Underoath Reuniting For Music Festival Appearance

In April, Ward had a controversial public exchange with Osbourne over year-old-plus remarks by the singer that suggested the drummer was not physically fit enough to participate in Black Sabbath's 2013 album "13" and its accompanying world tour.

Osbourne refused to apologize and re-stated that the drummer was not fit to tour. Now, Ward says he'd still love to return and play with the band but can't do so without the two issues being resolved.

"If everybody could get on the same page," Ward tells 106.5 WFSL New Bern, NC. "My page, I've been quite pronounced about my page, which is a signable contract and an apology over certain issues that Ozzy said about me that weren't true. I'd like him to publicly apologize. He said these things at the public level, so I'd like him to publicly apologize. He's already responded to that, saying that'll never happen. So, as long as that'll never happen, then I probably won't be joining the band in 2016.

"Do I love them? Yes, I do. Would I like to play with them? Yes, I would. Am I upset about all the upset? Yes, I am. I'm very, very sad by all the fans' reactions and the way that things have split and gone different ways and everything else. It's not nice at all to be in this position, and it's not an easy responsibility for me to maintain when uncountable amounts of people are angry with my decision-making process, which was that I need a signable contract. And now I need an apology. First, it was, 'I just need a contract, guys.'"

Dickinson tells Metal Hammer: "You end up with the metabolism of a hummingbird during this treatment because you're being cooked from the inside out.

He says in an artist spotlight video: "Music is everything. Music is so important to me that if I didn't have it, I wouldn't be the same person. For the longest time I didn't know that I wanted to do music. I wanted to be a history teacher, but I just kept coming back to music.

"Music is probably the last vital emotion that we all have in common. It doesn't even have to be the same style, but it's the one thing that ties us all together."

"Everybody wants bonus tracks now, and we all wanted a 10-song record. You look at Master Of Puppets or Reign In Blood, and they're short. Reign In Blood is 30 minutes, and it's just a pummelling masterpiece.

"Fans of my band have asked me to do this for years and although I have thought about it a lot, I never felt the timing was right until now," says Tairrie B. "Writing and recording Vintage Curses not only helped to invoke many memories for me as an author but it has also re-birthed me as an artist."

The album was co-produced by Tairrie and her husband Mick Murphy (My Ruin, Teenage Time Killers, The Birds of Satan & Neanderthal) who also played live drums, bass and guitar on the effort.

Tairrie had this to say about the process, "Recording a hip hop album was a new experience for Mick but he enjoyed it as much as I did. I also reached out to two very good friends who we had worked with on previous My Ruin albums to help me conjure the music for 3 songs. Joel Stooksbury, who co-produced The Sacred Mood (2013) and A Southern Revelation (2011), created Spirit Queen with me, and Josh Lynch, who co-produced Ghosts and Good Stories (2010), co-produced Carpe Noctem and my new single Beware The Crone. Production-wise, I refer to all of us together as The Covenant."

Torien tells The Metal Voice: "I just consider ourselves a hard rock band. We got thrown into that mix. Tesla got thrown into that mix too. I don't consider them a hair metal band either. No disrespect, I don't like that particular wording. I don't even like grunge, I think grunge is just real rock."

He tells The Metal Voice: "Brad Gillis had just left the band and I got hired by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. I would say I was in the band a little over a month. I was very blessed and fortunate that a very close friend of mine, one of my mentors Gregg Giuffria, introduced me to Ozzy and Sharon and I got a chance to come and play at Gregg's house.

The album presents the debut of vocalist Papa Emeritus III alongside the Nameless Ghouls following the resignation of his three-month older brother Papa Emeritus II earlier this year.

Ghost are launching "Meliora" with an unplugged tour of US record stores this week. The Unholy/Unplugged trek sees the band hit five US cities - Seattle, Los Angles, Phoenix, Baltimore and Brooklyn - where they will perform new material in an acoustic format.

Kennan says: "As is the Modus Operandi of Puscifer, there will be a whole new show to accompany the Money Shot release. We've been leaving a few clues here and there as to what it may entail.

"As usual, we prefer to show rather than tell. Odds are if you've been a fan of the diverse nature of our performances in the past, you'll want to go ahead and place those bets."

We were sent these details about the clip, "Produced by the UK-based Kestrel Media, the video was conceived by Lianne Pierce who also created the Pixies' animated video for 'Bagboy.' For 'The Night Believer' video, Pierce teamed up with the stop-motion animator Will Hodge (Disney's 'Frankenweenie,' Wes Anderson's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox').

"Pierce and Hodge set to work crafting 2D, cardboard creatures to cruise around in colorful, plasticine cars, using stop motion and After Effects trickery to bring everything to life.

"The result is a race between a variety of critters and a towering, hungry robot, all tangled in a myriad of color and accompanied by the cheery tune of 'The Night Believer.' Watch it here

Paul tells a fan Q&A (via Blabbermouth): "Van Halen were a huge influence on me. Eddie and Alex inspired me and my brother so much. It was really just unbelievable the parallels that we had between ourselves.

"I remember the first time I met Eddie. He was in town and I was off doing something and my brother was in Phoenix. And my manager at the Clubhouse calls me and says, 'Hey, man, Eddie Van Halen is in the club. He wants to see you.' And I was, like, 'You've gotta be kidding me.'

"I hauled ass over, walked into the club, and he's sitting there at the table by himself waiting on me. I came in, and we gave each other a big hug. We'd been talking maybe 10 minutes, and he goes, 'It's unbelievable how much we've got in common - you and your brother, and me and Al.'"

Hensley was with the group from 1969 until 1980 and co-wrote much of Heep's early material, while Kerslake has had two stints with the band, playing with them between 1971 and 1979 and again between 1981 and 2007.

He was behind the desk for Dylan's Blonde On Blonde album in 1966, and also oversaw Johnny Cash's live records At Folsom Prison in 1968 and 1969's At San Quentin.

They said in January they were hoping to release the follow-up to 2013's Deceiver Of The Gods early next year. And frontman Johan Hegg reports that they're now putting the pieces in place.

And while he reports he's behind streaming service Spotify, he admits trying to get answers to the way finances are handled is frustrating. He says in his New York Times column: "Many streaming services are at the mercy of the record labels (especially the big three: Sony, Universal and Warner), and nondisclosure agreements keep all parties from being more transparent. We need information from both labels and streaming services on how they share the wealth generated by music."

Losing drummer Mika Karpinnen earlier this year is being partially blamed for the delay. He was replaced by Jukka Kroger. Val tells MDR Jump: "It's an interesting time for us, since our previous drummer left the band in February. So now we have a new guy. We're just doing a few shows to test the waters and see how the chemistry works within the band.

"Everything is going splendid, which is great, because it's not the easiest thing. We had the same drummer for 15 years, and then, all of a sudden, now we have to find somebody who would actually fill that hole.

The tour will be kicking off on November 2nd at the Theater for Living Arts in Philadelphia and will be concluding on December 7th with a show at Irving Plaza in New York City.

TesseracT Amos Williams had this to say about the trek, "Five years ago we bundled ourselves in to a van and set off on our debut North American tour. It was not only our North American debut but also our first major tour, really."

These two CDs and the signed postcard are currently only available directly from his official website ahead of their wide release in October 30th, 2015. Sherwood had this to say: "I'm very excited to finally have 'Divided By One', my 7th solo release come out on CD. I'm proud of the record and look forward to getting it out there, I had many requests to release it on CD as it was only for download till now."

The new leg will be headlined by Carcass and is set to kick off on October 23rd in Wolverhampton at Wulfrun Hall and wraps up on October 30th in Manchester at the Ritz.

The next night, Halloween, the tour hits the European mainland with a show in Antwerpen, Belgium at Trix Zaal with the trek concludes on November 29th in Barcelona, Spain at Sala Razzmatazz.

The Riverside tour is scheduled to kick off on September 13th in Richmond, VA at the Canal Club and will be concluding on September 25th in Cleveland, OH at the Agora Ballroom.

Shepherd tells Metal Wani: "It's been an uphill battle, but it's also a double-edged sword. It's been somewhat of a hard journey because of that, but I feel very lucky, because I think if it had just been widely accepted, I may not have worked as hard for it, and I may not still be working as hard, and we may have just floated under the radar.

"The fact that we are something different, two girls in a metal band, maybe it turned some heads. It turns people off, without hearing the music at all, but it also turned heads that may not have turned before.

Speaking at Hungary's Fezen festival, the frontman said: "The most important thing is that it's as historically correct as we can make it. There are the first albums when we sang about anything. I ended up with a feeling that writing the lyrics was not so much fun- it was a necessary evil.

"Don't cry motherf--, I know you're drunk, don't cry," Grohl yelled after turning the audience lights on. "Are you crying right now? You're f--ing crying aren't you? I love you man, look at you, holy s-. You know what, f- that speech I was just going to make, I'm singing this s- to you right now. I'm gonna sing this f-- song right in your face, man to man, prison style, I'm going man to man. Me and you, I want some real tears, you better sing it with me. Don't make me cry, because I promised I wouldn't do this."

Having moved up to the front row, Grohl demanded that Anthony, the crying fan now jump on stage with him. But as Grohl has done with his doctor and several others on this tour, he made him the center of attention.

"I'm gonna stand up with my broken leg and sing this f-- song to your drunk ass right now." Using crutches for balance, Grohl hobbled up from his stool and and stood to the side of Anthony, who spun nervously in Grohl's stool while his hero sung to him.