Scott Weiland Talks Velvet Revolver Egos

Lombardo, who was fired by Slayer in February 2013, has been connected with the job in Megadeth - but he tells Wikimetal: "Nobody's approached me. It's all rumors."

Slade was set to make a publicity appearance at The Optometry Practice in California on Saturday, but cancelled at short notice. Dr Alex Robin Liu, who owns the establishment, said via Facebook: "There's actually big news regarding Slade and his career coming in several days, which is why he had to reschedule this event."

One of the highlights of the album is late Pantera and Damage Plan guitarist Dimebag Darrell's performance of "Fractured Mirror," the instrumental track from Frehley's 1978 solo album.

He tells the Eddie Trunk podcast: "I would say 50% of the songs would sound right at home on those first three Dio albums, and the others have a bit more of a modern edge to them.

Other guests include Joe Bonamassa, Neil Young, Peter Frampton and the late Jeff Healey. The record is available for pre-order now. It was produced by Kevin Shirley and features bassist Anna Ruddick and drummer Dale Anne Brendon.

Bachman recently said: "I've known Kevin for many years. I knew he could push me past my limit and direct me down new roads. The collaboration, paired with Dale and Anna, has made this an amazing experience."

Glen, who left in 2008 after four years, tells Guitar Zoom: "There was a lot of force of trying to be somebody else to a tee. I think you should keep certain pieces and melodies intact, but everybody's got their own DNA. That should be injected.

But he admits he feared he might not live as long as he has. He tells KLOS 95.5: "I had my doubts. Everything is great, 50 is beautiful. I survived. I feel more mature, more grown-up. Especially as I have a year and 22 days sober."

Adler also discussed his art project, which sees him create images using laser drum sticks to capture his motion. He has created 12 artworks, one for each song on GNR's debut album Appetite For Destruction.

He has a number of side projects including blues rock band Seemless, hardcore metal outfit The Empire Shall Fall and rock act Times of Grace. Last year, promoting his lo-fi solo project Aliken, he said he had no time for fans who want to pigeonhole him as a metal singer.

"I'm a huge reggae lover. I'm huge punk rock lover. Jazz, classical, you name it - I like it. It's about knowing your strengths and weaknesses. I'm pretty decent at what I do with Killswitch, and I tend to stick to that.

The new album was produced by Andy Gerber and is the two-man band's first album to feature drummer Ryan Harding. "Hey, Killer" will be issued on CD, vinyl and digitally.

On April 19th the band will perform the special hometown show at the Metro in Chicago to celebrate the album's release and mark the 25th anniversary of their very first live show at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater on April 20, 1990.

Frontman Scott Lucas offered these details about the album, "After Ryan joined, we spent the year touring and collecting riffs. Once that year was up, it was time to make a record. We didn't give ourselves a choice. "We called Electrical in November and booked a couple of days in December.

"I hung up the phone and I was like, 'F***! What did I just do?' I was panicked. We had two songs. No lyrics. Then I listened to the recordings and demos I'd made on my phone over the past year, and I realized that we had a lot of stuff. Then the lyrics started to come together. Every day. More stuff.

"It was like it was out of our control. When we were done, we just looked at each other, and we were both like, 'This stuff is really f***ing good!' No one was more shocked than we were."

He also explained why they decided not to go in the concept album direction with the new album, "We did a break up record, followed by a political record. The charge became that we couldn't make a record without leaning on a conceptual crutch.

The vocalist and guitarist, along with drummer Mike Portnoy and bassist Billy Sheehan, have been working together on fresh material - and Kotzen says the ideas they have so far are "crazy" and "cool."

He tells Vintage Rock: "We actually started writing music a couple of weeks ago at my house and got a bunch of ideas. I think it's going to be a cool record.

It contains ten tracks which were originally recorded in 1967, including songs by Procol Harum, The Monkees, The Box Tops and Spencer Davis Group and Buffalo Springfield. Also included is a brand-new song entitled Let's Pray For Peace.

Martell says: "Spirit Of '67 is the continuation of the journey we began in the Summer Of Love - psychedelic, rhythmically powerful arrangement of happening tunes of that era, coloured by the insight and vision of who we are today."

But after Harnell's third departure from the lineup, they are now in search of a vocalist to take on the job on a permanent basis - despite hinting last month that there were no TNT activities planned for 2015.

The group has made two instrumental demos available, for songs called Live And Let Live and One Fifty Six and say they are looking for a vocalist in the vein of Phil Anselmo.

Christian says: "Looking for a real singer. someone with range, dynamics, and the beat. Someone with vocal skills comparable to my bass skills or Artak's guitar skills, that can sing clean and sing aggression - but actually sing it - like a Cowboys/Vulgar-era Phil Anselmo, but with their own style.

They got back together in 2009, but the follow-up to 1997's Album Of The Year has taken six years to come together. It's due later this year, after bassist Billy Gould told how it took some time to persuade his colleagues to commit.

Bordin tells Faith No More Followers: "I really never thought it would happen, so I had no expectations driving me. Like it has all been on 2.0, it was a series of many small steps that took us to this point. Any one of those steps, had they gone unacceptably, would have likely ended the journey."

He'll be joined by bassist Bryan Beller, keyboardist/guitarist Mike Keneally and drummer Marco Minnemann. The dates will follow the release of Satriani's 15th studio album in July.

The book follows the story first introduced in "Clockwork Angels", a companion novel developed from the band's 2012 concept album of the same name.

In "Clockwork Lives", Anderson and Peart explores the lives of secondary characters in the first book while introducing a new protagonist. According to the book's description, "Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village.

They changed their name to Suns Of The Tundra in 2000 and released their self-titled, full-length debut in 2004 and Tunguska in 2006. Now they're planning to launch an album inspired by the British Film Institute's South, which chronicled Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition between 1914-1916 in a vinyl/CD package.

He plays "troubled boyfriend" Dennis in the independent production, written and directed by actor Frank Whaley and also starring Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) and Debra Messing (Will & Grace).

AC/DC's appearance at the annual event is to promote their latest album, "Rock Or Bust." The status of drummer Phil Rudd's availability for the Grammys remains in question, as he is scheduled to return to a New Zealand court to face charges stemming from his November 6 arrest on multiple charges.

The Crue resume the farewell trek with shows in Japan this month before hitting Australia and New Zealand in the spring; in June, they'll play three European festivals including Download (UK), Sweden Rock and Austria's Novarock before returning to North America for the summer.

But industry analysts Neilson Soundscan say vinyl accounts for just 6% of total album sales - a figure that record companies say isn't having a huge effect on their business.

Rolling Stone reports that Tom Corson, president of Sony-owned RCA Records, says his company doesn't have a department devoted to vinyl, although he welcomes the increased interest in the format.

To end his set Saturday night at Sands Casino Event Center in Bethlehem, Pa., Manson called on the three teenagers to join him on one of his signature songs, "The Beautiful People."

Despite the fact that the group is made up of eighth graders, Manson didn't risk missing a beat. The 13-year-olds appeared to know even the verses, although they proved they are far less the showmen than Marilyn Manson is even now. But hey, he's had years to perfect his craft. They'll catch up.

Harrison says: Every album needs a focus, a master plan - and while I thought about writing new tunes for a big band project, I made a version of Porcupine Tree's Futile and it came out really well. It felt like a good plan to follow on with some of my favourite PT songs, and see if we could make them work.

"I had a vision that the arrangements would never lean towards a cliched sound, but always follow a modern contemporary angle. So even if you didn't know the original tune, you could still enjoy it as a modern composition. I couldn't be happier with the results."

Russell had the following to say about the track and the group's plans, "With the ever-changing climate of the music industry, we've decided that we will be releasing several digital singles throughout 2015.

"'Hard Habit' is the first in a series of singles the band will put out this year. Be on the lookout for our next single in the coming months! We are really proud of this song and we plan on playing it live as well as some other new tunes and of course all the classic Jack Russell's Great White songs you know and love. See you on the road!" Watch the video here.

The band have announced a handful of west coast dates that will be taking place this month in California and Arizona as well as a one-off appearance in Turtle Lake, WI.

The group will be releasing their new album, "Black Is The New Black," their ninth studio effort overall, sometime this spring and they have premiered the lyric video for the first single "The Man Who Broke His Own Heart," here.

Frontman Art Alexakis had this to say, "We are really excited... It's an unapologetic rock record that I feel combines the best of classic Everclear with contemporary production and what I feel is some of my best songwriting in years!"

The group, vocalist/drummer Giovanni Trotta, keyboardist Francesco Di Verniere, guitarist Giuseppe Bruno and bassist Angelo Cerquaglia, previously stated their third album would feature a wide and varied mixture of styles.

They said: "Noise represents a substantial turning of sound from Deliverance while retaining many of the elements that have always distinguished the band's sound.

"The turning points were determined primarily by the artistic maturity of the band members - you'll hear different influences with each listen: 70's rock to post rock, united in an amalgam of incredible arrangements moving Aura to pomp prog and art rock."

Speaking about the song, vocalist David Ravengarde says: "Unreality is the end of the journey. A visceral, near spiritual tour de force through blinding lights and stygian sights. The astral road to redemption lies ahead- but it won't be easy."

Einfallen: A Tale Ov Torment & Triumph will be released 16th March via Nordavind Records, which David describes as "a concept, a story of love that becomes obsession - a wretched poison at its very core that turns to insanity. A deep-seated demonic madness most inhuman. This through to eventual metaphysical realisation of such poisonous ways and the need for atonement and eventual redemption."

Aaron David Gleason tells us about the song: "Mastermind" Came about in a pretty circuitous way. It WAS a ballad called "The Last Bus" -- but it did have the lyrics "Where did you get the nerve to see right through me?" My Producer, Robert Davis said "Oh, we should keep that line." But we threw out everything else.

We did keep the chord changes, but we added a beat. I had, at that time, made a pact to make more uptempo or at least midtempo numbers. We stomped on the floor of my apartment--messed up my floor--and made that beat. Then, we hired a drummer, David Piribauer, and he threw down that "Let's Dance" type feel. 3 months of tinkering later, we had a jam.

Jeremiah Kipp tells us about the video: The drum probably informed the whole thing for me. There was a mood of stealth and aggression and planning that wove its way through the song, of pushing forward despite outer and inner frustration. We set out to make a conceptual video around that emotional outburst, told through various characters engaged in artistic or fantastic pursuits.

Aaron didn't want to have a central role in the video, though we enjoy collaborating and he did want to be included. We centered the video on a writer drinking and scribbling (played by Bill Weeden), and gave extended sequences to a scientist stuck on an equation (Chris Sarandon), an action painter (Alice Ripley), a sea creature (Ilaria Malvezzi), a woman ripping her way out of a plastic bag filled with wires (Chelsea Smith) and a character played by Aaron's charismatic and engaging mother, Joanna, speaking to the camera in direct confrontation. Aaron interacts with some of these characters and is in some ways fighting to get through these sequences intact. Who is, in fact, the mastermind?