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"When the doctors told me I had cancer I thought, 'That's it then'," Iommi tells The Mirror. "Cancer was death as far as I was concerned. I found a painful lump in my groin while I was in New York promoting my book. I thought it was my prostate acting up again, but Ozzy told me I should get it checked out. I came back to England and had an operation to reduce my prostate. It was painless but afterwards I needed a catheter."

"When that came out I went to see the surgeon. He said: 'Good news on the prostate. It's been cut down to a sensible size and everything is good there. But on the lump we took out, we found follicular lymphoma.' It's a type of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma."

Iommi was given an update from doctors, saying "The surgeon told me he doesn't expect the cancer to go away. There's a 30 per cent chance that it could, but more than likely it will come back and it could be any time."

The new "Physical Graffiti" 3-CD set will include a disc of material featuring alternate mixes of songs on the group's sixth studio album. "Physical Graffiti" features Led Zeppelin standards "Kashmir", "Trampled Under Foot", "The Rover" and "Houses Of The Holy."

Mustaine and bassist Dave Ellefson are the only two remaining members of Megadeth as it stands and they're in the process of recruiting new members. They released a video of them rehearsing with an unidentified drummer in December. Glen Drover tells Metal Wani: "I would bet money I don't have it's Nick Menza on drums. And whoever the guitar player is, we'll find out."

He says on Facebook: "It's with a mixture of sadness and excitement that we reveal to everybody that Rise To Remain is no more. We travelled the world with this band, and, because of the people who supported us, managed to achieve so many things we never thought possible.

"Living the dream, in many cases, is not enough to hold it all together when the band is not stable, and after putting together the second record, Adam told us he was in a place where he felt the pressure of the album and the upcoming cycle and couldn't continue, leading Ben to quit music altogether.

But with Elitch's band Antemasque also playing the festival, he says it's impossible for him to play with both bands. He said on Twitter: "I've been getting a tonne of questions regarding Soundwave, so lemme set the record straight:

"I will be playing with Antemasque but I unfortunately will not be able to play with Killer Be Killed as it's logistically impossible as they're on different days."

Joining the Stones in this year's Secret 7" program are Peter Gabriel, St. Vincent, The Chemical Brothers, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Maccabees and Underworld.

The artwork for the singles will be exhibited at London's Somerset House between April 10 and May 4, before going on sale on May 4 at a price of �50 each.

It will feature a previously unreleased track recorded during their Men Of Honor sessions last year, along with three acoustic versions of material from their 2012 debut Omerta. The disc will also include an edited take of the title track which originally appeared on their second record.

But Thomson says Slipknot have taken to writing and recording snippets of new ideas on laptops while touring. That, he says, should prevent the kid of wait fans endured for .5: The Gray Chapter. And the could even start recording the follow-up this year, once their touring commitments come to an end.

Thomson tells MusicRadar: "It enables us to have songs in the can already before we go in a studio to work on a new album. We hope to do our next record sooner after touring.

As the name implies, "Father's Day" and most of Walker's seventh full-length album was written in tribute to his father, who passed away in 2013. The album, produced by Ryan Adams, is set for release on February 3rd.

Walker explained how Bob Mould came to work on the new song, "He walked in the studio when we were tracking it and heard the lyrics and immediately wanted to sing and play on it.

"Turns out his dad had died two years to the week we recorded it. I guess it struck him the same way it would me. He was very close with his old man. We had a moment after recording it."

Walker goes on to explain how the song was developed, "I played it for Ryan in my hotel room when we were talking about doing my record. Immediately he started picking it apart and writing alternate verse lyrics here and there. I ended up combining our words to make the final verses and it just felt right. It's one of my proudest moments and I know my Pop would've loved it."

Luzier tells Q103: "Someone's gotta do something - put a chip in there where you can't duplicate it. The thing is, with the newer generation, the kids don't really understand that it's taking or stealing.

"They're, like, 'What? I'm at your freakin' show.' And I'm, like, 'Yeah. But our record's 10 bucks.' I'm one of those old dudes that still does that. I go out and come home from Best Buy with, like, four CDs. It's all about supporting the artist."

Stars including Otis Grand, Bernie Marsden, Ian Parker, Mitch Laddie and others appeared at the show, which was set up to raise funds for Trout's liver transplant. All profits from the book will be donated to the Walter Trout Fund as he continues his recovery from the surgery, which he underwent just weeks after the gig.

The thrash icons are working with producer Jay Ruston on the unnamed project, set for launch via Megaforce Records this year. Benante, bassist Frank Bello, singer Joey Belladonna guitarist Scott Ian and latest recruit, guitarist Jon Donais plan to complete work by the end of this month.

Meanwhile, Scott Ian says in a light-hearted rapid fire interview that he would abolish all politics if he were king for a day. He tells Loveline High Five: "What would be my first decree? I would abolish all political parties. Because I'd be king and I'd be able to do that."

He says: "I am thrilled with how this song came out. During the recording sessions for the album, I remember waking up one morning wondering what was going to happen that day and not having a clue what direction the album would take.

"I was thinking, 'Man, this is a grand experiment!' And as I was lying there I thought of the chorus, but my original version was slower and more of a keyboard thing. Then the band got to it and Mike had the rockin' verse idea and it developed from there. The video was shot and edited by my son Chad. Hope you all like it."

The album was recorded at the North Sea Jazz Club in Amsterdam in April 2014. His UK tour starts in Chester on March 17. A press release announcing the album reads:

"While Siegal's 2014 album Man & Guitar showcased the award-winning British songwriter as a solo acoustic troubadour, One Night In Amsterdam flicks the power switch, marking Siegal's first live album with a full-throttle electric band."

The guest vocal appearance took place on New Year's Eve, while the Canadian grindcore quintet were in an Ontario studio recording new material.

The cruise will travel between Florida and Jamaica between January 22-26 and features other artists including Arch Enemy, Canibal Corpse, Amorphis, Venom, Napalm Death and Michael Schenker's Temple Of Rock.

They say in a statement: "There is no easy way to say this but due to an unforeseen scheduling issue, Trinity II will longer be happening on May 9. We have done everything within our powers to try and make sure it didn't come to this but sometimes whatever path one takes, the resulting journey leads to only one conclusion.

"We had an incredible lineup, amazing sponsors and some fantastic surprises waiting for you but worry not, we are only postponing. We have no definite date for the rescheduled show but as soon as we do, you will be the first to know."

Due to storm across the extreme metal landscape on January 26 when it's released via Candlelight Records, Opus Aethereum is - as you might expect from a band who've been biding their time by honing their craft on the extreme metal gig circuit - a carefully wrought and fully-fledged sonic beast. Featuring eight blasts of vaulting, supremely confident and symphonically astute black metal, its furious, soul-ruffling currents have picked up a few traces of death metal in its slipstream, assuring that Ethereal's capacity for pomp never loses its visceral edge.

Keylock released the track Medicine Man in November and hopes to launch his debut album later this year - although in an interview in this month's Blues Magazine, he says he won't be rushed into releasing fresh material.

Tangled Up in Dylan focuses on AJ Weberman (which is emphasized with the subtitle, The Ballad of AJ Weberman), and finds directors James Bluemel and Oliver Ralfe focusing on a man that "is infamous, if he is known at all, among Dylan aficionados for being the obsessed stalker who Bob Dylan physically assaulted in 1971 because he had been harassing his family.

"Weberman picked through their trash (he calls his stinky style of sleuthing the science of 'Garbology") and staged demonstrations (with the 'Dylan Liberation Front," the students of his 'Dylanology" classes) outside of Dylan's MacDougal Street brownstone in New York, apparently with the aim of convincing Dylan to, uh, join the revolution, man' but having the result of really pissing him off," according to Dangerous Minds.

He tells this month's Prog magazine: "I did go in with the attitude that this could be our last album. It's taken nearly four years to get this one down. I wanted to make sure the end product was something I was completely pleased with.

"I'm very aware that because it's quite different from the post-rock sound we've done before, it could completely flop. But it's important that if it does, I'd still be happy with it."