eleven tracks for the new album. The yet-to-be-titled album was produced by Terry Date at the Henson Studios in Los Angeles and is currently being mixed.

The album features founding members Tom Araya (bass/vocals) and guitarist Kerry King, as well as drummer Paul Bostaph and touring guitarist Gary Holt, who is making his first appearance on a Slayer album.

Although Holt is filling the void of late guitarist Jeff Hanneman, the founding guitarist did make a contribution to the new album. Araya explains, "Jeff had always been writing and demoing songs, even up until shortly before he passed. You can tell by the quality of his songwriting that this was his passion.

"There will be a song written by Jeff on the new album.
Everything but the vocals had been completed, so we did the vocals and it's done. And there are a few more of Jeff's songs that we might record and release in the future."

Kerry King adds, "With this new album Tom, Paul and I put all of our ideas out on to the table, working in a more collaborative way toward the ultimate heavy outcome. And I've got to give big props to Gary who played lead on several of the new songs. I think he got all of his leads done in one day - he's a maniac!"

The frontman was asked to rank the band's albums and sharing stories about them with Noisey when he made the following revelation, "I don't know if anyone's ever told this story, but Clown, Joey, and Ross Robinson broke into the studio where the master tapes were, because we weren't liking the mixes we were getting.

"They broke in, stole the tapes, and mixed it themselves! [Laughs] I think Paul was there too. I had to go back to Iowa to go back to work, and I get a call from Clown: "By the way, we committed grand larceny, we just stole our own f***ing album."

"And they sat down and mixed it because no one else understood it. When you're the first, no one knows. There's not track record for it. So we'd get these sh*tty f***ing mixes that were either too thin, too bass-laden. People didn't understand what this noise was. So we ended up mixing it ourselves, man."

Recorded at Barrett Jones' Laundry Room Studios in Seattle, Washington, the package features demos of "Alone + Easy Target" and "Big Me", a cover of Kim Wilde's "Kids In America", and a previously unreleased song, "Empty Handed."

In addition to Dave Grohl's role as 2015 Record Story Day Ambassador, the group played a concert for 150 fans at an Ohio record store on Saturday to mark the annual event that celebrates independently-owned record stores in the USA and internationally.

The Wall Live tour brought the famed 1979 Pink Floyd album to arenas and stadiums around the world between 2010 and 2013. Waters played 219 dates that brought in a total of approximately $458 million dollars in box office revenue.

"We were a big family on the road, 189 of us, give or take the odd Snoozy Walrus," says Waters. "We were happy, by and large, and I am really happy to welcome everyone at Fathom and Picturehouse aboard. I know, I know - mixing metaphors. Where was I? Oh yeah, with your help, this coming 29th September will be the perfect way to remember not just our loved ones but the other guys loved ones - fallen, living, and as yet unborn."

He tells Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta on The Jasta Show podcast, "The second one's called Straight Outta Burbank, and the third one's called No Sleep Till Burbank." Which are most likely references to N.W.A's "Straight Outta Compton" and the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn".

Ian tells The Metal Voice (via Blabbermouth)"It's coming along great. We're gonna take a break. We head out on tour on [April 24], we'll take a break and be able to get away from it, live with it for awhile, and then come back right at the beginning of June and spend another month finishing it up.

The guitarist adds, "We're in a really good zone creatively, and I think if you liked the last record [2011's 'Worship Music'], you're really gonna love this new one."

On Monday (April 20), the group released the first taste of their next full-length, the single "Hallelujah!" Their return track fittingly opens with a lot of fanfare. It starts with a faded horns sample and then the track explodes into gospel harmonies, drums and frontman Brendon Urie singing, "say your prayers."

Metallica have played seven shows in the arena, including two that were filmed for 2012's "Quebec Magnetic" DVD release. On September 16, the band will play the first event at the brand new Centre Vid�otron.

"Always one of our favorite places to visit, Quebec City also has a long history of being the home to some of the most rabid 'Tallica fans anywhere," says the band. "It only seems fitting that we share this special passing of the torch with you!

A November 7 show at ANZ Stadium in Sydney, a December 8 date at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne and a November 14 stop in Brisbane were announced and were close to selling out within minutes of going on sale.

On Saturday, the Foo Fighters played a concert for 150 fans at an Ohio record store as part of Record Store Day, an annual event that celebrates independently-owned record stores in the USA and internationally.

And with him unable to work, he and his family face eviction from their home and a fund has been set up to alleviate their immediate financial problems.

Bowie added that the record would grow on people, much like Reed's 1973 effort Berlin, which was initially branded a flop. Anderson said the following during her speech, "One of [Lou's] last projects was his album with Metallica and this was really challenging, and I have a hard time with it. There are many struggles and so much radiance.

The icons will perform as part of a double bill called Bring It On Home at The O2 in London on November 8, the final night of the event sponsored by Prudential.

Fafara was interviewed on "The Chainsaw Symphony" radio program in Niagara Falls, New York in late March when he was asked about the comparison of nu metal and hair metal.

He told the show (via Blabbermouth), "I think 'hair metal' was cheesy. [But] I think 'nu metal' was different. I think what's beautiful about 'nu metal' is it's different. And you've got so many different influences. Look at the biggest bands on the planet right now: Slipknot, Deftones, System Of A Down� I mean, I could go on endlessly with our peers that have never gone away that have still stuck to that same formula. And I think there's this generation now of not only 15-to-17-year-olds but even [people who are between] 20 and 30, why they go back to that music and listen to it, or why they would even wanna listen to a new Coal Chamber record is they know it's gonna be something different.

"And that's what was beautiful about that time and era and that music -there was so many different influences to that music. You know, Coal Chamber has this metal influence along with this Bauhaus and goth kind of thing with us. Then you've got Korn [who've] got kind of a rap influence with their thing."

He also sees a new appreciation for the genre, "I think what you're gonna see, especially in the future, and I've seen it on the road now, especially with the meet-and-greets and the younger fans coming to the shows is that they're [getting into] the music that's different, because what's happening now in and around the heavy music scene is truly - and I have my ear to the ground; I hear every new band comes up, from demos to new releases - I think a lot of the stuff is sounding awfully the same. And that's pretty sad� You're not gonna get that with any of the so-called 'nu metal' bands or Coal Chamber whatsoever; you're gonna get something totally separate from other music. And, after all, isn't that what music is all about? It's supposed to be special and different."

He adds, "They called it 'nu metal' is because it damn well was. When we came out of Hollywood, the 'hair metal' bands totally killed the scene. The Roxy, the Whisky� nobody was drawing anybody. And here comes Coal Chamber, here comes the Deftones, selling out shows. The Roxy, the Whisky� Here you've got this new scene - 'nu metal,' cause it was heavy sh*t. But I think the term 'nu metal 'is almost, like, pretty badass. Because you're doing something new within a genre that existed forever and is heavy as hell, but it sounds newer and [with] newer influences."

Drummer Matt Halpern tells Billboard:
"We thought that a live performance for 'The Bad Thing' video was a great way to show the intensity of the song and to show our direct expression of how it makes us feel onstage."

Mandala was the first group Marsh was involved in - formed in 1997 before the birth of The Autumn Ghost. After a break, Mandala are back together. The live video of Sun was filmed in the studio where the band were recording the album.

Speaking about the meaning behind No Hope In Sight, Nick Holmes tells Metal Hammer (in cryptic fashion): "With an inner peace or a youthful fight, the end is approaching.

On April 16, Young and Promise Of The Real performed a surprise concert at San Luis Obispo, California's SLO Brewing Co. where they debuted 11 new tracks that might appear on the joint album.

The Free bassist had battled Aids and cancer but was due to perform with The Quireboys frontman Spike in his band Spike's Free House - set up to celebrate the music of Free and Frankie Miller.

The band sees Spike joined by Free's Simon Kirke, Thunder's Luke Morley and Magnum's Mark Stanway. The Quireboys' Nick Mailing will be on bass duties.

Spike says: "There was a lot of soul searching after we heard the terrible news about Andy. He was a huge part of what we were doing and was so excited about hooking up with Simon again.

Since our new single is part of a concept album, I must first give a little backstory about the album itself. Quiet World is about a guy who loves a girl. The guy is a bit of an odd and eccentric person - an outcast. He's also a mute, and a little unstable, as it turns out. The girl doesn't return his feelings, but he can't bring himself to let go. As his unrequited passion for her devolves into obsession and eventual resentment, his mind begins to slip further and further away.

He convinces himself that he can't be loved because of his condition and abnormalities. So he decides to create for himself a new, fantastic world of which he has complete control - a world where there are no oddballs or outcasts. A world where everyone is surrounded by people who are just like themselves. A much quieter world.

It's at this point that the first track of the album (which also happens to be our new single), "Mute," begins. Throughout the course of this track, the main character fleshes out his plans and establishes his new world. And it turns out that many of the subjects of this new world are not as content living this way as he is.

In the second track of the album, we see a new character, the Archon, rise up and unite his people in the clouds with the once distant people in the sea. He leads an opposition to "Sinister Silence," as the people come to call him. The rest of the album unfolds with events within the Quiet World and manifestations of the enduring struggle between the Archon and Sinister Silence.

The lone exception is track number four, "Your Familiar Face," which steps out of this world for a moment to give a closer look at the events prior to the first track and the tragedy of Sinister Silence.