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Following headlines that Bieber was seen hanging out with Keith Richards, WGN entertainment critic Dean Richards asked Sixx and singer Vince Neil what their reaction would be if the pop superstar approached the Crue to join them on stage.

"The Legend of Dio - A Metal Musical" - a fictional comedy based on Dio's music, lyrics and imagery - will include material from Dio, Black Sabbath and Rainbow as presented by members of three Melbourne-based bands.

Billed as "equal parts Tenacious D, Rock of Ages and Shakespeare," the musical stars William James Smith from H.M.A.S. Vendetta as Dio, Barbari�n frontman Myles Tauchert as Satan and Kat Stargazer of Horizons Edge as wife/manager Wendy Dio.

Both players issued separate statements in late November - just hours apart - that they were leaving to pursue their own musical interests; they have since confirmed plans to launch a new band together.

Now, Ellefson reflects on the lineup change, telling Spotlight Report "It is obviously going to be different without them. We spent five years together with them in that lineup, that is a long time. We did multiple live albums with them, two studio albums, we toured together. So it's a bit like some family members are gone."

"Especially through the holidays, I've kinda been a little sad about it," he continued, "I realize that they wanted to move onto something else and I support them as my friends, but selfishly I'm definitely going to miss them for sure. Things are moving forward of course and there will be a new development happening on that front."

The rocker tweeted: "Just finished the final mixes with @zeuss1 for the new studio album. Best album yet. No joke." Zombie worked on the project with producer Chris "Zeuss" Harris (Hatebreed, All That Remains, Shadows Fall).

Mendel is joined on the record by Helmet's Page Hamilton, Modest Mouse's Joe Plumber and Head And The Heart's Josiash Johnson. It features guest appearances from Foos bandmate Chris Shiflett and Jeremy Enigk from Mendel's other band Sunny Day Real Estate.

The album was produced by Madball frontman Freddy Cricien and Paul Miner (H2O, Terror) engineered, mixed and mastered the effort which also feature a guest appearance from Cricien as well as H2O's Toby Morse and Sick Of It All's Lou Koller.

Agnostic Front vocalist Roger Miret had this explanation for the album title, "We chose this title because we want to open up people's eyes to what's going on in this country. We have a lot to say. Not everyone realizes that our government and the people who run this country are so corrupt, greedy and ruthless."

Frontman Dave Stephens had this to say about working with the award winning producer, "Working with David [Bendeth] has been very educational as well as humbling.

"We've not only become better musicians from this experience, but have learned a lot about writing and what it takes to make a great song. His honesty has made us all push ourselves to the limit as musicians, to make the best record possible.

He says: "That's the interesting thing that I feel somehow is missing in music today is people actually having a musical conversation and jamming on stage, having some improvisation happen.

"I demand that, because I was obviously starved for that a lot in Bon Jovi. I mean, you're pretty much in that frame and that's it. So now I can go out there and both of us, we just feel each other's rhythms and grooves at the same point.

The collection contains previously unreleased solo material recorded in 1975 following his departure from The Marbles and before he replaced Ronnie James Dio in Rainbow in 1979.

Bonnet recalls: "Those sessions were great fun and it was exciting to be recording for the first time my own compositions. We had some great people playing on the record. I recall Rick Wakeman was on one track, along with Phillip Goodhand-Tait, and my wife at the time actress Adrienne Posta. I played a lot of the instruments, as did my producer Kaplin Kaye."

This clip features what seems to be Matt Bellamy in the shadows playing a bluesy guitar riff. No one else is with him. There's no other sound, just Matt and his guitar.

It sounds like a sort of sad Mississippi Delta blues guitar that Robert Johnson would play. Of course, it's unclear whether this is for the new album or not.

This new video is much different then the one they posted in December, which featured an orchestra. Bellamy previously told fans to expect "things to get heavy," but at this point, we're thinking he means emotionally.

Muse have been recording the band's seventh album for three-and-a-half months and are reportedly working with the legendary producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange on the follow-up to 2012's The 2nd Law.

The official card will be part of the 2015 Topps Series 1 set, appearing on what's known as a First Pitch Insert card sporting a vintage Tigers jersey in a shot taken when he threw out the first pitch at a Detroit home game last summer.

According to the Detroit Free Press, Insert cards are rarer and harder to find than ones included in the annual base set. There is no indication yet of just how rare the Jack White card will prove to be.

Now, thanks to a special intimate show in their hometown of Seattle Tuesday night (Jan. 20) at the Crocodile, we have a little bit of an idea what the new record will sound like. Revolt points out that three new songs were played, and they even got recordings of the new jams.

Robert John Godfrey and co need �15,000 immediately - or they may be forced to abandon the fight, or find a new approach that'll wipe out their courtroom successes to date and require the finding of much more cash.

But they've already secured the support of a "mysterious magician" who's vowed to contribute 50% on top of whatever their fans raise. The Enid spent �17,000 on legal fees last year. They say in a statement: "In 2009 Palmer applied to the trademark registry to own the band's name. Robert terminated his contracts with the benefit of legal advice. Palmer refused to accept these terminations, leaving us no option but to take action. Palmer was found by a court in 2012 to have acted dishonestly and in bad faith when he claimed to be the owner of the band's name. He has laid claim to the copyrights of all Robert's music.

Frontman Davies tells Rock Cellar: "It was probably the third of fourth song I'd ever written. I think if I'd been an accomplished songwriter I wouldn't have written it - there's something naive and basic about it.

"If I'd been accomplished I wouldn't have written it in the key I did, and I probably wouldn't have made that key shift, which was quite revolutionary but became common after we did it."

Frontman Paul Astick recently told TeamRock that the new album took 20 months to complete, explaining: "There were points all of us had to walk away and put it down for a few weeks.

Reflection and patience are the greatest tools we use when recording. If we're bored after 10 listens, why expect someone who hasn't been involved to stay interested? This album was sculpted rather than recorded."

They played the album in full and now the deluxe edition featuring 2CD and 2DVD will launch on February 23 via Gonzo Multimedia. The standard DVD/CD and double CD editions will be released on March 23.

The ten-track title was produced by Garth 'GGGarth' Richardson and it's available for pre-order on Amazon and iTunes via Spinefarm. Frontman Mikko Von Hertzen says: "I've never been prouder of anything we've done. Together we raised the bar to a whole new level - and only time will tell if we'll ever be able to beat that or raise the bar even more. I mean, we're talking some serious Sergey Bubka heights here!"

Now bassist Daniel Firth is contributing to the process - and they say Filth will lay down his vocals next week. The band say in a statement: "January 20th marks the onset of Cradle Of Filth bassist Daniel Firth heading into Grindstone Studios in the haunted wilds of Suffolk, England to add his five finger prowess to the new Cradle album, codenamed Hammer Of The Witches.

Frontman David Gunn recently told Metal Hammer: "This record is about our lives - we don't punch out and go home at the end of the day, take the mask off and go hang out at the bar.

They previously revealed they wanted to call the group Harlot but copyright issues resulted in them sticking with their chosen name. And they say they got together to record the album as they wanted to focus people's attention on rock music.

They said: "We knew that rock music needed a facelift fast and that real rock 'n' roll needed to be back front and centre again. That's why we are here - to bring this music to a whole new generation of people that have been screaming out for what they deserve."

After playing around the Kansas City area for four years, and releasing an EP on Kansas City's legendary Titan Records, things seemed to be coming together for my band, The Kontroversy. We had started recording some songs for an album, when our bass player, Fred Prellberg, announced that he was leaving the group to finish his college degree in order to obtain a promotion at his day job. Around the same time, the lead guitarist, Ken Carey, said that he had to put the band on hold while he sorted out some personal issues with his family.

The song "Keep Goin'" is my plea to the band members to keep the band together. I noticed that some of my favorite bands had songs with what seemed to be a similar subject matter, such as The Beach Boys' "Do It Again," The Kinks' "Do It Again," and my former band, The Leopards' "Back on the Track" So I thought, this would be my contribution to the subject and I reference these songs in the lyrics.

Fred got his degree, was promoted, and transferred to Chicago. The drummer, who is my brother Tim, and I lost touch with Ken, but we did keep in touch with Fred. The years went by and early in 2014, Ken found Tim and me on Facebook and expressed an interest in playing with us again.

We got together but Ken was too busy playing in two other bands and running weekly jam sessions an a local KC club to make a commitment. This made me realize that I didn't have good recordings of the songs I had been writing since the break-up of the band. I contacted Fred and my brother to gauge their interest in recording these songs and finishing up the recordings we started 30 years ago. They were excited by the prospect of a new Kontroversy album and Fred agreed to make some trips to KC to record. The result is a new album, Reprise, released on January 6, 2015 on my own label, RBR Records. "Keep Goin'" is included on the album.