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And although a comic book and novel based on the album have been released in conjunction with author Kevin J. Anderson, Peart would like to see a bigger project emerge.

He tells Rolling Stone: "To me, it would make an amazing movie and I thought it would happen organically - that by now somebody would've been at my door with a big bushel of dollars saying, 'Let's make this happen!' And it hasn't.

"But we've got the graphic novel done and we're building the world and the vision of it. It's astonishing to me, really, that somebody hasn't come to me wanting it."

"Summer, summer, summer," Azoff told Billboard. "Van Halen has not performed many outdoor shows, so this is something new for them." The tour is projected to be one of Live Nation's biggest outdoor tours of the 2015 summer season. Van Halen's last run in 2012 was the highest-grossing tour in the band's history, pulling in more than $76 million according to Billboard.

Back in 2012, Van Halen were expected to add 30 dates to their run, but never announced the shows. Azoff insists those concerts were never confirmed, and adding those shows would have put the boys over the edge.

He tells the BBC: "I've been on Jim Root, and I'm just, like, 'Man, we've gotta write an art record. We've gotta write our Wall, our Sgt Pepper's.' I'd love it if we could do a double album with interludes.

New vocalist Todd La Torre joined in 2012 was on board for the band's 2013 self-titled effort and live shows, while Tate went on to form Operation: Mindcrime - named after Queensryche's 1988 album.

"The next album from Queensryche is hopefully coming out the first week of October," Wilton tells Rock By Wild. "We are doing a worldwide release, and very much expected. And the record label, Century Media, is the one that will be putting it out, and they have the demos right now and are very positive and happy about it. I know that a lot of people are really anticipating this, so stay tuned and you won't be disappointed."

Wilton says the new version of Queensryche is energized and focused. "Well, there's a new unity," he explains. "There's a bond between the band, and everyone is on the same level. Everyone is participating as musicians, and things are moving along really great, and the songwriting is very cohesive. And you'll see the energy in the stage show and you'll just see the difference.

The 18-minute track was penned by frontman Bruce Dickinson and will feature on their 16th record The Book Of Souls. Their first-ever double album will be released worldwide on September 4.

Harris tells Kerrang: "I think it's a masterpiece, actually - I think I can say that because I didn't write it! It sounds like Maiden but it's totally different from what we've done before.

"Eighteen minutes sounds like a long time, but it's actually such a journey that� well, it's best just to leave people to listen to it and see what they think. But it's very interesting. It's certainly not boring."

Mainman Max Cavalera says: "I feel it is my most mystic album since Prophecy. The guest collaborations have always been a trademark of Soulfly and Archangel is no different. We can't wait to play this live for the worldwide tribe."

Cavelera previously said Archangel would be a departure from 2013's Savages, but would still be "heavy as hell." Bassist Tony Campos quit in May to join Fear Factory and Cavalera's sons Zyon and Igor have joined the band for their upcoming run of live shows, which include six UK dates later this month.

The movie, called Have You Got It?, takes its name from a Pink Floyd track that Barrett wrote for the band before leaving the group. The film will feature interviews by surviving members of Pink Floyd.

Director Roddy Bogawa tells MOJO that the movie "is truly unique and has an intimate quality that the other films about him haven't been able to capture."

We're Not Gonna Take It delivered Twisted Sister their only US Top 40 hit, while landing Top 10 status in Canada, Sweden and New Zealand. Snider notes the difference between the song's appeal and the video's impact in the music industry.

He tells Behind The Vinyl: "The video is inspired from events in my own life. I thought I was sharing a personal story of my father tearing me a new one, as he often did, screaming the famous line, 'What are you going to do with your life?'

"When the video came out, it was the first time someone had taken the format and put a story to it, because that didn't really exist before that� videos tended to be performance videos.

Bassist Dave Meros said about the track: "I think Tides Of Time is classic Spock's in terms of arrangement and style, but everything else is fairly different."

Morgan tells Sticks For Stones: "Here in the States, it's becoming more difficult. Alternative radio stations just don't want to play songs with guitarists. They play 90s alternative bands like Alice In Chains and Nirvana, but they don't play new bands with guitar.

"They're, like, 'That's not alternative anymore.' That's just how it is now. If we're lucky enough to get played on radio, we'll get played right after a Lorde song, which is fine. I like Lorde, but I don't think she's a goddamn rock artist. She's not alternative. I think she's more pop."

He continues: "I think there's a weird sort of grey area about what is rock music and what is alternative. It seems like alternative stations think they're the cool kids of the radio world. They can make and break careers.

Guy, 78, has collaborated with several performers on the record, including Van Morrison who appears on the track Flesh & Bone - a song dedicated to the late B.B. King.

Frontman Mariusz Duda says: "I wanted to combine the 70s and the 80s. The 80s were a decade of musical growing up for me. On the new album we don't sound as retro and 70s as before. We moved forward and sort of demolished the previous foundations and build new ones.

"Exhibitionism" presents an interactive tour through the Rolling Stones' history, including original stage designs, dressing room and backstage paraphernalia, rare guitars and instruments, iconic costumes, rare audio tracks and unseen video clips, personal diaries and correspondence, original poster and album cover artwork, and unique cinematic presentations.

Collaborations and work by a vast array of artists, designers, musicians and writers will be included in the exhibition - from Andy Warhol, Shepard Fairey, Alexander McQueen and Ossie Clark to Tom Stoppard and Martin Scorsese.

"We've been thinking about it for quite a long time," explains Mick Jagger, "but wanted it to be just right and on a large scale just like planning our touring concert productions. I think right now it's an interesting time to do it."

The singer left Down in 2013 to focus on Crowbar's 25th anniversary last year, which was marked with the release of their 10th album, 2014's Symmetry In Black.

Nearing the end of an extensive North American tour, Windstein tells National Rock Review that he built his career from the outset with one goal in mind.

Windstein says: "It's forever ago when I think back to the very beginning. I actually played my first gig in 1980 - 35 years ago - at an old fair or something. In a way it's forever ago but, at the same time, my goal was always to have longevity, not to have huge success. I'm much happier being on the journey that never ends than being hot for a couple of years and then your career is done.

"My biggest fear of becoming a musician has already come true, which is the way the business is these days with no one selling records and illegal downloading. It really has changed: bands that once were really successful are literally falling off the map, falling off the face of the earth. It's like bands will get popular and then - boom - they're gone."

"If we find something we really like and that we actually drink ourselves, we think maybe our fans might like it too, so we want to make it available for them," says Scott Ian. "We really enjoyed Indians, the bourbon we produced last year, and obviously our fans did as well as it sold out really quickly."

But he's also spent a lot of the time with the members of the Grateful Dead; he's been an on-and-off member of bassist/vocalist Phil Lesh's different bands over the years, and also played in the ad hoc reunion band simply called The Dead in the mid 2000s. So he has, perhaps, more insight into the band than most.

During an interview for a forthcoming feature on his upcoming solo album, Ashes and Dust, we spoke about his feelings about the end of the Dead. "Well, I'm glad that they are doing final shows," Hayes said. "I thought it was important for them to do something for the 50th anniversary. I - probably like everyone else - wish it had been a little bit more."

For these shows, Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio is playing lead guitar and singing Jerry Garcia's songs. Was Haynes asked to participate in the Fare Thee Well shows, given that he's filled that role in the past?

"It's not something we talked about, but I've got a lot of my own stuff going on at the moment. I'm curious to see the whole thing, I'm glad Bruce Horsnby is doing it. I wish I could be there to see it, I'm sure it will be great."

The limited-edition game will include 10 classic Zombie songs and custom speech by the singer himself. "The Devil's Rejects" actor Sid Haig will also lend his voice to the machine.

Halford tells Full Metal Jackie: "I think the point that we're at now with this band is, it seems like every show is an event, to some extent. The fact that this is the umpteenth double-digits studio album, hundreds of songs later, these are just moments that we cherish more than ever, I think. And there's a little bit of that now each time we walk on stage. This show, the next show� they're all vital to the band in a lot of different ways.

"We're roaring right now. Any band will tell you when you've been on the road for a while, you know internally what you've gotta do. All your bandmates are thinking it. You don't have to talk about it. You know instinctively what you've gotta do when you get dressed and you walk to that stage.

Frontman Dani Filth says: "Cradle Of Filth are extremely pleased to be hitting the European road, even more so now that British dates have been indelibly grafted onto the beginning.

"The band is sounding better than ever and are exhilarated to be starting our world tour here in England, at Rottingham Knock City nonetheless, the proverbial hub of heavy metal.

"I was a total monster," Bixler-Zavala admits during a self-penned essay for Vulture. "There's so much stupid behavior caused by weed, but I always had that cliche: I needed it for creativity. I've come to realize that at the end of the day, it's only you yourself that creativity comes from. It doesn't come from weed."

The singer/guitarist goes on to talk about how modern marijuana has been unnaturally altered to amp up its effects, and feeling bad for "buying in bulk but I didn't really need it," alongside AIDS and cancer patients who use weed to alleviate chronic pain.

While he says that getting high had become "part of his identity," Bixler-Zavala now concedes that smoking marijuana impeded his ability to communicate ("I was�just being long-winded and trying to be difficult for the sake of being difficult").

Jocelyn Arndt on the Lyrics of Here to Stay: Here to Stay is a song about relationships. I wrote the lyrics as a way to share my feelings about the makings of a "forever" kind of connection. The lyrics are quirky; they have some medical terms including amnesia and anesthesia which I added to give the song a sophisticated edge, even with its traditional, jazzy/blues feel. Elements within the lyrics speak to the comfort we all get when we are in that thing with someone we love: the feeling of warmth, of fitting together. "I'm weathering the storm, my feet are staying warm..." paints the picture of ease even in the face of trouble. I wanted the lyrics to just show that perfect fit, that feel of belonging. I also needed them to convey that sense that everything is magnified, is better, when you know it's for keeps. It's that secure feeling that really transcends the actual words for me with this song. It's what I value, what I want for the rest of my life, once the right guy comes along.

Christian Arndt on the music of Here to Stay: As far as the chord structure is concerned, it actually started out as a rhythm I would put into my loop pedal to practice lead with. The moment I heard it, I knew we could turn it into a badass song. When Jocelyn sang some of the lyrics I was immediately inspired to run with this. A few minutes later, the verse and chorus structures were finished. The bridge took a little finagling, but eventually we figured it out.

When we were finally satisfied that it was fully finished, we were actually very nervous about showing it to our producer; it's certainly a niche song, unlike a lot of our other music. But as soon as David Bourgeois heard it he fell in love. He knew exactly what needed to be done to make it the best it could be, and did just that. For the guitar, I got to play the studio's Gretsch White Falcon, which was perfect for the feel of this track. Then we found an awesome horn section and some very high powered players of other instruments too: the amazing Tony Micelli played some sick vibes, and Government Mule's keyboardist Danny Louis dropped in with some Hammond and even a harpsichord. It was exactly what we imagined when we first wrote it, from the barry sax and toms in the bridge to the epic jam-style solo to the classic breakdown at the end.

The music of the song really fits with our jam-band writing style. We took a "kitchen sink" approach with it, and as a result you get the feeling you're in an alley in New Orleans listening to a bunch of talented jazz cats just jamming out a beautiful improvisational piece. The brass of this song is a prominent feature and squarely drops the listener into a smoky, jazzy time, maybe during the 50s. I wanted the guitar to be prominent too, however, because to me it was a way of making the sound of the piece relevant today, even if its themes and many of its other musical elements are very traditional.